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•Device-related Complications (50)

•Diagnostic Errors (8)

•Identification Errors (29)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (105)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (20)

•Medication Safety (347)

•Medical Complications (82)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (17)

•Surgical Complications (103)

•Transfusion Complications (2)

•Psychological and Social Complications (25)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (27)

•Australia and New Zealand (38)

•Central and South America (3)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (5)

•Journal Article (753)

•Legislation/Regulation (14)

•Meeting/Conference (3)

•Newsletter/Journal (3)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (68)

•Press Release/Announcement (8)

•Special or Theme Issue (14)

•Tools/Toolkit (15)

•Web Resource (11)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (143)

•Active Errors (120)

•Latent Errors (54)

•Near Miss (23)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (235)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (34)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (195)

•Communication Improvement (222)

•Human Factors Engineering (125)

•Teamwork (102)

•Specialization of Care (45)

•Logistical Approaches (106)

•Culture of Safety (124)

•Technologic Approaches (131)

•Education and Training (175)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

•Medicine (489)

•Nursing (503)

•Pharmacy (78)

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Setting of Care

•Hospitals (585)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

•Residential Facilities (19)

•Ambulatory Care (41)

•Outpatient Surgery (4)

•Patient Transport (4)

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STUDY

Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: are they preventable?

Seiden SC, Barach P. Arch Surg. 2006;141:931-939.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Dose of technology helps Shands at UF avoid drug errors.

Chun D. Gainsville Sun. August 21, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Promethazine conundrum: IV can hurt more than IM injection!

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 2, 2006;11:1-3.

COMMENTARY

Right? Left? Neither!

Howell EA, Chassin MR. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2006.

COMMENTARY

A plan for achieving significant improvement in patient safety.

Johnson K, Maultsby CC. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:164-171.

STUDY

Nurses' perceptions of causes of medication errors and barriers to reporting.

Ulanimo VM, O'Leary-Kelley C, Connolly PM. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:28-33.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Nurses Transforming Care.

Am J Nurs. 2009;109(suppl 11):3-80, C3.

AUDIOVISUAL

Empowering Better Nursing Care.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

COMMENTARY

System errors in intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring: a case review.

Miller LA. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2005;50:507-516.

STUDY

Attitudes and barriers to incident reporting: a collaborative hospital study.

Evans SM, Berry JG, Smith BJ, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:39-43.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Safety in ASCs: putting patients first.

Dix K. Today's Surgicenter. December 1, 2006.

STUDY

Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery.

Makary MA, Mukherjee A, Sexton BJ, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204:236-243.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Do no harm: promoting patient safety.

Ellis K. Surgicenteronline.com [serial online]. May 1, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Surgical errors: new products, protocols help slash the risks.

Williamson JE. Healthcare Purchasing News. January 2006;30:22-25.

STUDY

Drug-induced hypoglycaemia--new insight into an old problem.

Ching CK, Lai CK, Poon WT, et al. Hong Kong Med J. 2006;12:334-338.

REVIEW

Coordinating care across diseases, settings, and clinicians: a key role for the generalist in practice.

Stille CJ, Jerant A, Bell D, Meltzer D, Elmore JG. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:700-708.

STUDY

Unit-based care teams and the frequency and quality of physician–nurse communications.

Gordon MB, Melvin P, Graham D, et al. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165:424-428.

STUDY

The culture of a trauma team in relation to human factors.

Cole E, Crichton N. J Clin Nurs. 2006;15:1257-1266.

STUDY

Improving self-reporting of adverse drug events in a West Virginia hospital.

Schade CP, Hannah K, Ruddick P, Starling C, Brehm J. Am J Med Qual. 2006;21:335-341.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Manic for medication safety: bar codes and drug information databases are helping to reduce medication errors.

Rogoski RR. Health Manage Technol. February 2007;28:14, 16-18.

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