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STUDY
Stories from the sharp end: case studies in safety improvement.
McCarthy D, Blumenthal D. Milbank Q. 2006;84:165-200.
BOOK/REPORT
Adverse Events in Hospitals: Overview of Key Issues.
Levinson DR. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General; December 2008. Report No. OEI-06-07-00470.
COMMENTARY
Organizational Change in the Face of Highly Public Errors—I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Experience
Conway JB, Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2005.
BOOK/REPORT
Learning from Bristol: The Report of the Public Inquiry into Children's Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984–1995.
London, England: The Stationery Office; July 2001.
BOOK/REPORT
Never Events: Framework 2009/10.
National Patient Safety Agency. London, UK: National Reporting and Learning Service; 2009.
COMMENTARY
Making the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 work.
Vemula R, Assaf RR, Al-Assaf AF. J Healthc Qual. 2007;29:6-10.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
Statement of The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.
Hearings before the House Insurance Committee of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. (April 22, 2004) (statement of James R. Combes, MD, senior medical advisor, HAP).
COMMENTARY
Transforming healthcare: a safety imperative.
Leape L, Berwick D, Clancy C, et al; Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:424-428.
BOOK/REPORT
A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety.
Fifty-first Report of Session 2005-06. House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts. London, England: The Stationary Office; July 6, 2006. Publication HC 831.
GOVERNMENT RESOURCE
Partnership for Patients.
Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services.
COMMENTARY
Path to safety: benefits of the 2005 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act.
McBride D, Greening A, Redmond D. Healthc Financ Manage. June 2006;60:84-88.
MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2009.
GRANT RECIPIENT
Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2008.
COMMENTARY
In Conversation with...J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, MA
AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. December 2006.
COMMENTARY
The partnership with patients: a call to action for leaders.
Denham CR. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:113-121.
STUDY
Building safer systems by ecological design: using restoration science to develop a medication safety intervention.
Marck PB, Kwan JA, Preville B, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:92-97.
BOOK/REPORT
Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. Updated edition.
Wachter R, Shojania K. New York, NY: Rugged Land; 2005. ISBN: 1590710738.
BOOK/REPORT
Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Quality and Safety of Health Care in the United States.
Shea KK, Shih A, Davis K. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; July 2007.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Safety in Anaesthesia.
Staender S, ed. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2011;25:109-304.
COMMENTARY
Patient safety: moving the bar in prison health care standards.
Stern MF, Greifinger RB, Mellow J. Am J Public Health. 2010;100:2103-2110.
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