AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Facility and Group Administrators

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (10)

•Diagnostic Errors (22)

•Identification Errors (16)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (80)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (31)

•Medication Safety (169)

•Medical Complications (39)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (4)

•Surgical Complications (46)

•Transfusion Complications (3)

•Psychological and Social Complications (17)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (9)

•Australia and New Zealand (22)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (441)

•Legislation/Regulation (6)

•Meeting/Conference (2)

•Newsletter/Journal (2)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (52)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (5)

•Tools/Toolkit (10)

•Web Resource (12)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (117)

•Active Errors (49)

•Latent Errors (40)

•Near Miss (14)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (152)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (62)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (195)

•Communication Improvement (133)

•Human Factors Engineering (47)

•Teamwork (38)

•Specialization of Care (36)

•Logistical Approaches (71)

•Culture of Safety (93)

•Technologic Approaches (124)

•Education and Training (86)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

•Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1)

•Medicine (331)

•Nursing (44)

•Pharmacy (29)

Target Audience
< All

Facility and Group Administrators

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (297)

•Psychiatric Facilities (2)

•Residential Facilities (29)

•Ambulatory Care (77)

•Outpatient Surgery (10)

•Patient Transport (5)

1 - 20 of 561

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient Safety and the Invitational Conference on Contemporary Surgical Quality, Safety and Transparency.

Amer Surg. 2006;72:985-1149

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

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

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

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

Safety in ASCs: putting patients first.

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

STUDY

Error or "act of God"? A study of patients' and operating room team members' perceptions of error definition, reporting, and disclosure.

Espin S, Levinson W, Regehr G, Baker GR, Lingard L. Surgery. 2006;139:6-14.

COMMENTARY

Implementing the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist: a model for future perioperative initiatives.

Styer KA, Ashley SW, Schmidt S, Zive EM, Eappen S. AORN J. 2011;94:590-598.

STUDY

Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in surgical care.

Makary MA, Epstein J, Pronovost PJ, Millman EA, Hartmann EC, Freischlag JA. Surgery. 2007;141:450-455.

STUDY

Representative case series from public hospital admissions 1998 II: surgical adverse events.

Briant R, Morton J, Lay-Yee R, Davis P, Ali W. N Z Med J. 2005;118:U1591.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Surgical Care Improvement Project.

National SCIP Partnership, Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality, 14000 Quail Springs Parkway, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, OK, 73134.

COMMENTARY

A nurse-led approach to developing and implementing a collaborative count policy.

Norton EK, Micheli AJ, Gedney J, Felkerson TM. AORN J. 2012;95:222-227.

STUDY

Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients.

Greenberg CC, Regenbogen SE, Studdert DM, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204:533-540.

COMMENTARY

Eliminating perioperative adverse events at Ascension Health.

Ewing H, Bruder G, Baroco P, Hill M, Sparkman LP. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:256-266.

STUDY

The implementation of a perioperative checklist increases patients' perioperative safety and staff satisfaction.

Böhmer AB, Wappler F, Tinschmann T, et al. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012;56:332-338.

COMMENTARY

Critical diagnoses (critical values) in anatomic pathology.

Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. Hum Pathol. 2006;37:982-984.

COMMENTARY

The nature of surgical error: a cautionary tale and a call to reason.

Satava RM. Surg Endosc. 2005;19:1014-1016.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Trends influencing the cost of care and patient safety.

Clark R. Health Manage Tech. July 2006:18, 20-21.

STUDY

Effects of the introduction of the WHO "Surgical Safety Checklist" on in-hospital mortality: a cohort study.

van Klei WA, Hoff RG, van Aarnhem EE, et al. Ann Surg. 2012;255:44-49.

STUDY

The 80-hour work guidelines and resident survey perceptions of quality.

Biller CK, Antonacci AC, Pelletier S, et al. J Surg Res. 2006;135:275-281.

STUDY

The American College of Surgeons' closed claims study: new insights for improving care.

Griffen FD, Stephens LS, Alexander JB, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204:561-569.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Do no harm: promoting patient safety.

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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >