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•Device-related Complications (99)

•Diagnostic Errors (108)

•Identification Errors (71)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (257)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (38)

•Medication Safety (660)

•Medical Complications (259)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (63)

•Surgical Complications (277)

•Transfusion Complications (10)

•Psychological and Social Complications (60)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (84)

•Central and South America (6)

•Europe (477)

•North America (1354)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (6)

•Book/Report (53)

•Clinical Guideline (3)

•Journal Article (1754)

•Legislation/Regulation (15)

•Meeting/Conference (4)

•Newsletter/Journal (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (96)

•Press Release/Announcement (9)

•Special or Theme Issue (20)

•Tools/Toolkit (17)

•Web Resource (18)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (747)

•Active Errors (446)

•Latent Errors (127)

•Near Miss (56)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (501)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (86)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (611)

•Communication Improvement (493)

•Human Factors Engineering (300)

•Teamwork (204)

•Specialization of Care (144)

•Logistical Approaches (145)

•Culture of Safety (232)

•Technologic Approaches (371)

•Education and Training (450)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (7)

•Complementary and Alternative Medicine (1)

•Dentistry (2)

•Medicine (1468)

•Nursing (223)

•Pharmacy (232)

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Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1494)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (24)

•Ambulatory Care (152)

•Outpatient Surgery (14)

•Patient Transport (16)

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STUDY

Development of a core drug list towards improving prescribing education and reducing errors in the UK.

Baker E, Roberts AP, Wilde K, et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011;71:190-198.

STUDY

Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, et al. J R Soc Med. 2011;104:208-218.

STUDY

Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission.

Gleason KM, McDaniel MR, Feinglass J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:441-447.

STUDY

Who makes prescribing decisions in hospital inpatients? An observational study.

Ross S, Hamilton L, Ryan C, Bond C. Postgrad Med J. 2012;8:507-510.

STUDY

Impact of a standard medication chart on prescribing errors: a before-and-after audit.

Coombes ID, Stowasser DA, Reid C, Mitchell CA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:478-485.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Collaboration focused on priority issues promotes safety.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. October 10, 2008;13:1-3.

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Effect of a pharmacist intervention on clinically important medication errors after hospital discharge: a randomized trial.

Kripalani S, Roumie CL, Dalal AK, et al; PILL-CVD (Pharmacist Intervention for Low Literacy in Cardiovascular Disease) Study Group. Ann Intern Med. 2012;157:1-10.

STUDY

From the school of nursing quality and safety officer: nursing students' use of safety reporting tools and their perception of safety issues in clinical settings.

Cooper E. J Prof Nurs. 2013;29:109-116.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Learning safe prescribing during post-take ward rounds.

Conroy-Smith E, Herring R, Caldwell G. Clin Teach. 2011;8:75-78.

STUDY

Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

STUDY

Errors and electronic prescribing: a controlled laboratory study to examine task complexity and interruption effects.

Magrabi F, Li SY, Day RO, Coiera E. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:575-583.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors associated with documented allergies.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. September 2008;5:75-80.

STUDY

Implementing peer evaluation of handoffs: associations with experience and workload.

Arora VM, Greenstein EA, Woodruff JN, Staisiunas PG, Farnan JM. J Hosp Med. 2013;8:132-136.

STUDY

Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.

Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.

REVIEW

Educational interventions to improve handover in health care: a systematic review.

Gordon M, Findley R. Med Educ. 2011;45:1081-1089.

STUDY

Variation in the rates of adverse events between hospitals and hospital departments.

Zegers M, de Bruijne MC, Spreeuwenberg P, Wagner C, van der Wal G, Groenewegen PP. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:126-133.

STUDY

Characteristics of medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitals participating in the California Pediatric Patient Safety Initiative.

Takata GS, Taketomo CK, Waite S; for the California Pediatric Patient Safety Initiative. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65:2036-2044.

STUDY

Junior doctors' reflections on patient safety.

Ahmed M, Arora S, Carley S, Sevdalis N, Neale G. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88:125-129.

STUDY

Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription writing in a hospital.

Calligaris L, Panzera A, Arnoldo L, et al. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009;9:9.

COMMENTARY

Practising safely in the foundation years.

Long S, Neale G, Vincent C. BMJ. 2009;338:1046.

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