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•Device-related Complications (123)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (278)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (55)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (747)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (617)

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•Ambulatory Care (178)

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STUDY

Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates.

Lin MY, Hota B, Khan YM, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. JAMA. 2010;304:2035-2041.

STUDY

NICU medication errors: identifying a risk profile for medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Stavroudis TA, Shore AD, Morlock L, Hicks RW, Bundy D, Miller MR. J Perinatol. 2010;30:459-468.

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Iatrogenic events resulting in intensive care admission: frequency, cause, and disclosure to patients and institutions.

Lehmann LS, Puopolo AL, Shaykevich S, Brennan TA. Am J Med. 2005;118:409-413.

STUDY

What’s past is prologue: organizational learning from a serious patient injury.

Tamuz M, Franchois KE, Thomas EJ. Safety Sci. 2011;49:75-82.

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Drug formulations that require potentially inaccurate volumes to prepare doses for infants and children.

Uppal N, Yasseen B, Seto W, Parshuram CS. CMAJ. 2011;183:E246-E248.

STUDY

Adverse drug event reporting in intensive care units: a survey of current practices.

Kane-Gill SL, Devlin JW. Ann Pharmacother. 2006;40:1267-73.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Ambulatory surgery facilities: a comprehensive review of medication error reports in Pennsylvania.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. September 2011;8:85-93.

PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT

Serious medication errors from intravenous administration of nimodipine oral capsules.

MedWatch Safety Alert, FDA Drug Safety Communication. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; August 2, 2010.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Identification and Prevention of Common Adverse Drug Events in the Intensive Care Unit.

Papadopoulos J, Kane-Gill SL, Cooper B, eds. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:(suppl 6):S83-S264.

STUDY

Medication errors involving oral chemotherapy.

Weingart SN, Toro J, Spencer J, et al. Cancer. 2010;116:2455-2464.

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Medication errors during medical emergencies in a large, tertiary care, academic medical center.

Gokhman R, Seybert AL, Phrampus P, Darby J, Kane-Gill SL. Resuscitation. 2012;83:482-487.

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Pediatric antidepressant medication errors in a national error reporting database.

Rinke ML, Bundy DG, Shore AD, Colantuoni E, Morlock LL, Miller MR. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2010;31:129-136.

STUDY

Listen carefully: the risk of error in spoken medication orders.

Lambert BL, Dickey LW, Fisher WM, et al. Soc Sci Med. 2010;70:1599-1608.

REVIEW

Year in review: medication mishaps in the elderly.

Peron EP, Marcum ZA, Boyce R, Hanlon JT, Handler SM. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2011;9:1-10.

STUDY

Determinants of patient-reported medication errors: a comparison among seven countries.

Lu CY, Roughead E. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65:733-740.

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Moral distress, compassion fatigue, and perceptions about medication errors in certified critical care nurses.

Maiden J, Georges JM, Connelly CD. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2011;30:339-345.

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Association of ICU or hospital admission with unintentional discontinuation of medications for chronic diseases.

Bell CM, Brener SS, Gunraj N, et al. JAMA. 2011;306:840-847.

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Increasing medication error reporting rates while reducing harm through simultaneous cultural and system-level interventions in an intensive care unit.

Abstoss KM, Shaw BE, Owens TA, Juno JL, Commiskey EL, Niedner MF. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;914-922.

STUDY

Toward learning from patient safety reporting systems.

Pronovost PJ, Thompson DA, Holzmueller CG, et al. J Crit Care. 2006;21:305-315.

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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.

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