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•Device-related Complications (103)

•Diagnostic Errors (109)

•Identification Errors (82)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (252)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (44)

•Medication Safety (655)

•Medical Complications (275)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (72)

•Surgical Complications (310)

•Transfusion Complications (13)

•Psychological and Social Complications (84)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (60)

•Central and South America (5)

•Europe (251)

•North America (1804)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (7)

•Book/Report (70)

•Clinical Guideline (3)

•Journal Article (1808)

•Legislation/Regulation (31)

•Meeting/Conference (12)

•Newsletter/Journal (3)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (123)

•Press Release/Announcement (14)

•Special or Theme Issue (23)

•Tools/Toolkit (19)

•Web Resource (41)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (590)

•Active Errors (396)

•Latent Errors (132)

•Near Miss (45)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (551)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (122)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (593)

•Communication Improvement (530)

•Human Factors Engineering (344)

•Teamwork (221)

•Specialization of Care (163)

•Logistical Approaches (157)

•Culture of Safety (256)

•Technologic Approaches (399)

•Education and Training (441)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (6)

•Dentistry (4)

•Medicine (1533)

•Nursing (232)

•Pharmacy (229)

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Quality and Safety Professionals

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1426)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

•Residential Facilities (36)

•Ambulatory Care (160)

•Outpatient Surgery (21)

•Patient Transport (17)

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STUDY

How experiencing preventable medical problems changed patients' interactions with primary health care.

Elder NC, Jacobson CJ, Zink T, Hasse L. Ann Fam Med. 2005;3:537-544.

COMMENTARY classic

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Healthcare in a land called PeoplePower: nothing about me without me.

Delbanco T, Berwick DM, Boufford JI, et al. Health Expect. 2001;4:144-150.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Collaborating and Acting Responsibly to Ensure Safety (CARES) Alliance.

Covidien.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors still claiming many lives.

Weise E. USA Today. May 18, 2005.

BOOK/REPORT

Risk Management Pearls on Disclosure of Adverse Events.

Amori G. Chicago, IL: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; 2006.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

The National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine.

Dallas, TX: American College of Emergency Physicians.

TOOLKIT

Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Safety and Quality: A Mini Toolkit.

Bethesda, MD: Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care; 2011.

STUDY

Am I safe here? Improving patients' perceptions of safety in hospitals.

Wolosin RJ, Vercler L, Matthews JL. J Nurs Care Qual. 2006;21:30-38.

STUDY

Failure to engage hospitalized elderly patients and their families in advance care planning.

Heyland DK, Barwich D, Pichora D, et al; ACCEPT (Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Elderly Patients) Study Team; Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network (CARENET). JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173:778-787.

NEWSLETTER/JOURNAL

Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare.

Marietta, GA: Lionheart Publishing, Inc. ISSN: 1553-6637.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety Handbook, Second Edition.

Youngberg BJ, ed. Jones & Bartlett Learning: Sudbuery MA; 2013. ISBN: 9780763774042.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Patient Safety: Here for the Health of Texas.

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555.

STUDY

Risk of mistaken DNR orders.

Rohrer JE, Esler WV, Saeed Q, et al. Support Care Cancer. 2006;14:871-873.

STUDY

Incidence and impact of physician and nurse disruptive behaviors in the emergency department.

Rosenstein AH, Naylor B. J Emerg Med. 2012;43:139-148.

STUDY

New technologies in radiation therapy: ensuring patient safety, radiation safety and regulatory issues in radiation oncology.

Amols HI. Health Phys. 2008;95:658-665.

STUDY

National survey on the effect of oncology drug shortages on cancer care.

McBride A, Holle LM, Westendorf C, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:609-617.

STUDY

To ask or not to ask?: the results of a formative assessment of a video empowering patients to ask their health care providers to perform hand hygiene.

Garcia-Williams A, Brinsley-Rainisch K, Schillie S, Sinkowitz-Cochran R. J Patient Saf. 2010;79:71-80.

AWARD RECIPIENT

John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Awards. The LVHHN patient safety video: patients as partners in safe care delivery.

Anthony R, Miranda F, Mawji Z, Cerimele R, Davis R, Lawrence S. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2003;29:640-645.

COMMENTARY

Enhancing patient safety and resident education during the academic year-end transfer of outpatients: lessons from the suicide of a psychiatric patient.

Young JQ, Eisendrath SJ. Acad Psychiatry. 2011;35:54-57.

COMMENTARY

Words: the "drug" with the highest frequency of dispensing errors.

Lamba S. Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18:93-95.

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