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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.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Leveraging technical and managerial changes to improve safety.
Pronovost P, Heifetz RA. Hosp Health Netw. March 27, 2007.
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An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.
Pronovost P, Needham D, Berenholtz S, et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:2725-2732.
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Critical care delivery in the United States: distribution of services and compliance with Leapfrog recommendations.
Angus DC, Shorr AF, White A, Dremsizov TT, Schmitz RJ, Kelley MA, on behalf of the Committee on Manpower for Pulmonary and Critical Care Societies (COMPACCS). Crit Care Med. 2006;34:1016-1024.
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Adverse drug event reporting in intensive care units: a survey of current practices.
Kane-Gill SL, Devlin JW. Ann Pharmacother. 2006;40:1267-73.
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Discontinuity of chronic medications in patients discharged from the intensive care unit.
Bell CM, Rahimi-Darabad P, Orner AI. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:937-941.
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National study on the distribution, causes, and consequences of voluntarily reported medication errors between the ICU and non-ICU settings.
Latif A, Rawat N, Pustavoitau A, Pronovost PJ, Pham JC. Crit Care Med. 2013;41:389-398.
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Analysis of risk factors for adverse drug events in critically ill patients.
Kane-Gill SL, Kirisci L, Verrico MM, Rothschild JM. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:823-828.
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Adverse events experienced while transferring the critically ill patient from the emergency department to the intensive care unit.
Gillman L, Leslie G, Williams T, et al. Emerg Med J. 2006;23:858-861.
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A comparison of voluntarily reported medication errors in intensive care and general care units.
Kane-Gill SL, Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:55-59.
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Patient safety in intensive care: results from the multinational Sentinel Events Evaluation (SEE) study.
Valentin A, Capuzzo M, Guidet B, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2006;32:1591-1598.
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Cost implications of actual and potential adverse events prevented by interventions of a critical care pharmacist.
Kopp BJ, Mrsan M, Erstad BL, Duby JJ. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:2483-2487.
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Role of registered nurses in error prevention, discovery and correction.
Rogers AE, Dean GE, Hwang WT, Scott LD. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:117-121.
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An observational study of changes to long-term medication after admission to an intensive care unit.
Campbell AJ, Bloomfield R, Noble DW. Anaesthesia.
2006;61:1087-1092.
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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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Medication-error reporting and pharmacy resident experience during implementation of computerized prescriber order entry.
Weant KA, Cook AM, Armitstead JA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:526-530.
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Adverse drug events in a paediatric intensive care unit: a prospective cohort.
Silva DCB, Araujo OR, Arduini RG, Alonso CFR, Shibata ARO, Troster EJ. BMJ Open. 2013;3:ee001868.
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Preventable harm occurring to critically ill children.
Larsen GY, Donaldson AE, Parker HB, Grant MJ. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007;8:331-336.
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The Critical Care Safety Study: the incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care.
Rothschild JM, Landrigan CP, Cronin JW, et al. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1694-1700.
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A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit.
Needham DM, Sinopoli DJ, Thompson DA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2005;33:1701-1707.
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