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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (153)

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•Health Care Providers (323)

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•Hospitals (457)

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Frequency and type of errors and near errors reported by critical care nurses.

Balas MC, Scott LD, Rogers AE. Can J Nurs Res. 2006;38:24-41.

COMMENTARY

Unreported errors in the intensive care unit: a case study of the way we work.

Henneman EA. Crit Care Nurse. 2007;27:27-34.

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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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Structural empowerment and patient safety culture among registered nurses working in adult critical care units.

Armellino D, Quinn Griffin MT, Fitzpatrick JJ. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:796-803.

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Nurses' behaviors and visual scanning patterns may reduce patient identification errors.

Marquard JL, Henneman PL, He Z, Jo J, Fisher DL, Henneman EA. J Exp Psychol Appl. 2011;17:247-256.

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Worries and concerns experienced by nurse specialists during inter-hospital transports of critically ill patients: a critical incident study.

Gustafsson M, Wennerholm S, Fridlund B. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26:138-145.

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Discharge rounds in the 80-hour workweek: importance of the trauma nurse practitioner.

Haan JM, Dutton RP, Willis M, Leone S, Kramer ME, Scalea TM. J Trauma. 2007;63:339-343.

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Healthy work environments, nurse-physician communication, and patients' outcomes.

Manojlovich M, DeCicco B. Am J Crit Care. 2007;16:536-543.

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Strategies used by critical care nurses to identify, interrupt, and correct medical errors.

Henneman EA, Gawlinski A, Blank FS, Henneman PL, Jordan D, McKenzie JB. Am J Crit Care. 2010;19:500-509.

COMMENTARY

Preventing sentinel events caused by family members.

Wall Y, Kautz DD. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2011;30:25-27.

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Medical errors recovered by critical care nurses.

Dykes PC, Rothschild JM, Hurley AC. J Nurs Adm. 2010;40:241-246.

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Developing and testing a tool to measure nurse/physician communication in the intensive care unit.

Manojlovich M, Saint S, Forman J, Fletcher CE, Keith R, Krein S. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:72-76.

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A transdisciplinary team acting on evidence through analyses of moot malpractice cases.

Constantino RE. Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2007;26:150-155.

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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.

IMAGE/POSTER

Distributing Cognition: ICU Handoffs Conform to Grice's Maxims.

Brandwijk M, Nemeth C, O'Conner M, Kahana M, Cook RI. Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesia and Critical Care: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

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Satisfaction of intensive care unit nurses with nurse-physician communication.

Manojlovich M, Antonakos C. J Nurs Adm. 2008;38:237-243.

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Orienting frames and private routines: the role of cultural process in critical care safety.

Hazlehurst B, McMullen C. Int J Med Inform. 2007;76(suppl 1):129-35.

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Nurses' perceptions of simulation-based interprofessional training program for rapid response and code blue events.

Wehbe-Janek H, Lenzmeier CR, Ogden PE, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:43-50.

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Effect of an anonymous reporting system on near-miss and harmful medical error reporting in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Grant MJ, Larsen GY. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:213-221.

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Comparing errors in ED computer-assisted vs conventional pediatric drug dosing and administration.

Yamamoto L, Kanemori J. Am J Emerg Med. 2010;28:588-592.

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