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•Medication Safety (90)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (72)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (49)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (172)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (139)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (96)

•Patients (10)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (32)

•Psychiatric Facilities (2)

•Residential Facilities (2)

•Ambulatory Care (188)

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STUDY

Better medical office safety culture is not associated with better scores on quality measures.

Hagopian B, Singer ME, Curry-Smith AC, Nottingham K, Hickner J. J Patient Saf. 2012;8:15-21.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation in ambulatory care: attempts at improvement.

Nassaralla CL, Naessens JM, Hunt VL, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:402-407.

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Problems after discharge and understanding of communication with their primary care physicians (PCPs) among hospitalized seniors: a mixed methods study.

Arora VM, Prochaska ML, Farnan JM, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:385-391.

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Implementation of a medication reconciliation process in an ambulatory internal medicine clinic.

Nassaralla CL, Naessens JM, Chaudhry R, Hansen MA, Scheitel SM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:90-94.

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Electronic medical record availability and primary care depression treatment.

Harman JS, Rost KM, Harle CA, Cook RL. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:962-967.

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Improving reporting of outpatient pediatric medical errors.

Neuspiel DR, Stubbs EH, Liggin L. Pediatrics. 2011;128:e1608-e1613.

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Identifying diagnostic errors in primary care using an electronic screening algorithm.

Singh H, Thomas EJ, Khan MM, Petersen LA. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:302-308.

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'Tempos' management in primary care: a key factor for classifying adverse events, and improving quality and safety.

Amalberti R, Brami J. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:729-736.

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Patient perceptions of mistakes in ambulatory care.

Kistler CE, Walter LC, Mitchell CM, Sloane PD. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1480-1487.

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Improving medication reconciliation in the outpatient setting.

Varkey P, Cunningham J, Bisping S. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:286-292.

COMMENTARY classic

Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care.

Sarkar U, Wachter RM, Schroeder SA, Schillinger D. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:377-383.

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The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study.

McKinstry B, Hammersley V, Burton C, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:298-303.

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The safety journal: lessons learned with an error reporting tool to stimulate systems thinking.

Singh R, Naughton B, Singh A, Anderson DR, Singh G. J Patient Saf. 2007;3:135-141.

BOOK/REPORT

Coordination Between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians.

Carrier E, Yee T, Holtzwart RA. Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Reform; 2011.

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The relationship of self-report of quality to practice size and health information technology.

Gorman PN, O'Malley JP, Fagnan LJ. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012;25:614-624.

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The management of test results in primary care: does an electronic medical record make a difference?

Elder NC, McEwen TR, Flach J, Gallimore J, Pallerla H. Fam Med. 2010;42:327-333.

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Exploring situational awareness in diagnostic errors in primary care.

Singh H, Davis Giardina T, Petersen LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:30-38.

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Impact of implementing alerts about medication black-box warnings in electronic health records.

Yu DT, Seger DL, Lasser KE, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011;20:192-202.

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Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care.

Singh H, Giardina TD, Forjuoh SN, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:93-100.

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Transitioning between electronic health records: effects on ambulatory prescribing safety.

Abramson EL, Malhotra S, Fischer K, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:868-874.

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