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TOOLKIT

Seven steps to patient safety in general practice.

National Patient Safety Agency. London, England: NHS; 2009.

STUDY

Stopping the error cascade: a report on ameliorators from the ASIPS collaborative.

Parnes B, Fernald D, Quintela J, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:12-16.

BOOK/REPORT

Coordination Between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians.

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

STUDY

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.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

High risk prescribing in primary care patients particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events: cross sectional population database analysis in Scottish general practice.

Guthrie B, McCowan C, Davey P, Simpson CR, Dreischulte T, Barnett K. BMJ. 2011;342:d3514.

STUDY

Measuring perceptions of safety climate in primary care: a cross-sectional study.

de Wet C, Johnson P, Mash R, McConnachie A, Bowie P. J Eval Clin Pract. 2012;18:135-142.

STUDY

Medication prescribing and monitoring errors in primary care: a report from the Practice Partner Research Network.

Wessell AM, Litvin C, Jenkins RG, Nietert PJ, Nemeth LS, Ornstein SM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e21.

STUDY

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.

BOOK/REPORT

Safety First: Top of Your Board's Agenda: 100 Day Challenge Survey Report.

The Patients Association. Harrow, Middlesex, UK: The Patients Association; June 2009.

REVIEW

Diagnostic difficulty and error in primary care—a systematic review.

Kostopoulou O, Delaney BC, Munro CW. Fam Pract. 2008;25:400-413.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Patient safety records: silent witness.

Gould M. Health Service Journal. September 15, 2008:22-24.

STUDY

Approaches to reducing the most important patient errors in primary health-care: patient and professional perspectives.

Buetow S, Kiata L, Liew T, Kenealy T, Dovey S, Elwyn G. Health Soc Care Community. 2010;18:296-303.

COMMENTARY

Safer out of hours primary care.

Cosford PA, Thomas JM. BMJ. 2010;340:c3194.

STUDY

Are opioid dependence and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) documented in the medical record? A patient safety issue.

Walley AY, Farrar D, Cheng DM, Alford DP, Samet JH. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:1007-1011.

STUDY

Identifying discrepancies in electronic medical records through pharmacist medication reconciliation.

Stewart AL, Lynch KJ. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2012;52:59-66.

STUDY

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.

REVIEW

Meta-analysis: effect of interactive communication between collaborating primary care physicians and specialists.

Foy R, Hempel S, Rubenstein L, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2010;152:247-258.

STUDY

How improving practice relationships among clinicians and nonclinicians can improve quality in primary care.

Lanham HJ, McDaniel RR, Crabtree BF, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:457-466.

STUDY

Communication and collaboration: it's about the pharmacists, as well as the physicians and nurses.

Holden LM, Watts DD, Walker PH. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:169-172.

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