AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Medication Safety (97)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (73)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (54)

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•Health Care Providers (186)

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•Hospitals (37)

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•Ambulatory Care (199)

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STUDY

Working conditions in primary care: physician reactions and care quality.

Linzer M, Manwell LB, Williams ES, et al; MEMO Investigators. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151:28-36.

STUDY

Development and early experience from an intervention to facilitate teamwork between general practices and allied health providers: the Team-link study.

Harris MF, Chan BC, Daniel C, Wan Q, Zwar N, Davies GP. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10:104.

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.

STUDY

Patients' perceptions of safety if interpersonal continuity of care were to be disrupted.

Pandhi N, Schumacher J, Flynn KE, Smith M. Health Expect. 2008;11:400-408.

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Emotional impact of patient safety incidents on family physicians and their office staff.

O'Beirne M, Sterling P, Palacios-Derflingher L, Hohman S, Zwicker K. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012;25:177-183.

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.

COMMENTARY

Reducing diagnostic error through medical home-based primary care reform.

Singh H, Graber M. JAMA. 2010;304:463-464.

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.

MEASUREMENT TOOL/INDICATOR

Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2010.

STUDY

Improving prescription drug warnings to promote patient comprehension.

Wolf MS, Davis TC, Bass PF, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:50-56.

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

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.

COMMENTARY

Urine a Tough Position.

Gandhi TK. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2003.

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

Safety climate and its association with office type and team involvement in primary care.

Gehring K, Schwappach DL, Battaglia M, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2013 May 10; [Epub ahead of print].

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Confidential reporting of patient safety events in primary care: results from a multilevel classification of cognitive and system factors.

Kostopoulou O, Delaney B. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:95-100.

STUDY

Assessing the value of electronic prescribing in ambulatory care: A focus group study.

Weingart SN, Massagli M, Cyrulik A, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2009;78:571-578.

STUDY

Development of a tool within the electronic medical record to facilitate medication reconciliation after hospital discharge.

Schnipper JL, Liang CL, Hamann C, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:309-313.

STUDY

Performance of a fail-safe system to follow up abnormal mammograms in primary care.

Grossman E, Phillips RS, Weingart SN. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:172-179.

STUDY

Using an electronic prescribing system to ensure accurate medication lists in a large multidisciplinary medical group.

Stock R, Scott J, Gurtel S. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:271-279.

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