AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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STUDY

The preliminary development and testing of a global trigger tool to detect error and patient harm in primary-care records.

de Wet C, Bowie P. Postgrad Med J. 2009;85:176-180.

STUDY

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.

COMMENTARY

Safer out of hours primary care.

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

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.

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.

STUDY

Improving medication safety in primary care using electronic health records.

Nemeth LS, Wessell AM. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:238-243.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

How safe are patients in primary care?

Carlowe J. Nursing Times. April 28, 2009.

STUDY

Managed care penetration and other factors affecting computerized physician order entry in the ambulatory setting.

Menachemi N, Ford EW, Chukmaitov A, Brooks RG. Am J Manag Care. 2006;12:738-744.

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

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.

REVIEW

A review of the current evidence base for significant event analysis.

Bowie P, Pope L, Lough M. J Eval Clin Pract. 2008;14:520-536.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Patient safety records: silent witness.

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

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

Patient safety climate in primary care: age matters.

Holden LM, Watts DD, Hinton WP. J Patient Saf. 2009;5:23-28.

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

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.

REVIEW

Routinely recorded patient safety events in primary care: a literature review.

Tsang C, Majeed A, Aylin P. Fam Pract. 2012;29:8-15.

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.

STUDY

Preanalytical errors in primary healthcare: a questionnaire study of information search procedures, test request management and test tube labelling.

Söderberg J, Brulin C, Grankvist K, Wallin O. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2009;47:195-201.

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