AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (51)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (246)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (35)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (407)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (354)

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General Internal Medicine

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•Health Care Providers (811)

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•Non-Health Care Professionals (548)

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Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1262)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

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•Ambulatory Care (173)

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COMMENTARY

Culture, language, and patient safety: making the link.

Johnstone MJ, Kanitsaki O. Int J Qual Health Care. 2006;18:383-8.

STUDY

The care transitions intervention: translating from efficacy to effectiveness.

Voss R, Gardner R, Baier R, Butterfield K, Lehrman S, Gravenstein S. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1232-1237.

REVIEW

Medication safety in acute care in Australia: where are we now? Part 1: a review of the extent and causes of medication problems 2002-2008.

Roughead EE, Semple SJ. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2009;6:18.

STUDY

Effects of two commercial electronic prescribing systems on prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients: a before and after study.

Westbrook JI, Reckmann M, Li L, et al. PLoS Med. 2012;9:e1001164.

STUDY

Adverse event rates as measures of hospital performance.

Hauck K, Zhao X, Jackson T. Health Policy. 2012;104:146-154.

REVIEW

Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

Rennke S, Nguyen OK, Shoeb MH, Magan Y, Wachter RM, Ranji SR. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):433-440.

STUDY

What stops hospital clinical staff from following protocols? An analysis of the incidence and factors behind the failure of bedside clinical staff to activate the rapid response system in a multi-campus Australian metropolitan healthcare service.

Shearer B, Marshall S, Buist MD, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:569-575.

COMMENTARY

Improving heparin safety: a multidisciplinary invited conference.

Peterson C, Ham CW, Vanderveen T. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:491-497.

STUDY

Improving the discharge process by embedding a discharge facilitator in a resident team.

Finn KM, Heffner R, Chang Y, et al. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:494-500.

REVIEW

The efficacy of computer-enabled discharge communication interventions: a systematic review.

Motamedi SM, Posadas-Calleja J, Straus S, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:403-415.

STUDY

Do medical inpatients who report poor service quality experience more adverse events and medical errors?

Taylor BB, Marcantonio ER, Pagovich O, et al. Med Care. 2008;46:224-228.

STUDY

The effect of medication reconciliation in elderly patients at hospital discharge.

Midlöv P, Bahrani L, Seyfali M, Höglund P, Rickhag E, Eriksson T. Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34:113-119.

STUDY

Hospital discharge documentation and risk of rehospitalisation.

Hansen LO, Strater A, Smith L, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:773-778.

STUDY

Language barriers and understanding of hospital discharge instructions.

Karliner LS, Auerbach A, Nápoles A, Schillinger D, Nickleach D, Pérez-Stable EJ. Med Care. 2012;50:283-289.

STUDY

A reengineered hospital discharge program to decrease rehospitalization: a randomized trial.

Jack BW, Chetty VK, Anthony D, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:178-187.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Project Red (Re-Engineered Discharge).

Boston, MA: Boston University Medical Center.

COMMENTARY

Reengineering hospital discharge: a protocol to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and boost patient satisfaction.

Clancy CM. Am J Med Qual. 2009;24:344-346.

STUDY

Inpatient fall prevention: use of in-room Webcams.

Hardin SR, Dienemann J, Rudisill P, Mills KK. J Patient Saf. 2013;9:29-35.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety Authority Annual Reports.

Harrisburg, PA: Patient Safety Authority; April 2013.

STUDY

Hospitalized patients' understanding of their plan of care.

O'Leary KJ, Kulkarni N, Landler MP, et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010;85:47-52.

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