AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (51)

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•Identification Errors (27)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (244)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (34)

•Medication Safety (363)

•Medical Complications (228)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (16)

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•Psychological and Social Complications (62)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (405)

•Active Errors (165)

•Latent Errors (96)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (359)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (168)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (424)

•Communication Improvement (383)

•Human Factors Engineering (139)

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•Specialization of Care (102)

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•Culture of Safety (245)

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General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (820)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1140)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (559)

•Patients (124)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1256)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (9)

•Ambulatory Care (193)

•Outpatient Surgery (4)

•Patient Transport (2)

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BOOK/REPORT

Adverse Events in Hospitals: Care Study of Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Two Selected Counties.

Levinson DR. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General; December 2008. Report No. OEI-06-08-00220.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Quality Study: Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

IBEAS: A Pioneer Study on Patient Safety in Latin America: Towards Safer Hospital Care.

Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011.

BOOK/REPORT

Tennessee Center for Patient Safety Annual Report 2010.

Nashville, TN: Tennessee Center for Patient Safety; August 2011.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety in Canada: An Update.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information; August 14, 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety Authority Annual Reports.

Harrisburg, PA: Patient Safety Authority; April 2012.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2009.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

HAC Posting on Hospital Compare.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

BOOK/REPORT

Hospital Reporting Program.

Portland, OR: Oregon Patient Safety Commission.

AWARD RECIPIENT

Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; December 4, 2009.

COMMENTARY

A new frontier in patient safety.

McCannon J, Berwick DM. JAMA. 2011;305:2221-2222.

STUDY

How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators?: Implications for national public reporting and pay-for-performance.

Ly DP, Lopez L, Isaac T, Jha AK. Med Care. 2010;48:1133-1137.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medicare says it won't cover hospital errors.

Pear R. New York Times. August 19, 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2010.

STUDY

Impact of a statewide intensive care unit quality improvement initiative on hospital mortality and length of stay: retrospective comparative analysis.

Lipitz-Snyderman A, Steinwachs D, Needham DM, Colantuoni E, Morlock LL, Pronovost PJ. BMJ. 2011;342:d219.

STUDY

Adverse event rates as measures of hospital performance.

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

BOOK/REPORT

The Patient Safety Initiative at America’s Public Hospitals: The Year One Overview.

Research Brief. Washington, DC: National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems; January 2011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medicare releases patient safety ratings for hospitals.

Rau J. Kaiser Health News. October 17, 2011.

STUDY

Temporal trends in rates of patient harm resulting from medical care.

Landrigan CP, Parry GJ, Bones CB, Hackbarth AD, Goldmann DA, Sharek PJ. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:2124-2134.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Impact Case Studies and Knowledge Transfer Case Studies: Patient Safety.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2011.

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