AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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General Internal Medicine

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STUDY

Improving teamwork: impact of structured interdisciplinary rounds on a medical teaching unit.

O'Leary KJ, Wayne DB, Haviley C, Slade ME, Lee J, Williams MV. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:826-832.

COMMENTARY

Ten years after the IOM report: engaging residents in quality and patient safety by creating a house staff quality council.

Fleischut PM, Evans AS, Nugent WC, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:89-94.

STUDY

Safety of using a computerized rounding and sign-out system to reduce resident duty hours.

Van Eaton EG, McDonough K, Lober WB, Johnson EA, Pellegrini CA, Horvath KD. Acad Med. 2010;85:1189-1195.

BOOK/REPORT

An In Depth Investigation into Causes of Prescribing Errors by Foundation Trainees in Relation to Their Medical Education—EQUIP Study.

Dornan T, Ashcroft D, Heathfield H, et al. London: General Medical Council; 2009.

STUDY

Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit: improving patient safety.

O’Leary KJ, Buck R, Fligiel HM, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:678-684.

STUDY

Does the implementation of an electronic prescribing system create unintended medication errors? A study of the sociotechnical context through the analysis of reported medication incidents.

Redwood S, Rajakumar A, Hodson J, Coleman JJ. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2011;11:29.

STUDY

A July spike in fatal medication errors: a possible effect of new medical residents.

Phillips DP, Barker GEC. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:774-779.

STUDY

Accuracy of medication documentation in hospital discharge summaries: a retrospective analysis of medication transcription errors in manual and electronic discharge summaries.

Callen J, McIntosh J, Li J. Int J Med Inform. 2010;79:58-64.

STUDY

Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial.

Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley A, et al. JAMA. 2010;304:1912-1918.

STUDY

Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.

Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.

STUDY

Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital.

Forster AJ, Worthington JR, Hawken S, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:756-763.

STUDY

Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription writing in a hospital.

Calligaris L, Panzera A, Arnoldo L, et al. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009;9:9.

REVIEW

Systematic review: association of shift length, protected sleep time, and night float with patient care, residents' health, and education.

Reed DA, Fletcher KE, Arora VM. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:829-842.

COMMENTARY

An anesthesiology department leads culture change at a hospital system level to improve quality and patient safety.

Fleischut PM, Evans AS, Faggiani SL, Lazar EJ, Kerr GE. Anesthesiol Clin. 2011;29:153-167.

COMMENTARY

Medication reconciliation in a community, nonteaching hospital.

Wortman SB. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65:2047-2054.

STUDY

Rethinking resident supervision to improve safety: from hierarchical to interprofessional models.

Tamuz M, Giardina TD, Thomas EJ, Menon S, Singh H. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:448-456.

STUDY

Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems.

Balla U, Malnick S, Schattner A. Medicine (Baltimore). 2008;87:294-300.

STUDY

Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions.

van Walraven C, Jennings A, Taljaard M, et al. CMAJ. 2011;183:E1067-E1072.

STUDY

Junior doctors' reflections on patient safety.

Ahmed M, Arora S, Carley S, Sevdalis N, Neale G. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88:125-129.

STUDY

Characteristics of medication errors and adverse drug events in hospitals participating in the California Pediatric Patient Safety Initiative.

Takata GS, Taketomo CK, Waite S; for the California Pediatric Patient Safety Initiative. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65:2036-2044.

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