AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (405)

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General Internal Medicine

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•Health Care Providers (820)

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•Hospitals (1256)

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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.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2012.

STUDY

Is patient safety improving? National trends in patient safety indicators: 1998–2007.

Downey JR, Hernandez-Boussard T, Banka G, Morton JM. Health Serv Res. 2012;47:414-430.

STUDY

National estimates of adverse events during nonpsychiatric hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia.

Khaykin E, Ford DE, Pronovost PJ, Dixon L, Daumit GL. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2010;32:419-425.

STUDY

Integrating incident data from five reporting systems to assess patient safety: making sense of the elephant.

Levtzion-Korach O, Frankel A, Alcalai H, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:402-410.

BOOK/REPORT

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

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

STUDY

Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation.

Schmaltz SP, Williams SC, Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Wachter RM. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:458-465.

STUDY

Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices.

Brooke BS, Dominici F, Pronovost PJ, Makary MA, Schneider E, Pawlik TM. Surgery. 2012;151:651-659.

STUDY

Anticoagulation-associated adverse drug events.

Piazza G, Nguyen TN, Cios D, et al. Am J Med. 2011;124:1136-1142.

MEASUREMENT TOOL/INDICATOR

Medication Safety Self Assessment for Automated Dispensing Cabinets.

Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; 2009.

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.

STUDY

Improvement in the detection of adverse drug events by the use of electronic health and prescription records: an evaluation of two trigger tools.

Nwulu U, Nirantharakumar K, Odesanya R, McDowell SE, Coleman JJ. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2013;69:255-259.

STUDY

Patient safety reporting systems: sustained quality improvement using a multidisciplinary team and "Good Catch" awards.

Herzer KR, Mirrer M, Xie Y, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:339-347.

STUDY

Relationship between medication event rates and the Leapfrog computerized physician order entry evaluation tool.

Leung AA, Keohane C, Lipsitz S, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Apr 18; [Epub ahead of print].

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

As industry automates, adverse events continue to haunt caregivers.

Wetzel TG. Health Data Manage. 2011 Feb;19:86, 88, 90 passim.

STUDY

Contemporary evidence about hospital strategies for reducing 30-day readmissions: a national study.

Bradley EH, Curry L, Horwitz LI, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;60:607-614.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Are we finally getting serious about medical errors?

Burns J. Managed Care Magazine. May 2011;20:23-28.

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.

STUDY

Description and evaluation of adaptations to the Global Trigger Tool to enhance value to adverse event reduction efforts.

Kennerly DA, Saldaña M, Kudyakov R, da Graca B, Nicewander D, Compton J. J Patient Saf. 2013 Jan 30; [Epub ahead of print].

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.

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