AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (53)

•Diagnostic Errors (28)

•Identification Errors (26)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (226)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (34)

•Medication Safety (302)

•Medical Complications (228)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (16)

•Surgical Complications (70)

•Transfusion Complications (9)

•Psychological and Social Complications (56)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (2)

•Asia (17)

•Australia and New Zealand (41)

•Europe (225)

•North America (1060)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (19)

•Award (7)

•Book/Report (107)

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (951)

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•Newspaper/Magazine Article (175)

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•Special or Theme Issue (11)

•Tools/Toolkit (22)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (358)

•Active Errors (150)

•Latent Errors (103)

•Near Miss (18)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (338)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (161)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (389)

•Communication Improvement (342)

•Human Factors Engineering (134)

•Teamwork (92)

•Specialization of Care (99)

•Logistical Approaches (108)

•Culture of Safety (250)

•Technologic Approaches (209)

•Education and Training (238)

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General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (726)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1095)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (522)

•Patients (124)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1278)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

•Residential Facilities (8)

•Ambulatory Care (77)

•Outpatient Surgery (4)

•Patient Transport (2)

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COMMENTARY

How reliable is your hospital? A qualitative framework for analysing reliability levels.

Ikkersheim DE, Berg M. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:785-790.

BOOK/REPORT

National Healthcare Quality Reports.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2013. AHRQ Publication No. 13-0002.

REVIEW

Responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety: hospital board and medical staff leadership challenges.

Goeschel CA, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ. Chest. 2010;138:171-178.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Leading a culture of safety.

Sandrick K. Trustee. July/August 2009;62:6-10.

BOOK/REPORT

Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust: Public Inquiry.

Francis R. London, UK: The Stationary Office; 2013. ISBN: 9780102981469.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

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

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2011.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Reducing Unnecessary Hospital Readmissions: The Role of the Patient Safety Organization (PSO).

Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research.

BOOK/REPORT

Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation.

Raheja D. New York, NY: Productivity Press; 2011. ISBN: 9781439821022.

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

To make or buy patient safety solutions: a resource dependence and transaction cost economics perspective.

Fareed N, Mick SS. Health Care Manage Rev. 2011;36:288-298.

BOOK/REPORT

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2009 Comparative Database Report.

Sorra J, Famloaro T, Dyer N, Nelson D, Khanna K. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2009. AHRQ Publication No. 09-0030.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Hospital Transparency in Reporting Medical Errors.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 23, 2010.

STUDY

How event reporting by US hospitals has changed from 2005 to 2009.

Farley DO, Haviland A, Haas A, Pham C, Munier WB, Battles JB. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:70-77.

STUDY

Evaluation of organizational culture among different levels of healthcare staff participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign.

Sinkowitz-Cochran RL, Garcia-Williams A, Hackbarth AD, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012;33:135-143.

COMMENTARY

The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now.

Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):365-368.

REVIEW

Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

Miake-Lye IM, Hempel S, Ganz DA, Shekelle PG. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):390-396.

TOOLKIT

Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care.

Ganz DA, Huang C, Saliba D, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2013. AHRQ Publication No. 13-0015-EF.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

'Spread' remains challenge in patient safety improvement.

Healthcare Benchmarks Qual Improv. 2011;18:49-52.

STUDY

Identifying organizational cultures that promote patient safety.

Singer SJ, Falwell A, Gaba DM, et al. Health Care Manage Rev. 2009;34:300-311.

TOOLKIT

AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2012.

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