AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (53)

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

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (35)

•Medication Safety (362)

•Medical Complications (232)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (16)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (414)

•Active Errors (166)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (356)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (425)

•Communication Improvement (380)

•Human Factors Engineering (139)

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General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (813)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1140)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (553)

•Patients (126)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1283)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (9)

•Ambulatory Care (165)

•Outpatient Surgery (4)

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BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety in Canada: An Update.

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

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

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

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

Austin, TX: Texas Medical Institute for Technology and the Quaid Foundation; 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2009.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; January 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Eighth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Reed K, May R. Denver, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Never events: Utah hospitals saw nearly 60 serious errors in 2007.

May H. Salt Lake Tribune. August 18, 2008.

BOOK/REPORT

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

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

STUDY

Impact of diagnosis-timing indicators on measures of safety, comorbidity, and case mix groupings from administrative data sources.

Naessens JM, Campbell CR, Berg B, Williams AR, Culbertson R. Med Care. 2007;45:781-788.

BOOK/REPORT

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

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2008.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

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

BOOK/REPORT

National Healthcare Quality Reports.

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

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

More states shred bills for awful medical errors: patients in 23 states will no longer pay for certain mistakes, hospitals say.

Aleccia J. MSNBC News. August 12, 2008.

STUDY

Comparing measures of patient safety for inpatient care provided to veterans within and outside the VA system in New York.

Weeks WB, West AN, Rosen AK, Bagian JP. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:58-64.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

New York City puts hospital error data online.

Kershaw S. New York Times. Sepember 7, 2007;Metro Desk section:B1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors leave devastating impact on families, professionals.

Bernhard B. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 5, 2013:A10.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospitals tally their avoidable mistakes.

Rein L. Washington Post. July 21, 2009:E1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Many Mass. hospitals will pay for errors.

Kowalczyk L. Boston Globe. September 17, 2007;Metro section:1A.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Minnesota is first state with policy to stop billing after medical errors.

Lerner M. Star Tribune. September 18, 2007;News section:5B.

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.

AUDIOVISUAL

Take Charge of Your Hospital Stay to Avoid Medical Mistakes.

Clarke S, Savard M. Good Morning America. ABC News. March 22, 2010.

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