AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (47)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (249)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (20)

•Medication Safety (345)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (336)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (281)

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General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (790)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (902)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (426)

•Patients (61)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (908)

•Psychiatric Facilities (2)

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STUDY

'Tempos' management in primary care: a key factor for classifying adverse events, and improving quality and safety.

Amalberti R, Brami J. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:729-736.

STUDY

Improving medication reconciliation in the outpatient setting.

Varkey P, Cunningham J, Bisping S. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:286-292.

STUDY

The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study.

McKinstry B, Hammersley V, Burton C, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:298-303.

COMMENTARY

Safer out of hours primary care.

Cosford PA, Thomas JM. BMJ. 2010;340:c3194.

STUDY

Transitioning between electronic health records: effects on ambulatory prescribing safety.

Abramson EL, Malhotra S, Fischer K, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:868-874.

REVIEW

Diagnostic difficulty and error in primary care—a systematic review.

Kostopoulou O, Delaney BC, Munro CW. Fam Pract. 2008;25:400-413.

STUDY

Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care.

Singh H, Giardina TD, Forjuoh SN, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:93-100.

REVIEW

Meta-analysis: effect of interactive communication between collaborating primary care physicians and specialists.

Foy R, Hempel S, Rubenstein L, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2010;152:247-258.

STUDY

Are opioid dependence and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) documented in the medical record? A patient safety issue.

Walley AY, Farrar D, Cheng DM, Alford DP, Samet JH. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:1007-1011.

AUDIOVISUAL

Healthcare 411: Making hospital discharges safer for seniors.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 3, 2009.

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

Clinical outcomes from the use of Medication Report when elderly patients are discharged from hospital.

Midlöv P, Deierborg E, Holmdahl L, Höglund P, Eriksson T. Pharm World Sci. 2008;30:840-845.

COMMENTARY

Reducing diagnostic error through medical home-based primary care reform.

Singh H, Graber M. JAMA. 2010;304:463-464.

STUDY

The preliminary development and testing of a global trigger tool to detect error and patient harm in primary-care records.

de Wet C, Bowie P. Postgrad Med J. 2009;85:176-180.

REVIEW

Patient safety systems in the primary health care of diabetes—a story of missed opportunities?

Taub N, Baker R, Khunti K, et al. Diabet Med. 2010;27:1322-1326.

BOOK/REPORT

Safety in Doses.

London, UK: National Patient Safety Agency; 2009. ISBN: 9781906624088.

STUDY

Experience with a trigger tool for identifying adverse drug events among older adults in ambulatory primary care.

Singh R, McLean-Plunckett EA, Kee R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:199-204.

STUDY

Electronic medical record availability and primary care depression treatment.

Harman JS, Rost KM, Harle CA, Cook RL. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:962-967.

STUDY

Miscoding, misclassification and misdiagnosis of diabetes in primary care.

de Lusignan S, Sadek N, Mulnier H, Tahir A, Russell-Jones D, Khunti K. Diabet Med. 2012;29:181-189.

STUDY

How do physicians conduct medication reviews?

Tarn DM, Paterniti DA, Kravitz RL, Fein S, Wenger NS. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:1296-1302.

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