AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (415)

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General Internal Medicine

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•Health Care Providers (787)

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•Hospitals (1290)

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COMMENTARY

Smart pumps: advanced capabilities and continuous quality improvement.

Vanderveen T. Patient Saf Quality Healthc. January/February 2007.

STUDY

Smartphone use during inpatient attending rounds: prevalence, patterns and potential for distraction.

Katz-Sidlow RJ, Ludwig A, Miller S, Sidlow R. J Hosp Med. 2012;7:595-599.

MEASUREMENT TOOL/INDICATOR

Medication Safety Self Assessment for Automated Dispensing Cabinets.

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

STUDY

Predictive combinations of monitor alarms preceding in-hospital code blue events.

Hu X, Sapo M, Nenov V, et al. J Biomed Inform. 2012;45:913-921.

STUDY

Using Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to reduce medication errors in the process of drug prescription, validation and dispensing in hospitalised patients.

Vélez-Díaz-Pallarés M, Delgado-Silveira E, Carretero-Accame ME, Bermejo-Vicedo T. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:42-52.

BOOK/REPORT

IBEAS: A Pioneer Study on Patient Safety in Latin America: Towards Safer Hospital Care.

Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Piecing together medication administration.

Anderson HJ. Health Data Manage. May 1, 2009;17:22.

STUDY

Explaining ethnic disparities in patient safety: a qualitative analysis.

Suurmond J, Uiters E, De Bruijne MC, Stronks K, Essink-Bot ML. Am J Public Health. 2010;100 (suppl 1):S113-117.

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;20:e85-e90.

STUDY

Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric units: association with clinical and functional characteristics.

Fromm MF, Maas R, Tümena T, Gaßmann KG. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2013;69:975-984.

COMMENTARY

Sharkey JE, Van Leuven K, Radovich P. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:346-351.

STUDY

Association of a clinical knowledge support system with improved patient safety, reduced complications and shorter length of stay among Medicare beneficiaries in acute care hospitals in the United States.

Bonis PA, Pickens GT, Rind DM, Foster DA. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77:745-753.

STUDY

Patient safety begins with proper planning: a quantitative method to improve hospital design.

Birnbach DJ, Nevo I, Scheinman SR, Fitzpatrick M, Shekhter I, Lombard JL. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:462-465.

STUDY

A multiple-drawer medication layout problem in automated dispensing cabinets.

Pazour JA, Meller RD. Health Care Manag Sci. 2012;15:339-354.

STUDY

Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention strategies.

Smits M, Zegers M, Groenewegen PP, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e5.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Computer viruses are "rampant" on medical devices in hospitals.

Talbot D. MIT Technology Review. October 17, 2012.

STUDY

Variation in safety culture dimensions within and between US and Swiss Hospital units: an exploratory study.

Schwendimann R, Zimmermann N, Küng K, Ausserhofer D, Sexton B. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:32-41.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The best medicine for fixing the modern hospital.

Mitchell R. Kaiser Health News and Fast Company. November 26, 2012.

COMMENTARY

Improving heparin safety: a multidisciplinary invited conference.

Peterson C, Ham CW, Vanderveen T. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:491-497.

STUDY

Failure to utilize functions of an electronic prescribing system and the subsequent generation of 'technically preventable' computerized alerts.

Baysari MT, Reckmann MH, Li L, Day RO, Westbrook JI. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19:1003-1010.

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