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•Device-related Complications (25)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (64)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (22)

•Medication Safety (251)

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•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (14)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (124)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (124)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (152)

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•Medical/Surgical/Psychiatric Nursing (89)

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•Obstetrical Nursing (11)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (604)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (636)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (228)

•Patients (16)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (454)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

•Residential Facilities (21)

•Ambulatory Care (32)

•Outpatient Surgery (6)

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BOOK/REPORT

Focus on Patient Safety.

Fitzpatrick J, Stone P, Hinton-Walker P, eds. Annual Review of Nursing Research. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. ISBN: 0826141366.

STUDY

Tragedy into policy: a quantitative study of nurses' attitudes toward patient advocacy activities.

Black LM. Am J Nurs. 2011;111:26-35.

STUDY

A relational leadership perspective on unit-level safety climate.

Thompson DN, Hoffman LA, Sereika SM, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2011;41:479-487.

STUDY

Achieving quality improvement in the nursing home: influence of nursing leadership on communication and teamwork.

Vogelsmeier A, Scott-Cawiezell J. J Nurs Care Qual. 2011;26:236-242.

STUDY

A human factors framework and study of the effect of nursing workload on patient safety and employee quality of working life.

Holden RJ, Scanlon MC, Patel NR, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:15-24.

STUDY

Nurses' work schedule characteristics, nurse staffing, and patient mortality.

Trinkoff AM, Johantgen M, Storr CL, Gurses AP, Liang Y, Han K. Nurs Res. 2011;60:1-8.

STUDY

The impact of teamwork on missed nursing care.

Kalisch BJ, Lee KH. Nurs Outlook. 2010;58:233-241.

STUDY

Interruptions and multitasking in nursing care.

Kalisch BJ, Aebersold M. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:126-132.

STUDY

Do nurse and patient injuries share common antecedents? An analysis of associations with safety climate and working conditions.

Taylor JA, Dominici F, Agnew J, Gerwin D, Morlock L, Miller MR. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:101-111.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety outcomes: the importance of understanding the organizational culture and safety climate.

Ross J. J Perianesth Nurs. 2011;26:347-348.

STUDY

Nursing home error and level of staff credentials.

Scott-Cawiezell J, Pepper GA, Madsen RW, Petroski G, Vogelsmeier A, Zellmer D. Clin Nurs Res. 2007;16:72-78.

STUDY

Reducing interruptions to improve medication safety.

Freeman R, McKee S, Lee-Lehner B, Pesenecker J. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28:176-185.

STUDY

Why patient summaries in electronic health records do not provide the cognitive support necessary for nurses' handoffs on medical and surgical units: insights from interviews and observations.

Staggers N, Clark L, Blaz JW, Kapsandoy S. Health Informatics J. 2011;17:209-223.

STUDY

An examination of technical efficiency, quality, and patient safety in acute care nursing units.

Mark B, Jones C, Lindley L, Ozcan Y. Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2009;10:180-186.

COMMENTARY

A model for developing high-reliability teams.

Riley W, Davis SE, Miller KK, McCullough M. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:556-563.

STUDY

Variations in nursing care quality across hospitals.

Lucero RJ, Lake ET, Aiken LH. J Adv Nurs. 2009;65:2299-2310.

STUDY

Rural hospital nursing: better environments = shared vision and quality/safety engagement.

Newhouse R, Morlock L, Pronovost P, Colantuoni E, Johantgen M. J Nurs Adm. 2009;39:189-195.

STUDY

It's always something: hospital nurses managing risk.

Groves PS, Finfgeld-Connett D, Wakefield BJ. Clin Nurs Res. 2012 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

Nursing care quality and adverse events in US hospitals.

Lucero RJ, Lake ET, Aiken LH. J Clin Nurs. 2010;19:2185-2195.

COMMENTARY

Relationships among teams, culture, safety, and cost outcomes.

Brewer BB. West J Nurs Res. 2006;28:641-653.

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