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•Device-related Complications (23)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (56)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (21)

•Medication Safety (214)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (104)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (103)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (550)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (584)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (194)

•Patients (7)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (388)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (17)

•Ambulatory Care (27)

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STUDY

Track, trigger and teamwork: communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards.

Donohue LA, Endacott R. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26:10-17.

STUDY

Oncology nurses' perceptions about involving patients in the prevention of chemotherapy administration errors.

Schwappach DLB, Hochreutener MA, Wernli M. Oncol Nurs Forum. 2010;37:E84-E91.

STUDY

Learning mechanisms to limit medication administration errors.

Drach-Zahavy A, Pud D. J Adv Nurs. 2010;66:794-805.

STUDY

Implementing bedside handover: strategies for change management.

McMurray A, Chaboyer W, Wallis M, Fetherston C. J Clin Nurs. 2010;19:2580-2589.

STUDY

An observational study of medication administration errors in old-age psychiatric inpatients.

Haw C, Stubbs J, Dickens G. Int J Qual Health Care. 2007;19:210-216.

REVIEW

Do calculation errors by nurses cause medication errors in clinical practice? A literature review.

Wright K. Nurse Educ Today. 2010;30:85-97.

STUDY

Identifying the latent failures underpinning medication administration errors: an exploratory study.

Lawton R, Carruthers S, Gardner P, Wright J, McEachan RR. Health Serv Res. 2012;47:1437-1459.

STUDY

Association of interruptions with an increased risk and severity of medication administration errors.

Westbrook JI, Woods A, Rob MI, Dunsmuir WTM, Day RO. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:683-690.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors common for hospital diabetes.

Nursing Times. April 1, 2011.

COMMENTARY

Implementing a systematic response to medication errors.

Larsen D, Cole R, Higton P. Nurs Stand. 2007;21:35-40.

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

Attitudes toward safety and teamwork in a maternity unit with embedded team training.

Siassakos D, Fox R, Hunt L, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:132-137.

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.

COMMENTARY

Medication room madness: calming the chaos.

Conrad C, Fields W, McNamara T, Cone M. J Nurs Care Qual. 2009;25:137-144.

STUDY

Creating an improvement culture for enhanced patient safety: service improvement learning in pre-registration education.

Christiansen A, Robson L, Griffith-Evans C. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:782-788.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Innovation and teamwork: introducing multidisciplinary team ward rounds.

Moroney N, Knowles C. Nurs Manag (Harrow). April 2006;13:28-31.

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

Errors in the administration of intravenous medications in hospital and the role of correct procedures and nurse experience.

Westbrook JI, Rob MI, Woods A, Parry D. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:1027-1034.

COMMENTARY

Building a safety culture.

Milligan F, Dennis S. Nurs Stand. November 2005;20:48-52.

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