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Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (5)

•Diagnostic Errors (1)

•Identification Errors (5)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (8)

•Medication Safety (35)

•Medical Complications (12)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (1)

•Surgical Complications (47)

•Psychological and Social Complications (9)

Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (2)

•Australia and New Zealand (3)

•Europe (14)

•North America (79)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (1)

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (83)

•Legislation/Regulation (2)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (7)

•Special or Theme Issue (2)

•Tools/Toolkit (2)

•Web Resource (2)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (20)

•Active Errors (21)

•Latent Errors (3)

•Near Miss (3)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (26)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (4)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (18)

•Communication Improvement (31)

•Human Factors Engineering (19)

•Teamwork (19)

•Logistical Approaches (12)

•Culture of Safety (21)

•Technologic Approaches (11)

•Education and Training (16)

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Medical/Surgical/Psychiatric Nursing

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (89)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (87)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (30)

•Patients (4)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (88)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

•Residential Facilities (1)

•Ambulatory Care (1)

•Outpatient Surgery (3)

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Empowering frontline nurses: a structured intervention enables nurses to improve medication administration accuracy.

Kliger J, Blegen MA, Gootee D, O'Neil E. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:604-612.

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Nurses' clinical reasoning: processes and practices of medication safety.

Dickson GL, Flynn L. Qual Health Res. 2012;22:3-16.

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Bar code medication administration technology: characterization of high-alert medication triggers and clinician workarounds.

Miller DF, Fortier CR, Garrison KL. Ann Pharmacother. 2011;45:162-168.

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Reducing interruptions to improve medication safety.

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

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Impact of barcode medication administration technology on how nurses spend their time providing patient care.

Poon EG, Keohane CA, Bane A, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2008;38:541-549.

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Incorrect surgical counts: a qualitative analysis.

Rowlands A, Steeves R. AORN J. 2010;92:410-419.

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Enhancing patient safety with intelligent intravenous infusion devices: experience in a specialty cardiac hospital.

Wood JL, Burnette JS. Heart Lung. 2012;41:173-176.

COMMENTARY

Increasing patient safety and surgical team communication by using a count/time out board.

Edel EM. AORN J. 2010;92:420-424.

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Nurses' practice environments, error interception practices, and inpatient medication errors.

Flynn L, Liang Y, Dickson GL, Xie M, Suh DC. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2012;44:180-186.

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Effects of learning climate and registered nurse staffing on medication errors.

Chang Y, Mark B. Nurs Res. 2011;60:32-39.

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Relationship between call light use and response time and inpatient falls in acute care settings.

Tzeng HM, Yin CY. J Clin Nurs. 2009;18:3333-3341.

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Adherence to a medication safety protocol: current practice for labeling medications and solutions on the sterile field.

Brown-Brumfield D, DeLeon A. AORN J. 2010;91:610-617.

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The content and context of change of shift report on medical and surgical units.

Staggers N, Jennings BM. J Nurs Adm. 2009;39:393-398.

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Identifying the 'right patient': nurse and consumer perspectives on verifying patient identity during medication administration.

Kelly T, Roper C, Elsom S, Gaskin C. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2011;20:371-379.

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Prevalence of medication administration errors in two medical units with automated prescription and dispensing.

Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Herranz-Alonso A, Martin-Barbero ML, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19:72-78.

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Evaluation of contextual influences on the medication administration practice of paediatric nurses.

Davis L, Ware R, McCann D, Keogh S, Watson K. J Adv Nurs. 2009;65:1293-1299.

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Interruptions and geographic challenges to nurses' cognitive workload.

Redding DA, Robinson S. J Nurs Care Qual. 2009;24:194-200.

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The impact of a closed-loop electronic prescribing and administration system on prescribing errors, administration errors and staff time: a before-and-after study.

Franklin BD, O'Grady K, Donyai P, Jacklin A, Barber N. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:279-284.

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Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology.

Hurley AC, Bane A, Fotakis S, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2007;37:343-349.

COMMENTARY

Improving patient safety and communication through care rounds in a pediatric oncology outpatient clinic.

Blough CA, Walrath JM. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:159-163.

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