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Medication Safety

•Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions (43)

•Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events (1078)

•Specific to High-Risk Drugs (315)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (37)

•Central and South America (5)

•Europe (177)

•North America (1411)

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•Audiovisual (37)

•Book/Report (65)

•Clinical Guideline (4)

•Journal Article (1104)

•Legislation/Regulation (27)

•Meeting/Conference (8)

•Newsletter/Journal (6)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (268)

•Press Release/Announcement (32)

•Special or Theme Issue (24)

•Tools/Toolkit (49)

•Web Resource (47)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (486)

•Active Errors (378)

•Latent Errors (120)

•Near Miss (30)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (441)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (116)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (425)

•Communication Improvement (454)

•Human Factors Engineering (273)

•Teamwork (59)

•Specialization of Care (148)

•Logistical Approaches (105)

•Culture of Safety (138)

•Technologic Approaches (533)

•Education and Training (317)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

•Dentistry (1)

•Medicine (976)

•Nursing (179)

•Pharmacy (621)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (1298)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1233)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (533)

•Patients (202)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1022)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (48)

•Ambulatory Care (267)

•Outpatient Surgery (9)

•Patient Transport (10)

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SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Quality of Anesthesia Care.

Neuman MD, Martinez EA, eds. Anesthesiol Clin. 2011;29:1-178.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Aware in Care.

Miami, FL: National Parkinson Foundation; October 2012.

COMMENTARY

Health literacy and quality: focus on chronic illness care and patient safety.

Rothman RL, Yin HS, Mulvaney S, Co JPT, Homer C, Lannon C. Pediatrics. 2009;124(suppl 3):S315-S326.

BOOK/REPORT

Inspiring Ideas and Celebrating Successes: A Guidebook to Leading Patient Safety Practices in Ontario Hospitals.

OHA Patient Safety Support Service. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ontario Hospital Association; 2006.

COMMENTARY

Ten years after the IOM report: engaging residents in quality and patient safety by creating a house staff quality council.

Fleischut PM, Evans AS, Nugent WC, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:89-94.

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

Austin, TX: Texas Medical Institute for Technology and the Quaid Foundation; 2010.

STUDY

Inadequate health literacy among paid caregivers of seniors.

Lindquist LA, Jain N, Tam K, Martin GJ, Baker DW. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:474-479.

COMMENTARY

Lethal Cap.

Schillinger D. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. March 2004.

STUDY

Medication safety infrastructure in critical-access hospitals in Florida.

Winterstein AG, Hartzema AG, Johns TE, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63:442-450.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing America's hospitals.

Newsweek. October 16, 2006:44-68, 72.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Get me out alive.

Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.

BOOK/REPORT

Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Department.

Krug SE, ed. Oak Brook, IL: Joint Commission Resources and the American Academy of Pediatrics; 2010. ISBN: 9781599402123.

COMMENTARY

Partners in safety: implementing a community-based patient safety advisory council.

Leonhardt KK, Bonin D, Pagel P. Wisc Med J. 2006;105;54-59.

BOOK/REPORT classic

classic

Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2005. AHRQ Publication Nos. 050021 (1-4).

STUDY

Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: progress and barriers to hospital implementation.

Rask K, Culler S, Scott T, et al. J Hosp Med. 2007;2:212-218.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Health for life. Keys to safer hospitals.

Berwick DM. Newsweek. December 12, 2005;46:75-78.

BOOK/REPORT

Consumer Guide to Adverse Health Events.

St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Department of Health; January 2009.

STUDY

Medication administration errors in assisted living: scope, characteristics, and the importance of staff training.

Zimmerman S, Love K, Sloane PD, Cohen LW, Reed D, Carder PC; Center for Excellence in Assisted Living-University of North Carolina Collaborative. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011;59:1060-1068.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.

STUDY

The safety of hospital stroke care.

Holloway RG, Tuttle D, Baird T, Skelton WK. Neurology. 2007;68:550-555.

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