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Medical Complications

•Nosocomial Infections (160)

•Pressure Ulcers (16)

•Delirium (3)

•Venous Thrombosis and Thromboembolism (18)

•Patient Falls (35)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (2)

•Asia (4)

•Australia and New Zealand (18)

•Central and South America (1)

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•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (308)

•Legislation/Regulation (8)

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•Newspaper/Magazine Article (40)

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•Special or Theme Issue (23)

•Tools/Toolkit (7)

•Web Resource (19)

•Grant (5)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (122)

•Active Errors (55)

•Latent Errors (21)

•Near Miss (5)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (183)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (71)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (142)

•Communication Improvement (84)

•Human Factors Engineering (78)

•Teamwork (65)

•Specialization of Care (69)

•Logistical Approaches (28)

•Culture of Safety (103)

•Technologic Approaches (60)

•Education and Training (110)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (3)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (358)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (416)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (187)

•Patients (45)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (378)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (8)

•Ambulatory Care (31)

•Outpatient Surgery (6)

•Patient Transport (4)

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MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2008.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Quality of Anesthesia Care.

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

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

The English Patient Safety Programme.

J Health Serv Research Pol. 2010;15(suppl 1):S1-S91.

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT

AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18).

US Department of Health and Human Services. Program Announcement No. PA-09-071.

GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT

AHRQ Health Services Research Projects (R01).

US Department of Health and Human Services. Program Announcement No. PA-09-070.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient Safety Papers 5.

Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2010;13:1-136.

BOOK/REPORT classic

Safe Practices for Better Healthcare—2010 Update.

National Quality Forum. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Get me out alive.

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

STUDY

Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study.

Sinopoli DJ, Needham DM, Thompson DA, et al. J Crit Care. 2007;22:177-183.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Can high tech save your life?

Fischman J. US News and World Report. August 1, 2005;139:45,49-50,52.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities: Training Modules.

Taylor SL, Saliba D. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2012. AHRQ Publication No. 12-0001.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Empowered to improve.

Gardner E. Mod Healthc. May 18, 2009;39:28-31.

BOOK/REPORT

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

Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011.

AWARD RECIPIENT

Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; December 4, 2009.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Program encourages reporting accidents waiting to happen: the Good Catch Awards.

McCook A. Anesthesiology News. Sept 2011;37:9.

TOOLKIT

Making Strides in Safety.

Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.

TOOLKIT

University of Michigan Health System Patient Safety Toolkit.

University of Michigan; Ann Arbor: 2002.

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

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

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing America's hospitals.

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

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.

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