AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Skip Navigation

The Collection > Medical Complications

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target
< All

Medical Complications

•Nosocomial Infections (172)

•Pressure Ulcers (17)

•Delirium (5)

•Venous Thrombosis and Thromboembolism (19)

•Patient Falls (47)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (21)

•North America (469)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (8)

•Book/Report (38)

•Clinical Guideline (2)

•Journal Article (389)

•Legislation/Regulation (7)

•Meeting/Conference (2)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (59)

•Press Release/Announcement (4)

•Special or Theme Issue (18)

•Tools/Toolkit (5)

•Web Resource (14)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (156)

•Active Errors (69)

•Latent Errors (17)

•Near Miss (7)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (183)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (59)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (139)

•Communication Improvement (86)

•Human Factors Engineering (97)

•Teamwork (60)

•Specialization of Care (90)

•Logistical Approaches (38)

•Culture of Safety (78)

•Technologic Approaches (59)

•Education and Training (121)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (3)

•Dentistry (1)

•Medicine (461)

•Nursing (59)

•Pharmacy (12)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (413)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (452)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (160)

•Patients (57)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (459)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (9)

•Ambulatory Care (31)

•Outpatient Surgery (6)

•Patient Transport (4)

1 - 20 of 554

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

STUDY

Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units.

Mayer CM, Cluff L, Lin WT, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:365-374.

COMMENTARY

Building team and technical competency for obstetric emergencies: the mobile obstetric emergencies simulator (MOES) system.

Deering S, Rosen MA, Salas E, King HB. Simul Healthc. 2009;4:166-173.

STUDY

Retrospective review of emergency response activations during a 13-year period at a tertiary care children's hospital.

Wang GS, Erwin N, Zuk J, Henry DB, Dobyns EL. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:131-135.

STUDY

A reduction in cardiac arrests and duration of clinical instability after implementation of a paediatric rapid response system.

Hanson CC, Randolph GD, Erickson JA, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:500-504.

STUDY

Code debriefing from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Team Training Program improves the cardiopulmonary resuscitation code process.

Percarpio KB, Harris FS, Hatfield BA, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:424-429:AP1.

STUDY

Implementation of Condition Help: family teaching and evaluation of family understanding.

Hueckel RM, Mericle JM, Frush K, Martin PL, Champagne MT. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:176-181.

STUDY

Attitudes and barriers to a medical emergency team system at a tertiary paediatric hospital.

Azzopardi P, Kinney S, Moulden A, Tibballs J. Resuscitation. 2011;82:167-174.

REVIEW

Multidisciplinary team training in a simulation setting for acute obstetric emergencies: a systematic review.

Merién AER, van de Ven J, Mol BW, Houterman S, Oei SG. Obstet Gynecol. 2010;115:1021-1031.

STUDY

Mobile in situ obstetric emergency simulation and teamwork training to improve maternal–fetal safety in hospitals.

Guise J, Lowe NK, Deering S, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:443-453:AP1-AP2.

STUDY

Using in situ simulation to improve in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Lighthall GK, Poon T, Harrison TK. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:209-216.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practicing on patients, real and otherwise.

Chen PW. New York Times. January 28, 2010.

COMMENTARY

An implementation strategy for a multicenter pediatric rapid response system in Ontario.

Lobos A, Costello J, Gilleland J, Gaiteiro R, Kotsakis A; The Ontario Pediatric Critical Care Response Team Collaborative. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:271-280.

STUDY

Nurses' perceptions of simulation-based interprofessional training program for rapid response and code blue events.

Wehbe-Janek H, Lenzmeier CR, Ogden PE, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:43-50.

STUDY

Medical team training and coaching in the veterans health administration; assessment and impact on the first 32 facilities in the programme.

Neily J, Mills PD, Lee P, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:360-364.

STUDY

Family alert: implementing direct family activation of a pediatric rapid response team.

Ray EM, Smith R, Massie S, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:575-580.

STUDY

Reduction in hospital mortality over time in a hospital without a pediatric medical emergency team: limitations of before-and-after study designs.

Joffe AR, Anton NR, Burkholder SC. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165:419-423.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Obstetric Quality and Safety.

J Healthc Qual. 2009;31:3-52.

STUDY

The effect of resident duty hour restriction on trauma center outcomes in teaching hospitals in the state of Pennsylvania.

Helling TS, Kaswan S, Boccardo J, Bost JE. J Trauma. 2010;69:607-613.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Medical errors and safety systems.

Pearlman MD, ed. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2010;53:471-585.

STUDY

Ambulance personnel perceptions of near misses and adverse events in pediatric patients.

Cushman JT, Fairbanks RJ, O'Gara KG, et al. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010;14:477-484.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >