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STUDY

The cost of pneumonia after acute stroke.

Katzan IL, Dawson NV, Thomas CL, Votruba ME, Cebul RD. Neurology. 2007;68:1938-1943.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Smart pump custom concentrations without hard "low concentration" alerts.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 23, 2012;17:1,3-4.

STUDY

The effects of a 'discharge time-out' on the quality of hospital discharge summaries.

Mohta N, Vaishnava P, Liang C, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:885-890.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Aware in Care.

Miami, FL: National Parkinson Foundation; October 2012.

COMMENTARY

Infusing fun into quality and safety initiatives.

Foulk KC, Tocydlowski P, Snow TM, et al. Nursing. 2012;42:14-16.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Administering a saline flush "site unseen" can lead to a wrong route error.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. May 16, 2013;18:1-3.

COMMENTARY

Implementation of a specialized pharmacy team to monitor high-risk medications during discharge.

Martin ES III, Overstreet RL, Jackson-Khalil LR, McCollough HL, Meyer TA, Xu Q. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:18-21.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication reconciliation meets its MATCH.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Research Activities. May 2013:1, 3-4.

COMMENTARY

Handoffs in the era of duty hours reform: a focused review and strategy to address changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements.

DeRienzo CM, Frush K, Barfield ME, et al. Acad Med. 2012;87:403-410.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Handover: Improving the Continuity of Patient Care Through Identification and Implementation of Novel Handover Processes in Europe.

University Medical Centre Utrecht.

STUDY

Effect of a systems intervention on the quality and safety of patient handoffs in an internal medicine residency program.

Graham KL, Marcantonio ER, Huang GC, Yang J, Davis RB, Smith CC. J Gen Intern Med. 2013 Apr 18; [Epub ahead of print].

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Doctors' smartphones and iPads may be distracting.

Gold J. Kaiser Health News and National Public Radio. March 26, 2012.

COMMENTARY

Check the Bags.

Caldwell M, Dracup KA. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. September 2003.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

With money at risk, hospitals push staff to wash hands.

Hartcollis A. New York Times. May 29, 2013:A18.

REVIEW

Review of computerized physician handoff tools for improving the quality of patient care.

Li P, Ali S, Tang C, Ghali WA, Stelfox HT. J Hosp Med. 2012 Nov 20; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

An institution-wide handoff task force to standardise and improve physician handoffs.

Horwitz LI, Schuster KM, Thung SF, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:863-871.

COMMENTARY

Too Tight Control.

Rubin HR, Fajtova VT. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2004.

COMMENTARY

A performance improvement plan to increase nurse adherence to use of medication safety software.

Gavriloff C. J Pediatr Nurs. 2012;27:375-382.

STUDY

Designing a safer process to prevent retained surgical sponges: a healthcare failure mode and effect analysis.

Steelman VM, Cullen JJ. AORN J. 2011;94:132-141.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Handoff Communication Tools.

FIRST Do No Harm. December 2012;1-8.

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