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COMMENTARY

Creating high reliability in health care organizations.

Pronovost PJ, Berenholtz SM, Goeschel CA, et al. Health Serv Res. 2006;41:1599-1617.

STUDY

Patient safety in surgery.

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, et al. Ann Surg. 2006;243:628-635.

STUDY

Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder.

Makary MA, Sexton JB, Freischlag JA, et al. J Am Coll Surg. 2006;202:746-752.

STUDY

Measuring and comparing safety climate in intensive care units.

France DJ, Greevy RA Jr, Liu X, et al. Med Care. 2010;48:279-284.

STUDY

Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution.

Huang DT, Clermont G, Sexton JB, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:165-176.

COMMENTARY

A plan for achieving significant improvement in patient safety.

Johnson K, Maultsby CC. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22:164-171.

STUDY

The effect of the fit between organizational culture and structure on medication errors in medical group practices.

Kaissi A, Kralewski J, Dowd B, Heaton A. Health Care Manage Rev. 2007;32:12-21.

REVIEW

Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys.

Colla JB, Bracken AC, Kinney LM, Weeks WB. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:364-366.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

If safety is your yardstick, measuring culture from the top down must be a priority.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. March 22, 2007;12:1-2.

STUDY

The Safety Organizing Scale: development and validation of a behavioral measure of safety culture in hospital nursing units.

Vogus TJ, Sutcliffe KM. Med Care. 2007;45:46-54.

STUDY

An inpatient fall prevention initiative in a tertiary care hospital.

Weinberg J, Proske D, Szerszen A, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:317-325.

STUDY

Organizational factors associated with high performance in quality and safety in academic medical centers.

Keroack MA, Youngberg BJ, Cerese JL, Krsek C, Prellwitz LW, Trevelyan EW. Acad Med. 2007;82:1178-1186.

STUDY

Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel.

Sexton JB, Makary MA, Tersigni AR, et al. Anesthesiology. 2006;105:877-884.

COMMENTARY

Measuring perinatal patient safety: review of current methods.

Simpson KR. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2006;35:432-442.

COMMENTARY

Integrating CUSP and TRIP to improve patient safety.

Romig M, Goeschel C, Pronovost P, Berenholtz SM. Hosp Pract (Minneap). 2010;38:114-121.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

5 sure-fire methods: complying with NPSG.03.04.01.

Joint Commission: The Source. January 2012;10:5-6.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Culture - Patient Safety.

Premiere, Inc.

TOOLKIT

Making Strides in Safety.

Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Empowered to improve.

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

STUDY

The safety culture in a children's hospital.

Grant MJC, Donaldson AE, Larsen GY. J Nurs Care Qual. 2006;21:223-229.

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