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BOOK/REPORT

National Priorities and Goals: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.

National Priorities Partnership. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2008. ISBN: 1933875194.

STUDY

The long road to patient safety: a status report on patient safety systems.

Longo DR, Hewett JE, Ge B, Schubert S. JAMA. 2005;294:2858-2865.

STUDY

Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices.

Byrnes MC, Schuerer DJ, Schallom ME, et al. Crit Care Med. 2009; 37:2775-2781.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

USP initiatives for the safe use of medical gases.

Zaidi K, Curry PD Jr, Becker SC. Pharmaceutical Technology. November 2, 2005;29:102-103.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2005;40:940-945.

COMMENTARY

Organizational Change in the Face of Highly Public Errors—I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Experience

Conway JB, Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2005.

COMMENTARY

Preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections: thinking outside the checklist.

Perencevich EN, Pittet D. JAMA. 2009;301:1285-1287.

STUDY

A multidisciplinary approach to reduce central line–associated bloodstream infections.

McMullan C, Propper G, Schuhmacher C, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013;39:61-69.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

ACOG Committee opinion #531: improving medication safety.

ACOG Committee on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement of American College of Obstetricians-Gynecologists. Obstet Gynecol. 2012;120:406-410.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MC. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:374-378.

PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT

Governor signs Executive Order creating new Division of Patient Safety.

Evanston, IL: Office of the Governor; July 13, 2006.

REVIEW

The National Quality Forum safe practice standard for computerized physician order entry: updating a critical patient safety practice.

Kilbridge PM, Classen D, Bates DW, Denham CR. J Patient Saf. 2006;2:183-190.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fatal drug mix-up exposes hospital flaws.

Davies T. Washington Post. September 22, 2006.

STUDY

The design of the SAFE or SORRY? study: a cluster randomised trial on the development and testing of an evidence based inpatient safety program for the prevention of adverse events.

van Gaal BG, Schoonhoven L, Hulscher ME, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2009;9:58.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES classic

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals.

Yokoe DS, Mermel LA, Anderson DJ, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008;29:901-994.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

PreventInfection.org.

Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

COMMENTARY classic

Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety.

Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:1401-1406.

COMMENTARY

Creating high reliability in health care organizations.

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

NEWSLETTER/JOURNAL

Global Patient Safety Challenge NewsAlert.

World Health Organization.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Preventing infections: how Portland hospitals compare.

Rojas-Burke J. The Oregonian. May 8, 2010.

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