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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Don't underestimate the impact of change on risk potential.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 11, 2008;13:1-3.

STUDY

Assessing system failures in operating rooms and intensive care units.

van Beuzekom M, Akerboom SP, Boer F. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:45-50.

COMMENTARY

Improving heparin safety: a multidisciplinary invited conference.

Peterson C, Ham CW, Vanderveen T. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:491-497.

COMMENTARY

Random safety auditing, root cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis.

Ursprung R, Gray J. Clin Perinatol. 2010;37:141-165.

STUDY

Utilising improvement science methods to optimise medication reconciliation.

White CM, Schoettker PJ, Conway PH, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:372-380.

STUDY

Using a multi-method, user centred, prospective hazard analysis to assess care quality and patient safety in a care pathway.

Dean J, Hutchinson A, Hamilton Escoto K, Lawson R. BMC Health Serv Res. 2007;7:89.

COMMENTARY

Getting a Good Report Card: Unintended Consequences of the Public Reporting of Hospital Quality

Lindenauer P. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2006.

COMMENTARY

Drill down with root cause analysis.

McDonald A, Leyhane T. Nurs Manage. 2005;36:26-32.

COMMENTARY

Case study: identifying potential problems at the human/technical interface in complex clinical systems.

Caudill-Slosberg M, Weeks WB. Am J Med Qual. 2005;20:353-357.

COMMENTARY

Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and technological innovation: a prescription for 2010.

Crane J, Crane FG. Hosp Top. Fall 2006;84:3-8.

COMMENTARY

Safety strategies in an academic radiation oncology department and recommendations for action.

Terezakis SA, Pronovost P, Harris K, Deweese T, Ford E. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:291-299.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Keeping our Promises: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in Health Care Reliability.

Health Serv Res. 2006;41:1535-1720.

STUDY

Improving communication in the emergency department.

Redfern E, Brown R, Vincent CA. Emerg Med J. 2009;26:658-661.

COMMENTARY

Nurse Staffing Ratios: The Crucible of Money, Policy, Research, and Patient Care

Rich V. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. August 2009.

STUDY

Use of FMEA analysis to reduce risk of errors in prescribing and administering drugs in paediatric wards: a quality improvement report.

Lago P, Bizzarri G, Scalzotto F, et al. BMJ Open. 2012;2:e001249.

REVIEW

Failure mode and effects analysis application to critical care medicine.

Duwe B, Fuchs BD, Hansen-Flaschen J. Crit Care Clin. 2005;21:21-30, vii.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Alarm Interventions During Medical Telemetry Monitoring: A Failure Mode & Effects Analysis.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. March 2008;5(suppl rev):1-50.

STUDY

Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Varricchio F, Reed J, and the VAERS Working Group. South Med J. 2006;99:486-489.

BOOK/REPORT

2009 Utah Sentinel Events Data Report.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Department of Health, Utah Hospitals & Health Systems Association, and HealthInsight; March 10, 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Anticoagulant safety takes center stage in 2007.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. January 11, 2007;12:1-3.

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