AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Narrative/Storytelling

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Diagnostic Errors (2)

•Identification Errors (1)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (3)

•Medication Safety (6)

•Medical Complications (1)

•Psychological and Social Complications (1)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (2)

•Europe (7)

•North America (15)

Resource Types

•Book/Report (4)

•Journal Article (15)

•Meeting/Conference (1)

•Newsletter/Journal (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (1)

•Tools/Toolkit (1)

•Web Resource (1)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (1)

•Active Errors (4)

•Latent Errors (7)

Approach to Improving Safety
< All

Narrative/Storytelling

Clinical Areas

•Medicine (10)

•Nursing (1)

•Pharmacy (1)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (18)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (21)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (7)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (7)

1 - 20 of 25

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

BOOK/REPORT

Medical Error.

National Patient Safety Agency, the Medical Defence Union and Medical Protection Society. London, England: NPSA; 2005

STUDY

Junior doctors' reflections on patient safety.

Ahmed M, Arora S, Carley S, Sevdalis N, Neale G. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88:125-129.

COMMENTARY

Measuring perinatal patient safety: review of current methods.

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

STUDY

Hassle in the dispensary: pilot study of a proactive risk monitoring tool for organisational learning based on narratives and staff perceptions.

Sujan MA, Ingram C, McConkey T, Cross S, Cooke MW. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:549-556.

TOOLKIT

Engaging Clinicians.

National Patient Safety Agency. London, England: NHS; 2005.

BOOK/REPORT

Learning to Use Patient Stories.

Cardiff, UK: NHS Wales; April 2010.

STUDY

Bearing witness to the ethics of practice: storying physicians' medical mistake narratives.

Carmack HJ. Health Commun. 2010;25:449-458.

COMMENTARY

Getting Into Patient Safety: A Personal Story

Cooper JB. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. August 2006.

COMMENTARY classic

Fixing healthcare from the inside, today.

Spear SJ. Harv Bus Rev. September 2005;83:78-91.

MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

College of American Pathologists Special Topic Symposium on Error in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine—Practical Lessons for the Pathologist.

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005;129:1226-1276.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

The VA GAPS Center: Stories.

The VA Getting at Patient Safety (GAPS) Center.

COMMENTARY

Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out."

Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:157-162.

COMMENTARY

A physician's personal experiences as a cancer of the neck patient: errors in my care.

Brook I. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:73-74.

COMMENTARY

Flaws in clinical reasoning: a common cause of diagnostic error.

Wellbery C. Am Fam Physician. 2011;84:1042-1048.

NEWSLETTER/JOURNAL

Patient Safety Link.

Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety.

COMMENTARY classic

Organizational culture as a source of high reliability.

Weick KE. Calif Manage Rev. 1987;29:112-127.

STUDY

Transferring responsibility and accountability in maternity care: clinicians defining their boundaries of practice in relation to clinical handover.

Chin GS, Warren N, Kornman L, Cameron P. BMJ Open. 2012;2:e000734.

BOOK/REPORT

Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories.

Bogner MS, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2004. ISBN: 0805833781.

COMMENTARY

A web-based tool for the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP).

Pronovost PJ, King J, Holzmueller CG, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:119-129.

BOOK/REPORT

VA Patient Safety Program: A Cultural Perspective at Four Medical Facilities.

US Government Accountability Office. Washington, DC: US Government Accountability Office; 2004. Publication GAO-05-83.

1 2 Next >