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MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Connecticut Center for Patient Safety.

PO Box 231335, Hartford, CT 06123-1335.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Malpractice makes perfect.

Berenson RA. The New Republic. October 10, 2005;233:17-21.

COMMENTARY

Measuring perinatal patient safety: review of current methods.

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

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Paralyzed by mistakes: preventing errors with neuromuscular blocking agents.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 22, 2005;10:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Settlement to be used for hospital training in labeling medicines.

Ostrom CM. Seattle Times. September 13, 2005;Local News:B3

BOOK/REPORT classic

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error.

Casey SM. Santa Barbara, CA: Aegean Publishing Company; 1993.

AUDIOVISUAL PRESENTATION

Consumer Health Quality Council Stories of Harm.

Boston, MA: Health Care for All; 2009.

COMMENTARY

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

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

BOOK/REPORT

The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors.

Berntsen KJ. Westport, CT: Praeger; 2004. ISBN: 0275982300.

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.

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

Disclosure through our eyes.

Sheridan S, Conrad N, King S, Dingman J, Denham CR. J Patient Saf. 2008;4:18-26.

BOOK/REPORT

Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know.

Davenport TH, Prusak L. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press; 1998. ISBN: 0875846556.

STUDY

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

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

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.

STUDY

Patient safety stories: a project utilizing narratives in resident training.

Cox LM, Logio LS. Acad Med. 2011;86:1473-1478.

STUDY

Urban outpatient views on quality and safety in primary care.

Dowell D, Manwell LB, Maguire A, et al; MEMO Investigators. Healthc Q. 2005;8:suppl 2-8.

COMMENTARY

Level IV evidence—adverse anecdote and clinical practice.

Stuebe AM. N Engl J Med. 2011;365:8-9.

COMMENTARY

Use of critical incident reports in medical education: a perspective.

Branch WT Jr. J Gen Intern Med. 2005;20:1063-1067.

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