AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Skip Navigation

The Collection > Communication between Providers

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (19)

•Diagnostic Errors (43)

•Identification Errors (49)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (343)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (8)

•Medication Safety (287)

•Medical Complications (56)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (15)

•Surgical Complications (161)

•Transfusion Complications (2)

•Psychological and Social Complications (57)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (26)

•Europe (125)

•North America (717)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (5)

•Book/Report (32)

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (703)

•Legislation/Regulation (14)

•Meeting/Conference (4)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (111)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (18)

•Tools/Toolkit (11)

•Web Resource (14)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (157)

•Active Errors (180)

•Latent Errors (84)

•Near Miss (19)

Approach to Improving Safety
< All

Communication between Providers

•Read Back Protocols (72)

•Structured Hand-offs (121)

•Medication Reconciliation (160)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (4)

•Medicine (702)

•Nursing (105)

•Pharmacy (123)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (736)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (721)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (324)

•Patients (46)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (670)

•Psychiatric Facilities (3)

•Residential Facilities (23)

•Ambulatory Care (95)

•Outpatient Surgery (10)

•Patient Transport (15)

1 - 20 of 918

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

STUDY

Health care workers as second victims of medical errors.

Edrees HH, Paine LA, Feroli ER, Wu AW. Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2011;121:101-108.

STUDY

Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study.

Paine LA, Rosenstein BJ, Sexton JB, Kent P, Holzmueller CG, Pronovost PJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:547-554.

REVIEW

Intimidation: a concept analysis.

Lamontagne C. Nurs Forum. 2010;45:54-65.

AWARD RECIPIENT

2006 Quest for Quality Prize.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. September 2006.

STUDY

Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project.

Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:346-350.

COMMENTARY

Learning accountability for patient outcomes.

Pronovost PJ. JAMA. 2010;304:204-205.

STUDY

classic

Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit: improving patient safety.

O’Leary KJ, Buck R, Fligiel HM, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:678-684.

COMMENTARY

Do Not Disturb!

Duffy FD, Cassel CK. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. October 2007.

STUDY

Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting: A survey of practices and recommendations.

Sehgal NL, Green A, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen MA, Wachter RM. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:234-239.

STUDY

classic

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.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Raising the index of suspicion: red flags that represent credible threats to patient safety.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 26, 2012;17:1-3.

STUDY

Patient Safety Dialogue: evaluation of an intervention aimed at achieving an improved patient safety culture.

Öhrn A, Rutberg H, Nilsen P. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:185-192.

REVIEW

Promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

Weaver SJ, Lubomski LH, Wilson RF, Pfoh ER, Martinez KA, Dy SM. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):369-374.

BOOK/REPORT

Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions.

Osei-Anto A, Joshi M, Audet AJ, Berman A, Jencks SF. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund, The John Hartford Foundation, Health Research and Educational Trust; January 25, 2010.

AUDIOVISUAL

How a simple checklist can dramatically reduce medical errors.

Pronovost PJ. On Call. IHI Open School for Health Professionals. November 3, 2008.

STUDY

Improving teamwork on general medical units: when teams do not work face-to-face.

McComb SA, Henneman EA, Hinchey KT, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:471-478.

STUDY

Physicians' needs in coping with emotional stressors: the case for peer support.

Hu YY, Fix ML, Hevelone ND, et al. Arch Surg. 2012;147:212-217.

COMMENTARY

A leadership initiative to improve communication and enhance safety.

Donahue M, Miller M, Smith L, Dykes P, Fitzpatrick JJ. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:206-211.

STUDY

classic

Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up providers.

Were MC, Li X, Kesterson J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:1002-1006.

STUDY

A relational leadership perspective on unit-level safety climate.

Thompson DN, Hoffman LA, Sereika SM, et al. J Nurs Adm. 2011;41:479-487.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >