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AWARD RECIPIENT

Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; December 4, 2009.

STUDY

Does the Leapfrog program help identify high-quality hospitals?

Jha AK, Orav EJ, Ridgway AB, Zheng J, Epstein AM. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:318-325.

AWARD RECIPIENT

The Leapfrog Group Announces the 2008 Leapfrog Top Hospitals.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; September 24, 2008.

STUDY

The impact of health system membership on patient safety initiatives.

Ford EW, Short JC. Health Care Manage Rev. 2008;33:13-20.

COMMENTARY

Twenty-four-hour intensivist staffing in teaching hospitals: tensions between safety today and safety tomorrow.

Kerlin MP, Halpern SD. Chest. 2012;141:1315-1320.

DATABASE/DIRECTORY

The Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; 2011.

COMMENTARY

Physician staffing models and patient safety in the ICU.

Gajic O, Afessa B. Chest. 2009;135:1038-1044.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient safety and quality in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007;8(suppl):S1-S43.

STUDY

The effect of multidisciplinary care teams on intensive care unit mortality.

Kim MM, Barnato AE, Angus DC, Fleisher LF, Kahn JM. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:369-376.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety in the critical care environment.

Rossi PJ, Edmiston CE Jr. Surg Clin North Am. 2012;92:1369-1386.

COMMENTARY

Eliminating preventable death at Ascension Health.

Tolchin S, Brush R, Lange P, Bates P, Garbo JJ. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:145-154.

COMMENTARY

Delay in Initiating Antibiotics Leads to Fatal Error.

Bellini LM. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. February 2004.

STUDY

Patient-safety and quality initiatives in the intensive-care unit.

Winters B, Dorman T. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2006;19:140-145.

STUDY

Surgeon-reported conflict with intensivists about postoperative goals of care.

Paul Olson TJ, Brasel KJ, Redmann AJ, Alexander GC, Schwarze ML. JAMA Surg. 2013;148:29-35.

COMMENTARY

In Conversation with…Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD

AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. June 2005.

STUDY

Impact of an intensivist-led multidisciplinary extended rapid response team on hospital-wide cardiopulmonary arrests and mortality.

Al-Qahtani S, Al-Dorzi HM, Tamim HM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2013;41:506-517.

COMMENTARY

A clinical nurse specialist intervention to facilitate safe transfer from ICU.

St-Louis L, Brault D. Clin Nurse Spec. 2011;25:321-326.

STUDY

Reducing in-hospital cardiac arrests and hospital mortality by introducing a medical emergency team.

Konrad D, Jäderling G, Bell M, Granath F, Ekbom A, Martling CR. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36:100-106.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Intensivists: an Rx for the ICU?

Meyers S. Trustee. March 2006;59:29-30.

STUDY

Association between implementation of an intensivist-led medical emergency team and mortality.

Karvellas CJ, de Souza IAO, Gibney RTN, Bagshaw SM. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:152-159.

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