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Safety Culture

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BOOK/REPORT

Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation.

Raheja D. New York, NY: Productivity Press; 2011. ISBN: 9781439821022.

STUDY

Creating safety culture on nursing units: human performance and organizational system factors that make a difference.

Moody RF, Pesut DJ, Harrington CF. J Patient Saf. 2006;2:198-206.

BOOK/REPORT

Soaring to Success: Taking Crew Resource Management from the Cockpit to the Nursing Unit.

Sculli GL, Sine DM. Danvers, MA: HCPro, Inc; 2011. ISBN: 9781601467836.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Are we finally getting serious about medical errors?

Burns J. Managed Care Magazine. May 2011;20:23-28.

REVIEW

Pediatric patient safety in the prehospital/emergency department setting.

Barata IA, Benjamin LS, Mace SE, Herman MI, Goldman RD. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2007;23:412-418.

MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Safety in the NICU: preventing medical errors.

Stokowski LA. Highlights of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses 22nd Annual Conference [Medscape.com]. March 8, 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

Committed to Safety: Ten Case Studies on Reducing Harm to Patients.

McCarthy D, Blumenthal D. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; April 2006.

COMMENTARY

A model for developing high-reliability teams.

Riley W, Davis SE, Miller KK, McCullough M. J Nurs Manag. 2010;18:556-563.

STUDY

Nurse decision making in the prearrest period.

Gazarian PK, Henneman EA, Chandler GE. Clin Nurs Res. 2010;19:21-37.

REVIEW

What is patient safety culture? A review of the literature.

Sammer CE, Lykens K, Singh KP, Mains DA, Lackan NA. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2010;42:156-165.

COMMENTARY

Relationships among teams, culture, safety, and cost outcomes.

Brewer BB. West J Nurs Res. 2006;28:641-653.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The dawn of the robo-docs.

Weber DO. Hosp Health Netw. March 14, 2006.

STUDY

Getting doctors to clean their hands: lead the followers.

Haessler S, Bhagavan A, Kleppel R, Hinchey K, Visintainer P. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:499-502.

STUDY

Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: progress and barriers to hospital implementation.

Rask K, Culler S, Scott T, et al. J Hosp Med. 2007;2:212-218.

STUDY

Impact of a team and leaders-directed strategy to improve nurses' adherence to hand hygiene guidelines: a cluster randomised trial.

Huis A, Schoonhoven L, Grol R, Donders R, Hulscher M, van Achterberg T. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013;50:464-474.

STUDY

Medication safety infrastructure in critical-access hospitals in Florida.

Winterstein AG, Hartzema AG, Johns TE, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63:442-450.

STUDY

The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate.

Chu-Weininger MYL, Wueste L, Lucke JF, Weavind L, Mazabob J, Thomas EJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e39.

STUDY

It's always something: hospital nurses managing risk.

Groves PS, Finfgeld-Connett D, Wakefield BJ. Clin Nurs Res. 2012 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print].

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors still claiming many lives.

Weise E. USA Today. May 18, 2005.

STUDY

Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention.

Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al; Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:102-107.

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