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•Device-related Complications (4)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (27)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (3)

•Medication Safety (60)

•Medical Complications (23)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (2)

•Surgical Complications (24)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (64)

•Active Errors (35)

•Latent Errors (10)

•Near Miss (3)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (43)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (17)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (80)

•Communication Improvement (66)

•Human Factors Engineering (33)

•Teamwork (18)

•Specialization of Care (24)

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•Culture of Safety (20)

•Technologic Approaches (30)

•Education and Training (48)

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•Allied Health Services (4)

•Medicine (142)

•Nursing (29)

•Pharmacy (19)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (165)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (202)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (91)

•Patients (6)

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•Hospitals (133)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (4)

•Ambulatory Care (16)

•Patient Transport (9)

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REVIEW

Medication errors—new approaches to prevention.

Merry AF, Anderson BJ. Paediatr Anaesth. 2011;21:743-753.

STUDY

Multimodal system designed to reduce errors in recording and administration of drugs in anaesthesia: prospective randomised clinical evaluation.

Merry AF, Webster CS, Hannam J, et al. BMJ. 2011;343:d5543.

STUDY

Barriers to adverse event and error reporting in anesthesia.

Heard GC, Sanderson PM, Thomas RD. Anesth Analg. 2012;114:604-614.

STUDY

Why isn't 'time out' being implemented? An exploratory study.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Wallis M, Fenwick C. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:103-106.

STUDY

A simulation design for research evaluating safety innovations in anaesthesia.

Merry AF, Weller JM, Robinson BJ, et al. Anaesthesia. 2008;63:1349-1357.

REVIEW

Interventions to reduce medication errors in adult intensive care: a systematic review.

Manias E, Williams A, Liew D. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2012;74:411-423.

STUDY

Determinants of patient-reported medication errors: a comparison among seven countries.

Lu CY, Roughead E. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65:733-740.

STUDY

Rate of undesirable events at beginning of academic year: retrospective cohort study.

Haller G, Myles PS, Taffé P, Perneger TV, Wu CL. BMJ. 2009;339:b3974.

STUDY

Drug error in anaesthetic practice: a review of 896 reports from the Australian Incident Monitoring Study database.

Abeysekera A, Bergman IJ, Kluger MT, Short TG. Anaesthesia. 2005;60:220-227.

STUDY

The impact of organisational and individual factors on team communication in surgery: a qualitative study.

Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Longbottom P, Wallis M. Int J Nurs Stud. 2010;47:732-741.

REVIEW

Reducing errors in emergency surgery.

Watters DA, Truskett PG. ANZ J Surg. 2013 Apr 26; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

The impact of trained assistance on error rates in anaesthesia: a simulation-based randomised controlled trial.

Weller JM, Merry AF, Robinson BJ, Warman GR, Janssen A. Anaesthesia. 2009;64:126-130.

STUDY

Therapeutic errors involving adults in the community setting: nature, causes and outcomes.

Taylor DM, Robinson J, MacLeod D, MacBean CE, Braitberg G. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2009;33:388-394.

STUDY

Integrating incident reporting into an electronic patient record system.

Haller G, Myles PS, Stoelwinder J, Langley M, Anderson H, McNeil J. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:175-181.

STUDY

Reducing potentially fatal errors associated with high doses of insulin: a successful multifaceted multidisciplinary prevention strategy.

Dooley MJ, Wiseman M, McRae A, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:637-644.

STUDY

The application of Aronson's taxonomy to medication errors in nursing.

Johnson M, Young H. J Nurs Care Qual. 2011;26:128-135.

STUDY

Anaesthetic drug administration as a potential contributor to healthcare-associated infections: a prospective simulation-based evaluation of aseptic techniques in the administration of anaesthetic drugs.

Gargiulo DA, Sheridan J, Webster CS, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:826-834.

STUDY

Anaesthetists' management of oxygen pipeline failure: room for improvement.

Weller J, Merry A, Warman G, Robinson B. Anaesthesia. 2007;62:122-126.

STUDY

Trauma resuscitation errors and computer-assisted decision support.

Fitzgerald M, Cameron P, Mackenzie C, et al. Arch Surg. 2011;146:218-225.

REVIEW

An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice.

Shafiq J, Barton M, Noble D, Lemer C, Donaldson LJ. Radiother Oncol. 2009;92:15-21.

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