AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (18)

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•Identification Errors (11)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (53)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (8)

•Medication Safety (138)

•Medical Complications (39)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (11)

•Surgical Complications (77)

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•Newspaper/Magazine Article (17)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (15)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (147)

•Active Errors (74)

•Latent Errors (29)

•Near Miss (11)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (126)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (31)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (201)

•Communication Improvement (133)

•Human Factors Engineering (81)

•Teamwork (74)

•Specialization of Care (20)

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•Technologic Approaches (59)

•Education and Training (127)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (342)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (450)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (238)

•Patients (25)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (341)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

•Residential Facilities (5)

•Ambulatory Care (47)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (5)

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STUDY

Development of a core drug list towards improving prescribing education and reducing errors in the UK.

Baker E, Roberts AP, Wilde K, et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011;71:190-198.

STUDY

Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, et al. J R Soc Med. 2011;104:208-218.

STUDY

Learning not to take it seriously: junior doctors' accounts of error.

Kroll L, Singleton A, Collier J, Rees Jones I. Med Educ. 2008;42:982-990.

STUDY

Who makes prescribing decisions in hospital inpatients? An observational study.

Ross S, Hamilton L, Ryan C, Bond C. Postgrad Med J. 2012;8:507-510.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Learning safe prescribing during post-take ward rounds.

Conroy-Smith E, Herring R, Caldwell G. Clin Teach. 2011;8:75-78.

STUDY

Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

STUDY

Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.

Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.

REVIEW

Educational interventions to improve handover in health care: a systematic review.

Gordon M, Findley R. Med Educ. 2011;45:1081-1089.

STUDY

Junior doctors' reflections on patient safety.

Ahmed M, Arora S, Carley S, Sevdalis N, Neale G. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88:125-129.

COMMENTARY

Practising safely in the foundation years.

Long S, Neale G, Vincent C. BMJ. 2009;338:1046.

REVIEW

Impact of reduction in working hours for doctors in training on postgraduate medical education and patients' outcomes: systematic review.

Moonesinghe SR, Lowery J, Shahi N, Millen A, Beard JD. BMJ. 2011;342:d1580.

STUDY

Retrospective analysis of medication incidents reported using an on-line reporting system.

Ashcroft DM, Cooke J. Pharm World Sci. 2006;28:359-65.

STUDY

A prevalence study of errors in opioid prescribing in a large teaching hospital.

Davies ED, Schneider F, Childs S, et al. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65:923-929.

STUDY

Does the implementation of an electronic prescribing system create unintended medication errors? A study of the sociotechnical context through the analysis of reported medication incidents.

Redwood S, Rajakumar A, Hodson J, Coleman JJ. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2011;11:29.

REVIEW

Prescribing errors in hospital practice.

Tully MP. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2012;74:668-675.

STUDY

Uncomfortable prescribing decisions in hospitals: the impact of teamwork.

Lewis PJ, Tully MP. J R Soc Med. 2009;102:481-488.

STUDY

Improving the quality of the surgical morbidity and mortality conference: a prospective intervention study.

Mitchell EL, Lee DY, Arora S, et al. Acad Med. 2013 Apr 24; [Epub ahead of print].

BOOK/REPORT

National Diabetes Inpatient Audit 2011.

Leeds, UK: Health and Social Care Information Centre; 2012.

STUDY

Falls in English and Welsh hospitals: a national observational study based on retrospective analysis of 12 months of patient safety incident reports.

Healey F, Scobie S, Oliver D, Pryce A, Thomson R, Glampson B. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:424-430.

REVIEW

A review of patient safety measures based on routinely collected hospital data.

Tsang C, Palmer W, Bottle A, Majeed A, Aylin P. Am J Med Qual. 2012;27:154-169.

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