AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (13)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (57)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (7)

•Medication Safety (117)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (147)

•Active Errors (50)

•Latent Errors (21)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (104)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (23)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (174)

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•Human Factors Engineering (64)

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•Allied Health Services (2)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (263)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (376)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (175)

•Patients (13)

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•Hospitals (249)

•Psychiatric Facilities (3)

•Residential Facilities (5)

•Ambulatory Care (34)

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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.

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Medication errors with electronic prescribing (eP): two views of the same picture.

Savage I, Cornford T, Klecun E, Barber N, Clifford S, Franklin BD. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10:135.

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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

Wristbands as aids to reduce misidentification: an ethnographically guided task analysis.

Smith AF, Casey K, Wilson J, Fischbacher-Smith D. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:590-599.

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The introduction of a surgical safety checklist in a tertiary referral obstetric centre.

Kearns RJ, Uppal V, Bonner J, Robertson J, Daniel M, McGrady EM. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:818-822.

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The social dimensions of safety incident reporting in maternity care: the influence of working relationships and group processes.

Lindsay P, Sandall J, Humphrey C. Soc Sci Med. 2012;75:1793-1799.

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Hospital staff should use more than one method to detect adverse events and potential adverse events: incident reporting, pharmacist surveillance and local real-time record review may all have a place.

Olsen S, Neale G, Schwab K, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:40-44.

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Trends in healthcare incident reporting and relationship to safety and quality data in acute hospitals: results from the National Reporting and Learning System.

Hutchinson A, Young TA, Cooper KL, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:5-10.

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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.

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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.

COMMENTARY

Embedding quality improvement and patient safety at Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust.

Scholefield H. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2007;21:593-607.

STUDY

Cardiac surgery errors: results from the UK National Reporting and Learning System.

Martinez EA, Shore A, Colantuoni E, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:151-158.

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An observational study of changes to long-term medication after admission to an intensive care unit.

Campbell AJ, Bloomfield R, Noble DW. Anaesthesia. 2006;61:1087-1092.

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Standardised proformas improve patient handover: audit of trauma handover practice.

Ferran NA, Metcalfe AJ, O'Doherty D. Patient Saf Surg. 2008;2:24.

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Incidence, preventability and consequences of adverse events in older people: results of a retrospective case-note review.

Sari AB, Cracknell A, Sheldon TA. Age Ageing. 2008;37:265-269.

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The influence of formulation and medicine delivery system on medication administration errors in care homes for older people.

Alldred DP, Standage C, Fletcher O, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:397-402.

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An observational study of medication administration errors in old-age psychiatric inpatients.

Haw C, Stubbs J, Dickens G. Int J Qual Health Care. 2007;19:210-216.

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Do older patients' perceptions of safety highlight barriers that could make their care safer during organisational care transfers?

Scott J, Dawson P, Jones D. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:112-117.

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Failures in communication and information transfer across the surgical care pathway: interview study.

Nagpal K, Arora S, Vats A, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:843-849.

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The incidence and nature of prescribing and medication administration errors in paediatric inpatients.

Ghaleb MA, Barber N, Franklin BD, Wong ICK. Arch Dis Child. 2010;95:113-118.

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