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•Device-related Complications (18)

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•Identification Errors (14)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (47)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (6)

•Medication Safety (116)

•Medical Complications (41)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (14)

•Surgical Complications (71)

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•Psychological and Social Complications (23)

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•Book/Report (50)

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•Newspaper/Magazine Article (19)

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•Special or Theme Issue (14)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (114)

•Active Errors (57)

•Latent Errors (25)

•Near Miss (9)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (126)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (35)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (185)

•Communication Improvement (121)

•Human Factors Engineering (83)

•Teamwork (67)

•Specialization of Care (18)

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•Culture of Safety (107)

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•Education and Training (108)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (2)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (356)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (443)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (232)

•Patients (25)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (288)

•Psychiatric Facilities (4)

•Residential Facilities (4)

•Ambulatory Care (39)

•Outpatient Surgery (3)

•Patient Transport (6)

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STUDY

Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation.

Benning A, Ghaleb M, Suokas A, et al. BMJ. 2011;342:d195.

REVIEW

Outreach and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the prevention of Intensive Care admission and death of critically ill adult patients on general hospital wards.

McGaughey J, Alderdice F, Fowler R, Kapila A, Mayhew A, Moutray M. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007;(3):CD005529.

STUDY

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

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

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

A hospital races to learn lessons of Ferrari pit stop.

Naik G. Wall Street Journal. November 14, 2006:A1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].

STUDY

Multiple component patient safety intervention in English hospitals: controlled evaluation of second phase.

Benning A, Dixon-Woods M, Nwulu U, et al. BMJ. 2011;342:d199.

STUDY

Review of patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

Thomas AN, Panchagnula U, Taylor RJ. Anaesthesia. 2009;64:1178-1185.

STUDY

Variability in the concentrations of intravenous drug infusions prepared in a critical care unit.

Wheeler DW, Degnan BA, Sehmi JS, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2008;34:1441-1447.

STUDY

Promoting patient safety using an early warning scoring system.

Higgins Y, Maries-Tillott C, Quinton S, Richmond J. Nurs Stand. 2008;22:35-40.

STUDY

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.

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

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.

BOOK/REPORT

Practical Patient Safety.

Reynard J, Reynolds J, Stevenson P. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2009. ISBN: 9780199239931.

STUDY

Improving reliability of clinical care practices for ventilated patients in the context of a patient safety improvement initiative.

Pinto A, Burnett S, Benn J, et al. J Eval Clin Pract. 2011;17:180-187.

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.

STUDY

Do associations between staff and inpatient feedback have the potential for improving patient experience? An analysis of surveys in NHS acute trusts in England.

Raleigh VS, Hussey D, Seccombe I, Qi R. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:347-354.

STUDY

Quality and safety on an acute surgical ward: an exploratory cohort study of process and outcome.

Kreckler S, Catchpole KR, New SJ, Handa A, McCulloch PG. Ann Surg. 2009;250:1035-1040.

STUDY

Effect of a "Lean" intervention to improve safety processes and outcomes on a surgical emergency unit.

McCulloch P, Kreckler S, New S, Sheena Y, Handa A, Catchpole K. BMJ. 2010;341:c5469.

STUDY

More to teamwork than knowledge, skill and attitude.

Siassakos D, Draycott TJ, Crofts JF, Hunt LP, Winter C, Fox R. BJOG. 2010;117:1262-1269.

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.

STUDY

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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