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•Quality Improvement Strategies (35)

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•Hospitals (79)

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REVIEW

Restricting resident work hours: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Peets A, Ayas NT. Crit Care Med. 2012;40:960-966.

STUDY

Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals on weekends as compared with weekdays.

Bell CM, Redelmeier DA. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:663-668.

COMMENTARY

Transfer of accountability: transforming shift handover to enhance patient safety.

Alvarado K, Lee R, Christoffersen E, et al. Healthc Q. 2006;9(special issue):75-79.

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety Framework for Albertans.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Health Quality Council of Alberta; 2010.

STUDY

The impact of nursing work environments on patient safety outcomes: the mediating role of burnout engagement.

Spence Laschinger HK, Leiter MP. J Nurs Adm. 2006;36:259-267.

STUDY

Waking up the next morning: surgeons' emotional reactions to adverse events.

Luu S, Patel P, St-Martin L, et al. Med Educ. 2012;46:1179-1188.

COMMENTARY

How can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care for complex pediatric patients?

Matlow AG, Wright JG, Zimmerman B, Thomson K, Valente M. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:85-88.

CANADA MEETING/CONFERENCE

9th Annual Paediatric Patient Safety Symposium.

Hospital for Sick Children. June 13, 2013; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON.

COMMENTARY

Disclosing medical errors to patients: a challenge for health care professionals and institutions.

Levinson W. Patient Educ Couns. 2009;76:296-299.

COMMENTARY

Who is in charge of patient safety? Work practice, work processes and utopian views of automatic drug dispensing systems.

Balka E, Kahnamoui N, Nutland K. Int J Med Inform. 2007;76:S48-S57.

REVIEW

Improving patient safety through the systematic evaluation of patient outcomes.

Forster AJ, Dervin G, Martin C, Papp S. Can J Surg. 2012;55:418-425.

STUDY

Determinants of adverse events in hospitals—the potential role of patient safety culture.

Kline TJB, Willness C, Ghali WA. J Healthc Qual. 2008;30:11-17.

STUDY

Simulation-based training improves physicians' performance in patient care in high-stakes clinical setting of cardiac surgery.

Bruppacher HR, Alam SK, LeBlanc VR, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;112:985-992.

REVIEW

Emotional influences in patient safety.

Croskerry P, Abbass A, Wu AW. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:199-205.

STUDY

Making hospital care safer and better: the structure-process connection leading to adverse events.

El-Jardali F, Lagacé M. Healthc Q. 2005;8:40-48.

BOOK/REPORT

Alberta Patient Safety Survey 2004.

Health Quality Council of Alberta; 2005.

STUDY

The impact of prolonged continuous wakefulness on resident clinical performance in the intensive care unit: a patient simulator study.

Sharpe R, Koval V, Ronco JJ, et al. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:766-770.

STUDY

Emotional impact of patient safety incidents on family physicians and their office staff.

O'Beirne M, Sterling P, Palacios-Derflingher L, Hohman S, Zwicker K. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012;25:177-183.

STUDY

Stressful intensive care unit medical crises: how individual responses impact on team performance.

Piquette D, Reeves S, Leblanc VR. Crit Care Med. 2009;37:1251-1255.

STUDY

Surgical safety checklist: implementation in an ambulatory surgical facility.

Morgan PJ, Cunningham L, Mitra S, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2013 Mar 16; [Epub ahead of print].

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