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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (31)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (28)

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•Hospitals (101)

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STUDY

Adherence to simple and effective measures reduces the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia: [L'observation de mesures simples et efficaces reduit l'incidence de pneumonie associee a la ventilation mecanique].

Baxter AD, Allan J, Bedard J, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2005;52:535-541.

STUDY

Safety of patients isolated for infection control.

Stelfox HT, Bates DW, Redelmeier DA. JAMA. 2003;290:1899-1905.

STUDY

Safety Climate Survey: reliability of results from a multicenter ICU survey.

Kho ME, Carbone JM, Lucas J, Cook DJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:273-278.

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Error or "act of God"? A study of patients' and operating room team members' perceptions of error definition, reporting, and disclosure.

Espin S, Levinson W, Regehr G, Baker GR, Lingard L. Surgery. 2006;139:6-14.

STUDY

In-house, overnight physician staffing: a cross-sectional survey of Canadian adult and pediatric intensive care units.

Parshuram CS, Kirpalani H, Mehta S, Granton J, Cook D, for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Crit Care Med. 2006;34:1674-78.

STUDY

Development of a checklist of safe discharge practices for hospital patients.

Soong C, Daub S, Lee J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2013 Mar 29; [Epub ahead of print].

BOOK/REPORT

Inspiring Ideas and Celebrating Successes: A Guidebook to Leading Patient Safety Practices in Ontario Hospitals.

OHA Patient Safety Support Service. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ontario Hospital Association; 2006.

STUDY

Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects.

Lingard L, Espin S, Whyte S, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13:330-334.

STUDY

Association between implementation of an intensivist-led medical emergency team and mortality.

Karvellas CJ, de Souza IAO, Gibney RTN, Bagshaw SM. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;22:152-159.

STUDY

Barriers and facilitators to communicating nursing errors in long-term care settings.

Wagner LM, Damianakis T, Pho L, Tourangeau A. J Patient Saf. 2013;9:1-7.

STUDY

Residents feel unprepared and unsupervised as leaders of cardiac arrest teams in teaching hospitals: a survey of internal medicine residents.

Hayes CW, Rhee A, Detsky ME, Leblanc VR, Wax RS. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:1668-1672.

COMMENTARY

Full disclosure of adverse events to patients and families in the ICU: wouldn't you want to know?

Doucette E, Fazio S, LaSalle V, et al. Dynamics. 2010;21:16-19.

REVIEW

The role of practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine in perioperative patient safety.

Crosby E. Can J Anaesth. 2013;60:143-151.

COMMENTARY

A theory-based instrument to evaluate team communication in the operating room: balancing measurement authenticity and reliability.

Lingard L, Regehr G, Espin S, Whyte S. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:422-426.

STUDY

Unintended medication discrepancies at the time of hospital admission.

Cornish PL, Knowles SR, Marchesano R, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:424-429.

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Waiting for urgent procedures on the weekend among emergently hospitalized patients.

Bell CM, Redelmeier DA. Am J Med. 2004;117:175-181.

STUDY

Getting teams to talk: development and pilot implementation of a checklist to promote interprofessional communication in the OR.

Lingard L, Espin S, Rubin B, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:340-346.

STUDY

Discontinuity of chronic medications in patients discharged from the intensive care unit.

Bell CM, Rahimi-Darabad P, Orner AI. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:937-941.

COMMENTARY

A clinical nurse specialist intervention to facilitate safe transfer from ICU.

St-Louis L, Brault D. Clin Nurse Spec. 2011;25:321-326.

REVIEW

The impact of electronic health records on time efficiency of physicians and nurses: a systematic review.

Poissant L, Pereira J, Tamblyn R, Kawasumi Y. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005;12:505-516.

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