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SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Patient Safety Papers 3.
Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2008;11:1-144.
REVIEW
Team working in intensive care: current evidence and future endeavors.
Richardson J, West MA, Cuthbertson BH. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2010;16:643-648.
STUDY
Minimizing errors of omission: Behavioural rEenforcement of Heparin to Avert Venous Emboli: The BEHAVE Study.
McMullin J, Cook D, Griffith L, et al. Crit Care Med. 2006;34:694-699.
STUDY
Drug formulations that require potentially inaccurate volumes to prepare doses for infants and children.
Uppal N, Yasseen B, Seto W, Parshuram CS. CMAJ. 2011;183:E246-E248.
STUDY
Increasing patient safety event reporting in 2 intensive care units: A prospective interventional study.
Ilan R, Squires M, Panopoulos C, Day A. J Crit Care. 2011;26:e11-e18.
STUDY
On the ball: leadership for patient safety and learning in critical care.
Tregunno D, Jeffs L, Hall LM, Baker R, Doran D, Bassett SB. J Nurs Adm. 2009;39:334-339.
COMMENTARY
An implementation strategy for a multicenter pediatric rapid response system in Ontario.
Lobos A, Costello J, Gilleland J, Gaiteiro R, Kotsakis A; The Ontario Pediatric Critical Care Response Team Collaborative. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2010;36:271-280.
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
A prospective observational study of physician handoff for intensive-care-unit-to-ward patient transfers.
Li P, Stelfox HT, Ghali WA. Am J Med. 2011;124:860-867.
REVIEW
Medication errors in critical care: risk factors, prevention and disclosure.
Camiré E, Moyen E, Stelfox HT. CMAJ. 2009;180:936-943.
STUDY
Organizational and safety culture in Canadian intensive care units: relationship to size of intensive care unit and physician management model.
Dodek PM, Wong H, Jaswal D, et al. J Crit Care. 2012;27:11-17.
REVIEW
Incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events in the ICU: a systematic review.
Wilmer A, Louie K, Dodek P, Wong H, Ayas N. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e7.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Patient Safety Papers 5.
Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2010;13:1-136.
BOOK/REPORT
The Report of the Manitoba Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest: An Inquiry into Twelve Deaths at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center in 1994.
Sinclar M. Provincial Court of Manitoba, CA.
STUDY
Reduction in hospital mortality over time in a hospital without a pediatric medical emergency team: limitations of before-and-after study designs.
Joffe AR, Anton NR, Burkholder SC. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2011;165:419-423.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
Safer Healthcare Now!
Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
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.
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.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Patient Safety Papers 6.
Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2012;15:1-72.
STUDY
Identifying, understanding and overcoming barriers to medication error reporting in hospitals: a focus group study.
Hartnell N, MacKinnon N, Sketris I, Fleming M. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:361-368.
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