AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (9)

•Diagnostic Errors (19)

•Identification Errors (4)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (28)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (7)

•Medication Safety (83)

•Medical Complications (29)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (3)

•Surgical Complications (30)

•Transfusion Complications (2)

•Psychological and Social Complications (3)

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•Special or Theme Issue (7)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (61)

•Active Errors (44)

•Latent Errors (8)

•Near Miss (3)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (46)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (7)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (71)

•Communication Improvement (47)

•Human Factors Engineering (38)

•Teamwork (16)

•Specialization of Care (14)

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•Culture of Safety (25)

•Technologic Approaches (41)

•Education and Training (41)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (1)

•Medicine (151)

•Nursing (20)

•Pharmacy (16)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (157)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (178)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (85)

•Patients (5)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (136)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (3)

•Ambulatory Care (21)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (2)

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STUDY

Using a preprinted order sheet to reduce prescription errors in a pediatric emergency department: a randomized, controlled trial.

Kozer E, Scolnik D, MacPherson A, Rauchwerger D, Koren G. Pediatrics. 2005;116:1299-1302.

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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.

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The development and evaluation of an integrated electronic prescribing and drug management system for primary care.

Tamblyn R, Huang A, Kawasumi Y, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:148-159.

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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.

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Clinical application of a computerized system for physician order entry with clinical decision support to prevent adverse drug events in long-term care.

Rochon PA, Field TS, Bates DW, et al. CMAJ. 2006;174:52-54.

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Intraoperative adverse events and related postoperative complications in spine surgery: implications for enhancing patient safety founded on evidence-based protocols.

Rampersaud YR, Moro ER, Neary MA, et al. Spine. 2006;31:1503-1510.

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Checklists improve experts' diagnostic decisions.

Sibbald M, de Bruin ABH, van Merrienboer JJG. Med Educ. 2013;47:301-308.

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Impact of a comprehensive safety initiative on patient-controlled analgesia errors.

Paul JE, Bertram B, Antoni K, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;113:1427-1432.

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Usability of a computerised drug monitoring programme to detect adverse drug events and non-compliance in outpatient ambulatory care.

Auger C, Forster AJ, Oake N, Tamblyn R. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:306-316.

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Finding and fixing mistakes: do checklists work for clinicians with different levels of experience?

Sibbald M, De Bruin ABH, van Merrienboer JJG. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2013 Apr 27; [Epub ahead of print].

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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.

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Potentially unintended discontinuation of long-term medication use after elective surgical procedures.

Bell CM, Bajcar J, Bierman AS, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:2525-2531.

REVIEW

The checklist--a tool for error management and performance improvement.

Hales BM, Pronovost PJ. J Crit Care. 2006;21:231-235.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient Safety Papers.

Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2005;8:1-156.

STUDY

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.

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Prospective evaluation of consultant surgeon sleep deprivation and outcomes in more than 4000 consecutive cardiac surgical procedures.

Chu MWA, Stitt LW, Fox SA, et al. Arch Surg. 2011;146:1080-1085.

REVIEW

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

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

STUDY

Boyle TA, Scobie AC, MacKinnon NJ, Mahaffey T. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2012;52:498-506.

STUDY

Samoy LJ, Zed PJ, Wilbur K, Balen RM, Abu-Laban RB, Roberts M. Pharmacotherapy. 2006;26:1578-1586.

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Evaluation of a preoperative team briefing: a new communication routine results in improved clinical practice.

Lingard L, Regehr G, Cartmill C, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:475-482.

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