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•Device-related Complications (8)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (39)

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•Medication Safety (71)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (87)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (57)

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•Medicine (165)

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•Health Care Providers (177)

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•Non-Health Care Professionals (89)

•Patients (10)

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•Hospitals (149)

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STUDY

Medication reconciliation during internal hospital transfer and impact of computerized prescriber order entry.

Lee JY, Leblanc K, Fernandes OA, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:1887-1895.

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.

COMMENTARY

Medication reconciliation in the hospital: what, why, where, when, who and how?

Fernandes O, Shojania KG. Healthc Q. 2012;15:42-49.

REVIEW

The efficacy of computer-enabled discharge communication interventions: a systematic review.

Motamedi SM, Posadas-Calleja J, Straus S, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:403-415.

STUDY

Incidence of potentially avoidable urgent readmissions and their relation to all-cause urgent readmissions.

van Walraven C, Jennings A, Taljaard M, et al. CMAJ. 2011;183:E1067-E1072.

STUDY

Association of communication between hospital-based physicians and primary care providers with patient outcomes.

Bell CM, Schnipper JL, Auerbach AD, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:381-386.

STUDY

Does user-centred design affect the efficiency, usability and safety of CPOE order sets?

Chan J, Shojania KG, Easty AC, Etchells EE. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:276-281.

COMMENTARY

Achieving the 'perfect handoff' in patient transfers: building teamwork and trust.

Clarke D, Werestiuk K, Schoffner A, et al. J Nurs Manag. 2012;20:592-598.

STUDY

Taking a detour: positive and negative effects of supervisors' interruptions during admission case review discussions.

Goldszmidt M, Aziz N, Lingard L. Acad Med. 2012;87:1382-1388.

STUDY

Information exchange among physicians caring for the same patient in the community.

van Walraven C, Taljaard M, Bell CM, et al. CMAJ. 2008;179:1013-1018.

STUDY

Do emergency physicians attribute drug-related emergency department visits to medication-related problems?

Hohl CM, Zed PJ, Brubacher JR, Abu-Laban RB, Loewen PS, Purssell RA. Ann Emerg Med. 2010;55:493-502.e4.

STUDY

Perspective: a business school view of medical interprofessional rounds: transforming rounding groups into rounding teams.

Bharwani AM, Harris GC, Southwick FS. Acad Med. 2012;87:1768-1771.

REVIEW

Review of computerized physician handoff tools for improving the quality of patient care.

Li P, Ali S, Tang C, Ghali WA, Stelfox HT. J Hosp Med. 2012 Nov 20; [Epub ahead of print].

STUDY

Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST).

Heddle NM, Fung M, Hervig T, et al; BEST Collaborative. Transfusion. 2012;52:1687-1695.

STUDY

Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital.

Forster AJ, Worthington JR, Hawken S, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:756-763.

REVIEW

Frequency, type and clinical importance of medication history errors at admission to hospital: a systematic review.

Tam VC, Knowles SR, Cornish PL, Fine N, Marchesano R, Etchells EE. CMAJ. 2005;173:510-515.

COMMENTARY

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

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

BOOK/REPORT

Patient Safety in Canada: An Update.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Canadian Institute for Health Information; August 14, 2007.

STUDY

The effect of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection on in-hospital mortality.

Oake N, Taljaard M, van Walraven C, Wilson K, Roth V, Forster AJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1804-1810.

STUDY

Using Medical Emergency Teams to detect preventable adverse events.

Iyengar A, Baxter A, Forster AJ. Crit Care. 2009;13:R126.

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