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•Device-related Complications (198)

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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (448)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (111)

•Medication Safety (1179)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (748)

•Active Errors (599)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (1138)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (1224)

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•Teamwork (344)

•Specialization of Care (283)

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•Technologic Approaches (750)

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Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (12)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (3039)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (3228)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (1711)

•Patients (664)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (2724)

•Psychiatric Facilities (17)

•Residential Facilities (84)

•Ambulatory Care (398)

•Outpatient Surgery (53)

•Patient Transport (24)

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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

How safe do patients feel?

Wolosin R, Vercler L, Matthews J. Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare. November/December 2005;2:40-44.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing America's hospitals.

Newsweek. October 16, 2006:44-68, 72.

AWARD RECIPIENT

2006 Quest for Quality Prize.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. September 2006.

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

Austin, TX: Texas Medical Institute for Technology and the Quaid Foundation; 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2010.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Plan aims to cut hospital deaths.

Appleby J. USA Today. June 6, 2005.

COMMENTARY classic

Healthcare in a land called PeoplePower: nothing about me without me.

Delbanco T, Berwick DM, Boufford JI, et al. Health Expect. 2001;4:144-150.

REVIEW

Narrative review: do state laws make it easier to say "I'm sorry?"

McDonnell WM, Guenther E. Ann Intern Med. 2008;149:811-815.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

In a crisis, do-not-revive requests don't always work.

Parker L. USA Today. December 19, 2006.

STUDY

Analysis of staff safety concerns.

Davidson J, Lamontagne G, Burnell L, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28:147-152.

COMMENTARY

Liability reform should make patients safer: "Avoidable classes of events" are a key improvement.

Bovbjerg RR, Tancredi LR. J Law Med Ethics. 2005;33:478-500.

COMMENTARY

Ending extra payment for "never events"—stronger incentives for patients' safety.

Milstein A. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:2388-2390.

COMMENTARY

Ashamed to admit it: owning up to medical error.

Ofri D. Health Aff (Millwood). 2010;29:1549-1551.

TOOLKIT

Making Strides in Safety.

Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2010.

STUDY

The many faces of error disclosure: a common set of elements and a definition.

Fein SP, Hilborne LH, Spiritus EM, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:755-761.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospitals boost patients' power as advisers.

Landro L. Wall Street Journal. August 8, 2007:D1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Get me out alive.

Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.

COMMENTARY

Health information technology is a vehicle, not a destination: a conversation with David J. Brailer.

Milstein A. Health Aff (Millwood). 2007;26:w236-w241.

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