Safe healthcare.

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Safe healthcare.

March 6, 2005

Morgan MW; Guerriere M; Alvarez R; Protti D; Classen D; Binns P; Tamblyn R; Savitz L; Baker GR; Norton PG

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This issue reviews electronic medical records, information technology, and other Canadian technology issues in the context of patient safety efforts.

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Contribution of Governance to Patient Safety Initiatives in Australia, England, New Zealand and the United States.

April 4, 2007

Can we use incident reports to detect hospital adverse events?

March 12, 2008

Beyond the Quick Fix: Strategies for Improving Patient Safety.

November 25, 2015

Do HSMRs really measure patient safety?

August 13, 2008

Patient Safety Papers 4.

September 2, 2009

Analysis of errors in dictated clinical documents assisted by speech recognition software and professional transcriptionists.

July 25, 2018

Patient Safety Papers 5.

November 10, 2010

Patient Safety Papers 3.

April 23, 2008

Impact of a successful speaking up program on health-care worker hand hygiene behavior.

September 13, 2017

Patient Safety Papers 6.

May 2, 2012

How safe do patients feel?

December 14, 2005

Patient safety, systems design and ergonomics.

June 21, 2006

Reconciling medications at admission: safe practice recommendations and implementation strategies.

January 11, 2006

Patient safety performance: reversing recent declines through shared profession-wide system-level solutions.

January 18, 2023

Patient Safety Papers.

November 30, 2005

A lost voice.

March 1, 2017

Safer Delivery of Surgical Services: a Programme of Controlled Before-and-after Intervention Studies with Pre-planned Pooled Data Analysis.

January 25, 2017

Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection: Final Contract Report.

October 10, 2012

Effective use of medication-related decision support in CPOE.

October 1, 2008

Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings.

November 2, 2016

Nurses' role in detecting deterioration in ward patients: systematic literature review.

September 30, 2009

Hospitals, medical groups start to worry about skills of older doctors.

September 2, 2015

Distributing Cognition: ICU Handoffs Conform to Grice's Maxims.

March 6, 2005

Development and implementation of a pediatric patient safety program.

June 21, 2006

Teamwork and communication in surgical teams: implications for patient safety.

January 9, 2008

Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria.

June 8, 2011

Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care.

February 20, 2013

Fixing the medication reconciliation breakdown.

December 20, 2006

PEXiS.

March 6, 2005

Care management implementation and patient safety.

September 27, 2006

Near-miss event analysis enhances the barcode medication administration process.

January 17, 2018

Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology.

May 3, 2006

Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries.

July 10, 2013

Considering human factors and developing systems-thinking behaviours to ensure patient safety.

February 21, 2018

Implementing and validating a comprehensive unit-based safety program.

May 11, 2005

Speaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices that Elicit Solutions from Front-Line Employees.

March 9, 2011

No excuses: the reality that demands action.

September 1, 2005

Mental mayhem: the peril of multitasking in medicine.

July 17, 2019

Error rate greatest in hospital radiology.

January 31, 2006

Prescribing for the elderly. Part I: Sensitivity of the elderly to adverse drug reactions.

March 27, 2005

Morphine overdose from error propagation on an acute pain service: [Une surdose de morphine resultant de multiples erreurs dans un service de douleur aigue].

June 21, 2006

Scariest hospital risks.

September 10, 2008

Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act.

July 13, 2005

Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs.

March 6, 2005

Structured override reasons for drug–drug interaction alerts in electronic health records.

May 15, 2019

Human costs of training doctors.

August 11, 2010

'Superbug' scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll.

September 21, 2016

Knowledge for Improvement.

April 27, 2011

Do panels vary when assessing intrapartum adverse events? The reproducibility of assessments by hospital risk management groups.

November 22, 2006

Patient- and family-centered care: error disclosure and investigation.

October 29, 2014

Medical Errors and Patient Safety: A Curriculum Guide for Teaching Medical Students and Family Practice Residents.

March 6, 2005

Do no harm: hospital care in Las Vegas.

July 14, 2010

Patient harm: when an attorney won't take your case.

January 22, 2014

Make safety a priority: create and maintain a culture of safety.

March 22, 2006

Errors originating in hospital and health-system outpatient pharmacies.

July 19, 2017

Stories from the sharp end: case studies in safety improvement.

March 29, 2006

Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.

October 3, 2007

Medical error reduction: the effect of employee satisfaction with organizational support.

June 8, 2011

An objective methodology for task analysis and workload assessment in anesthesia providers.

December 7, 2005

Computerized physician order entry, a factor in medication errors: descriptive analysis of events in the intensive care unit safety reporting system.

September 28, 2005

How Professionals Make Decisions.

May 4, 2005

Surgeon Scorecard.

July 22, 2015

Medication administration in anesthesia: time for a paradigm shift.

October 31, 2007

Association between night-time surgery and occurrence of intraoperative adverse events and postoperative pulmonary complications.

May 8, 2019

The safety journal: lessons learned with an error reporting tool to stimulate systems thinking.

September 12, 2007

Making hospitals accountable.

July 29, 2009

Training of Hospital Staff To Respond to a Mass Casualty Incident. Summary, Evidence Report/Technology Assessment.

March 6, 2005

Disease management: a mid-decade evolution toward patient safety.

March 22, 2006

Assessment of a simulated case-based measurement of physician diagnostic performance.

January 23, 2019

Hospital Medication Errors Commonplace.

August 23, 2006

Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Review of Modern Evidence Supporting Strategies to Improve Patient Safety.

March 6, 2013

The Expert Panel Report to Texas Health Resources Leadership on the 2014 Ebola Events.

September 23, 2015

Medical Liability: New Ideals for Making the System Work Better for Patients.

July 5, 2006

Impact of a statewide reporting system on medication error reduction.

November 1, 2006

Differentiating close calls from errors: a multidisciplinary perspective.

December 7, 2005

Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care.

September 27, 2023

Strategies to improve patient safety: the evidence base matures.

March 6, 2013

The Commonwealth Fund Quality Improvement Colloquium: Patient Safety Five Years After To Err Is Human.

March 27, 2005

Safer Clinical Systems: Evaluation Findings.

February 18, 2015

Teamwork and Communication.

July 7, 2010

Can positivity promote safety? Psychological capital development combats cynicism and unsafe behavior.

July 10, 2019

The application of system dynamics modelling to system safety improvement: present use and future potential.

September 19, 2018

Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion.

March 6, 2005

Patient Safety.

December 13, 2006

Perinatal patient safety from the perspective of nurse executives: a round table discussion.

July 5, 2006

Patient Safety.

January 28, 2015

Prevention of potential errors in resuscitation medications orders by means of a computerised physician order entry in paediatric critical care.

February 28, 2007

The English Patient Safety Programme.

February 10, 2010

The Leapfrog Group's CPOE standard and evaluation tool.

July 30, 2008

2018 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

July 17, 2019

Enhancing Surgical Systems.

October 15, 2008

Patient Safety in Ambulance Services: A Scoping Review.

June 10, 2015

NQF Safe Practices: 2010 Updates.

March 17, 2010

Perspective

New Insights About Team Training From a Decade of TeamSTEPPS

February 1, 2017

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals.

October 22, 2008

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality.

February 17, 2016

Reducing interdisciplinary communication failures through secure text messaging: a quality improvement project.

March 21, 2018

Improving process while changing practice: FMEA and medication administration.

March 12, 2008

How-to Guides: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations.

August 8, 2012

Patient Safety Papers.

November 22, 2006

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September 20, 2023

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