AHRQ Patient Safety Network - What's New This Week

United States Department of Health & Human Services

Skip Navigation

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov

Search

Advanced Search

What's New for 7/9/2008
< Back to What's New Archive

Journal Article

Commentary

Evidence shows cost and patient safety benefits of emergency pharmacists.
Clancy CM. Am J Med Qual. 2008;23:231-233.

ISMP medication error report analysis.
Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:445-448.

Patient safety in obstetrics: what aviators, firefighters and others can teach us.
Guise JM, Lowe NK, Connell L. Nurs Womens Health. 2008;12:208-215.

Review

Safety issues and concerns for the neurological patient in the emergency department.
Manno EM. Neurocrit Care. 2008 Jun 10; [Epub ahead of print].

Study

Accidents, claiming, and regional subcultures: are medical errors and malpractice lawsuits related to social capital?
Williams J. J Saf Res. 2008;39:287-294.

Are Patient Safety Indicators related to widely used measures of hospital quality?
Isaac T, Jha AK. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jun 24; [Epub ahead of print].

Classifying and predicting errors of inpatient medication reconciliation.
Pippins JR, Gandhi TK, Hamann C, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jun 19; [Epub ahead of print].

Documentation of drug allergy on drug chart in patients presenting for surgery.
Farooq M, Kirke C, Foley K. Ir J Med Sci. 2008 Jun 17; [Epub ahead of print].

Factors associated with system-level activities for patient safety and infection control.
Fukuda H, Imanaka Y, Hirose M, Hayashida K. Health Policy. 2008 Jun 5; [Epub ahead of print].

Missed lesions at abdominal oncologic CT: lessons learned from quality assurance.
Siewert B, Sosna J, McNamara A, Raptopoulos V, Kruskal JB. Radiographics. 2008;28:623-638.

Multi-dose drug dispensing and inappropriate drug use: a nationwide register-based study of over 700 000 elderly.
Johnell K, Fastbom J. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2008;26:86-91.

Pharmacologically inappropriate prescriptions for elderly patients in general practice: how common?
Brekke M, Rognstad S, Straand J, et al. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2008;26:80-85.

Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates.
Guru V, Tu JV, Etchells E, et al. Circulation. 2008;117:2969-2976.

Meeting/Conference

Massachusetts Meeting/Conference

Synergy at Work: Gathering Momentum for Meaningful Performance.
Pegasus Institute. November 17-19, 2008; Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Medication reconciliation: taking a systematic approach to National Patient Safety Goal 8.
Jt Comm Perspect Patient Saf. July 2008;8:6-8.

NY Medicaid ups the ante: by refusing to pay for 14 'never events,' the nation's biggest Medicaid program could propel other states into action.
DerGurahian J. Mod Healthc. June 16, 2008;38:6.

Sterile water should not be given "freely."
PA-PSRS Patient Safety Advisory. June 2008;5:53-56.

Tools/Toolkit

Toolkit

Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.
Leonhardt K, Bonin K, Pagel P. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2008. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0048.

Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge.
Geneva, Switzerland: WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; June 25, 2008.

The National Patient Safety Foundation Research Program.
North Adams, MA: National Patient Safety Foundation; 2008.

16th Annual Health Forum and American Hospital Association Leadership Summit.
Health Forum, American Hospital Association. July 24–26, 2008; Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA.

Produced for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by a team of editors at the University of California, San Francisco with guidance from a prominent Editorial Board. This site was designed and implemented by Silverchair..

Contact AHRQ PSNet | Copyright | AHRQ PSNet Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Help