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Contribution of Governance to Patient Safety Initiatives in Australia, England, New Zealand and the United States. April 4, 2007
Spotlight on electronic health record errors: errors related to the use of default values. September 25, 2013
Medicine and the rise of the robots: a qualitative review of recent advances of artificial intelligence in health. July 11, 2018
Day passes for vulnerable patients of psychiatric hospitals can have dangerous, even fatal consequences. June 21, 2017
Giving back the pen: disclosure, apology and early compensation discussions after harm in the healthcare setting. April 23, 2008
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out. March 10, 2010
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research: Final Report. September 22, 2010
The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Ebola Crisis: A Perfect Storm of Human Errors, System Failures and Lack of Mindfulness. February 10, 2016
Active learning: when is more better? The case of resident physicians' medical errors. October 14, 2009
Designing for Patient Safety: Developing Methods to Integrate Patient Safety Concerns in the Design Process. October 24, 2012
A better approach to medical malpractice claims? The University of Michigan experience. August 5, 2009
The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. September 20, 2006
Does crew resource management training work? An update, an extension, and some critical needs. August 30, 2006
Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal Welsh national adverse events study. April 19, 2017
Engagement of leadership in quality improvement initiatives: executive quality improvement survey results. July 11, 2007
Impact of the Care Quality Commission on Provider Performance: Room for Improvement? November 21, 2018
When bad things happen: training medical students to anticipate the aftermath of medical errors. September 2, 2020
Impact of technological and departmental changes on incident rates in radiation oncology over a seventeen-year period. June 30, 2021
The effects of rudeness, experience, and perspective-taking on challenging premature closure after pediatric ICU physicians receive hand-off with the wrong diagnosis: a randomized controlled simulation trial. December 9, 2020
Adverse events in Italian nursing homes during the COVID-19 epidemic: a national survey. November 25, 2020
Program access, depressive symptoms, and medical errors among resident physicians with disability. January 12, 2022
Effects of a brief team training program on surgical teams' nontechnical skills: an interrupted time-series study. August 11, 2021
An e-Delphi study to obtain expert consensus on the level of risk associated with preventable e-prescribing events. April 13, 2022
The e-Autopsy/e-Biopsy: a systematic chart review to increase safety and diagnostic accuracy. October 26, 2022
Engaging with ethnic minority consumers to improve safety in cancer services: a national stakeholder analysis. May 25, 2022
The influence of professional identity on how the receiver receives and responds to a speaking up message: a cross-sectional study. March 29, 2023
Which adverse events and which drugs are implicated in drug-related hospital admissions? A systematic review and meta-analysis. March 22, 2023
Undertaking risk and relational work to manage vulnerability: acute medical patients' involvement in patient safety in the NHS. March 15, 2023
Communication matters when it comes to adverse events: associations of adverse events during implant treatment with patients' communication quality and trust assessments. March 15, 2023
The impact of medication reconciliation and review in patients using oral chemotherapy. March 1, 2023
The impact of meaningful use and electronic health records on hospital patient safety. November 2, 2022
Perceived patient safety culture in nursing homes associated with "Nursing Home Compare" performance indicators. July 24, 2019
Health information technology and its effects on hospital costs, outcomes, and patient safety. October 24, 2012
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012. September 26, 2012
Validating the Patient Safety Indicators in the Veterans Health Administration: do they accurately identify true safety events? November 2, 2011
Patient Safety Dialogue: evaluation of an intervention aimed at achieving an improved patient safety culture. October 19, 2011
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2011. September 28, 2011
Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. April 27, 2011
Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit: improving patient safety. April 20, 2011
Oops, sorry, wrong patient! A patient verification process is needed everywhere, not just at the bedside. March 23, 2011
Multiple component patient safety intervention in English hospitals: controlled evaluation of second phase. February 23, 2011