Improving patient safety in radiology: concepts for a comprehensive patient safety program.

Lane F. Donnelly; Julie M. Dickerson; Martha A. Goodfriend; Stephen Muething

Commentary

Improving patient safety in radiology: concepts for a comprehensive patient safety program.

May 12, 2010

Donnelly LF, Dickerson JM, Goodfriend MA, et al. Semin Ultrasound CT MR. 2010;31(2):67-70.

View more articles from the same authors.

This article describes how one institution targeted interventions at both error reduction and safety culture to improve patient safety performance.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Improving patient safety: effects of a safety program on performance and culture in a department of radiology.

December 14, 2016

Quality improvement initiative to reduce serious safety events and improve patient safety culture.

December 2, 2014

Operational rounds: a practical administrative process to improve safety and clinical services in radiology.

November 26, 2008

Improving situation awareness to reduce unrecognized clinical deterioration and serious safety events.

July 24, 2017

Enabling a learning healthcare system with automated computer protocols that produce replicable and personalized clinician actions.

August 4, 2021

A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries.

July 29, 2020

The Joint Commission's ongoing professional practice evaluation process: costly, ineffective, and potentially harmful to safety culture.

March 20, 2024

Peer feedback, learning, and improvement: answering the call of the Institute of Medicine report on diagnostic error.

July 1, 2017

Serious experience events: applying patient safety concepts to improve patient experience.

July 6, 2022

Healthcare worker serious safety events: applying concepts from patient safety to improve healthcare worker safety.

August 4, 2021

Related Resources

Improving team performance during the preprocedure time-out in pediatric interventional radiology.

January 3, 2017

An implementation strategy for a multicenter pediatric rapid response system in Ontario.

January 3, 2017

Diagnostic errors in interpretation of pediatric musculoskeletal radiographs at common injury sites.

December 14, 2016

Improving patient safety: effects of a safety program on performance and culture in a department of radiology.

December 14, 2016

Overuse of medical imaging and its radiation exposure: who’s minding our children?

November 18, 2016

Peer review comments augment diagnostic error characterization and departmental quality assurance: 1-year experience from a children's hospital.

March 4, 2015

Accident prevention in day-to-day clinical radiation therapy practice.

December 5, 2012

Diagnostic errors with inserted tubes, lines and catheters in children.

December 5, 2012

A 60-year-old man with delayed care for a renal mass.

May 18, 2011

Quality initiatives: developing a radiology quality and safety program: a primer.

April 21, 2011

See More About The Topic

Children's Hospitals

Health Care Providers

Quality and Safety Professionals

Radiology

Culture of Safety

Improving patient safety in radiology: concepts for a comprehensive patient safety program.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Improving patient safety in radiology: concepts for a comprehensive patient safety program.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Training

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Toolkit

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

New Users to the PSNet site

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your WebM&M Case

Continue as a Guest

Already have a PSNet

Account?

New Users