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

Beyond the Quick Fix: Strategies for Improving Patient Safety.

November 25, 2015

Can we use incident reports to detect hospital adverse events?

March 12, 2008

Patient Safety Papers 4.

September 2, 2009

Patient Safety Papers 3.

April 23, 2008

Patient Safety Papers 5.

November 10, 2010

Patient Safety Papers 6.

May 2, 2012

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

January 18, 2023

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

A lost voice.

March 1, 2017

Patient Safety Papers.

November 30, 2005

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

September 13, 2017

Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology.

May 3, 2006

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

March 9, 2011

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

January 25, 2017

Care management implementation and patient safety.

September 27, 2006

Improving patient safety and efficiency of medication reconciliation through the development and adoption of a computer-assisted tool with automated electronic integration of population-based community drug data: the RightRx project.

January 10, 2018

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

March 6, 2005

Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings.

November 2, 2016

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

June 8, 2011

Making hospitals accountable.

July 29, 2009

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

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

July 10, 2019

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

March 6, 2013

Support methods for healthcare professionals who are second victims: an integrative review.

July 27, 2022

Enhancing a culture of safety through disclosure of adverse events.

March 10, 2021

NQF Safe Practices: 2010 Updates.

March 17, 2010

The role of teamwork in the professional education of physicians: current status and assessment recommendations.

March 6, 2005

Canadian Association of University Surgeons' Annual Symposium. Surgical simulation: the solution to safe training or a promise unfulfilled?

September 5, 2012

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

October 22, 2008

Bending the patient safety curve: how much can AI help?

February 1, 2023

Diagnostic stewardship to prevent diagnostic error.

March 15, 2023

WebM&M Cases

Consequences of Medical Overuse

March 1, 2017

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

November 30, 2005

Diagnostic reasoning in cardiovascular medicine.

January 19, 2022

Core competencies for patient safety research: a cornerstone for global capacity strengthening.

February 2, 2011

Made whole: the efficacy of legal redress for black women who have suffered injuries from medical bias.

November 30, 2022

The development and piloting of the Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Evaluation Tool: lessons learned.

March 17, 2021

Do HSMRs really measure patient safety?

August 13, 2008

Racial bias in pulse oximetry measurement.

December 20, 2020

Interventions targeted at reducing diagnostic error: systematic review.

September 8, 2021

Patient Safety.

December 13, 2006

2019 update on medical overuse: a review.

September 25, 2019

Accuracy of practitioner estimates of probability of diagnosis before and after testing.

May 5, 2021

Internet of things in healthcare for patient safety: an empirical study.

March 16, 2022

The tradeoffs between safety and alert fatigue: data from a national evaluation of hospital medication-related clinical decision support.

July 29, 2020

Simulation-based education enhances patient safety behaviors during central venous catheter placement.

September 15, 2021

Nurse–patient ratios as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

March 20, 2013

Association of rapid response teams with hospital mortality in Medicare patients.

October 19, 2022

Team-based approach to improving medication reconciliation rates in family medicine residency clinics.

October 7, 2020

Advancing interprofessional patient safety education for medical, nursing, and pharmacy learners during clinical rotations.

November 30, 2016

The Leapfrog Group's CPOE standard and evaluation tool.

July 30, 2008

Determination of unnecessary blood transfusion by comprehensive 15-hospital record review.

January 25, 2023

Reducing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19: implementation of a COVID-19 triage system.

October 28, 2020

Patient harm and institutional avoidability of out-of-hours discharge from intensive care: an analysis using mixed methods.

March 23, 2022

Understanding the factors influencing implementation of a new national patient safety policy in England: lessons from 'Learning from Deaths'.

May 18, 2022

Knowledge for Improvement.

April 27, 2011

Medication errors and processes to reduce them in care homes in the United Kingdom: a scoping review.

March 23, 2022

Designing safety interventions for specific contexts: results from a literature review.

October 26, 2022

An electronic checklist improves transfer and retention of critical information at intraoperative handoff of care.

February 11, 2015

Providing feedback following Leadership WalkRounds is associated with better patient safety culture, higher employee engagement and lower burnout.

October 25, 2017

Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

June 8, 2011

Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care?

September 11, 2019

Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors.

July 18, 2007

2018 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

July 17, 2019

Incidence of nosocomial COVID-19 in patients hospitalized at a large US academic medical center.

October 21, 2020

Health professionals' perspectives of safety issues in mental health services: a qualitative study.

March 31, 2021

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020.

September 23, 2020

Improving transfusion safety in the operating room with a barcode scanning system designed specifically for the surgical environment and existing electronic medical record systems: an interrupted time series analysis.

September 9, 2020

A qualitative exploration of mental health service user and carer perspectives on safety issues in UK mental health services.

August 5, 2020

Data quality associated with handwritten laboratory test requests: classification and frequency of data-entry errors for outpatient serology tests.

November 18, 2015

Development of a core drug list towards improving prescribing education and reducing errors in the UK.

March 2, 2011

Shaping systems for better behavioral choices: lessons learned from a fatal medication error.

March 24, 2010

Perspective

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February 1, 2017

Research in Ambulatory Patient Safety 2000-2010: A 10-Year Review.

January 4, 2012

Patient Safety in Ambulance Services: A Scoping Review.

June 10, 2015

Enhancing Surgical Systems.

October 15, 2008

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

May 8, 2019

Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Improving Outcomes, Reducing Risks.

March 19, 2008

Simulation-based Surgical Education.

November 25, 2015

Keeping our Promises: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in Health Care Reliability.

August 16, 2006

Special Section: Patient Safety.

May 24, 2006

Patient Safety.

November 21, 2018

Designing for Safety in the ICU.

March 28, 2018

Burnout and Resilience and Quality and Safety Programs in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

August 21, 2019

Risk and Event Assessment.

August 4, 2010

Focus on Computerized Provider Order Entry.

January 10, 2007

The 2021 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.

August 3, 2022

Patient Safety Papers.

November 22, 2006

Taking National Action to Prevent and Eliminate Healthcare-Associated Infections.

April 2, 2014

Focus on Patient Safety.

October 11, 2006

Medical Malpractice and Errors.

September 15, 2010

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality.

February 17, 2016

Healthcare-Associated Infections.

July 22, 2009

The Second Society for Simulation in Healthcare Research Summit: Beyond Our Boundaries.

August 1, 2018

Cognitive Factors in Health Care.

October 12, 2011

Safety and Reliability in Pediatrics.

November 21, 2012

Theme Issue on Medical Error.

March 6, 2005

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