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Achieving a successful patient safety program with implementation of a harm reduction strategy. October 25, 2023
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
Lessons from the Denver medication error/criminal negligence case: look beyond blaming individuals. March 6, 2005
Spotlight on electronic health record errors: errors related to the use of default values. September 25, 2013
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out. March 10, 2010
Ignored, threatened, berated: after difficult childbirth experiences, new parents seek healing by speaking up. December 4, 2019
With Covid-19 delaying routine care, chronic disease startups brace for a slew of complications. April 29, 2020
Prescription for disaster: America's broken pharmacy system in revolt over burnout and errors. November 8, 2023
Addiction treatment providers in Pa. face little state scrutiny despite harm to clients. May 12, 2021
Variation in medication information for elderly patients during initial interventions by emergency department physicians. January 16, 2008
Insurance claims for wrong-side, wrong-organ, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person surgical errors: a retrospective study for 10 years. February 8, 2023
Unleash the power of patients to make care safer around the world: an essay by Helen Haskell. September 25, 2019
Patients managing medications and reading their visit notes: a survey of OpenNotes participants. June 5, 2019
Doctors make mistakes. A new documentary explores what happens when they do—and how to fix it. February 6, 2019
Effects of a communication-and-resolution program on hospitals' malpractice claims and costs. December 19, 2018
Do written disclosures of serious events increase risk of malpractice claims? One health care system's experience. May 30, 2018
Patients and families as teachers: a mixed methods assessment of a collaborative learning model for medical error disclosure and prevention. July 13, 2016
Disclosure-and-resolution programs that include generous compensation offers may prompt a complex patient response. December 19, 2012