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At the Precipice of Quality Health Care: The Role of the Toxicologist in Enhancing Patient and Medication Safety. July 15, 2015
First, protect the patient from harm: applying adult learning principles to patient safety. August 18, 2010
Review into the Quality of Care and Treatment Provided by 14 Hospital Trusts in England: Overview Report. August 7, 2013
External Inquiry into the adverse incident that occurred at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, 4th January 2001. April 26, 2006
Interview In Conversation with... Cheryl Jones about Addressing Workplace Violence and Creating a Safer Workplace October 31, 2023
Wounded care: failure at one Indian Health Service hospital reveals a system in crisis. December 14, 2016
High Reliability for a Highly Unreliable World: Preparing for Code Blue Through Daily Operations in Healthcare. May 16, 2018
Perspective The Role of Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Improving Patient Safety February 1, 2010
Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare: In Conversation with International Leaders. November 4, 2015
Challenges ahead in technology training: a report on the training initiative of the Committee on Technology. October 11, 2006
Capturing more emergency department errors via an anonymous web-based reporting system. September 21, 2005
Perspective Organizational Change in the Face of Highly Public Errors—I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Experience May 1, 2005
Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. May 6, 2015
WebM&M Cases Multiple Missed Opportunities for Suicide Risk Assessment in Emergency and Primary Care Settings January 7, 2022
The safety journal: lessons learned with an error reporting tool to stimulate systems thinking. September 12, 2007
Considering human factors and developing systems-thinking behaviours to ensure patient safety. February 21, 2018
The Gift of Failure: New Approaches to Analyzing and Learning from Events and Near-Misses. October 13, 2010
Partnering with Patients and Families to Design a Patient- and Family-Centered Health Care System: Recommendations and Promising Practices. June 4, 2008
Rating hospitals by the stars: the feds' latest plan to measure quality is the most controversial. June 1, 2016
Children's Hospital investigated five patient deaths from deadly fungal disease in 2009. April 30, 2014
Is your hospital really as safe as you think? Our updated hospital safety score can help you find out. April 16, 2014