Dirty surgical tools put patients at risk.

Diagnosis: doubled over in pain.

Sanders L. New York Times Magazine. March 18, 2012.

High-profile investigations into hospital safety problems in England did not prompt patients to switch providers.

Laverty AA, Smith PC, Pape UJ, Mears A, Wachter RM, Millett C. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012;31:593-601.

Minor mistakes, deadly results.

Vaida B. The Washingtonian. January 27, 2012.

Analysis of Australian newspaper coverage of medication errors.

Hinchcliff R, Westbrook J, Greenfield D, Baysari M, Moldovan M, Braithwaite J. Int J Qual Health Care. 2012;24:1-8.

Guidelines for Informing the Media After an Adverse Event.

Communication Advisory Committee. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; 2010. ISBN: 9781926541266

In Conversation with... Charles Ornstein

The Media: An Essential, If Sometimes Arbitrary, Promoter of Patient Safety

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Pediatric medication safety and the media: what does the public see?

Stebbing C, Kaushal R, Bates DW. Pediatrics. 2006;117:1907-1914.

Pushing the profession: how the news media turned patient safety into a priority.

Millenson ML. Qual Saf Health Care. 2002;11:57-63.

Isolated Clot, Real Error

Anna Parks, MD, and Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH

Specimen Almost Lost

Yael K. Heher, MD, MPH

Quality and Safety in Health Care.

Harolds JA, Harolds LB. Clin Nucl Med. 2015–2018.

Patient Safety Authority Annual Reports.

Harrisburg, PA: Patient Safety Authority; April 2018.

Improving Care Together: 2017–2018 MHA Patient Safety and Quality Annual Report.

Okemos, MI: Michigan Health & Hospital Association; October 2018.

Infection control assessment of ambulatory surgical centers.

Schaefer MK, Jhung M, Dahl M, et al. JAMA. 2010;303:2273-2279.

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Case study: preventing surgical complications at Baystate Medical Center.

Fitzgerald J, Kanter G, Benjamin E. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:666-671.

Inspiring Ideas and Celebrating Successes: A Guidebook to Leading Patient Safety Practices in Ontario Hospitals.

OHA Patient Safety Support Service. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ontario Hospital Association; 2006.

Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs). 

Joint Commission Resources Quality and Safety Network. October 24, 2019; 2:00–3:00 PM (Eastern).

The impact of RVU-based compensation on patient safety outcomes in outpatient otolaryngology procedures.

Stanisce L, Ahmad N, Deckard N, et al. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Feb 5; [Epub ahead of print].