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A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury. July 27, 2016
Achieving Excellence in the Diagnosis of Acute Cardiovascular Events: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. September 7, 2021
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Diagnosis. Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. May 11, 2022
Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. November 6, 2019
Crisis Standards of Care: Ten Years of Successes and Challenges–Proceedings of a Workshop. May 13, 2020
The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff. April 20, 2022
Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Maternal Health Care: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. November 15, 2023
Partnering with Patients to Drive Shared Decisions, Better Value, and Care Improvement—Workshop Proceedings. September 11, 2013
Getting the wrong person's medicine at the pharmacy: easy steps consumers can take to help eliminate these errors. August 19, 2015
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. September 19, 2012
Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis. September 25, 2013
2015 Rosenthal Symposium: Protecting Patients: Advances and Future Directions in Patient Safety. November 11, 2015
Achieving Excellence in Cancer Diagnosis: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. October 5, 2021 - October 6, 2021
Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Older Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief. July 21, 2022 - July 21, 2022
Burnout Among Health Care Professionals. A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care. July 19, 2017
Utilizing a Systems and Design Thinking Approach for Improving Well-Being Within Health Professional Education and Health Care. January 16, 2019
Organizational Evidence-Based and Promising Practices for Improving Clinician Well-Being. November 11, 2020
Effects of racial bias in pulse oximetry on children and how to address algorithmic bias in clinical medicine. April 5, 2023
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Procuring Interoperability: Achieving High-Quality, Connected, and Person-Centered Care. October 24, 2018
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning Technologies for Medical Diagnostics. October 26, 2022
Meeting the Moment: Addressing Barriers and Facilitating Clinical Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis. October 12, 2022
Communication and Transparency as a Means to Strengthening Workplace Culture During COVID-19. March 10, 2021
Safer Delivery of Surgical Services: a Programme of Controlled Before-and-after Intervention Studies with Pre-planned Pooled Data Analysis. January 25, 2017
Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal Welsh national adverse events study. April 19, 2017
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Pain Management and Prescription Opioid-related Harms: Exploring the State of the Evidence: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. November 30, 2016
Increasing the use of 'smart' pump drug libraries by nurses: a continuous quality improvement project. February 29, 2012
FDA advises health care professionals and patients about insulin pen packaging and dispensing. October 28, 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Emergency Department visits and patient safety in the United States. August 26, 2020
FDA alerts patients and health care professionals of EpiPen auto-injector errors related to device malfunctions and user administration. April 8, 2020
Association of health literacy with postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. October 25, 2017
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Validating domains of patient contextual factors essential to preventing contextual errors: a qualitative study conducted at Chicago area Veterans Health Administration sites. April 19, 2017
Reducing Risk and Promoting Patient Safety for NIH Intramural Clinical Research—Final Report. May 4, 2016