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Quality Improvement.

November 15, 2017

Gupta M, Kaplan HC, eds. Clin Perinatol. 2017;44(3):469-728.

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Improvement efforts in health care focus on quality and patient safety. Articles in this special issue explore the complexities of providing effective perinatal–neonatal care and offer insights regarding alarm fatigue, information technology, teamwork, standardization, and high reliability.

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Biomedical Complexity and Error.

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Patient Safety in the Operating Room.

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Management of Operating Room Critical Events.

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Simulation in Surgical Training and Practice.

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Quality of Anesthesia Care.

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Predictors of likelihood of speaking up about safety concerns in labour and delivery.

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Simulation in Otolaryngology.

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Safety and Reliability in Pediatrics.

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Patient Safety.

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Improving Diagnosis in Radiology—Progress and Proposals.

September 13, 2017

You can't understand something you hide: transparency as a path to improve patient safety.

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Supplemental Issue: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) program.

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Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections: Results and Lessons Learned from AHRQ's HAI Program.

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Quality of Care and Information Technology.

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Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use.

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Patient Safety in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

January 3, 2007

Patient Safety: Committing to Learn and Acting to Improve.

January 15, 2014

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Iatrogenesis in Pediatrics.

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October 24, 2018

Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs.

August 20, 2014

Human Factors in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.

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Simulation in Anaesthesia and Surgery.

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November 5, 2014

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Medical Errors and Safety Systems.

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Mistakes We Make in Dialysis.

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