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Newspaper/Magazine Article

The high cost of low morale in the clinical laboratory: how workplace environment impacts patient safety.

Barker T, Noguez J. Clinical Laboratory News. January 1, 2015.

Reporting on the importance of a supportive workplace environment that engages employees in tasks to help ensure safety, this news article discusses root causes for low staff morale in the laboratory environment and suggests tactics to build healthy staff relationships.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Fallible medicine: responding to errors in emergency care.

Whitehead S. Emergency Medical Services. July 2007.

The author, a paramedic, recounts his experience with an intubation error and discusses patient care errors within the broader context of human error, necessary fallibility, and quality assurance.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Challenges ahead in technology training: a report on the training initiative of the Committee on Technology.

Olympio MA, Reinke B, Abramovich A. APSF Newsletter. Fall 2006;21:43-48.

The authors describe the complexity of keeping current on new anesthesia equipment and propose an in-depth process for physician and technician training to ensure safe use in the operating room.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Skin tears: the clinical challenge.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. September 2006;3:1, 5-10.

This article discusses the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) reports of skin tears and provides suggestions to help keep patients safe from this common injury.

Legislation/Regulation

Tubing misconnections—a persistent and potentially deadly occurrence.

Sentinel Event Alert. April 3, 2006;(36):1-3.

This alert summarizes types of tubing misconnections reported to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and recommends 10 strategies to prevent their occurrence.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Error rate greatest in hospital radiology.

Stein R. The Washington Post. January 18, 2006:A03.

This article reports on an analysis of data collected by United States Pharmacopeia's voluntary reporting program that found medication errors are seven times more likely to occur during radiological procedures.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Double key bounce and double keying errors.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. January 12, 2006;11:1-2.

This article describes problems involving the keys on infusion pumps and includes recommendations to help prevent errors when programming infusion pumps.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Ding-a-ling-a-ling: ambulances can be dangerous places.

Meisel Z. Slate. November 8, 2005.

In this article, an emergency medicine physician describes the work environment of emergency medical technicians and paramedics and why it is prone to error.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Safety improvements urged for MRI facilities.

Mitka M. JAMA. 2005;294:2145, 2148.

This news story from JAMA summarizes a teleconference on magnetic resonance imaging safety and shares some of the improvement strategies suggested by experts.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

M.R.I.'s strong magnets cited in accidents.

McNeil DG Jr. New York Times. August 19, 2005;National Desk section:1.

This front page article in The New York Times reviews flying object incidents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. A number of dramatic cases are described (including several that were fatal), as are some of the challenges, both technological and procedural, in preventing this safety hazard.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Forgotten but not gone: tourniquets left on patients.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. June 2005;2:19-21.

This advisory from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System discusses 125 reports of tourniquets being inappropriately left on patients and provides strategies to reduce these occurrences.

Journal Article

Fatal gas line mix-up: How to avoid making this "gastly" mistake.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. December 16, 2004;9:1-2.

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