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Special Issue: Progress at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Medical Liability. December 14, 2016
Patient Safety: Supporting a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement in Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations. March 6, 2005
Improving patient safety with team coordination: challenges and strategies of implementation. August 9, 2006
Keeping our Promises: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in Health Care Reliability. August 16, 2006
Improving Patient Safety Through Informed Consent for Patients with Limited Health Literacy. September 28, 2005
The Role of Clinical Learning Environments in Preparing New Clinicians to Engage in Patient Safety. October 18, 2017
Impact of a successful speaking up program on health-care worker hand hygiene behavior. September 13, 2017
Impact of a pharmacist-directed pain management service on inpatient opioid use, pain control, and patient safety. February 27, 2019
Electronic medical record-based interventions to encourage opioid prescribing best practices in the emergency department. September 30, 2020
Supporting recovery after adverse events: an essential component of surgeon well-being. February 10, 2021
Transforming the medication regimen review process using telemedicine to prevent adverse events. December 16, 2020
A systematic review of the effect of telepharmacy services in the community pharmacy setting on care quality and patient safety. June 30, 2021
Assessment of patient-preferred language to achieve goal-aligned deprescribing in older adults. June 30, 2021
The postpartum hemorrhage patient safety bundle implementation at a single institution: successes, failures, and lessons learned, October 27, 2021
Filling a gap in safety metrics: development of a patient-centred framework to identify and categorise patient-reported breakdowns related to the diagnostic process in ambulatory care. October 27, 2021
Challenges and potential solutions for patient safety in an infectious-agent-isolation environment: a study of 484 COVID-19-related event reports across 94 hospitals September 1, 2021
Trauma Resuscitation Using in situ Simulation Team Training (TRUST) study: latent safety threat evaluation using framework analysis and video review. September 1, 2021
What do we really know about crew resource management in healthcare?: An umbrella review on crew resource management and its effectiveness. March 2, 2022
CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain - United States, 2022. November 16, 2022
Sustained improvement in quality of patient handoffs after orthopaedic surgery I-PASS intervention. September 21, 2022
Final Report on Prioritization of Patient Safety Practices for a New Rapid Review or Rapid Response. Making Healthcare Safer IV Series. August 9, 2023
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: cognitive bias and medical error in obstetrics-challenges and opportunities. August 10, 2022
Combined impact of Medicare's hospital pay for performance programs on quality and safety outcomes is mixed. August 10, 2022
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: a critique of postpartum readmission rate as a quality metric. May 18, 2022
Patients' experiences and perspectives of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical care: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis. May 11, 2022
Continuing education in patient safety: massive open online courses as a new training tool. October 21, 2015
Reductions in sepsis mortality and costs after design and implementation of a nurse-based early recognition and response program. November 11, 2015
Assessment of attitudes toward deprescribing in older Medicare beneficiaries in the United States. December 19, 2018
Can positivity promote safety? Psychological capital development combats cynicism and unsafe behavior. July 10, 2019
Putting out fires: a qualitative study exploring the use of patient complaints to drive improvement at three academic hospitals. July 10, 2019
The value from investments in health information technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. May 5, 2010
Effect of social influences on pharmacists' intention to report adverse drug events. October 17, 2012
The Canadian interprofessional patient safety competencies: their role in health-care professionals' education. March 7, 2012
Survey shows that at least some physicians are not always open or honest with patients. February 22, 2012
Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. August 16, 2017
Partnering with patients and families living with chronic conditions to coproduce diagnostic safety through OurDX: a previsit online engagement tool. February 15, 2023
The impact of TeamSTEPPS training on obstetric team attitudes and outcomes on the labor and delivery unit of a regional perinatal center. February 1, 2023
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The Science of Simulation in Healthcare: Defining and Developing Clinical Expertise. November 19, 2008
Frontline providers' and patients' perspectives on improving diagnostic safety in the emergency department: a qualitative study. May 8, 2024
Patient Safety Innovations Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help Improve Management of Sepsis May 31, 2023
Distributed Cognition and the Role of Nurses in Diagnostic Safety in the Emergency Department. August 17, 2022
Health Information Technology for Engaging Patients in Diagnostic Decision Making in Emergency Departments. February 17, 2021
FDA advises health care professionals and patients about insulin pen packaging and dispensing. October 28, 2020
Deficiencies in Care, Care Coordination, and Facility Response to a Patient Who Died by Suicide, Memphis VA Medical Center in Tennessee. September 30, 2020
Intervention study for the reduction of medication errors in elderly trauma patients. September 2, 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Emergency Department visits and patient safety in the United States. August 26, 2020
Beyond 'find and fix': improving quality and safety through resilient healthcare systems. April 15, 2020
Overview of the Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Effort To Reduce Readmissions. March 27, 2019
Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families. March 22, 2017
The Ask Me to Explain campaign: a 90-day intervention to promote patient and family involvement in care in a pediatric emergency department. June 1, 2016