Recipes for checklists and bundles: one part active ingredient, two parts measurement.
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'Matching Michigan': a 2-year stepped interventional programme to minimise central venous catheter-blood stream infections in intensive care units in England.
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What counts? An ethnographic study of infection data reported to a patient safety program.
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Implementing SBAR across a large multihospital health system.
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Patients' willingness and ability to participate actively in the reduction of clinical errors: a systematic literature review.
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Medication reconciliation in the hospital: what, why, where, when, who and how?
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Comparative economic analyses of patient safety improvement strategies in acute care: a systematic review
Etchells E, Koo M, Daneman N, McDonald A, Baker M, Matlow A, Krahn M, Mittmann N. BMJ Qual Saf.
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Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing.
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Evaluation of a preoperative team briefing: a new communication routine results in improved clinical practice
Lingard L, Regehr G, Cartmill C, Orser B, Espin S, Bohnen J, Reznick R, Baker R, Rotstein L, Doran D. BMJ Qual Saf.
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Nurse staffing and inpatient hospital mortality
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Description of the development and validation of the Canadian Paediatric Trigger Tool.
Matlow AG, Cronin CM, Flintoft V, Nijssen-Jordan C, Fleming M, Brady-Fryer B, Hiltz MA, Orrbine E, Baker GR. Qual Safe Health Care.
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Speaking up about safety concerns: multi-setting qualitative study of patients' views and experiences.
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Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm resulting from Medical Care.
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Case 34-2010, A 65-Year-Old Woman with an Incorrect Operation on the Left Hand
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Effects of a comprehensive surgical safety system on patient outcomes.
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Improving teamwork to reduce surgical mortality.
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Teaching Quality Improvement and Patient Safety to Trainees: A systematic Review
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Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values - a ramdomised controlled trial
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Disclosure of medical error to parents and paediatric patients: assessment of parents' attitudes and influencing factors.
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