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Patient Safety at the Crossroads
JAMA, 2016This Viewpoint discusses the National Patient Safety Foundation’s report Free From Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement 15 Years After “To Err Is Human” and whether the recommendations achieve total systems safety.
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Profiles in Patient Safety: Organizational Barriers to Patient Safety
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002A 46-year-old woman presented to the trauma unit with a history of being trapped in a house fire. The trauma team, composed of a trauma surgery (TS) attending, an emergency medicine (EM) attending, four EM and surgery residents, and two trauma nurses, met the patient at arrival.
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The Laboratory and Patient Safety
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2007Laboratory data are used extensively in patient care; consequently, laboratory errors have a tremendous impact on patient safety. Clinical laboratories were early leaders in efforts to minimize medical errors and improve patient safety. These efforts continue in many areas, including patient and specimen identification, laboratory result notification ...
Elizabeth A, Wagar, Shan, Yuan
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Veterinary Record, 2018
I am writing in response to the debate about the recruitment and retention crisis in the veterinary profession. I have recently completed a research project into the patient-safety culture in British small animal practice. The project demonstrated the significant gulf in standards between veterinary and human medicine.
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I am writing in response to the debate about the recruitment and retention crisis in the veterinary profession. I have recently completed a research project into the patient-safety culture in British small animal practice. The project demonstrated the significant gulf in standards between veterinary and human medicine.
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The Neurologist and Patient Safety
The Neurologist, 2005The objective of this article is to acquaint neurologists with the current status of evidence and opinion on patient safety in neurology. Research data on errors and preventable adverse events (harm from medical management) in neurology are sparse, with little light being cast thus far on the vulnerabilities of individual neurologists and neurologic ...
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Patient safety at the crossroads
British Journal of Nursing, 2017John Tingle, Associate Professor (Teaching and Scholarship), Nottingham Trent University, discusses some important clinical negligence and patient safety themes arising from a number of recent reports
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Collaborating for Patient Safety
AORN Journal, 2012C olleagues, as promised last month, I would like to continue with my discussion of the February 22, 2012, TODAY Show story on infections caused by unclean surgical instruments, what the subject means to us as perioperative nurses, and why we must do our part to address the issue of instrument care and handling. The story was prompted by the Center for
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British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2011
It is recognised that adverse events or ‘incidents’ frequently occur in hospital care. The importance of improving patient safety in surgical care is thus widely recognised as a key global public-health issue. Thus, the WHO's ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ (http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en/index.html) initiative aims to improve patient ...
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It is recognised that adverse events or ‘incidents’ frequently occur in hospital care. The importance of improving patient safety in surgical care is thus widely recognised as a key global public-health issue. Thus, the WHO's ‘Safe Surgery Saves Lives’ (http://www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en/index.html) initiative aims to improve patient ...
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