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  1. The occurrence of adverse events potentially attributable to nursing care in medical units: cross sectional record review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/occurrence-adverse-events-potentially-attributable-nursing-care-medical-units-cross-sectional
    December 29, 2014 - related to nursing care: pressure sores, falls, medication administration errors, pneumonia, urinary infections

  2. Risk factors for patient-reported medical errors in eleven countries. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-factors-patient-reported-medical-errors-eleven-countries
    December 04, 2024 - July 19, 2023 Preventing surgical site infections: are safety climate level and its strength

  3. "Disruptive behavior" in the operating room: A prospective observational study of triggers and effects of tense communication episodes in surgical teams. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/disruptive-behavior-operating-room-prospective-observational-study-triggers-and-effects-tense
    October 29, 2014 - January 15, 2020 Surgical site infections in colon surgery: the patient, the procedure

  4. Barriers and success factors to the implementation of a multi-site prospective adverse event surveillance system. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/barriers-and-success-factors-implementation-multi-site-prospective-adverse-event-surveillance
    November 15, 2017 - on the relationship between hand hygiene interventions and the incidence of health care-associated infections

  5. Identifying and analyzing diagnostic paths: a new approach for studying diagnostic practices. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identifying-and-analyzing-diagnostic-paths-new-approach-studying-diagnostic-practices
    July 17, 2019 - Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims: the "Big Three": vascular events, infections

  6. A piece of my mind. From shame to guilt to love. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/piece-my-mind-shame-guilt-love
    January 02, 2017 - January 6, 2016 An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in

  7. A primer on PDSA: executing plan–do–study–act cycles in practice, not just in name. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/primer-pdsa-executing-plan-do-study-act-cycles-practice-not-just-name
    December 04, 2016 - Related Resources What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections

  8. A combined assessment tool of teamwork, communication, and workload in hospital procedural units. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/combined-assessment-tool-teamwork-communication-and-workload-hospital-procedural-units
    August 04, 2021 - evidence, rigorous measurement, and collaboration to eliminate central catheter-associated bloodstream infections

  9. Healthcare climate: a framework for measuring and improving patient safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/healthcare-climate-framework-measuring-and-improving-patient-safety
    November 02, 2010 - January 10, 2024 Preventing nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBSIs) by implementing

  10. Modifying head nurse messages during daily conversations as leverage for safety climate improvement: a randomised field experiment. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/modifying-head-nurse-messages-during-daily-conversations-leverage-safety-climate-improvement
    August 26, 2011 - February 17, 2010 Preventing nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBSIs) by implementing

  11. Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in patient safety events for hospitalized children. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/racial-ethnic-and-socioeconomic-disparities-patient-safety-events-hospitalized-children
    August 14, 2018 - minorities experience more adverse events , including adverse drug events and hospital-acquired infections

  12. COVID-19 pandemic: a time for collaboration and a unified global health front. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/covid-19-pandemic-time-collaboration-and-unified-global-health-front
    December 09, 2020 - Administrators Quality and Safety Professionals Public Health Infectious Diseases Nosocomial Infections

  13. Apologies following an adverse medical event: the importance of focusing on the consumer's needs. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/apologies-following-adverse-medical-event-importance-focusing-consumers-needs
    June 27, 2011 - Michigan': a 2-year stepped interventional programme to minimise central venous catheter-blood stream infections

  14. The Safe Patient Flow Initiative: a collaborative quality improvement journey at Yale-New Haven Hospital. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safe-patient-flow-initiative-collaborative-quality-improvement-journey-yale-new-haven
    June 07, 2023 - November 11, 2020 Health care-associated invasive MRSA infections, 2005-2008.

  15. Wrong-site surgery, retained surgical items, and surgical fires: a systematic review of surgical never events. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wrong-site-surgery-retained-surgical-items-and-surgical-fires-systematic-review-surgical
    March 13, 2013 - June 21, 2015 Economic evaluation of quality improvement interventions for bloodstream infections

  16. Leapfrog safety grades in California hospitals: a data analysis. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/leapfrog-safety-grades-california-hospitals-data-analysis
    November 16, 2022 - Hospitals Hospital Medicine Medical/Surgical Nursing Medical Complications Nosocomial Infections

  17. What methods are used to apply positive deviance within healthcare organisations? A systematic review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-methods-are-used-apply-positive-deviance-within-healthcare-organisations-systematic
    July 19, 2019 - the most common patient safety research topic using this approach to date is health care–associated infections

  18. Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales for assessing preventability. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reviewing-deaths-british-and-us-hospitals-study-two-scales-assessing-preventability
    April 03, 2019 - Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association with postoperative infections

  19. Physician task load and the risk of burnout among US physicians in a national survey. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/physician-task-load-and-risk-burnout-among-us-physicians-national-survey
    October 26, 2022 - Clinician distress and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections

  20. Why and how to approach user experience in safety-critical domains: the example of health care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/why-and-how-approach-user-experience-safety-critical-domains-example-health-care
    May 05, 2021 - 2022 Mortality review as a tool to assess the contribution of healthcare-associated infections
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