Patient safety

Patient safety: care quality commission, monitor, and Professor Sir Ian Kennedy’ responses to the Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2008-2009
House of Commons Health Committee
15th October 2009

Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors
GD Schiff, O Hasan, S Kim, R Abrams, K Cosby, BL Lambert, AS Elstein, S Hasler, ML Kabongo, N Krosnjar, R Odwazny, MF Wisniewski, RA McNutt
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009, 169(20), pp1881-1887
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Disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patents’ ratings of the quality of care
L Lopez, JS Weissman, EC Schneider, SN Weingart, AP Cohen, AM Epstein
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009, 169(20), pp1888-1894
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The ‘How to’ Guide for Reducing harm from falls
Patient Safety First
September 2009

Adverse events in randomized trials: neglected, restricted, distorted, and silenced
JPA Ioannidis
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009, 169(19), pp1737-1739
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Applying Toyota Production System principles to a psychiatric hospital: making transfers safer and more timely
JQ Young, RM Wachter
Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety, 2009, 35(9), pp439-448
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Ten years after to err is human
CM Clancy
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2009, 24(6), pp525-528
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Nothing but the truth? A discussion paper
Audit Commission
November 2009
This paper sets out important issues as the basis for discussion on how to ensure data about local public services is fit for purpose.

The patient safety imperative for health care reform: building safe, effective health care
Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation
13th October 2009

Online Patient Safety Resources
The National Patient Safety Foundation in the USA, has created a collection of online patient safety resources, including tips for preventing medical errors and improving health care quality.

Patient Satisfaction: Focusing on ‘Excellent’
K Otani, B Waterman, KM Faulkner, S Boslaugh, TE Burroughs, W Claiborne Dunagan
Journal of Healthcare Management, 2009, 54(2)
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