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Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality

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TA Brennan, A Gawande, E Thomas, D … - The New England journal …, 2005 - nejm.highwire.org
Hence, the answer to the question being asked five years later — how many deaths have been
prevented? — is disappointing. But so is the question. The problem lies in an overreliance on
the notion of the individual accidental death. This notion oversimplifies the causal realities ...
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The" To Err is Human" report and the patient safety literature

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HT Stelfox, S Palmisani, C Scurlock, EJ Orav, DW … - British Medical …, 2006 - qshc.bmj.com
Results: A total of 5514 articles on patient safety and medical errors were published during the
10 year study period. The rate of patient safety publications increased from 59 to 164 articles
per 100 000 MEDLINE publications (p<0.001) following the release of the IOM report. ...
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A pay-for-population health performance system


DA Kindig - JAMA, 2006 - Am Med Assoc
The report Rewarding Provider Performance, 1 recently released by the Institute of
Medicine, concludes that early experience with pay-for-performance has been promising and
recommends that Medicare begin to phase in this strategy to foster comprehensive and ...
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Sins of omission

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RA Hayward, SM Asch, MM Hogan, TP Hofer, EA … - Journal of General Internal …, 2005 - Springer
Getting Too Little Medical Care May be the Greatest Threat to Patient Safety Rodney A.
Hayward, MD,1,2 Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH,3 Mary M. Hogan, PhD, RN,1 Timothy P. Hofer,
MD, MSc,1,2 Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH1,2 1Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & ...
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Safety in training and learning in the intensive care unit


JE Heffner, R Ellis, B Zeno - Critical care clinics, 2005 - Elsevier
Resident and subspecialty fellow trainees in the intensive care unit (ICU) present risks for patient
safety because of their inexperience yet offer opportunities to promote safe patient care because
of their around-the-clock presence and their involvement in frontline processes of care. ...
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Commentary—Achieving a High-Performance Health System: High Reliability …


AK Gauthier, K Davis, SC … - Health Services …, 2006 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Despite a tradition of innovation and a “can-do” attitude among Americans, the performance
of our health care system falls considerably short of where it could be. The United States spends
more on health care than any other country, but fails to provide universal access to care, ...
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Public health informatics: the nature of the field and its relevance to health …


R Kukafka - Health Promotion Practice, 2005 - 万方数据资源系统
The purpose of this article is to introduce the relatively new field of public health informatics and
provide examples of how informatics is currently being applied to health promotion activities.
Additionally, the article illustrates how informaticsis well positioned to play a central role ...
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Crossing to safety: Transforming healthcare organizations for patient safety


JD Ralston, EB Larson - Journal of postgraduate medicine, 2005 - Medknow
The current healthcare system is not designed to ensure better patient safety. In addition, healthcare
is simultaneously becoming increasingly complex and increasingly fragmented. Medical knowledge
and technology are expanding at an incredible rate, making it difficult for the healthcare ...
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How experiencing preventable medical problems changed patients' interactions …

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NC Elder, CJ Jacobson, T Zink, L Hasse - Annals of Family Medicine, 2005 - Annals Family Med
RESULTS Anger was the most common emotional response, followed by mistrust and
resignation. We classified participants' behavioral responses into 4 categories: avoidance
(eg, stop going to the doctor), accommodation (eg, learn to deal with delays), anticipation ( ...
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Managing infection in the critical care unit: how can infection control make the ICU …

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L Shulman, D Ost - Critical care clinics, 2005 - Elsevier
Health care delivery in the intensive care unit (ICU) has changed significantly with the aging
of the population and the shift of many patient care activities from the in-patient to the out-patient
setting. The severity of illness among those patients who are hospitalized has increased ...
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