"America's Best Hospitals" in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Oliver J. Wang; Yun Wang; Judith H. Lichtman; Elizabeth H. Bradley; Sharon-Lise T. Normand; Harlan M. Krumholz
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:1345-1351.

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Editorial

Identifying High-Quality Hospitals: Consult the Ratings or Flip a Coin?
Sean Michael O’Brien; Eric D. Peterson
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:1342-1344.

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Practice size, caseload, deprivation and quality of care of patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke in primary care

national cross-sectional study
Sonia Saxena , Josip Car , Darren Eldred , Michael Soljak and Azeem Majeed
BMC Health Services Research 2007, 7:96

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Tying Up Loose Ends: Discharging Patients With Unresolved Medical Issues

Carlton Moore; Thomas McGinn; Ethan Halm
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:1305-1311
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Special issue on ergonomic research and patient safety

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Volume 8 Issue 5 2007

Patient safety - an old and a new issue
365 – 369
Sebastiano Bagnara; Riccardo Tartaglia


Status boards in accident & emergency departments: support for shared cognition
371 – 380
R. L. Wears; S. J. Perry


Managing teams managing crises: principles of teamwork to improve patient safety in the Emergency Room and beyond
381 – 394
E. Salas; M. A. Rosen; H. King


Work design and patient safety
395 – 428
P. Carayon; C. J. Alvarado; A. Schoofs Hundt


The systems of surgery
429 – 443
A. N. Healey; C. A. Vincent


Managing patients' demands: the practitioners' point of view
445 – 468
P. Falzon; V. Mollo


Patient safety by treatment standardization and process navigation - a systems ergonomics management concept
469 – 479
W. Friesdorf; B. Buss; I. Marsolek


A team-based risk modification programme to make health care safer
481 – 494
P. Barach


How to create a safety culture in the healthcare system: the experience of the Tuscany Region
495 – 507
T. Bellandi; S. Albolino; C. R. Tomassini

Rewarding Excellence and Efficiency in Medicare Payments

Karen Davis, Stuart Guterman
The Milbank Quarterly (2007) 85 (3), 449–468.

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Lessons learned in systems change initiatives: benchmarks and indicators.

Kreger M, Brindis CD, Manuel DM, Sassoubre L.
Am J Community Psychol. 2007 Jun;39(3-4):301-20.

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A new implicit review instrument for measuring quality of care delivered to pediatric patients in the emergency department

Madan Dharmar, James P Marcin, Nathan Kuppermann, Emily R Andrada, Stacey L Cole, Danielle J Harvey, Patrick S Romano
BMC Emergency Medicine 2007, 7:13 (23 August 2007)

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Guidelines for safety and quality in anaesthesia practice in the European Union.

Mellin-Olsen J, O'Sullivan E, Balogh D, Drobnik L, Knape JT, Petrini F, Vimlati L; Section and Board of Anaesthesiology, European Union of Medical Specialists.
Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2007 Jun;24(6):479-82.

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Heart failure: the importance of a disease management program

Fabbri G, Gorini M, Maggioni AP, Oliva F; Area Scompenso ANMCO.
G Ital Cardiol (Rome). 2007 Jun;8(6):353-8. Italian.

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Potential of electronic personal health records

Claudia Pagliari, Don Detmer, Peter Singleton
BMJ 2007;335:330-333

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Use of intensive case management to reduce time in hospital in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-regression

Tom Burns, Jocelyn Catty, Michael Dash, Chris Roberts, Austin Lockwood, Max Marshall
BMJ 2007;335:336

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Qual Saf Health Care - Error management

Qualitative evaluation of an electronic prescribing and administration system
Nick Barber, Tony Cornford, and Ela Klecun
Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16: 271-278.
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The impact of a closed-loop electronic prescribing and administration system on prescribing errors, administration errors and staff time: a before-and-after study
Bryony Dean Franklin, Kara O’Grady, Parastou Donyai, Ann Jacklin, and Nick Barber
Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16: 279-284.
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Preventing medication errors in community pharmacy: root-cause analysis of transcription errors
P Knudsen, H Herborg, A R Mortensen, M Knudsen, and A Hellebek
Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16: 285-290.
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Preventing medication errors in community pharmacy: frequency and seriousness of medication errors
P Knudsen, H Herborg, A R Mortensen, M Knudsen, and A Hellebek
Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16: 291-296.
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Preventing medication errors in long-term care: results and evaluation of a large scale web-based error reporting system
Stephanie Pierson, Richard Hansen, Sandra Greene, Charlotte Williams, Roger Akers, Mattias Jonsson, and Timothy Carey
Qual Saf Health Care 2007; 16: 297-302.
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Mortality as a Measure of Quality: Implications for Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Robert G. Holloway; Timothy E. Quill

JAMA 2007 298: 802-804

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AHRQ - Conference on Health Care Data Collection and Reporting

This report represents the major themes that emerged from a conference of 50 leaders from public and private health care organizations convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to discuss the opportunities for creating and adopting within 5 years a core set of broadly acceptable standards and rules for
health care data collection, aggregation, and reporting of performance data.

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Special Issue: Quality and Safety Education

Nursing Outlook
Volume 55, Issue 3, (May-June 2007)


Guest Editorial: Care quality and safety: Same old?
Pages 117-119
Marla Salmon
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President’s Message
Pages 120-121
Linda Burnes Bolton
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Quality and safety education for nurses
Pages 122-131
Linda Cronenwett, Gwen Sherwood, Jane Barnsteiner, Joanne Disch, Jean Johnson, Pamela Mitchell, Dori Taylor Sullivan and Judith Warren
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Current assessments of quality and safety education in nursing
Pages 132-137
Elaine L. Smith, Linda Cronenwett and Gwen Sherwood
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Integrating quality and safety content into clinical teaching in the acute care setting
Pages 138-143
Lisa Day and Elaine L. Smith
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Promoting interprofessional education
Pages 144-150
Jane H. Barnsteiner, Joanne M. Disch, Leslie Hall, David Mayer and Shirley M. Moore
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Quality and safety curricula in nursing education: Matching practice realities
Pages 151-155
Gwen Sherwood and Karen Drenkard
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Quality and safety education in nursing: More than new wine in old skins
Pages 156-158
L. Antoinette Bargagliotti and Jeanette Lancaster
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The electronic health record: An essential tool for advancing patient safety
Pages 159-161
Kathy Malloch
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The Tension between Needing to Improve Care and Knowing How to Do It

Auerbach, Andrew D., Landefeld, C. Seth, Shojania, Kaveh G.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 608-613

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Pay for Performance, Version 2.0?

Lee, Thomas H.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 531-533

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Understanding and Enhancing the Value of Hospital Discharge Data

Julie A. Schoenman, Janet P. Sutton, Anne Elixhauser, and Denise Love

Med Care Res Rev 2007 64: 449-468.

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Consumer Competencies and the Use of Comparative Quality Information: It Isn't Just about Literacy

Judith H. Hibbard, Ellen Peters, Anna Dixon, and Martin Tusler
Med Care Res Rev 2007 64: 379-394.


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Improving Patient Care by Linking Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Management

Stephen M. Shortell; Thomas G. Rundall; John Hsu
JAMA 2007 298: 673-676

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Using Automated Clinical Data for Risk Adjustment

Development and Validation of Six Disease-Specific Mortality Predictive Models for Pay-for-Performance.
Ying P. Tabak, Richard S. Johannes, Jeffrey H. Silber
Medical Care. 45(8):789-805, August 2007.

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Impact of Diagnosis-Timing Indicators on Measures of Safety, Comorbidity, and Case Mix Groupings From Administrative Data Sources.

James M. Naessens, Claudia R. Campbell, Bjorn Berg, Arthur R. Williams, Richard Culbertson
Medical Care. 45(8):781-788, August 2007.


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The Patient Safety in Surgery Study

J Am Coll Surg. 2007;204(6):1087-1300.

In this special issue of JACS 20 articles are presented from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded Patient Safety in Surgery Study.
The PSS Study compared major general and vascular surgery risk-adjusted outcomes at Veterans Affairs' medical centers with those in the private sector.

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Comorbidity and Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery at Cardiac Specialty Hospitals Versus General Hospitals.

Constance W. Hwang, Gerard F. Anderson, Marie Diener-West, Neil R. Powe
Medical Care. 45(8):720-728, August 2007.


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Are Preventable Hospitalizations Sensitive to Changes in Access to Primary Care?: The Case of the Oregon Health Plan.

Somnath Saha, Rachel Solotaroff, Ady Oster, Andrew B. Bindman
Medical Care. 45(8):712-719, August 2007.

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