Improving the Safety and Quality of Care Transitions .

C . Clancy
AORN , Volume 88 , Issue 1 , Pages 111 - 113
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Quality of Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Association with Hospital Setting and Physician Training.

Dharmar M, Marcin JP, Romano PS, Andrada ER, Overly F, Valente JH, Harvey DJ, Cole SL, Kuppermann N.
J Pediatr. 2008 Jul 10.
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Tracking quality over time: what do pressure ulcer data show?

Lena Gunningberg and Nancy A. Stotts
Int J Qual Health Care 2008 20: 246-253;
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WHO - Assuring the quality of health care in the European Union

A case for action

This book from the World Health Organization, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, examines the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union’s 27 Member States to ensure high quality care

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Identifying Persons with Treated Asthma Using Administrative Data via Latent Class Modelling

Robert J. Prosser, Bruce C. Carleton, M. Anne Smith
Health Services Research Volume 43 Issue 2, Pages 733 - 754
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WHO - Guidance on developing quality and safety strategies

The aim of this guidance from the WHO Regional Office for Europe is to help national policy advisers and policy makers to create and implement a national quality strategy, drawing attention to the need for sustainable longer term public health measures.

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Exploratory Analyses of the "Failure to Rescue" Measure

Evaluation Through Medical Record Review.
AkkeNeel Talsma; Vinita Bahl; Darrell A. Campbell
Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 23(3):202-210, July/September 2008.
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Failure to Rescue: A Preliminary Study of Patient-Level Factors.
Kathleen L. Bobay, Karen L. Fiorelli, Alfred J. Anderson
Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 23(3):211-215, July/September 2008.
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Survey of medication documentation at hospital discharge: implications for patient safety and continuity of care.

Grimes T, Delaney T, Duggan C, Kelly JG, Graham IM.
Ir J Med Sci. 2008 Jun;177(2):93-7.
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The Effectiveness of Root Cause Analysis: What Does the Literature Tell Us?

Percarpio, Katherine B.; Watts, B. Vince; Weeks, William B.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 34, Number 7, July 2008 , pp. 391-398(8)
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Using nurses and office staff to report prescribing errors in primary care

Amanda G. Kennedy, Benjamin Littenberg, and John W. Senders
Int J Qual Health Care 2008 20: 238-245;
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Exclusion of Patients from Pay-for-Performance Targets by English Physicians

Doran, Tim, Fullwood, Catherine, Reeves, David, Gravelle, Hugh, Roland, Martin
N Engl J Med 2008 359: 274-284
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Rationing of nursing care and its relationship to patient outcomes

the Swiss extension of the International Hospital Outcomes Study
Maria Schubert, Tracy R. Glass, Sean P. Clarke, Linda H. Aiken, Bianca Schaffert-Witvliet, Douglas M. Sloane, and Sabina De Geest
Int J Qual Health Care 2008 20: 227-237;
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Hospital Quality: A PRIDIT Approach

Robert D. Lieberthal
Health Services Research Volume 43 Issue 3, Pages 988 - 1005
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Improving the Translation of Research into Primary Care Practice

Results of a National Quality Improvement Demonstration Project
Ornstein, Steven; Nietert, Paul J.; Jenkins, Ruth G.; Wessell, Andrea M.; Nemeth, Lynne S.; Rose, Heather L.
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 34, Number 7, July 2008 , pp. 379-390(12)
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Are Patient Safety Indicators related to widely used measures of hospital quality?

gqlqvIsaac T, Jha AK.
J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jun 24; [Epub ahead of print].
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The Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) Toolkit

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=30051

TCAB toolkit focus on engaging frontline staff and unit managers so that transforming the way care is delivered on medical/surgical units come not from the executive suite or a quality improvement department, but from the nurses and other care team members who spend the most time with patients.

Health Policy and Public Trust

Robert H. Brook
JAMA. 2008;300(2):211-213.
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Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care -- A National Survey of Physicians

DesRoches, Catherine M., Campbell, Eric G., Rao, Sowmya R., Donelan, Karen, Ferris, Timothy G., Jha, Ashish, Kaushal, Rainu, Levy, Douglas E., Rosenbaum, Sara, Shields, Alexandra E., Blumenthal, David
N Engl J Med 2008 359: 50-60
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The Impact Of Pay-For-Performance On Health Care Quality In Massachusetts, 2001–2003

Steven D. Pearson, Eric C. Schneider, Ken P. Kleinman, Kathryn L. Coltin, and Janice A. Singer
Health Affairs, 27, no. 4 (2008): 1167-1176
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NHS - Next Stage Review

The NHS Next Stage Review, ‘Our NHS, Our Future’, has come to a close and Lord Darzi and the UK Department of Health have published the following reports:

High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review final report

A consultation on the NHS Constitution

NHS Next Stage Review: Our vision for primary and community care

A high quality workforce: NHS Next Stage review

What matters to staff in the NHS

Strategic Health Authorities' visions for better healthcare

NHS Next Stage Review - Leading Local Change

Changing for the better: Guidance when undertaking major changes to NHS services

Our NHS Our future: NHS next stage review - interim report

WHO - Workshop on performance assessment for health systems improvement

First day of WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: “Health Systems, Health and Wealth” was dedicated to performance assessment for health systems improvement.

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WHO - Safe Surgery Saves Lives

www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/en/index.html

The aims of the World Alliance for Patient Safety second Global Patient Safety Challenge is to improve the safety of surgical care around the world.

The "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" initiative is a collaborative effort to reduce avoidable deaths and complications in surgical care.



The WHO surgical safety checklist identifies a set of surgical safety standards that can be applied in all countries and health settings.

The Informatics Opportunities at the Intersection of Patient Safety and Clinical Informatics

Peter M. Kilbridge and David C. Classen
J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15: 397-407.
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Workarounds to Barcode Medication Administration Systems

Their Occurrences, Causes, and Threats to Patient Safety
Ross Koppel, Tosha Wetterneck, Joel Leon Telles, and Ben-Tzion Karsh
J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15: 408-423.
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