April (1) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 4:1

Table of Contents

1. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation at 25: A Pioneering Success in Safety, 25th Anniversary Provokes Reflection, Anticipation
2. Apology for Errors: Whose Responsibility?
3. Barriers to Staff Adoption of a Surgical Safety Checklist
4. Cognitive Errors Detected in Anaesthesiology: A Literature Review and Pilot Study
5. Deploying Information Technology and Continuous Control Monitoring Systems in Hospitals to Prevent Medication Errors
6. The Effects of Aviation Error Management Training on Perioperative Safety Attitudes
7. Fall Prevention in Hospitals: An Integrative Review
8. Functional Safety of Health Information Technology
9. Hospital-Wide Mortality as a Quality Metric: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
10. Is Patient Safety Improving? National Trends in Patient Safety Indicators: 1998–2007
11. Junior Doctors’ Reflections on Patient Safety
12. Nurturing a Culture of Patient Safety and Achieving Lower Malpractice Risk through Disclosure: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
13. Patient Safety Manifesto: A Professional Imperative for Prelicensure Nursing Education
14. Promoting Patient Safety in Continence Care
15. A Review of Medical Errors in Laboratory Diagnostics and Where We Are Today
16. Strategies for Improving Patient Safety: Linking Task Type to Error Type
17. Surfacing Safety Hazards Using Standardized Operating Room Briefings and Debriefings at a Large Regional Medical Center
18. A Systematic Review of the Psychological Literature on Interruption and Its Patient Safety Implications
19. We Can All Define Patient Safety…or Can We?
20. What Do Patients and Relatives Know about Problems and Failures in Care?

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