December (1) 2011 | Volume 15, Issue 12:1

Table of Contents

1. Assessment of Latent Factors Contributing to Error: Addressing Surgical Pathology
   Error Wisely
2. Consumer Decision-Making Strategies and Use of Hospital Quality Measures
3. Errors Associated with Outpatient Computerized Prescribing Systems
4. Implementation of Checklists in Health Care; Learning from High-Reliability
   Organizations
5. Improving Client Safety: Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Practice Errors in
   Occupational Therapy
6. Improving the Safety of Chemotherapy Administration: An Oncology Nurse-Led
   Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
7. Incorrect Surgical Procedures within and outside of the Operating Room:
   A Follow-Up Report
8. Increasing Medication Error Reporting Rates while Reducing Harm through
   Simultaneous Cultural and System-Level Interventions in an Intensive Care Unit
9. Information Chaos in Primary Care: Implications for Physician Performance and
   Patient Safety
10. Introducing the Patient Safety Professional: Why, What, Who, How, and Where?
11. Key Words: A Prescriptive Approach to Reducing Patient Anxiety and Improving Safety
12. Medication Error Prevention in the School Setting: A Closer Look
13. Medication Prescribing Errors in the Intensive Care Unit of Jimma University
    Specialized Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia
14. Protecting Research Participants while Reducing Regulatory Burdens
15. Quality and Safety in Medical Care: What Does the Future Hold?
16. Registered Nurses’ Judgments of the Classification and Risk Level of Patient Care Errors
17. Shortage of Perioperative Drugs: Implications for Anesthesia Practice and Patient Safety
18. Staffing Excellence: Moving from Retrospective to Prospective Management of Risk
19. The Stories behind the Data: Narratives in Event Reporting Database Reveal
    Opportunities for Fall Prevention
20. Success in Preventing Wrong-Site Procedures in Minnesota with the Minnesota
    Time Out

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