February (2) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 2:2

Table of Contents

1. Addressing Behavior and Performance Issues That Threaten Quality and Patient Safety: What Your Attorneys Want You to Know
2. Adverse Events and Safety Issues in Blood Donation—A Comprehensive Review
3. Cognitive Balanced Model: A Conceptual Scheme of Diagnostic Decision Making
4. Comprehensive Perinatal Safety Initiative to Reduce Adverse Obstetric Events
5. Do Older Patients’ Perceptions of Safety Highlight Barriers That Could Make Their Care Safer during Organisational Care Transfers?
6. Electronic Health Record-Based Surveillance of Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care
7. Error Training: Missing Link in Surgical Education
8. Health Care and Patient Safety: The Failure of Traditional Approaches – How Human Factors and Ergonomics Can and MUST Help
9. The Impact of Nontechnical Skills on Technical Performance in Surgery: A Systematic Review
10. Implementation of a “No Fly” Safety Culture in a Multicenter Radiation Medicine Department
11. Learning from Accident and Error: Avoiding the Hazards of Workload, Stress, and Routine Interruptions in the Emergency Department
12. Monitoring Universal Protocol Compliance through Real-Time Clandestine Observation by Medical Students Results in Performance Improvement
13. Parents and Families as Partners in the Care of Pediatric Cardiology Patients
14. Possible Solutions for Barriers in Incident Reporting by Residents
15. Preceptorship: Using an Ethical Lens to Reflect on the Unsafe Student
16. Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
17. Root Causes of Errors in a Simulated Prehospital Pediatric Emergency
18. Surgical Count Practice Variability and the Potential for Retained Surgical Items
19. Ten Thousand Hours to Patient Safety, Sooner or Later
20. Using Knowledge in the World to Improve Patient Safety: Designing Affordances in Health Care Equipment to Specify a Sequential “Checklist”

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