January (1) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 1:1

Table of Contents

1. Anticoagulation-Associated Adverse Drug Events
2. Chemotherapy in Home Care: One Team’s Performance Improvement Journey toward Reducing Medication Errors
3. A ‘Communication and Patient Safety’ Training Programme for All Healthcare Staff: Can It Make a Difference?
4. Designing Education to Improve Care
5.  Errors in the Administration of Intravenous Medications in Hospital and the Role of Correct Procedures and Nurse Experience
6. Exploring Situational Awareness in Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care
7. How Dangerous Is a Day in Hospital? A Model of Adverse Events and Length of Stay for Medical Inpatients
8. Improved Quality and Outcomes through Congruent Leadership, Teamwork and Life Choices
9. Improving Quality of Patient Care by Improving Daily Practice in Radiation Oncology
10. Interdisciplinary Team Training Identifies Discrepancies in Institutional Policies and Practices
11. It’s Not All about Me: Motivating Hand Hygiene among Health Care Professionals by Focusing on Patients
12. Patient Safety in Primary Allied Health Care: What Can We Learn from Incidents in a Dutch Exploratory Cohort Study?
13. Patient Safety Instruction in US Health Professions Education
14. Patient Safety Problems Associated with Healthcare Information Technology: An Analysis of Adverse Events Reported to the US Food and Drug Administration
15. Patients’ and Healthcare Workers’ Perceptions of a Patient Safety Advisory
16. Patients Count on It: An Initiative to Reduce Incorrect Counts and Prevent Retained Surgical Items
17. Prevalence of Adverse Events in the Hospitals of Five Latin American Countries: Results of the ‘Iberoamerican Study of Adverse Events’ (IBEAS)
18. Safety of Telephone Triage in Out-of-Hours Care: A Systematic Review
19. Seek and Ye Shall Find: Consumer Search for Objective Health Care Cost and Quality Information
20. A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort to Reduce Health Care–Associated Infections

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