July (2) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 7:2

Table of Contents

1. Case 4—2012: Intrathoracic Fire during Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
2. The Circulating Nurse’s Role in Error Recovery in the Cardiovascular OR
3. Cognitive Interventions to Reduce Diagnostic Error: A Narrative Review
4. Direct-to-Consumer Disease Screening with Finger-Stick Testing: Online Patient Safety Risks
5. Effect of a Pharmacist Intervention on Clinically Important Medication Errors after Hospital Discharge: A Randomized Trial
6. Hand Hygiene: Necessary but Not Sufficient
7. The Henry Ford Health System No Harm Campaign: A Comprehensive Model to Reduce Harm and Save Lives
8. Hospital-Based Medication Reconciliation Practices: A Systematic Review
9. Impact of Vendor Computerized Physician Order Entry in Community Hospitals
10. Improving Awareness of Best Practices to Reduce Surgical Site Infection: A Multistakeholder Approach
11. Improving Implementation of Infection Control Guidelines to Reduce Nosocomial Infection Rates: Pioneering the Report Card
12. Incidence and Impact of Physician and Nurse Disruptive Behaviors in the Emergency Department
13. Influences Observed on Incidence and Reporting of Medication Errors in Anesthesia
14. The Ins and Outs of Change of Shift Handoffs between Nurses: A Communication Challenge
15. Patient Safety in the Operating Room: An Intervention Study on Latent Risk Factors
16. Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections: A National Survey of Practices Reported by U.S. Hospitals in 2005 and 2009
17. Review of Patient Safety Incidents Reported from Critical Care Units in North-West England in 2009 and 2010
18. The Role of Nursing Surveillance in Keeping Patients Safe
19. Safety Skills Training for Surgeons: A Half-Day Intervention Improves Knowledge, Attitudes and Awareness of Patient Safety
20. Surgical Safety Checklists: Do They Improve Outcomes?

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