March (1) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 3:1

Table of Contents

1. Adverse Event Rates as Measures of Hospital Performance
2. The Canadian Interprofessional Patient Safety Competencies: Their Role in Health-Care Professionals’ Education
3. A Case Study on the Safety Impact of Implementing Smart Patient-Controlled Analgesic Pumps at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center
4. Developing and Validating a Scientific Model for Exploring Safe Work Practices in Interdisciplinary Teams
5. The Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes of Care and Medical Errors: What Does This Mean for Anesthesiologists?
6. Error-Provoking Conditions in the Medication Use Process: The Case of a Government Hospital in Ghana
7. Handover Patterns: An Observational Study of Critical Care Physician
8. How Hospital Leaders Implemented a Safe Surgery Protocol in Australian Hospitals
9. Improving Accuracy of Medication Identification in an Older Population Using a Medication Bottle Color Symbol Label System
10. Nurses’ Perceptions of Error Reporting and Disclosure in Nursing Homes
11. Online Availability and Safety of Drugs in Shortage: A Descriptive Study of Internet Vendor Characteristics
12. Pilot Implementation of a Perioperative Protocol to Guide Operating Room–to–Intensive Care Unit Patient Handoffs
13. Protocols in the Management of Critical Illness
14. Relating Faults in Diagnostic Reasoning with Diagnostic Errors and Patient Harm
15. Reviewing Methodologically Disparate Data: A Practical Guide for the Patient Safety Research Field
16. Safety Subcultures in Health-Care Organizations and Managing Medical Error
17. Shared Decision Making—The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care
18. Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors in Pediatric Ambulatory Settings
19. Violence Prevention Training for Emergency Department Staff
20. Workarounds in the Use of IS in Healthcare: A Case Study of an Electronic Medication Administration System

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