November (1) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 11:1

Table of Contents

1. Adjusting Team Involvement: A Grounded Theory Study of Challenges in Utilizing a Surgical Safety Checklist as Experienced by Nurses in the Operating Room
2. Adverse Drug Events Caused by Serious Medication Errors
3. Certain Uncertainties: Modes of Patient Safety in Healthcare
4. Designing for Distractions: A Human Factors Approach to Decreasing Interruptions at a Centralised Medication Station
5. Designing for Patient Safety: Developing Methods to Integrate Patient Safety Concerns in the Design Process
6. The Effect of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist on Complication Rate and Communication
7. Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals
8. More Quality Measures versus Measuring What Matters: A Call for Balance and Parsimony
9. Multiple Patient Safety Events within a Single Hospitalization: A National Profile in US Hospitals
10. A Nurse Learns Firsthand That You May Fend for Yourself after a Hospital Stay
11. Patient Safety Culture in Home Care: Experiences of Home-Care Nurses
12. Procedural Safety in Emergency Care: A Conceptual Model and Recommendations
13. Reduced Mortality with Hospital Pay for Performance in England
14. Rethinking Opioid Prescribing to Protect Patient Safety and Public Health
15. Serious Safety Events: Getting to Zero™
16. A Systematic Review of Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategies: A Behavioural Approach
17. TeamSTEPPS®: The Patient Safety Tool That Needs to Be Implemented
18. Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2013
19. Utah Tenth Anniversary (2001-2011) Patient Safety Report: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement
20. What Keeps Facilities from Implementing Best Practices to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery? Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them

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