November (2) 2011 | Volume 15, Issue 11:2

Table of Contents

1. Assessing the Patient Safety Competencies of Healthcare Professionals: A Systematic Review
2. Back to the Future: Rising to the Semmelweis Challenge in Hand Hygiene
3. Changes in Nursing Practice: Associations with Responses to and Coping
   with Errors
4. Classification and Detection of Errors in Minimally Invasive Surgery
5. The Effect of Hospital Electronic Health Record Adoption on Nurse-Assessed Quality of Care and Patient Safety
6. Electronic Prescribing Reduces Prescribing Error in Public Hospitals
7. For Want of a Four-Cent Pull Chain
8. How Do Quality Improvement Interventions Succeed? Archetypes of Success and Failure
9. Incidence, Nature and Impact of Error in Surgery
10. Multimodal System Designed to Reduce Errors in Recording and Administration
    of Drugs in Anaesthesia: Prospective Randomised Clinical Evaluation
11. A National Collaborative for Reducing Health Care–Associated Infections: Current Initiatives, Challenges, and Opportunities
12. Outcome of 6 Years of Protocol Use for Preventing Wrong Site Office Surgery
13. Patient Safety in Africa: A Culture Shift?
14. Patient Safety Incidents Associated with Obesity: A Review of Reports to the
    National Patient Safety Agency and Recommendations for Hospital Practice
15. Patients’ Identification and Reporting of Unsafe Events at Six Hospitals in Japan
16. Practically Speaking: Rethinking Hand Hygiene Improvement Programs in Health Care Settings
17. Prescribing Errors in Hospital Inpatients: A Three-Centre Study of Their
    Prevalence, Types and Causes
18. The Retained Surgical Specimen, an Unappreciated Retained Foreign Object
19. Retractions in the Medical Literature: How Many Patients Are Put at Risk by Flawed Research?
20. A Review of FDA’s Approach to Medical Product Shortages

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