September (2) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 9:2

Table of Contents

1. Adverse Events among Children in Canadian Hospitals: The Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study
2. Disorganized Care: The Findings of an Iterative, In-Depth Analysis of Surgical Morbidity and Mortality
3. An Exploration of Safety Climate in Nursing Homes
4. Exploring Relationships between Patient Safety Culture and Patients’ Assessments of Hospital Care
5. Falls Risk Assessment: A Foundational Element of Falls Prevention Programs
6. Frequency of and Harm Associated with Primary Care Safety Incidents
7. Identifying Early Warning Signs for Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study
8. Implementing a Nurse-Shadowing Program for First-Year Medical Students to Improve Interprofessional Collaborations on Health Care Teams
9. Improved Climate, Culture, and Communication through Multidisciplinary Training and Instruction
10. Improving Patient Handovers from Hospital to Primary Care: A Systematic Review
11. Is It Possible to Identify Risks for Injurious Falls in Hospitalized Patients?
12. Medication Communication between Nurses and Patients during Nursing Handovers on Medical Wards: A Critical Ethnographic Study
13. Nurse-to-Physician Communications: Connecting for Safety
14. Participation in Unprofessional Behaviors among Hospitalists: A Multicenter Study
15. Patients’ and Health Care Professionals’ Attitudes towards the PINK Patient Safety Video
16. Putting the ‘Patient’ in Patient Safety: A Qualitative Study of Consumer Experiences
17. The Role of Talking (and Keeping Silent) in Physician Coping with Medical Error: A Qualitative Study
18. ‘Tempos’ Management in Primary Care: A Key Factor for Classifying Adverse Events, and Improving Quality and Safety
19. What Diabetic Patients Do and What Should They Do to Avoid Errors in the Course of Treatment?
20. Why Patients Need Leaders: Introducing a Ward Safety Checklist

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