February (1) 2012 | Volume 16, Issue 2:1

Table of Contents

1. Can Healthcare Go from Good to Great?
2. Confirmation Bias: Why Psychiatrists Stick to Wrong Preliminary Diagnoses
3. Detecting Delayed Microbiology Results after Hospital Discharge: Improving Patient Safety through an Automated Medical Informatics Tool
4. Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care: Lessons Learned
5. Effects of Two Commercial Electronic Prescribing Systems on Prescribing Error Rates in Hospital In-Patients: A Before and After Study
6. Hospital Incident Reporting Systems Do Not Capture Most Patient Harm
7. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety Curriculum
8. Identification by Families of Pediatric Adverse Events and Near Misses Overlooked by Health Care Providers
9. Improving Hand Hygiene in a Paediatric Hospital: A Multimodal Quality Improvement Approach
10. Improving Patient Safety and Optimizing Nursing Teamwork Using Crew Resource Management Techniques
11. Leading for Quality in Healthcare: Development and Validation of a Competency Model
12. Making Sense of a Safety Reporting System’s Data with BI Software
13. Medication Errors in Patients with Severe Chronic Kidney Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome: The Impact of Computer-Assisted Decision Support
14. New Federal Policy Initiatives to Boost Health Literacy Can Help the Nation Move beyond the Cycle of Costly ‘Crisis Care’
15. Reducing Health Care–Associated Infections (HAIs): Lessons Learned from a National Collaborative of Regional HAI Programs
16. Risks of Online Advertisement of Direct-to-Consumer Thermography for Breast Cancer Screening
17. A Road Map for Academic Departments to Promote Scholarship in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
18. Spreading a Medication Administration Intervention Organizationwide in Six Hospitals
19. Synergy for Patient Safety and Quality: Academic and Service Partnerships to Promote Effective Nurse Education and Clinical Practice
20. What Can We Learn from Patient Claims? A Retrospective Analysis of Incidence and Patterns of Adverse Events after Orthopaedic Procedures in Sweden

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