Safety in Specific Settings & Populations

Listed below are the most current and relevant resources on safety in specific settings and populations. For a complete list of all the resources ever listed on this page, view the MIPS TIPS Research Digest complete list of Safety in Specific Settings & Populations resources.

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The Intensive Care Unit, Patient Safety, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Describes initiatives to improve safety in an area where adverse events frequently occur.

Discontinuity of Chronic Medications in Patients Discharged from the Intensive Care Unit. Full Text
A third of patients discharged from the ICU had their chronic medications unintentionally discontinued.

A Trigger Tool to Identify Adverse Events in the Intensive Care Unit. Full Text
Researchers used the Trigger Tool to discover the frequency of adverse events in the ICU.

Missed and Delayed Diagnoses in the Ambulatory Setting: A study of closed malpractice claims. Full Text
Identifies the most common types and causes of diagnostic errors in the outpatient setting.

Wrong-Side/Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, and Wrong-Patient Adverse Events: Are they preventable? Full Text
Describes possible means of preventing these grave errors, which appear to be rare but greatly underreported.

Patient Safety in the ED: A guide to identifying and reducing errors in the emergency department. Full Text
Lists the most common types of adverse events, top sources of error, and other facts.

A Prospective Study of Patient Safety in the Operating Room. Full Text
Observers identified particular factors that threatened patient safety.

Patient Safety in Surgery. Full Text
Describes the construction of a surgery-specific measure of safety climate.

Patient Safety Problems in Adolescent Medical Care. Full Text
Adolescents were more likely than children to experience adverse events, and these events often had adolescent-specific causes.

Safety in the Academic Medical Center: Transforming challenges into ingredients for improvement. Full Text
Describes challenges and opportunities specific to academic medical centres.