Published in BMJ on March 03, 2001
The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada. CMAJ (2004) 21.24
Improving clinical practice using clinical decision support systems: a systematic review of trials to identify features critical to success. BMJ (2005) 15.57
Adverse events among medical patients after discharge from hospital. CMAJ (2004) 7.89
The incidence and nature of in-hospital adverse events: a systematic review. Qual Saf Health Care (2008) 6.79
Prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: their incidence and clinical significance. Qual Saf Health Care (2002) 5.52
Adverse drug events occurring following hospital discharge. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 4.70
Medical errors: a common problem. BMJ (2001) 4.69
Implementing a 48 h EWTD-compliant rota for junior doctors in the UK does not compromise patients' safety: assessor-blind pilot comparison. QJM (2009) 4.23
Sensitivity of routine system for reporting patient safety incidents in an NHS hospital: retrospective patient case note review. BMJ (2006) 3.93
Using drugs safely. BMJ (2002) 3.91
Knowledge of aspects of acute care in trainee doctors. Postgrad Med J (2002) 3.63
Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort study. BMJ (2008) 3.51
Patient safety and error management: what causes adverse events and how can they be prevented? Dtsch Arztebl Int (2010) 3.39
Comparison of three methods for estimating rates of adverse events and rates of preventable adverse events in acute care hospitals. BMJ (2004) 3.28
Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation. BMJ (2011) 3.26
Preventable deaths due to problems in care in English acute hospitals: a retrospective case record review study. BMJ Qual Saf (2012) 3.24
Enhancing public safety in primary care. BMJ (2002) 2.80
Systems approaches to surgical quality and safety: from concept to measurement. Ann Surg (2004) 2.77
Proposal for fulfilling strategic objectives of the U.S. Roadmap for national action on clinical decision support through a service-oriented architecture leveraging HL7 services. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2007) 2.69
Ethnographic study of incidence and severity of intravenous drug errors. BMJ (2003) 2.64
What can hospitalized patients tell us about adverse events? Learning from patient-reported incidents. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 2.46
Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital. CMAJ (2004) 2.45
Avoidability of hospital deaths and association with hospital-wide mortality ratios: retrospective case record review and regression analysis. BMJ (2015) 2.42
The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 2.40
Organizing patient safety research to identify risks and hazards. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 2.39
Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice. J R Soc Med (2001) 2.36
Behavioural and psychiatric symptoms in people with dementia admitted to the acute hospital: prospective cohort study. Br J Psychiatry (2014) 2.24
Evaluation of outpatient computerized physician medication order entry systems: a systematic review. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2007) 2.20
An integrated framework for safety, quality and risk management: an information and incident management system based on a universal patient safety classification. Qual Saf Health Care (2006) 2.20
Case record review of adverse events: a new approach. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 2.15
Errors in general practice: development of an error classification and pilot study of a method for detecting errors. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 2.14
Hospital staff should use more than one method to detect adverse events and potential adverse events: incident reporting, pharmacist surveillance and local real-time record review may all have a place. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.97
Doctors and quality improvement. J R Soc Med (2009) 1.95
Trust and performance management in the medical marketplace. J R Soc Med (2003) 1.92
Impact of patient communication problems on the risk of preventable adverse events in acute care settings. CMAJ (2008) 1.92
The development and evaluation of an integrated electronic prescribing and drug management system for primary care. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2005) 1.89
Real time patient safety audits: improving safety every day. Qual Saf Health Care (2005) 1.84
Preventable in-hospital medical injury under the "no fault" system in New Zealand. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 1.84
Public release of performance data and quality improvement: internal responses to external data by US health care providers. Qual Health Care (2001) 1.73
How does the law recognize and deal with medical errors? J R Soc Med (2009) 1.70
Disclosure of medical error: policies and practice. J R Soc Med (2005) 1.69
Medication errors: prevention using information technology systems. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2009) 1.68
Design of a retrospective patient record study on the occurrence of adverse events among patients in Dutch hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res (2007) 1.61
Evaluating the PRASE patient safety intervention - a multi-centre, cluster trial with a qualitative process evaluation: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials (2014) 1.56
Managing the pre- and post-analytical phases of the total testing process. Ann Lab Med (2011) 1.52
Application of a trigger tool in near real time to inform quality improvement activities: a prospective study in a general medicine ward. BMJ Qual Saf (2015) 1.51
A prospective multicentre study of pharmacist initiated changes to drug therapy and patient management in acute care government funded hospitals. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2004) 1.50
Learning from mistakes. Factors that influence how students and residents learn from medical errors. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.45
Experiences of health professionals who conducted root cause analyses after undergoing a safety improvement programme. Qual Saf Health Care (2006) 1.45
Safety in surgery: is selection the missing link? World J Surg (2010) 1.43
Extent, nature and consequences of adverse events: results of a retrospective casenote review in a large NHS hospital. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.41
Malpractice litigation and the spine: the NHS perspective on 235 successful claims in England. Eur Spine J (2012) 1.40
To what extent are adverse events found in patient records reported by patients and healthcare professionals via complaints, claims and incident reports? BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 1.39
Adverse events among children in Canadian hospitals: the Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study. CMAJ (2012) 1.38
Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcare. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.36
Investigating interpersonal competencies of cardiac surgery teams. Can J Surg (2006) 1.35
The nature and causes of unintended events reported at ten emergency departments. BMC Emerg Med (2009) 1.33
A review of significant events analysed in general practice: implications for the quality and safety of patient care. BMC Fam Pract (2009) 1.32
The influence of non-technical performance on technical outcome in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc (2007) 1.32
Adverse events and near miss reporting in the NHS. Qual Saf Health Care (2005) 1.31
Applying the lessons of high risk industries to health care. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 1.29
Radiological error: analysis, standard setting, targeted instruction and teamworking. Eur Radiol (2005) 1.26
Learning from prescribing errors. Qual Saf Health Care (2002) 1.26
The epidemiology of medication errors: the methodological difficulties. Br J Clin Pharmacol (2009) 1.25
Adverse events following an emergency department visit. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.24
Patient safety indicators for England from hospital administrative data: case-control analysis and comparison with US data. BMJ (2008) 1.22
Direct medical costs of adverse events in Dutch hospitals. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 1.22
Patient reports of undesirable events during hospitalization. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.21
Paediatric clinical decision support systems. Arch Dis Child (2002) 1.18
Seeing with new eyes: what can general practice learn from the science of improvement? Br J Gen Pract (2011) 1.18
Effectiveness of the Medical Emergency Team: the importance of dose. Crit Care (2009) 1.17
Validation of a discharge summary term search method to detect adverse events. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2004) 1.14
Description of the development and validation of the Canadian Paediatric Trigger Tool. BMJ Qual Saf (2011) 1.14
French national survey of inpatient adverse events prospectively assessed with ward staff. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.14
Patient safety in surgical environments: cross-countries comparison of psychometric properties and results of the Norwegian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.14
Organization and representation of patient safety data: current status and issues around generalizability and scalability. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2004) 1.13
Multiplicity of medication safety terms, definitions and functional meanings: when is enough enough? Qual Saf Health Care (2005) 1.13
Improving patient safety: moving beyond the "hype" of medical errors. CMAJ (2005) 1.12
An educational intervention to enhance nurse leaders' perceptions of patient safety culture. Health Serv Res (2005) 1.11
Development and initial validation of the Influences on Patient Safety Behaviours Questionnaire. Implement Sci (2013) 1.09
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Pitfalls of adverse event reporting in paediatric cardiac intensive care. Arch Dis Child (2004) 1.08
The WHO checklist: a global tool to prevent errors in surgery. Patient Saf Surg (2009) 1.08
The impact of adverse events in the intensive care unit on hospital mortality and length of stay. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 1.08
The epidemiology of medical errors: a review of the literature. Wien Klin Wochenschr (2003) 1.07
Adverse events and patient safety in Canadian health care. CMAJ (2004) 1.05
Impact of nursing on hospital patient mortality: a focused review and related policy implications. Qual Saf Health Care (2006) 1.02
Medical adverse events in elderly hospitalized patients: a prospective study. Clinics (Sao Paulo) (2012) 1.01
The incidence, root-causes, and outcomes of adverse events in surgical units: implication for potential prevention strategies. Patient Saf Surg (2011) 1.01
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Patient safety in surgery: error detection and prevention. World J Surg (2003) 0.99
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