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| 1. |  Organizational Policy/Guidelines: A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. |
| | Yokoe DS, Mermel LA, Anderson DJ, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008;29:901-994. |
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| 2. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Leadership committed to safety. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. August 27, 2009;43:1-3. |
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| 3. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Safely implementing health information and converging technologies. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. December 11, 2008;1-4. |
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| 4. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Preventing errors relating to commonly used anticoagulants. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. September 24, 2008;41:1-4. |
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| 5. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Behaviors that undermine a culture of safety. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. July 9, 2008;40:1-3. |
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| 6. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Preventing accidents and injuries in the MRI suite. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. February 14, 2008;38. |
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| 7. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: ASHP Policy Positions, Statements, and Guidelines. |
| | Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. |
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| 8. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Joint Policy Statement—Guidelines for Care of Children in the Emergency Department. |
| | American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine; American College of Emergency Physicians Pediatric Committee; Emergency Nurses Association Pediatric Committee. Pediatrics. 2009;124:1233-1243. |
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| 9. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Council recommendation on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections. |
| | Council of the European Union (2009). |
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| 10. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. |
| | Snow V, Beck D, Budnitz T, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:971-976. |
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| 11. | Congressional Testimony: Health-Care–Associated Infections in Hospitals: Continuing Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections. |
| | Subcommittee on Health Care, Committee on Finance, US Senate, Government Accountability Office, GAO-09-516T (March 18, 2009) (testimony of Marjorie Kanof, MD). |
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| 12. | Regulation: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement; Final Rule. |
| | US Department of Health and Human Services; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Federal Register. November 21, 2008;73:70731-70814. |
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| 13. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Practice advisory for the prevention and management of operating room fires. |
| | Caplan RA, Barker SJ, Connis RT, et al; for American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Operating Room Fires. Anesthesiology. 2008;108:786-801; quiz 971-972. |
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| 14. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Error-avoidance recommendations for tubing misconnections when using luer-tip connectors: a statement by the USP Safe Medication Use Expert Committee. |
| | Simmons D, Phillips MS, Grissinger M, Becker SC. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:293-296. |
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| 15. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Guidance on the Interdisciplinary Safe Use of Automated Dispensing Cabinets. |
| | Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; 2008. |
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| 16. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Preventing pediatric medication errors. |
| | Sentinel Event Alert. April 11, 2008;(39):1-5. |
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| 17. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: ACOG Committee Opinion #400: technologic advances to reduce medication-related errors. |
| | ACOG Committee on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Obstet Gynecol. 2008;111:795-798. |
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| 18. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: Canadian Disclosure Guidelines. |
| | Windwick B, Vallet D, Beard P, et al; for Disclosure Working Group. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; 2008. ISBN: 0973927011. |
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| 19. | Organizational Policy/Guidelines: 2008 Recommendations for Pre-Anesthesia Checkout Procedures. |
| | ASA Committee on Equipment and Facilities. Park Ridge, IL: American Society of Anesthesiologists; 2008. |
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| 20. | Legislation/Regulation: Patient safety and quality improvement. |
| | Federal Register. February 12, 2008;73:8112-8183. |
