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COMMENTARY classic

Structural and organizational issues in patient safety: a comparison of health care to other high-hazard industries.

Gaba DM. Calif Manage Rev. 2000;43:1-20.

REVIEW

Duty-hour limits and patient care and resident outcomes: can high-quality studies offer insight into complex relationships?

Philibert I, Nasca T, Brigham T, Shapiro J. Annu Rev Med. 2013;64:467-483.

COMMENTARY

Minnesota Hospital Association Statewide Project: SAFE from FALLS.

Apold J, Quigley PA. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27:299-306.

COMMENTARY classic

Organizational culture as a source of high reliability.

Weick KE. Calif Manage Rev. 1987;29:112-127.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The impossible workload for doctors in training.

Chen PW. New York Times. April 18, 2013.

STUDY

Surgical training, duty-hour restrictions, and implications for meeting the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies: views of surgical interns compared with program directors.

Antiel RM, Van Arendonk KJ, Reed DA, et al. Arch Surg. 2012;147:536-541.

COMMENTARY

Duty hour reform in a shifting medical landscape.

Jena AB, Prasad V. J Gen Intern Med. 2013 Apr 9; [Epub ahead of print].

BOOK/REPORT

Tennessee Center for Patient Safety Annual Report 2010.

Nashville, TN: Tennessee Center for Patient Safety; August 2011.

AUDIOVISUAL

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

Austin, TX: Texas Medical Institute for Technology and the Quaid Foundation; 2010.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Plan aims to cut hospital deaths.

Appleby J. USA Today. June 6, 2005.

COMMENTARY

The Henry Ford Health System No Harm Campaign: a comprehensive model to reduce harm and save lives.

Conway WA, Hawkins S, Jordan J, Voutt-Goos MJ. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:318-327.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Making hospitals accountable.

Peters PG Jr. Regulation. Summer 2009;32:30-36.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

MHA Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality.

Michigan Health and Hospital Association.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

A long way to go.

DerGurahian J. Mod Healthc. December 7, 2009.

REVIEW

Negligence, genuine error, and litigation.

Sohn DH. Int J Gen Med. 2013;6:49-56.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Standards, audits, and saying I'm sorry: an engineer's family proposes solutions.

Wojcieszak D. Patient Safety Qual Healthc. May/June 2005;2:6, 8-9.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2012.

COMMENTARY

Electronic health records and National Patient-Safety Goals.

Sittig DF, Singh H. N Engl J Med. 2012;367:1854-1860.

COMMENTARY

The response of the APPD, CoPS and AAP to the Institute of Medicine report on resident duty hours.

Guralnick S, Rushton J, Bale JF Jr, Norwood V, Trimm F, Schumacher D. Pediatrics. 2010;125:786-790.

COMMENTARY

Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps.

Greenwald JL, Halasyamani L, Greene J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:477-485.

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