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1.   Study: A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.
 Haynes AB, Weiser TG, Berry WR, et al, for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives Study Group. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:491-499.
 
2.   Study: Workarounds to barcode medication administration systems: their occurrences, causes, and threats to patient safety.
 Koppel R, Wetterneck T, Telles JL, Karsh BT. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:408-423.
 
3.   Newspaper/Magazine Article: The checklist.
 Gawande A. The New Yorker. December 10, 2007;83:86-95.
 
4.   Study: An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.
 Pronovost P, Needham D, Berenholtz S, et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:2725-2732.
 
5.   Study: Literacy and misunderstanding prescription drug labels.
 Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF III, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:887-94.
 
6.   Study: A prospective study of patient safety in the operating room.
 Christian CK, Gustafson ML, Roth EM, et al. Surgery. 2006;139:159-173.
 
7.   Study: Video capture of clinical care to enhance patient safety.
 Weinger MB, Gonzales DC, Slagle J, Syeed M. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13:136-144.
 
8.   Commentary: From patients to politicians: a cognitive engineering view of patient safety.
 Vicente KJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2002;11:302-304.
 
9.   Study: Improving patient safety by identifying side effects from introducing bar coding in medication administration.
 Patterson ES, Cook RI, Render ML. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2002;9:540-553.
 
10.   Book/Report: The Design of Everyday Things.
 Norman DA. New York, NY: Basic Books; 2002.
 
11.   Study: Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors.
 Cooper JB, Newbower RS, Long CD, McPeek M. Anesthesiology. 1978;49:399-406.
 
12.   Review: Human factor in cardiac surgery: errors and near misses in a high technology medical domain.
 Carthey J, de Leval MR, Reason JT. Ann Thorac Surg. 2001;72:300-305.
 
13.   Study: A look into the nature and causes of human errors in the intensive care unit.
 Donchin Y, Gopher D, Olin M, et al. Crit Care Med. 1995;23:294-300.
 
14.   Book/Report: Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error.
 Casey SM. Santa Barbara, CA: Aegean Publishing Company; 1993.
 
15.   Study: A computer alert system to prevent injury from adverse drug events: development and evaluation in a community teaching hospital.
 Raschke RA, Gollihare B, Wunderlich TA, et al. [published correction appears in JAMA. 1999;281:420]. JAMA. 1998;280:1317-1320.
 
16.   Study: An objective methodology for task analysis and workload assessment in anesthesia providers.
 Weinger MB, Herndon OW, Zornow MH, Paulus MP, Gaba DM, Dallen LT. Anesthesiology. 1994;80:77-92.
 
17.   Review: Ergonomic and human factors affecting anesthetic vigilance and monitoring performance in the operating room environment.
 Weinger MB, Englund CE. Anesthesiology 1990;73:995-1021.
 
18.   Study: Motion study in surgery.
 Gilbreth FB. Can J Med Surg. 1916;40:22-31.
 
19.   Study: Protocol-based computer reminders, the quality of care and the non-perfectability of man.
 McDonald CJ. N Engl J Med. 1976;295:1351-1355.
 
20.  Study: Misleading one detail: a preventable mode of diagnostic error?
 Arzy S, Brezis M, Khoury S, Simon SR, Ben-Hur T. J Eval Clin Pract. 2009;15:804-806.
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