Category: AHRQ

No shortcuts to safer opioid prescribing.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Dowell D, Haegerich T, Chou R. N Engl J Med. 2019 Apr 24; [Epub ahead of print].

Why your doctor’s white coat can be a threat to your health.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Frakt A. New York Times. April 29, 2019.

Organizing Patient Safety: Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Pedersen KZ. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan; 2018. ISBN: 9781137537850.

An organization-specific and modifiable inpatient safety composite measure.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Smith PK, Amster A. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019;45:304-314.

Blind spots in the science of safety.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Bosk CL, Pedersen KZ. Lancet. 2019;393:978-979.

What’s in a name? Newborn naming conventions and wrong-patient errors.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 25, 2019.

How to reduce maternal mortality rates in the United States.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Livingston E, Howell EA. JAMA Clinical Reviews. April 2, 2019.

Understanding the heterogeneity of labor and delivery units: using design thinking methodology to assess environmental factors that contribute to safety in childbirth.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Sherman JP, Hedli LC, Kristensen-Cabrera AI, et al; Safety Learning Laboratory for Neonatal and Maternal Care. Am J Perinatol. 2019 Apr 23; [Epub ahead of print].

What quality and safety of care for patients admitted to clinically inappropriate wards: a systematic review.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

La Regina M, Guarneri F, Romano E, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Apr 22; [Epub ahead of print].

Association between night-time surgery and occurrence of intraoperative adverse events and postoperative pulmonary complications.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Cortegiani A, Gregoretti C, Neto AS, et al; LAS VEGAS Investigators, PROVE Network, Clinical Trial Network of the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Br J Anaesth. 2019;122:361-369.