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Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management is a peer-reviewed journal which considers patient safety and risk at all levels of the health care system, starting with the patient and including practitioners, managers, organizations, and policy makers. View full journal description

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Programs for responding after patients are harmed by their healthcare: A making healthcare safer IV rapid review

  • Lauge Sokol-Hessner
  • C. Matthew Stewart
  • Ritu Sharma
  • Allen Zhang
  • Thomas H. Gallagher
  • Allen Kachalia
  • Eric B. Bass
  • Marisa Clifton
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Hospitalists’ collaborative practices with different stakeholders: A systematic literature review

  • Tauseef Ibne Mamun
  • Lamia Alam
  • Laurie L Novak
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For patients, every day should be Medication Safety Day

  • Albert W. Wu
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Machine learning decision model for predicting the risk of drug-related problems in patients attending the emergency medicine

  • Jesus Ruiz Ramos
  • Joel Gené Grasa
  • Adrián Plaza Díaz
  • Iván Martín Da Silva
  • Marta Castellá Rovira
  • María Pedemonte i Pons
  • Dra. Ana María Juanes Borrego
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The human factors of medication safety: Wings fall off

  • Peter Hambly
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Understanding the relationship between care hours per patient day and summary hospital-level mortality indicator in English hospitals: A time series approach

  • Jose Pereira
  • Cidália Eusébio
  • Christopher Sherlaw-Johnson
  • Steve Black
  • Geoffrey Punshon
  • Sally Hardy
  • Alison Leary
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Patient safety near misses – Still missing opportunities to learn

  • Nick Woodier
  • Charlotte Burnett
  • Paul Sampson
  • Iain Moppett
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The far-reaching implications of Montgomery for risk disclosure in practice

  • Sarah Devaney
  • Craig Purshouse
  • Emma Cave
  • Rob Heywood
  • José Miola
  • Nina Reinach
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Challenges of integrating patient safety into nursing curricula: An integrative literature review

  • D.M. Ashoka Priyadarshani Dissanayake
  • Kumudini Paba Dharmasena
  • Sudath Shirley Pathmasiri Warnakulasuriya
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Falls in the hospital: An Italian clinical risk management perspective

  • Luigi Buongiorno
  • Federica Mele
  • Biagio Solarino
  • Davide Ferorelli
  • Fiorenza Zotti
  • Alessandro Dell’Erba
  • Felice Francesco Carabellese
  • Roberto Catanesi
  • Stefano Ferracuti
  • Gabriele Mandarelli
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Creating a “just culture”: More work to be done

  • Albert W Wu
  • Allen B Kachalia
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A systematic narrative review of coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs): A tool for patient safety in hospitals

  • Benjamin T. Bremner
  • Carl Heneghan
  • Jeffrey K. Aronson
  • Georgia C. Richards
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