Medical error/External Links

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• Agency for Health Research and Quality. Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
• Anonymous (2007) "One Doctor's Crusade For Hospital Reform: Dr. Donald Berwick's Institute for Healthcare Improvement Hopes To Save Lives By Making Hospitals Safer" transcript, CBS Evening News, February 6, 2007
• Berlinger N. (2005) After Harm: Medical Error And The Ethics Of Forgiveness, John Hopkins University Press, 156 pages, ISBN 0801-88167-6 (Book review at the British Medical Journal)
• Billings C. "Incident Reporting Systems in Medicine and Experience With the Aviation Safety Reporting System"
• Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. (2001) Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, National Academy Press (July, 2001), hardcover, 337 pages, ISBN 0309-07280-8 Full text
• Corrigan J, Donaldson MS, Kohn LT, editors, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, National Academy Press (April, 2000), hardcover, 287 pages, ISBN 0309-06837-1 summary (PDF) Full text
• Edmonds M. (2006) "Adverse Events, Iatrogenic Injury and Error in Medicine" , Health Informatics, The University of Adelaide, retrieved February 12, 2007
• Gawande A, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, ISBN 0-312-42170-2
• Helmreich RL, Musson DM. "The University of Texas Threat and Error Management Model:Components and Examples" PDF file
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2007) “Status Quon’t”, IHI’s 2007 Progress Report (PDF)
• National Patient Safety Foundation. (1998) "A Tale of Two Stories", Report from a Workshop on Assembling the Scientific Basis for Progress on Patient Safety. Full text
• Schmidek JM and Weeks WB. "Relationship between tort claims and patient incident reports in the Veterans Health Administration". Qual Saf Health Care 2005;14:117-22 Full text Shows incompleteness results even from a mandatory reporting system, "With a self-reporting system all reporting is voluntary."
• Sexton JB et al. (2000) Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys BMJ 320:745-9
• Sutcliffe KM, Rosenthal MM, editors, (2002) Medical Error: What Do We Know? What Do We Do? John Wiley and Sons, hardcover, 325 pages, ISBN 0787-96395-X (Book review at the British Medical Journal)
• University of Texas Human Factors Research Project