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How does routine disclosure of medical error affect patients' propensity to sue and their assessment of provider quality? Evidence from survey data.

Reduce--and report--enteral feeding tube misconnections.

Impact of new duty-hour rules on residency training.

The risks and benefits of a modified digital tourniquet.

Approved: Modification to National Patient Safety Goal requirement.

Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education. Comment.

Disclosing medical errors does not mean greater liability costs, new study finds.

Supporting patient safety: examining communication within delivery suite teams through contrasting approaches to research observation.

Lessons learned from measuring safety culture: an Australian case study.

Understanding three types of human errors.

Reporting of errors by healthcare professionals.

Automated detection of harm in healthcare with information technology: a systematic review.

Foreign body tumor simulating a gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

Safety through redundancy: a case study of in-hospital patient transfers.

Multilayered approach to patient safety culture.

Identifying causes of adverse events detected by an automated trigger tool through in-depth analysis.

Psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: findings from the UK.

Establishing a global learning community for incident-reporting systems.

Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention strategies.

When errors occur, 'I'm sorry' is a big step, but just the first.