# Patient Safety and Medication Errors

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/patient-safety-and-medication-errors/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on improving patient safety in healthcare settings, with a particular emphasis on addressing medical errors, implementing surgical safety checklists, promoting teamwork training, and cultivating a culture of safety. The research also delves into understanding adverse events, medication errors, communication breakdowns, and the incidence of adverse events to enhance healthcare quality. |
| Domain | Health Sciences |
| Field | Health Professions |
| OpenAlex ID | t10508 |
| Works | 278 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 278.

- [Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US](https://scholariq.org/papers/medical-error-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us/)
- [Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis](https://scholariq.org/papers/interventions-to-prevent-and-reduce-physician-burnout-a-systematic-review-and/)
- [Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons](https://scholariq.org/papers/burnout-and-medical-errors-among-american-surgeons/)
- [Association of Perceived Medical Errors With Resident Distress and Empathy](https://scholariq.org/papers/association-of-perceived-medical-errors-with-resident-distress-and-empathy/)
- [Overriding of Drug Safety Alerts in Computerized Physician Order Entry](https://scholariq.org/papers/overriding-of-drug-safety-alerts-in-computerized-physician-order-entry/)
- [Testing technical skill via an innovative “bench station” examination](https://scholariq.org/papers/testing-technical-skill-via-an-innovative-bench-station-examination/)
- [Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: A report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement Program](https://scholariq.org/papers/hospital-costs-associated-with-surgical-complications-a-report-from-the-private/)
- [Changes in Medical Errors after Implementation of a Handoff Program](https://scholariq.org/papers/changes-in-medical-errors-after-implementation-of-a-handoff-program/)
- [Patterns of Communication Breakdowns Resulting in Injury to Surgical Patients](https://scholariq.org/papers/patterns-of-communication-breakdowns-resulting-in-injury-to-surgical-patients/)
- [Simulation-Based Training in Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM): A Decade of Experience](https://scholariq.org/papers/simulation-based-training-in-anesthesia-crisis-resource-management-acrm-a-decade/)
- [Training and simulation for patient safety](https://scholariq.org/papers/training-and-simulation-for-patient-safety/)
- [Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors](https://scholariq.org/papers/physician-burnout-well-being-and-work-unit-safety-grades-in-relationship-to/)
- [Operating Room Teamwork among Physicians and Nurses: Teamwork in the Eye of the Beholder](https://scholariq.org/papers/operating-room-teamwork-among-physicians-and-nurses-teamwork-in-the-eye-of-the/)
- [Simulation-Based Education Improves Quality of Care During Cardiac Arrest Team Responses at an Academic Teaching Hospital](https://scholariq.org/papers/simulation-based-education-improves-quality-of-care-during-cardiac-arrest-team/)
- [Disruptions in surgical flow and their relationship to surgical errors: An exploratory investigation](https://scholariq.org/papers/disruptions-in-surgical-flow-and-their-relationship-to-surgical-errors-an/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 106.

- [Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US](https://scholariq.org/papers/medical-error-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us/)
- [Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons](https://scholariq.org/papers/burnout-and-medical-errors-among-american-surgeons/)
- [Association of Perceived Medical Errors With Resident Distress and Empathy](https://scholariq.org/papers/association-of-perceived-medical-errors-with-resident-distress-and-empathy/)
- [Simulation-Based Training in Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management (ACRM): A Decade of Experience](https://scholariq.org/papers/simulation-based-training-in-anesthesia-crisis-resource-management-acrm-a-decade/)
- [Operating Room Teamwork among Physicians and Nurses: Teamwork in the Eye of the Beholder](https://scholariq.org/papers/operating-room-teamwork-among-physicians-and-nurses-teamwork-in-the-eye-of-the/)
- [Disruptions in surgical flow and their relationship to surgical errors: An exploratory investigation](https://scholariq.org/papers/disruptions-in-surgical-flow-and-their-relationship-to-surgical-errors-an/)
- [Estimating Hospital Deaths Due to Medical Errors](https://scholariq.org/papers/estimating-hospital-deaths-due-to-medical-errors/)
- [Adverse drug events and medication errors: detection and classification methods](https://scholariq.org/papers/adverse-drug-events-and-medication-errors-detection-and-classification-methods/)
- [Creating High Reliability in Health Care Organizations](https://scholariq.org/papers/creating-high-reliability-in-health-care-organizations/)
- [Adverse drug events and medication errors: detection and classification methods](https://scholariq.org/papers/adverse-drug-events-and-medication-errors-detection-and-classification-methods-2/)
- [The Impact of Nontechnical Skills on Technical Performance in Surgery: A Systematic Review](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-impact-of-nontechnical-skills-on-technical-performance-in-surgery-a/)
- [Improving the safety of health care: the leapfrog initiative.](https://scholariq.org/papers/improving-the-safety-of-health-care-the-leapfrog-initiative/)
- [Risk-Adjusted Morbidity in Teaching Hospitals Correlates with Reported Levels of Communication and Collaboration on Surgical Teams but Not with Scale Measures of Teamwork Climate, Safety Climate, or Working Conditions](https://scholariq.org/papers/risk-adjusted-morbidity-in-teaching-hospitals-correlates-with-reported-levels-of/)
- [Changing and Sustaining Medical Students?? Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes about Patient Safety and Medical Fallibility](https://scholariq.org/papers/changing-and-sustaining-medical-students-knowledge-skills-and-attitudes-about/)
- [The impact of teamwork on missed nursing care](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-impact-of-teamwork-on-missed-nursing-care/)

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