Relevant documents

Selection of key documents by other institutions

• The Academy of Medical Sciences (2005) Safer Medicines. A report from the Academy's FORUM with industry, November 2005
  http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/images/publication/SaferMed.pdf

• AHRQ (w.d.) Medical Errors: The Scope of the Problem. Fact sheet. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errback.htm

• Commission on Systemic Interoperability (2005): Ending the Document Game: Connecting and Transforming Your Healthcare Through Information Technology, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, October 2005, 249 p., http://endingthedocumentgame.gov/PDFs/entireReport.pdf

• European Commission. DG Health and Consumer Protection. Patient Safety – Making it happen.
  http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_overview/
  Documents/ev_20050405_rd01_en.pdf

• Fortin Jennifer M. et al: Identifying patient preferences for communicating risk estimates: A descriptive pilot study, in:
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/1/2

• Fried M P et al. (2004): Identifying and reducing errors with surgical simulation, Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13(Suppl 1):i19–i26. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2004.009969 http://qhc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/13/suppl_1/i19

• Gandhi Teal K., Bates David W.:Computer Adverse Drug Event (ADE) Detection and Alerts (2001) .Chapter 8 in: University of California at San Francisco – Stanford University Evidence based Practice Center Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. p.81 http://www.ahrq.gov/CLINIC/PTSAFETY/index.html#toc

• Health Care Complaints Commission (2003) Investigation Report.  Campbelltown and Camden Hospitals. Macarthur Health Service. Part 7: Systems for quality and safety.
  http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/pubs/i/pdf/invstign_hccc_2.pdf

• IOM Report (2000). To err is human: Building a safer health system. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309068371/html/index.html

• IOM Report (2001). Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html

• NAO (National Audit Office) (2005) “A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to improve patient safety”, November 3, 2005, Department of Health,  86 p., http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/05-06/0506456.pdf

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. NICE to assess the feasibility of evaluating computerised decision support systems. http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=265920; 2005

• Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, Editors, (2005): Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership. Committee on Engineering and the Health Care System, National Academies Press.
  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11378.html

• Trowbridge Robert and Weingarten Scott (2001) Critical Pathways. In: University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)-Stanford University Evidence-based Practice Center. Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 43. http://www.ahrq.gov/CLINIC/PTSAFETY/chap52.htm

• Young, Scott (2005) The Role of Health IT in Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety. PowerPoint. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2005.
  http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/assets/documents/Capitol_Hill_Briefings/Young9-22-04.PPT