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"Just a few seconds of your time…" at least 130 million times a year.

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A Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding the Efficacy of Event-Analysis in Healthcare

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A Conceptual Framework for Studying the Safety of Transitions in Emergency Care

A different approach to safety in emergency medicine

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

A prospective, randomized, controlled trial of benzodiazepines and nitroglycerine or nitroglycerine alone in the treatment of cocaine-associated acute coronary syndromes

scientific article published on January 2003

Advanced medical simulation applications for emergency medicine microsystems evaluation and training

scientific article published on October 2008

Advanced statistics: statistical methods for analyzing cluster and cluster-randomized data

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Always Adapting

An evidence-based toolkit for the development of effective and sustainable root cause analysis system safety solutions

scientific article published on January 2013

An introduction to the Bayesian analysis of clinical trials

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Anyone, Anything, Anytime…All the Time

Are we there yet? Early stopping in clinical trials

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Assessing the Impact of Computerization on Work Practice: Information Technology in Emergency Departments

scholarly article by Priyadarshini R. Pennathur et al published October 2007 in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting . Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Annual Meeting

Assessing the impact of computerization on work practice: Information technology in emergency departments

scholarly article published 2007

Assessment of Innovative Emergency Department Information Displays in a Clinical Simulation Center

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Automation, interaction, complexity, and failure: A case study

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Believing Is Seeing

scientific article published on 04 February 2010

Better Pairing of Providers and Tools

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Beyond Error

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Beyond “Communication Failure”

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Blood gases in hypothermia ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 June 1979

Can we make health IT safe enough for patients?

scientific article published in January 2012

Canging patterns of terminal care management in an intensive care unit

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Capturing more emergency department errors via an anonymous web-based reporting system

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Change of shift. Worn out by fatigue training

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Circumventing the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1979

Citation characteristics of research published in emergency medicine versus other scientific journals ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Clinical Decision Aids or Clinician Gestalt? Hard to Know Which Is Better: September 2017 Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club.

scientific article published in September 2017

Clinical Pharmacists in Emergency Medicine

Clinical Policy: Neuroimaging and Decisionmaking in Adult Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Setting

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Clinical policy: Critical issues in the sedation of pediatric patients in the emergency department

scientific article published on April 2008

Clinical policy: Neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting

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Clinical policy: critical issues in the sedation of pediatric patients in the emergency department

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Clinical policy: evidence-based approach to pharmacologic agents used in pediatric sedation and analgesia in the emergency department

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Clinical policy: evidence-based approach to pharmacologic agents used in pediatric sedation and analgesia in the emergency department

scientific article published in October 2004

Clinical policy: evidence-based approach to pharmacologic agents used in pediatric sedation and analgesia in the emergency department

Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury in the acute setting

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Cognitive Artifacts in Transition: An Analysis of Information Content Changes between Manual and Electronic Patient Tracking Systems

Cognitive Engineering Across Domains

Cognitive artifacts in transition: An analysis of information content changes between manual and electronic patient tracking systems

Color coded medication safety system reduces community pediatric emergency nursing medication errors

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

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Comments on "Clinical decision making: an emergency medicine perspective"

Communication in Emergency Medicine: Implications for Patient Safety1 This study was funded by a generous grant from the National Patient Safety Foundation

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Communication in the Electronic Age: an Analysis of Face-to-Face Physician-Nurse Communication in the Emergency Department

scholarly article published 24 October 2017

Communication in the emergency department: separating the signal from the noise

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Comparison of extent of use, information accuracy, and functions for manual and electronic patient status boards

scientific article published on 21 September 2010

Computer Technology and Clinical Work

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Computer data base for ED visits

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Consensus-based recommendations for research priorities related to interventions to safeguard patient safety in the crowded emergency department

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Crafting information technology solutions, not experiments, for the emergency department

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DRGdeath: Report of a case

scientific article published on 01 March 1985

Data collection & observer bias

scientific article published in May 1990

Dealing with failure: The aftermath of errors and adverse events

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Decision making in patients with suspected AMI

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Defining the Positive Tilt Test: A Study of Healthy Adults With Moderate Acute Blood Loss

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Delphi consensus on the feasibility of translating the ACEP clinical policies into computerized clinical decision support

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Design Trumps Training

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Design: A Neglected Modality for Improvement

scientific article published on 11 December 2016

Development of a simulation environment to study emergency department information technology

scientific article published on April 2010

Diagnosing diagnosis

scientific article published on 06 September 2014

Effect of an intervention standardization system on pediatric dosing and equipment size determination: a crossover trial involving simulated resuscitation events

scientific article published on March 2003

Effect of attendance at a training session on peer reviewer quality and performance.

scientific article published in September 1998

Effect of state legislation prohibiting denial of emergency department patient claims.

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Emergency Department Status Boards: A Case Study in Information Systems Transition

Emergency department patient-tracking system evaluation

End-tidal carbon dioxide and occult injury in trauma patients: ETCO2 does not rule out severe injury

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End-tidal carbon dioxide as a goal of early sepsis therapy

scientific article published on 21 August 2014

Endotracheal epinephrine

Engineering Better Health IT: Cognitive Systems Engineering of a Novel Emergency Department IT System

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Envisioning Patient Safety in the Year 2025: Eight Perspectives ⬇️

scientific article published on January 21, 2011

Error in statistical significance

scientific article published in June 1986

Error reduction and performance improvement in the emergency department through formal teamwork training: evaluation results of the MedTeams project

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Errors Conference Executive Summary

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Errors in Emergency Medicine A Call to Action

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Estimating the cost of medical care

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Ethical dilemmas in a randomized trial of asthma treatment: can Bayesian statistical analysis explain the results?

scientific article published on December 2001

Evaluating Emergency Department Information Technology Using a Simulation-based Approach

scholarly article by Priyadarshini R. Pennathur et al published October 2009 in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting . Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Annual Meeting

Evaluating Emergency Department Information Technology Using a Simulation-based Approach

scholarly article by Priyadarshini R. Pennathur et al published 19 October 2009 in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

Evaluating Emergency Department Information Technology Using a Simulation-based Approach

scholarly article published 2009

Evaluation of emergency IVP use

scientific article published on 01 November 1986

Expanding Perspectives on Misdiagnosis

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Factors that affect the flow of patients through triage

scientific article published on February 2007

Forcing Functions: The Need for Restraint

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Geriatric medicine and old age psychiatry joint training pre-feasibility pilot study: an innovative approach to collaborative postgraduate training

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Getting Better at Being Worse

article published in 2010

Hazards with medical devices: the role of design

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

Headaches from practice guidelines

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Health Information Technology: Can there be meaningful use without meaningful design?

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Health information technology and victory

scientific article published on 20 September 2014

Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities

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Healthcare recovery: How the science of human factors is challenging healthcare to move patient safety forward

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Heart bone connected to the... trauma bone?

scientific article published on 18 May 2006

High-Hanging Fruit: Improving Transitions in Health Care

How many emergency department visits are there?

Human Error in Emergency Medicine

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Human error in medicine: Promise and pitfalls, part 1

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Human error in medicine: promise and pitfalls, part 1

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Human error in medicine: promise and pitfalls, part 2.

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Human factors and ergonomics in the emergency department

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Impact of multidisciplinary simulation-based training on patient safety in a paediatric emergency department

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Improvement and evaluation

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Improving handoffs in the emergency department

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Improving interunit transitions of care between emergency physicians and hospital medicine physicians: a conceptual approach.

scientific article published on 4 October 2012

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scientific article published on 01 August 2015

In situ simulation: detection of safety threats and teamwork training in a high risk emergency department

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Initial ECG in Q wave and non-Q wave myocardial infarction

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Journal prestige, publication bias, and other characteristics associated with citation of published studies in peer-reviewed journals

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Keep the celebrations short.

scientific article published in June 2005

Learning from near misses in aviation: so much more to it than you thought

scientific article published in September 2016

Length-based endotracheal tube and emergency equipment in pediatrics

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Lessons From the Glasgow Coma Scale ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

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Leveraging Existing Assessments of Risk Now (LEARN) Safety Analysis: A Method for Extending Patient Safety Learning

Load and go versus stay and play: analysis of prehospital i.v. fluid therapy by computer simulation.

scientific article published in February 1990

Log-linear modeling

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Lost in Translation

Managing the unique size-related issues of pediatric resuscitation: reducing cognitive load with resuscitation aids

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Mechanical ECC not yet warranted

scientific article published on 01 March 1981

Minding the Gaps: Creating Resilience in Health Care

Misoprostol for cervical ripening and labor induction: a meta-analysis.

scientific article published on April 1997

Naloxone Triggering the RRT: A Human Antidote?

scientific article published on 10 March 2014

One cheer for feedback

scientific article published in January 2005

Our current approach to root cause analysis: is it contributing to our failure to improve patient safety?

scientific article published on 9 December 2016

PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS INCLUDING EMPYEMA FOLLOWING TUBE THORACOSTOMY FOR TRAUMA

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Patient Satisfaction and the Curse of Kelvin

article published in 2005

Patient handoffs: standardized and reliable measurement tools remain elusive

scientific article published on February 2010

Pediatric Self-Inflating Resuscitators: The Dangers of Improper Setup

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Persistent organ dysfunction after severe sepsis: a systematic review

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Pooled analysis of patients with thunderclap headache evaluated by CT and LP: is angiography necessary in patients with negative evaluations?

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Positive-outcome bias and other limitations in the outcome of research abstracts submitted to a scientific meeting

scientific article published in July 1998

Poverty amid plenty

article published in 2012

Predicting endotracheal tube size by length in newborns

scientific article published on 30 April 2007

Predicting the demand for emergency medical services

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Proactive rounding by the rapid response team reduces inpatient cardiac arrests

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Procedural Safety in Emergency Care: A Conceptual Model and Recommendations ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Pupillary Response to Light Is Preserved in the Majority of Patients Undergoing Rapid Sequence Intubation

RESIDENT SUPERVISION IN THE OPERATING ROOM

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Rasmussen number greater than one.

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Reaching first Bayes

scientific article published in April 2004

Reflective analysis of safety research in the hospital accident & emergency departments

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Relationship of Trauma Patient Volume to Outcome Experience

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Reliability of Editors' Subjective Quality Ratings of Peer Reviews of Manuscripts ⬇️

scientific article published on July 15, 1998

Replacing hindsight with insight: toward better understanding of diagnostic failures

scientific article published in November 2006

Reporting research results: recommendations for improving communication

scientific article published in April 2003

Research Directions in Emergency Medicine

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Research directions in emergency medicine: 21–22 January 1995

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Researching Quality in Emergency Medicine

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Resilience and resilience engineering in health care

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Resilience is not control: healthcare, crisis management, and ICT

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Resilient health care: turning patient safety on its head

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Response to commentaries on Koppel et al

scientific article published on 21 October 2005

Response to separating fact from opinion: a response to 'the science of human factors: separating fact from fiction'.

scientific article published on 25 May 2013

Risk, Radiation, and Rationality ⬇️

scientific article published on April 2, 2011

Risky Business

Seeing patient safety ‘Like a State’

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Serum amylase levels in ectopic pregnancy.

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Setting the educational agenda and curriculum for error prevention in emergency medicine.

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Situated vs regulatory rationality

scientific article published in January 2010

Stabilization and treatment of dental avulsions and fractures by emergency physicians using just-in-time training

scientific article published on 22 August 2009

Standardisation and Its Discontents

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Statistical Models and Occam's Razor

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Stepping back: why patient safety is in need of a broader view than the safety climate survey provides

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Stroking the data: re-analysis of the NINDS trial

scientific article published in April 2005

Studying the Technical Work of Emergency Care

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Subgroups, Reanalyses, and Other Dangerous Things

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Testing in emergency medicine

scientific article published on 01 April 1987

The Aerial Palaces of Decision Analysis Redux

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

The Chart is Dead—Long Live the Chart

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The Hunting of the Snark, 2011 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 11, 2011

The Illusion of Explanation

The Rush from Judgment

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

The Secret Life of Policies

scientific article published in November 2017

The bubble study: ultrasound confirmation of central venous catheter placement

scientific article published on 13 October 2014

The effect of dedicated methodology and statistical review on published manuscript quality

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The error of counting "errors".

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

The illusion of explanation

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

The limits of techne and episteme

scientific article published in January 2004

The medium is the message: communication and power in sign-outs

scientific article published on 11 April 2009

The need for a broader view of human factors in the surgical domain.

scientific article published in May 2011

The problem of orthodoxy in safety research: time for a reformation

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

The prosecution of sexual assault cases: correlation with forensic evidence

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The quality gap: Searching for the consequences of emergency department crowding

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The relationship of intravenous fluid chloride content to kidney function in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock

scientific article published on 18 December 2014

The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction

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The taxonomy of emergency department consultations--results of an expert consensus panel

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

The tragedy of adaptability

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

The use of dedicated methodology and statistical reviewers for peer review: a content analysis of comments to authors made by methodology and regular reviewers

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The utility of the presence or absence of chest pain in patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article published on July 1989

Thick versus thin: description versus classification in learning from case reviews

scientific article published on 15 October 2007

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Towards the Development of a Resilience Engineering Tool to Improve Patient Safety

Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medici

scientific article published on 03 April 2009

Transitions of Care Consensus policy statement: American College of Physicians, Society of General Internal Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine, American Geriatrics Society, American College Of Emergency Physicians, and Society for Academic Emerg

scientific article published on July 2009

Trauma score as a measure of physiological derangement after injury

Triage, Machine Learning, Algorithms, and Becoming the Borg

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Two cheers for regulation

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Underground adaptations: case studies from health care

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Understanding Emergency Care Delivery Through Computer Simulation Modeling

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Understanding Overuse of Computed Tomography for Minor Head Injury in the Emergency Department: A Triangulated Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 14 November 2015

Unpublished research from a medical specialty meeting: why investigators fail to publish.

scientific article published in July 1998

Upgrading our instructions for authors

scientific article published in April 2003

Usability evaluation and assessment of a novel emergency department IT system developed using a cognitive systems engineering approach

Usability evaluation of an emergency department information system prototype designed using cognitive systems engineering techniques

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

Use of computers in emergency medicine

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Using Information Technology to Improve the Quality and Safety of Emergency Care ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Using patient care quality measures to assess educational outcomes

scientific article published on 29 March 2007

Utstein-style guidelines for uniform reporting of laboratory CPR research. A statement for healthcare professionals from a Task Force of the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Cardiology

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Validation of Microcomputer Functions

Visualizing Expertise in Context

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

We have met the enemy …

What makes diagnosis hard?

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When 'technically preventable' alerts occur, the design--not the prescriber--has failed

scientific article published on 30 July 2012

When hospitals switch to electronic records

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

When less is more: using shrinkage to increase accuracy

scientific article published in June 2010

Why do we love to hate ourselves?

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Work, Visible and Invisible ⬇️

scientific article published on January 14, 2012

“Megagroups” are major problem facing emergency medicine

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

“Safeware”: Safety-Critical Computing and Health Care Information Technology

scholarly article published 21 January 2011

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