List of works by Kaveh G Shojania

"Rheum to Improve": Quality Improvement in Outpatient Rheumatology

scientific article published on July 2017

'Bad apples': time to redefine as a type of systems problem?

scientific article

'I think we should just listen and get out': a qualitative exploration of views and experiences of Patient Safety Walkrounds.

scientific article published on 9 January 2014

'The problem with…': a new series on problematic improvements and problematic problems in healthcare quality and patient safety

scientific article

A Qualitative Analysis of Physician Perspectives on Missed and Delayed Outpatient Diagnosis: The Focus on System-Related Factors

scientific article published in October 2014

A Systematic Review of Interventions to Follow-Up Test Results Pending at Discharge

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

A primer on PDSA: executing plan-do-study-act cycles in practice, not just in name

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

AHRQ WebM&M—Online Medical Error Reporting and Analysis

Advancing the science of patient safety

scientific article

Adverse events detected by clinical surveillance on an obstetric service

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Application of a trigger tool in near real time to inform quality improvement activities: a prospective study in a general medicine ward

scientific article

Are increases in emergency use and hospitalisation always a bad thing? Reflections on unintended consequences and apparent backfires

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Assessing hospital quality: a review for clinicians.

scientific article

Automated patient assessments after outpatient surgery using an interactive voice response system

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Bad experiences in the hospital: the stories keep coming

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Beyond CLABSI and CAUTI: broadening our vision of patient safety

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Beyond Experiential Learning in Project-Based Quality Improvement Education: Questioning Assumptions and Identifying Future Directions

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Building Bridges to Integrate Care (BRIDGES): Incubating Health Service Innovation across the Continuum of Care for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions.

scientific article published in January 2016

Building capacity for quality: a pilot co-learning curriculum in quality improvement for faculty and resident learners

scientific article published on December 2013

Building knowledge, asking questions

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Building the Bridge to Quality: An Urgent Call to Integrate Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education With Clinical Care

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Can patient decision aids help people make good decisions about participating in clinical trials? A study protocol

scientific article published on 23 July 2008

Challenges in systematic reviews: synthesis of topics related to the delivery, organization, and financing of health care

scientific article

Changes in rates of autopsy-detected diagnostic errors over time: a systematic review

scientific article

Choosing quality problems wisely: identifying improvements worth developing and sustaining

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Clinical problem-solving. Forgotten but not gone

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Clinical problem-solving. Lost in transcription.

scientific article

Clinicians in quality improvement: a new career pathway in academic medicine

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 2: Diabetes Care) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 3: Hypertension Care) ⬇️

scientific book published on August 25, 2010

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 4: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior) ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

CoPlot: a tool for visualizing multivariate data in medicine

scientific article

Combining ratings from multiple physician reviewers helped to overcome the uncertainty associated with adverse event classification

scientific article published on 8 April 2007

Complementary approaches to searching MEDLINE may be sufficient for updating systematic reviews

scientific article

Computerised clinical decision support systems and absolute improvements in care: meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Computerised provider order entry and residency education in an academic medical centre

scientific article published in August 2012

Continuing medical education and quality improvement: a match made in heaven?

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Conventional evaluations of improvement interventions: more trials or just more tribulations?

scientific article published on 27 September 2013

Cost of contact: redesigning healthcare in the age of COVID

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Coumadin-induced lingual hemorrhage mimicking angioedema

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Deaths due to medical error: jumbo jets or just small propeller planes?

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

Development of a Web-Based Patient Safety Resource: AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)

Do Combined Pharmacist and Prescriber Efforts on Medication Reconciliation Reduce Postdischarge Patient Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Readmissions?

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Do opiates affect the clinical evaluation of patients with acute abdominal pain?

scientific article

Do physician outcome judgments and judgment biases contribute to inappropriate use of treatments? Study protocol

scientific article published on 7 June 2007

Do physicians clean their hands? Insights from a covert observational study

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Do unexpected deaths indicate a patient safety problem?

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Does Full Disclosure of Medical Errors Affect Malpractice Liability? The Jury Is Still Out ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

Does this patient have acute cholecystitis?

scientific article (publication date: 2003)

Does user-centred design affect the efficiency, usability and safety of CPOE order sets?

scientific article published on May 2011

Downstream impact of urine cultures ordered without indication at two acute care teaching hospitals

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Education as a low-value improvement intervention: often necessary but rarely sufficient

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Effect of point-of-care computer reminders on physician behaviour: a systematic review

scientific article

Effectiveness of quality improvement strategies on the management of diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 09 June 2012

Effects of computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems on medication safety: a systematic review

scientific article

Effects of quality improvement strategies for type 2 diabetes on glycemic control: a meta-regression analysis

scientific article published on July 2006

Effects of rapid response systems on clinical outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Elements of informed consent and decision quality were poorly correlated in informed consent documents

scientific article published on 07 March 2015

Estimating deaths due to medical error: the ongoing controversy and why it matters

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Estimating preventable hospital deaths: the authors reply

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Ethnography as a methodological descriptor: the editors' reply

scholarly article by Mary Dixon-Woods & Kaveh G Shojania published 4 January 2016 in BMJ Quality & Safety

Evidence-based medicine: A cornerstone for clinical care but not for quality improvement

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Evidence-based quality improvement: the state of the science

scientific article

Expanding the scope of Critical Care Rapid Response Teams: a feasible approach to identify adverse events. A prospective observational cohort

scientific article published on 08 June 2015

Faculty-Resident "Co-learning": A Longitudinal Exploration of an Innovative Model for Faculty Development in Quality Improvement

scientific article

Follow Up of Incidental High-Risk Pulmonary Nodules on Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography at Care Transitions

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Graduate medical education and patient safety: a busy--and occasionally hazardous--intersection

scientific article published on October 2006

Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success

scientific article published on July 2008

Hospital standardized mortality ratios.

scientific article

How Quickly Do Systematic Reviews Go Out of Date? A Survival Analysis

scientific article

How complete is the evidence for thromboembolism prophylaxis in general medicine patients? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article

Identifying adverse events: reflections on an imperfect gold standard after 20 years of patient safety research

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Identifying patients with post-discharge care problems using an interactive voice response system

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Identifying vendors in studies of electronic health records: the editor replies

scientific article

Impact of reliance on CT pulmonary angiography on diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a Bayesian analysis.

scientific article

Impact of stated barriers on proposed warfarin prescription for atrial fibrillation: a survey of Canadian physicians.

scientific article

Implementing patient safety interventions in your hospital: what to try and what to avoid

scientific article published on March 2008

Improving antibiotic selection: a systematic review and quantitative analysis of quality improvement strategies

scientific article published on July 2006

Improving patient safety: moving beyond the "hype" of medical errors

scientific article published on October 2005

Inflated impacts of medication use technology assumed in simulating reduced adverse drug events ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Influence of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging in primary prevention: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Informed consent documents do not encourage good-quality decision making

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Inpatient bedspacing: could a common response to hospital crowding cause increased patient mortality?

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Interprofessional and multiprofessional approaches in quality improvement education

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing: a systematic review and quantitative analysis

scientific article published on August 2008

Introducing the patient safety professional: why, what, who, how, and where?

scientific article published on December 2011

Is acetylcysteine effective in preventing contrast-related nephropathy? A meta-analysis.

scientific article published in December 2004

Learning from our mistakes: quality grand rounds, a new case-based series on medical errors and patient safety.

scientific article published in June 2002

Limitations of gold standards for diagnosing gastroesophageal reflux disease

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Making health care safer II: an updated critical analysis of the evidence for patient safety practices

scientific article published on March 2013

Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety practices

scientific article

Management of MRI wait lists in Canada

scientific article published in February 2009

Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data - The Patient Safety Indicators

Measuring the quality of hospital care

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

MedGenMed's selection of the top 10 medical/health stories of 2002

scientific article published on 19 December 2002

Media Dissemination of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment After President Donald Trump's Medical Evaluation

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Medication non-adherence: an overlooked target for quality improvement interventions

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review

scientific article published on March 2013

Modelling resource requirements and physician staffing to provide virtual urgent medical care for residents of long-term care homes: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Mortality alerts, actions taken and declining mortality: true effect or regression to the mean?

article

Multiple interacting factors influence adherence, and outcomes associated with surgical safety checklists: a qualitative study

scientific article

Order sets in health care: a systematic review of their effects.

scientific article published on July 2012

Overestimation of clinical diagnostic performance caused by low necropsy rates

scientific article published on December 2005

Overuse of magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article

Pathology of poverty: the need for quality improvement efforts to address social determinants of health

scientific article published on 06 March 2018

Patient Safety at the Crossroads

scientific article published on 01 May 2016

Patient Safety in Ambulatory Settings [Internet]

scientific article

Patient safety in emergency medical services: a systematic review of the literature.

scientific article published on January 2012

Physician Characteristics Associated With Ordering 4 Low-Value Screening Tests in Primary Care

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Point-of-care decision support for reducing inappropriate test use: easier said than done

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Putting out fires: a qualitative study exploring the use of patient complaints to drive improvement at three academic hospitals

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Quality Improvement

article from 2009

Quality grand rounds: the case for patient safety

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Quality improvement in medical education: current state and future directions

scientific article published on January 2012

Quality improvement strategies for hypertension management: a systematic review

scientific article published on July 2006

Recipes for checklists and bundles: one part active ingredient, two parts measurement.

scientific article published on 3 October 2012

Reducing antimicrobial therapy for asymptomatic bacteriuria among noncatheterized inpatients: a proof-of-concept study

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Reducing vancomycin use utilizing a computer guideline: results of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Refinement of the HCUP Quality Indicators

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

Refocusing quality measurement to best support quality improvement: local ownership of quality measurement by clinicians

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

Rigor in Quality Improvement Studies and the Role of Time-Series Methodologies

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Rigorous evaluations of evolving interventions: can we have our cake and eat it too?

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Root-cause analysis: swatting at mosquitoes versus draining the swamp

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

Safe but sound: patient safety meets evidence-based medicine

scientific article published in July 2002

Safe medication prescribing and monitoring in the outpatient setting

scientific article

Safe prescribing

Searching the health care literature efficiently: from clinical decision-making to continuing education.

scientific article published in May 2002

Seeing the forests and the trees--innovative approaches to exploring heterogeneity in systematic reviews of complex interventions to enhance health system decision-making: a protocol

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Should we use large scale healthcare interventions without clear evidence that benefits outweigh costs and harms? No.

scientific article published on June 2008

Simpson's paradox: how performance measurement can fail even with perfect risk adjustment

scientific article published in September 2014

Still no magic bullets: pursuing more rigorous research in quality improvement

Subglottic secretion drainage for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: a meta-analysis.

scientific article

Surveillance search techniques identified the need to update systematic reviews

scientific article

Suspected pulmonary embolism

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Sustaining quality improvement and patient safety training in graduate medical education: lessons from social theory

scientific article published on August 2013

Systematic reviews can be produced and published faster

scientific article

Taking advantage of the explosion of systematic reviews: an efficient MEDLINE search strategy

scientific article

Teaching quality improvement and patient safety to trainees: a systematic review

scientific article published on September 2010

Tell me about the context, and more

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Temporal trends in patient safety in the Netherlands: reductions in preventable adverse events or the end of adverse events as a useful metric?

scientific article published on 06 July 2015

The Elephant of Patient Safety: What You See Depends on How You Look ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

The autopsy as an outcome and performance measure

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

The challenges of quality improvement reports and the urgent need for more of them

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

The data of diagnostic error: big, large and small

scientific article published on 05 March 2018

The economic burden of patient safety targets in acute care: a systematic review

scientific article

The effects of on-screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care

scientific article

The era of big performance measurement: here at last?

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

The evolving story of medical emergency teams in quality improvement

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

The faces of errors: a case-based approach to educating providers, policymakers, and the public about patient safety

scientific article

The frustrating case of incident-reporting systems

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

The impact of adverse events in the intensive care unit on hospital mortality and length of stay

scientific article

The many faces of error disclosure: a common set of elements and a definition

scientific article published on 20 March 2007

The patient safety movement will help, not harm, quality

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

The persistent value of the autopsy

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

The tension between needing to improve care and knowing how to do it.

scientific article

The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now.

scientific article published on March 2013

The unintended consequences of measuring quality on the quality of medical care

The use of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in infection control and hospital epidemiology

scientific article published on June 2004

The vanishing nonforensic autopsy

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Toward Complete and Accurate Reporting of Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Trends in adverse events over time: why are we not improving?

scientific article published in April 2013

Understanding medical error and improving patient safety in the inpatient setting

scientific article

Unreliability of physician "report cards" to assess cost and quality of care

scientific article published in January 2000

Updating Systematic Reviews ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 August 2010

Usability evaluation of order sets in a computerised provider order entry system

scientific article published on 31 July 2011

Use of an interactive, telephone-based self-management support program to identify adverse events among ambulatory diabetes patients

scientific article published on April 2008

Using decision aids may improve informed consent for research

article

Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital

scientific article

Value of small sample sizes in rapid-cycle quality improvement projects

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Vulnerability of the medical product supply chain: the wake-up call of COVID-19

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

What happens between visits? Adverse and potential adverse events among a low-income, urban, ambulatory population with diabetes

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

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