2012
Safety Climate and Medical Errors in 62 US Emergency Departments
Camargo CA, Tsai CL, Sullivan AF, Cleary PD, Gordon JA, Guadagnoli E, Kaushal R, Magid DJ, Rao SR, Blumenthal D. Safety Climate and Medical Errors in 62 US Emergency Departments. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2012, 60: 555-563.e20. PMID: 23089089, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.02.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEmergency departmentAdverse eventsNational Emergency Department Safety StudyMedical errorsNational treatment guidelinesUS emergency departmentsPreventable adverse eventsUrban emergency departmentSafety climateTreatment guidelinesED patientsNear missesMedical recordsMultivariable modelSafety studiesSafety climate scoresSystem factorsClimate scoresED conditionsDepartmentPatientsIncidence
2008
The Safety of Emergency Care Systems: Results of a Survey of Clinicians in 65 US Emergency Departments
Magid DJ, Sullivan AF, Cleary PD, Rao SR, Gordon JA, Kaushal R, Guadagnoli E, Camargo CA, Blumenthal D. The Safety of Emergency Care Systems: Results of a Survey of Clinicians in 65 US Emergency Departments. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2008, 53: 715-723.e1. PMID: 19054592, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUS emergency departmentsEmergency departmentSurvey of cliniciansED cliniciansUS health care facilitiesPatient safetyNumber of patientsDelivery of careHealth care facilitiesEmergency care systemHigh-risk settingsSafe patient careIll patientsED patientsHalf of respondentsSpecialty consultationClinicians' perceptionsCare facilitiesEmergency careSafe carePatient careEligible respondentsCliniciansPatientsCare system
2007
The National Emergency Department Safety Study: Study Rationale and Design
Sullivan AF, Camargo CA, Cleary PD, Gordon JA, Guadagnoli E, Kaushal R, Magid DJ, Rao SR, Blumenthal D. The National Emergency Department Safety Study: Study Rationale and Design. Academic Emergency Medicine 2007, 14: 1182-1189. PMID: 18045895, DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.07.014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Emergency Department Safety StudyEmergency departmentCharacteristics of EDsSafety studiesAcute myocardial infarctionLarge multicenter studyMedical errorsEmergency Medicine NetworkAcute asthmaChart reviewMulticenter studyMyocardial infarctionProcedural sedationED personnelStudy rationaleComprehensive national studyMedicine NetworkFirst comprehensive national studyIdentification of factorsStaff perceptionsStaff reportsNational studyReportAsthmaInfarction
2001
Detecting Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Development of a Brief Screening Tool
Horowitz L, Wang P, Koocher G, Burr B, Smith M, Klavon S, Cleary P. Detecting Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Development of a Brief Screening Tool. Pediatrics 2001, 107: 1133-1137. PMID: 11331698, DOI: 10.1542/peds.107.5.1133.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNegative predictive valueBrief screening toolScreening toolC-statisticHealth cliniciansPredictive valuePediatric mental health patientsSuicide riskCriterion standard assessmentPediatric emergency departmentCurrent suicidal behaviorMental health patientsEmergency department staffMental health cliniciansQuality improvement initiativesPositive predictive valueCross-sectional surveyMental health concernsClinical characteristicsPediatric EDEmergency departmentPsychiatric reasonsAdolescent patientsHealth patientsTriage nurses
1999
Benchmarking and quality improvement: the Harvard Emergency Department Quality Study∗∗Access the “Journal Club” discussion of this paper at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajmselect/
Burstin H, Conn A, Setnik G, Rucker D, Cleary P, O’Neil A, Orav E, Sox C, Brennan T, Investigators T. Benchmarking and quality improvement: the Harvard Emergency Department Quality Study∗∗Access the “Journal Club” discussion of this paper at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajmselect/. The American Journal Of Medicine 1999, 107: 437-449. PMID: 10569298, DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9343(99)00269-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPatient-reported problemsEmergency department careCare guidelinesMedical recordsPatient ratingsChief complaintEmergency departmentHospital emergency departmentQuality improvement interventionsPatient-reported measuresEmergency department directorsPatient-based measuresEmergency department (ED) qualityQuality improvement effortsEligible patientsPatient questionnairePreintervention periodPostintervention periodPatient reportsPatientsImprovement interventionsMultivariate analysisPercent complianceStudy periodCare