Most cited papers in Patient Safety and Medication Errors
What are the most cited papers in Patient Safety and Medication Errors?
The most cited paper in Patient Safety and Medication Errors is "A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population" (Alex Bernard Haynes, Thomas G. Weiser, William R. Berry et al., 2009), with 5,713 citations. Next come "Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients" (4,842) and "Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients" (4,679).
Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 852 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Surgical Safety Checklist to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality in a Global Population Alex Bernard Haynes, Thomas G. Weiser, William R. Berry et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 14 Jan 2009 | 5,713 |
| 2 | Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients Jason Lazarou, Bruce H. Pomeranz, Paul Corey · JAMA | 15 Apr 1998 | 4,842 |
| 3 | Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients Troyen A. Brennan, Lucian L. Leape, Nan M. Laird et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 7 Feb 1991 | 4,679 |
| 4 | The Nature of Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients Lucian L. Leape, Troyen A. Brennan, Nan M. Laird et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 7 Feb 1991 | 3,757 |
| 5 | Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US Martin A. Makary, Michael G. Daniel · BMJ | 3 May 2016 | 3,287 |
| 6 | Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts R L Wears · BMJ Quality & Safety | Dec 2006 | 2,923 |
| 7 | The Quality in Australian Health Care Study Ross McL Wilson, William B. Runciman, Robert W Gibberd et al. · The Medical Journal of Australia | Nov 1995 | 2,401 |
| 8 | Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis Colin P. West, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Patricia J. Erwin et al. · The Lancet | 30 Sep 2016 | 2,382 |
| 9 | The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients in Canada G. Ross Baker · Canadian Medical Association Journal | 25 May 2004 | 2,366 |
| 10 | Making it safe: the effects of leader inclusiveness and professional status on psychological safety and improvement efforts in health care teams Ingrid M. Nembhard, Amy C. Edmondson · Journal of Organizational Behavior | 21 Sep 2006 | 2,296 |
| 11 | Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors Ross Koppel · JAMA | 8 Mar 2005 | 2,145 |
| 12 | Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons Tait D. Shanafelt, Charles M. Balch, Gerald J. Béchamps et al. · Annals of Surgery | 15 Apr 2010 | 2,116 |
| 13 | Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry and a Team Intervention on Prevention of Serious Medication Errors David Westfall Bates · JAMA | 21 Oct 1998 | 2,111 |
| 14 | Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review Charles A. Vincent, Graham Neale, Maria Woloshynowych · BMJ | 3 Mar 2001 | 2,082 |
| 15 | Error in medicine. L L Leape · PubMed | 21 Dec 1994 | 1,971 |
| 16 | Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events in Pediatric Inpatients Rainu Kaushal · JAMA | 25 Apr 2001 | 1,950 |
| 17 | The future vision of simulation in health care David M. Gaba · BMJ Quality & Safety | Oct 2004 | 1,937 |
| 18 | The Incidence and Severity of Adverse Events Affecting Patients after Discharge from the Hospital Alan John Forster, Harvey J. Murff, Josh F. Peterson et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 4 Feb 2003 | 1,924 |
| 19 | Development and Evaluation of the Universal ACS NSQIP Surgical Risk Calculator: A Decision Aid and Informed Consent Tool for Patients and Surgeons Karl Y. Bilimoria, Yaoming Liu, Jennifer Leigh Paruch et al. · Journal of the American College of Surgeons | 18 Sep 2013 | 1,917 |
| 20 | Emergency Hospitalizations for Adverse Drug Events in Older Americans Daniel S. Budnitz, Maribeth C. Lovegrove, Nadine Shehab et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 23 Nov 2011 | 1,845 |
| 21 | The incidence and nature of in-hospital adverse events: a systematic review Eefje N. de Vries, Maya A. Ramrattan, Susanne M. Smorenburg et al. · BMJ Quality & Safety | Jun 2008 | 1,814 |
| 22 | The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research John Bryan Sexton, Robert L. Helmreich, Torsten B. Neilands et al. · BMC Health Services Research | 20 Apr 2006 | 1,805 |
| 23 | Work system design for patient safety: the SEIPS model Pascale Carayon, Ann Schoofs Hundt, B-T Karsh et al. · BMJ Quality & Safety | Dec 2006 | 1,789 |
| 24 | The human factor: the critical importance of effective teamwork and communication in providing safe care M Leonard · BMJ Quality & Safety | Oct 2004 | 1,773 |
| 25 | Effect of Reducing Interns' Work Hours on Serious Medical Errors in Intensive Care Units Christopher P. Landrigan, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, JOHN W. CRONIN et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 27 Oct 2004 | 1,770 |
| 26 | Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Among Older Persons in the Ambulatory Setting Jerry H. Gurwitz, Terry S. Field, Leslie R. Harrold et al. · JAMA | 5 Mar 2003 | 1,693 |
| 27 | Incidence and Types of Adverse Events and Negligent Care in Utah and Colorado Eric J. Thomas, David M. Studdert, Helen R. Burstin et al. · Medical Care | Mar 2000 | 1,686 |
| 28 | The Importance of Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis and Strategies to Minimize Them Pat Croskerry · Academic Medicine | Aug 2003 | 1,676 |
| 29 | Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys John Bryan Sexton · BMJ | 18 Mar 2000 | 1,624 |
| 30 | Pharmacist Participation on Physician Rounds and Adverse Drug Events in the Intensive Care Unit Lucian L. Leape · JAMA | 21 Jul 1999 | 1,610 |
| 31 | Diagnostic Error in Internal Medicine Mark L. Graber, Nancy Franklin, Ruthanna Gordon · Archives of Internal Medicine | 11 Jul 2005 | 1,579 |
| 32 | Improving Safety with Information Technology David Westfall Bates, Atul A. Gawande · New England Journal of Medicine | 18 Jun 2003 | 1,555 |
| 33 | Medical error: the second victim Albert W. Wu · BMJ | 18 Mar 2000 | 1,488 |
| 34 | Association of Perceived Medical Errors With Resident Distress and Empathy Colin P. West, Mashele M. Huschka, Paul J. Novotny et al. · JAMA | 5 Sep 2006 | 1,465 |
| 35 | Undertaking a literature review: a step-by-step approach Patricia A. Cronin, Frances Ryan, Michael Coughlan · British Journal of Nursing | 2008 | 1,428 |
| 36 | A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care John T. James · Journal of Patient Safety | 16 Jul 2013 | 1,405 |
| 37 | Reasons for confidence. Asher Koriat, Sarah Lichtenstein, Baruch Fischhoff · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory | Mar 1980 | 1,378 |
| 38 | Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care Tejal K. Gandhi, Saul N. Weingart, Joshua S. Borus et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 16 Apr 2003 | 1,363 |
| 39 | Effects of computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems on medication safety: a systematic review. Rainu Kaushal, Kaveh G Shojania, David Westfall Bates · PubMed | 23 Jun 2003 | 1,345 |
| 40 | On error management: lessons from aviation Robert L. Helmreich · BMJ | 18 Mar 2000 | 1,343 |
| 41 | Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects Lorelei A. Lingard · BMJ Quality & Safety | Oct 2004 | 1,341 |
| 42 | Teamwork and patient safety in dynamic domains of healthcare: a review of the literature Tanja Manser · Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica | 19 Jan 2009 | 1,334 |
| 43 | Teamwork in healthcare: Key discoveries enabling safer, high-quality care. Michael Alan Rosen, Deborah DiazGranados, Aaron S. Dietz et al. · American Psychologist | May 2018 | 1,306 |
| 44 | The Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Error Prevention David W Bates, Jonathan M. Teich, Joshua D. Lee et al. · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association | Jul 1999 | 1,272 |
| 45 | Defensive Medicine Among High-Risk Specialist Physicians in a Volatile Malpractice Environment David M. Studdert · JAMA | 31 May 2005 | 1,272 |
| 46 | National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) report: Data summary for 2006 through 2008, issued December 2009 Jonathan R. Edwards, Kelly D. Peterson, Yi Mu et al. · American Journal of Infection Control | Dec 2009 | 1,270 |
| 47 | Five Years After To Err Is Human Lucian L. Leape, Donald M. Berwick · JAMA | 17 May 2005 | 1,256 |
| 48 | SEIPS 2.0: a human factors framework for studying and improving the work of healthcare professionals and patients Richard Holden, Pascale Carayon, Ayşe P. Gürses et al. · Ergonomics | 3 Oct 2013 | 1,241 |
| 49 | Therapeutic intervention scoring system David J. Cullen, Joseph M. Civetta, Burton A. Briggs et al. · Critical Care Medicine | Mar 1974 | 1,218 |
| 50 | Simulation in healthcare education: A best evidence practical guide. AMEE Guide No. 82 Ivette Motola, Luke Devine, Hyun Soo Chung et al. · Medical Teacher | 13 Aug 2013 | 1,204 |
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