The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care*

By J. Rothschild, C. Landrigan, John W. Cronin, R. Kaushal, S. Lockley, E. Burdick, Peter H. Stone, C. Lilly, J. Katz, Charles A. Czeisler and 1 more. Critical Care Medicine, 2005

980 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Epidemiology, Family Practice

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In Emergency Medical Services

1. Tait D. Shanafelt
2. Colin P. West
3. J. Sloan
4. Lotte N. Dyrbye

In Family Practice

1. Tait D. Shanafelt
2. Colin P. West
3. Lotte N. Dyrbye

Citations in the corpus

• Big Data Analytics in Healthcare (2015, background): “This is important because studies continue to show that humans are poor in reasoning about changes affecting more than two signals [13–15].”
• Association of resident fatigue and distress with perceived medical errors. (2009, background): “As many as 50% of hospitalized patients may be affected by medical errors,(2,3) and the human and monetary costs of these events are great.(4,5) Numerous reports have implicated fatigue and sleepiness as contributors to medical errors.”
• Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study. (2006, background): “The morbidity, mortality, and financial costs of these events may be great.(9-13) Many reports on medical errors have focused on the rate at which errors affect patients.”
• Prospective Memory in Workplace and Everyday Situations (2012, background): “For example, Rothschild et al. (2005) found that 79 of 420 patients admitted for intensive care suffered one or more adverse medical events, of which 45% were judged to be preventable.”