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Today's Medical Headlines from AHRQ PSNet

• Applying aviation factors to oral and maxillofacial surgery—the human element.
• Finding and fixing diagnosis errors: can triggers help?
• The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation at 25: a pioneering success in safety, 25th anniversary provokes reflection, anticipation.
• Utilizing quality improvement methods to prevent falls and injury from falls: enhancing resident safety in long-term care.
• Effective discharge communication in the emergency department.
• Rapid response systems: identification and management of the "prearrest state."
• System-related interventions to reduce diagnostic errors: a narrative review.
• A prospective, multicenter study of pharmacist activities resulting in medication error interception in the emergency department.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality pediatric indicators as a quality metric for surgery in children: do they predict adverse outcomes?
• Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST).
• Chemotherapeutic errors in hospitalised cancer patients: attributable damage and extra costs.
• Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care.
• Patients' attitudes towards patient involvement in safety interventions: results of two exploratory studies.
• Quality indicators for implementation of safety promotion: towards valid and reliable global certification of local programmes.
• Workarounds in the use of IS in healthcare: a case study of an electronic medication administration system.
• Challenges in Oncology Medication Safety: Identifying Risk and Opportunity.
• Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines.
• Elderly Falls.
• AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals.
• Adverse Health Events in Minnesota: Eighth Annual Public Report.
• AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference.