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Volume 36 | Issue 9 | September 2010

Features

Performance Improvement
Improving and Sustaining Core Measure Performance Through Effective Accountability of Clinical Microsystems in an Academic Medical Center
Kim Pardini-Kiely, M.S., R.N.; Elizabeth Greenlee, D.H.A., R.N.; Joseph Hopkins, M.D., M.M.M.; Nancy L. Szaflarski, Ph.D., R.N.; Kevin Tabb, M.D. 

Reporting Systems
Editorial: The Elephant of Patient Safety: What You See Depends on How You Look 
Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D.

Integrating Incident Data from Five Reporting Systems to Assess Patient Safety: Making Sense of the Elephant
Osnat Levtzion-Korach, M.D., M.H.A.; Allan Frankel, M.D.; Hanna Alcalai, B.P.T, M.H.A.; Carol Keohane B.S.N., R.N.; John Orav, Ph.D.; Erin Graydon-Baker, M.S., R.R.T.; Janet Barnes, R.N., J.D., C.P.H.R.M.; Kathleen Gordon, M.S.N., M.S.; Anne Louise Puopulo, B.S.N., R.N.; Elena Ivanova Tomov, M.B.A.; Luke Sato, M.D.; David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. 

Infection Prevention and Control
A Comparison of Methods to Detect Urinary Tract Infections Using Electronic Data 
Timothy Landers, C.N.P., Ph.D.; Mandar Apte, M.B.B.S., Ms.P.H.; Sandra Hyman, R.N., M.P.A., C.I.C.; Yoko Furuya, M.D., M.S.; Sherry Glied, Ph.D.; Elaine Larson, R.N., Ph.D.

Back to Basics: Four Years of Sustained Improvement in Implementation of Contact Precautions at a University Hospital
Emily Landon Mawdsley, M.D.; Sylvia Garcia-Houchins, R.N., M.B.A., C.I.C.; Stephen G. Weber, M.D., M.S.

Departments
Tool Tutorial
Code Debriefing from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Team Training Program Improves the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Code Process
Katherine B. Percarpio, M.S.; Fonda S. Harris, R.N., M.S.N.; Betty Ann Hatfield, R.N.; Barbara Dunlap, R.R.T., C.P.F.T.; Walter E. Diekroger, M.Div., B.C.C.; Pamela D. Nichols, C.P.H.Q.; Lisa M. Mazzia, M.D.; Peter D. Mills, Ph.D., M.S.; Julia B. Neily, R.N., M.S., M.P.H.

Letters to the Editor
Making It Easier to Get It Right: Successful Prevention of Air-Oxygen Misconnections in Hospitals

A Tale of Two H.I.P.S.

 

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