E J Thomas

Summary

Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Incidence and types of adverse events and negligent care in Utah and Colorado
    E J Thomas
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Med Care 38:261-71. 2000
  2. ncbi Incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients: population based review of medical records
    E J Thomas
    University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section for Clinical Epidemiology, 6431 Fannin MSB 1 122, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    BMJ 320:741-4. 2000
  3. ncbi Hospital ownership and preventable adverse events
    E J Thomas
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 15:211-9. 2000
  4. ncbi Negligent care and malpractice claiming behavior in Utah and Colorado
    D M Studdert
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Med Care 38:250-60. 2000
  5. ncbi A comparison of iatrogenic injury studies in Australia and the USA. I: Context, methods, casemix, population, patient and hospital characteristics
    E J Thomas
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Int J Qual Health Care 12:371-8. 2000
  6. ncbi The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate
    M Y L Chu-Weininger
    School of Health InformationSciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:e39. 2010
  7. ncbi Teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitation
    A L Williams
    Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:60-4. 2010
  8. ncbi Formal selection of measures for a composite index of NICU quality of care: Baby-MONITOR
    J Profit
    Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
    J Perinatol 31:702-10. 2011
  9. ncbi Identifying and addressing medical errors in pain mismanagement
    P L Starck
    University of Texas Houston Health Science Center School of Nursing, 1100 Holcombe Blvd, Suite 5 500, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Improv 27:191-9. 2001
  10. ncbi Translating teamwork behaviours from aviation to healthcare: development of behavioural markers for neonatal resuscitation
    E J Thomas
    The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology, Human Factors Research Project, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 13:i57-64. 2004

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Incidence and types of adverse events and negligent care in Utah and Colorado
    E J Thomas
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Med Care 38:261-71. 2000
    ..The generalizability of these findings is unknown and has been questioned by other studies...
  2. ncbi Incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients: population based review of medical records
    E J Thomas
    University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section for Clinical Epidemiology, 6431 Fannin MSB 1 122, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    BMJ 320:741-4. 2000
    ..To determine the incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients...
  3. ncbi Hospital ownership and preventable adverse events
    E J Thomas
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 15:211-9. 2000
    ..To determine if type of hospital ownership is associated with preventable adverse events...
  4. ncbi Negligent care and malpractice claiming behavior in Utah and Colorado
    D M Studdert
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Med Care 38:250-60. 2000
    ..These studies are based on data from 2 of the most populous states (California and New York), collected more than a decade ago, during volatile periods in the history of malpractice litigation...
  5. ncbi A comparison of iatrogenic injury studies in Australia and the USA. I: Context, methods, casemix, population, patient and hospital characteristics
    E J Thomas
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Int J Qual Health Care 12:371-8. 2000
    ..The Quality in Australian Health Care Study (QAHCS) reported that 16.6% of admissions were associated with adverse events (AE), whereas the Utah, Colorado Study (UTCOS) reported a rate of 2.9%...
  6. ncbi The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate
    M Y L Chu-Weininger
    School of Health InformationSciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:e39. 2010
    ..To measure teamwork and safety climate in three intensive care units (ICUs) before and after remote monitoring by intensivists using telemedicine technology (tele-ICU)...
  7. ncbi Teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitation
    A L Williams
    Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:60-4. 2010
    ..To describe relationships between teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitation...
  8. ncbi Formal selection of measures for a composite index of NICU quality of care: Baby-MONITOR
    J Profit
    Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
    J Perinatol 31:702-10. 2011
    ..To systematically rate measures of care quality for very low birth weight infants for inclusion into Baby-MONITOR, a composite indicator of quality...
  9. ncbi Identifying and addressing medical errors in pain mismanagement
    P L Starck
    University of Texas Houston Health Science Center School of Nursing, 1100 Holcombe Blvd, Suite 5 500, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Improv 27:191-9. 2001
    ..CONCLUSION: A new approach to the unsolved problem of pain management in acute care settings is proposed; this approach uses the concept of mismanagement as a medical error...
  10. ncbi Translating teamwork behaviours from aviation to healthcare: development of behavioural markers for neonatal resuscitation
    E J Thomas
    The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology, Human Factors Research Project, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 13:i57-64. 2004
    ..These markers are compared with those developed by other groups. Future research should determine the relations among these behaviours and errors, and test their usefulness in measuring the impact of team training interventions...
  11. ncbi Teamwork and quality during neonatal care in the delivery room
    E J Thomas
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Perinatol 26:163-9. 2006
    ..Experts believe good teamwork among health care providers may improve quality. We sought to measure the frequency of team behaviors during delivery room care and to explore how these behaviors relate to the quality of care...
  12. ncbi Understanding diagnostic errors in medicine: a lesson from aviation
    H Singh
    Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 15:159-64. 2006
    ..Further research is needed, including the measurement of situational awareness and correlation with health outcomes...
  13. ncbi Teaching teamwork during the Neonatal Resuscitation Program: a randomized trial
    E J Thomas
    The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Perinatol 27:409-14. 2007
    ..We hypothesized that teams that received the new course would exhibit more teamwork behaviors than those in the standard NRP course...
  14. ncbi Variation in caregiver perceptions of teamwork climate in labor and delivery units
    J B Sexton
    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Perinatol 26:463-70. 2006
    ..To test the psychometric soundness of a teamwork climate survey in labor and delivery, examine differences in perceptions of teamwork, and provide benchmarking data...
  15. ncbi Defining and classifying medical error: lessons for patient safety reporting systems
    M Tamuz
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Center for Health Services Research, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 13:13-20. 2004
    ..It is important for healthcare providers to report safety related events, but little attention has been paid to how the definition and classification of events affects a hospital's ability to learn from its experience...
  16. ncbi Anatomy of a patient safety event: a pediatric patient safety taxonomy
    D M Woods
    Institute for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:422-7. 2005
    ..Agreement on standard language and frameworks is needed for optimal improvement and dissemination of knowledge about patient safety...