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| Eric J ThomasSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Translating teamwork behaviours from aviation to healthcare: development of behavioural markers for neonatal resuscitationE 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...- The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: a randomized trial of clinical units[ISRCTN85147255] [corrected]Eric J Thomas
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 5:28. 2005..Therefore, we measured the impact of EWRs on one important part of safety culture -- provider attitudes about the safety climate in the institution... - Team training in the neonatal resuscitation program for interns: teamwork and quality of resuscitationsEric J Thomas
6410 Fannin St, UPB 1100, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatrics 125:539-46. 2010..Our objective was to evaluate whether interns who received a 2-hour teamwork training intervention with the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) demonstrated more teamwork and higher quality resuscitations than control subjects... - Measuring errors and adverse events in health careEric J Thomas
The Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Division of General Medicine, and Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Houston Medical School, 77030, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:61-7. 2003..We propose a general framework to help health care providers, researchers, and administrators choose the most appropriate methods to meet their patient safety measurement goals... - Association of telemedicine for remote monitoring of intensive care patients with mortality, complications, and length of stayEric J Thomas
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
JAMA 302:2671-8. 2009..Telemedicine technology, which can enable intensivists to simultaneously monitor several intensive care units (ICUs) from an off-site location, is increasingly common, but there is little evidence to support its use... - Teamwork and quality during neonatal care in the delivery roomE 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... - A comparison of iatrogenic injury studies in Australia and the USA. I: Context, methods, casemix, population, patient and hospital characteristicsE 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%... - Teaching teamwork during the Neonatal Resuscitation Program: a randomized trialE 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... - The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICUJochen Profit
Section of Neonatology, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Baylor College of Medicine, VA HSR and D, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F127-32. 2012..Little information is available on the use of the SAQ for this purpose in the NICU setting... - The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging researchJohn B Sexton
The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, The University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:44. 2006..Here we report the psychometric properties, establish benchmarking data, and discuss emerging areas of research with the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire... - Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory versionIsitri Modak
Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1-5. 2007..Provider attitudes about issues pertinent to patient safety may be related to errors and adverse events. We know of no instruments that measure safety-related attitudes in the outpatient setting... - Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physiciansEric J Thomas
University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, USA
Crit Care Med 31:956-9. 2003..These findings may be the result of the differences in status/authority, responsibilities, gender, training, and nursing and physician cultures... - Error disclosure: a new domain for safety culture assessmentJASON M ETCHEGARAY
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6410 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:594-9. 2012.... - Job satisfaction ratings: measurement equivalence across nurses and physiciansJASON M ETCHEGARAY
The University of Texas at Houston Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, Houston, TX 77030, USA
West J Nurs Res 32:530-9. 2010..This implication needs to be extended to other survey measures of interest to health services researchers. Future areas of research are discussed... - Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widelyJochen Profit
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, VA HSR and D, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F120-6. 2012..Variation in healthcare delivery and outcomes in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) may be partly explained by differences in safety culture... - Measuring social support for weight loss in an internet weight loss communityKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Health Commun 16:198-211. 2011.... - Explanations for unsuccessful weight loss among bariatric surgery candidatesKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Obes Surg 19:1377-83. 2009..Our objective was to analyze subjective explanations for unsuccessful weight loss among bariatric surgery candidates... - Notification of abnormal lab test results in an electronic medical record: do any safety concerns remain?Hardeep Singh
Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Med 123:238-44. 2010..We examined whether automated notifications of abnormal laboratory results (alerts) in an integrated electronic medical record resulted in timely follow-up actions... - Missed and delayed diagnoses in the ambulatory setting: a study of closed malpractice claimsTejal K Gandhi
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:488-96. 2006..Awareness of the most common types of breakdowns and factors could help efforts to identify and prioritize strategies to prevent diagnostic errors... - Errors of diagnosis in pediatric practice: a multisite surveyHardeep Singh
Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Pediatrics 126:70-9. 2010..We surveyed pediatricians to elicit their perceptions regarding frequency, contributing factors, and potential system- and provider-based solutions to address diagnostic errors... - Acceptability of narratives to promote colorectal cancer screening in an online communityKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine and the University of Texas Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Prev Med 54:405-7. 2012..To assess the acceptability of narratives to promote colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among members of an online weight loss community... - A tale of 2 hospitals: a staggered cohort study of targeted interventions to improve compliance with antibiotic prophylaxis guidelinesLillian S Kao
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77026, USA
Surgery 148:255-62. 2010..The purpose of this prospective study was to determine the effectiveness of targeted interventions to improve compliance with antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines (timing, spectrum, and discontinuation) at 2 university-affiliated hospitals... - Electronic health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary careHardeep Singh
Houston VA HSR and D Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:93-100. 2012..Diagnostic errors in primary care are harmful but difficult to detect. The authors tested an electronic health record (EHR)-based method to detect diagnostic errors in routine primary care practice... - Revealing and resolving patient safety defects: the impact of leadership WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of patient safetyAllan Frankel
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Serv Res 43:2050-66. 2008..To evaluate the impact of rigorous WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of safety climate, and to clarify the steps and implementation of rigorous WalkRounds... - Screening for obstructive sleep apnea on the internet: randomized trialKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med 122:961.e1-6. 2009..Obstructive sleep apnea is underdiagnosed. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of an online intervention to promote obstructive sleep apnea screening among members of an Internet weight-loss community... - Medical errors involving trainees: a study of closed malpractice claims from 5 insurersHardeep Singh
Health Policy and Quality Program, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston, Texas, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2030-6. 2007..To describe the characteristics of and factors contributing to trainee errors, we analyzed malpractice claims in which trainees were judged to have played an important role in harmful errors... - Comparing two safety culture surveys: safety attitudes questionnaire and hospital survey on patient safetyJASON M ETCHEGARAY
University of Texas Medical School, University of Texas, Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, 6410 Fannin St, UTPB 1100 45, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:490-8. 2012..Also to determine the ability to convert HSOPS scores to SAQ scores... - Timely follow-up of abnormal diagnostic imaging test results in an outpatient setting: are electronic medical records achieving their potential?Hardeep Singh
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service, Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1578-86. 2009.... - Costs and cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine intensive care unit program in 6 intensive care units in a large health care systemLuisa Franzini
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Crit Care 26:329.e1-6. 2011..The purpose of this study is to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine intensive care unit (ICU) (tele-ICU) program... - Reasons for after-hours calls by hospital floor nurses to on-call physiciansElmer V Bernstam
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science at Houston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:342-9. 2007..A study was conducted to determine the reasons for calls made by nurses working on the general medical wards to on-call physicians from 6:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M... - Working together in the neonatal intensive care unit: provider perspectivesEric J Thomas
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, TX, USA
J Perinatol 24:552-9. 2004..The organizational factors, often far removed from bedside, should be considered when evaluating how providers work together... - Workflow in intensive care unit remote monitoring: A time-and-motion studyZhihua Tang
School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Crit Care Med 35:2057-63. 2007..To investigate workflow in intensive care unit remote monitoring, a technology-driven practice that allows critical care specialists to perform proactive and continuous patient care from a remote site... - Negligent care and malpractice claiming behavior in Utah and ColoradoD 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... - Exploring situational awareness in diagnostic errors in primary careHardeep Singh
VA Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:30-8. 2012.... - Navigating towards improved surgical safety using aviation-based strategiesLillian S Kao
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 62008, USA
J Surg Res 145:327-35. 2008..Avenues and challenges for future research are also discussed... - Social support in an Internet weight loss communityKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6410 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J Med Inform 79:5-13. 2010..To describe social support for weight loss shared by members of a large Internet weight loss community... - Understanding diagnostic errors in medicine: a lesson from aviationH 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... - Hospital ownership and preventable adverse eventsE 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... - Incidence and types of preventable adverse events in elderly patients: population based review of medical recordsE 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... - Incidence and types of adverse events and negligent care in Utah and ColoradoE 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... - Identifying and addressing medical errors in pain mismanagementP 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... - Lessons from aviation: teamwork to improve patient safetyEric J Thomas
Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
Nurs Econ 21:241-3. 2003 - Tele-ICU: experience to dateCraig M Lilly
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Clinical and the Population Health Research Program, University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
J Intensive Care Med 25:16-22. 2010..Tele-ICU is thought to have great promise to support critically ill adults... - Missed and delayed diagnoses in the emergency department: a study of closed malpractice claims from 4 liability insurersAllen Kachalia
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:196-205. 2007..Diagnostic errors in the emergency department (ED) are an important patient safety concern, but little is known about their cause. We identify types and causes of missed or delayed diagnoses in the ED... - The reliability of medical record review for estimating adverse event ratesEric J Thomas
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 136:812-6. 2002.... - Identifying diagnostic errors in primary care using an electronic screening algorithmHardeep Singh
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:302-8. 2007..Our objectives were to assess the feasibility of computerized screening to identify diagnostic errors in primary care and to categorize diagnostic breakdowns using a recently published taxonomy... - Impact of resident duty hour limits on safety in the intensive care unit: a national survey of pediatric and neonatal intensivistsKatri V Typpo
Houston VA HSR and D Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 13:578-82. 2012..We sought to understand how current or future regulatory changes might impact safety in academic pediatric and neonatal intensive care units... - Measures and measurement of high-performance work systems in health care settings: Propositions for improvementJASON M ETCHEGARAY
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, The University of Texas Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, Houston TX, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 36:38-46. 2011..Given that non-health care research has demonstrated many positive outcomes for organizations using high-performance work systems (HPWSs), a closer examination of HPWSs in health care settings is warranted... - Quality of weight loss advice on internet forumsKevin O Hwang
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med 120:604-9. 2007..Adults use the Internet for weight loss information, sometimes by participating in discussion forums. Our purpose was to analyze the quality of advice exchanged on these forums... - Compliance with guidelines to prevent surgical site infections: As simple as 1-2-3?Derek W Meeks
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Surg 201:76-83. 2011..the purpose of this study was to assess predictive factors and compliance with surgical site infection (SSI) prevention guidelines at 2 county hospitals... - The impact of a tele-ICU on provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climateM 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)... - Right heart catheterization and cardiac complications in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: an observational studyC A Polanczyk
Partners Community HealthCare Inc, Suite 1150, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02199, USA
JAMA 286:309-14. 2001..Right heart catheterization (RHC) is commonly performed before high-risk noncardiac surgery, but the benefit of this strategy remains unproven... - Teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitationA 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... - Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnelJ Bryan Sexton
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anesthesiology 105:877-84. 2006..This tool and initial benchmarks allow others to compare their teamwork climate to national means, in an effort to focus more on what excellent surgical teams do well... - John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. An interview with Eric Thomas. Interview by Kenneth I. ShineEric J Thomas
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:717-9. 2007 - Impact of the National Practitioner Data Bank on resolution of malpractice claimsTeresa M Waters
Center for Health Services Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Inquiry 40:283-94. 2003..Because this disruption appears to have decreased the proportion of questionable claims receiving compensation, the NPDB actually may have increased overall tort system specificity... - How best to improve patient safety?Eric J Thomas
JAMA 288:697; discuission 697-8. 2002 - Malpractice claims: finding the silver liningEric J Thomas
South Med J 98:1065. 2005 - Patient safety problems in adolescent medical careDonna M Woods
Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:5-12. 2006..This study estimates the annual incidence and describes the nature, types, and contributing factors involved in patient safety problems in adolescent medical care... - Ambulatory care adverse events and preventable adverse events leading to a hospital admissionDonna M Woods
Institute for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 16:127-31. 2007..Most healthcare in the US is delivered in the ambulatory care setting, but the epidemiology of errors and adverse events in ambulatory care is understudied... - The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum announce the 2007 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality AwardsFlaura Koplin Winston
Jt Comm Perspect 27:1, 3-4. 2007
Research Grants
- Measuring the Value of Romote ICU MonitoringEric Thomas; Fiscal Year: 2006..4. To measure changes in healthcare provider attitudes about teamwork and safety climate after implementation of the tele-ICU. ..
- Using Electronic Records to Detect and Learn from Ambulatory Diagnostic ErrorsEric Thomas; Fiscal Year: 2007..Refining and validating triggers for diagnostic errors in diverse primary care settings would set the stage for their use nationally in quality measurement and improvement activities. ..