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Managing to improve quality: the relationship between accreditation standards, safety practices, and patient outcomesDeirdre K Thornlow
School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 34:262-72. 2009..Little evidence exists, however, that patient safety practices, as evaluated using accreditation criteria, are related to the achievement of patient safety outcomes...- Cascade iatrogenesis: factors leading to the development of adverse events in hospitalized older adultsDeirdre K Thornlow
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Nursing, 307 Trent Dr, Durham, NC 27710, United States
Int J Nurs Stud 46:1528-35. 2009..We believe that this model will help guide research in this area and enable clinicians to identify systemic failures and develop targeted interventions to prevent their occurrence... - A necessary sea change for nurse faculty development: spotlight on quality and safetyDeirdre K Thornlow
University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA
J Prof Nurs 26:71-81. 2010.... 
Increased risk for patient safety incidents in hospitalized older adultsDeirdre K Thornlow
Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA
Medsurg Nurs 18:287-91. 2009..In this article, rates of patient safety incidents for hospitalized older adults are described and adverse events for which older adults might be at particular risk are identified...- Can we make postoperative patient handovers safer? A systematic review of the literatureNoa Segall
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3094, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Anesth Analg 115:102-15. 2012..An association between poor-quality handovers and adverse events was also demonstrated. More innovative research is needed to define optimal patient handovers and to determine the effect of handover quality on patient outcomes... - Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settingsDeirdre K Thornlow
School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Annu Rev Nurs Res 26:195-218. 2008.... - The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse eventsDeirdre K Thornlow
University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA 22309, USA
Med Care 44:265-9. 2006....