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Enhancing safety reporting in adult ambulatory oncology with a clinician champion: a practice innovationSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA saul
J Nurs Care Qual 24:203-10. 2009..By identifying errors and worrisome conditions, it may help managers identify problems before they lead to harm...- Clinicians' assessments of electronic medication safety alerts in ambulatory careSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1627-32. 2009..We undertook a study of respondents' satisfaction with e-prescribing systems, their perceptions of alerts, and their perceptions of behavior changes resulting from alerts... 
Patient-reported safety and quality of care in outpatient oncologySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:83-94. 2007..Although patients suffer the effects of medical errors and iatrogenic injuries, little is known about their ability to recognize these events in ambulatory specialty care...- Medication errors involving oral chemotherapySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer 116:2455-64. 2010..Given the expanding use of oral chemotherapies, the authors set out to examine errors in the prescribing, dispensing, administration, and monitoring of these drugs... 
Incidence of severe pain in newly diagnosed ambulatory patients with stage IV cancerThomas Isaac
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Pain Res Manag 17:347-52. 2012..Pain is common among cancer patients...- Hospitalized patients' participation and its impact on quality of care and patient safetySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 23:269-77. 2011..To understand the extent to which hospitalized patients participate in their care, and the association of patient participation with quality of care and patient safety... - An empirical model to estimate the potential impact of medication safety alerts on patient safety, health care utilization, and cost in ambulatory careSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1465-73. 2009..Because ambulatory care clinicians override as many as 91% of drug interaction alerts, the potential benefit of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) with decision support is uncertain... - Can we rely on patients' reports of adverse events?Junya Zhu
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Boston, MA 02215 5450, USA
Med Care 49:948-55. 2011..Evidence suggests that patients can report a variety of adverse events (AEs) not captured by traditional methods such as a chart review. Little is known, however, about whether patient reports are useful for measuring patient safety... - A longitudinal study of pain variability and its correlates in ambulatory patients with advanced stage cancerJunya Zhu
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 5450, USA
Cancer 118:6278-86. 2012.... - What constitutes patient safety culture in Chinese hospitals?Junya Zhu
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215 5450, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 24:250-7. 2012.... - Rating recommendations for consumers about patient safety: sense, common sense, or nonsense?Saul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:206-15. 2009..Although many organizations offer advice about the consumer's role in improving patient safety, little is known about these recommendations... - The You CAN campaign: teamwork training for patients and families in ambulatory oncologySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:63-71. 2009..DISCUSSION: A training program for patients and their families is feasible in ambulatory oncology and may be applicable to other clinical settings... - Assessing the quality of pain care in ambulatory patients with advanced stage cancerSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 43:1072-81. 2012..Pain is common among patients with advanced cancer despite the dissemination of clinical pain care guidelines... - US Cancer Center Implementation of ASCO/Oncology Nursing Society Chemotherapy Administration Safety StandardsSaul N Weingart
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
J Oncol Pract 8:7-12. 2012..We sought to assess the implementation status of the ASCO/ONS chemotherapy administration safety standards... - Assessing the value of electronic prescribing in ambulatory care: a focus group studySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Med Inform 78:571-8. 2009..We sought to understand the reasons for adoption and use of e-prescribing, as well as clinicians' complaints about and perceived benefits of drug allergy and interaction alerts... - Electronic drug interaction alerts in ambulatory care: the value and acceptance of high-value alerts in US medical practices as assessed by an expert clinical panelSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Drug Saf 34:587-93. 2011..Computerized physician order entry systems are known to improve patient safety in acute-care hospitals. However, as clinicians frequently override drug interaction and allergy alerts, their value in ambulatory care remains uncertain... - Medication reconciliation in ambulatory oncologySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:750-7. 2007..Few models for medication reconciliation in ambulatory primary or specialty care have been described, perhaps because of the special challenges posed by this environment... - Process of care failures in breast cancer diagnosisSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:702-9. 2009..Process of care failures may contribute to diagnostic errors in breast cancer care... - Medication safety messages for patients via the web portal: the MedCheck interventionSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Med Inform 77:161-8. 2008..Accordingly, the goal of this study was to learn whether electronic medication safety messages directed to patients can improve communication about medications and identify ADEs... - Identifying women at risk of delayed breast cancer diagnosisSherri O Stuver
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:568-75. 2011..Delays in breast cancer diagnosis contribute to increased morbidity and mortality. Factors related to the occurrence of delayed diagnosis have not been well studied... - Medication safety of five oral chemotherapies: a proactive risk assessmentSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
J Oncol Pract 7:2-6. 2011..Oral chemotherapies represent an emerging risk area in ambulatory oncology practice. To examine the hazards associated with five oral chemotherapies, we performed a proactive risk assessment... - Comparing patient-reported hospital adverse events with medical record review: do patients know something that hospitals do not?Joel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:100-8. 2008..Hospitals routinely survey patients about the quality of care they receive, but little is known about whether patient interviews can detect adverse events that medical record reviews do not... - Oral chemotherapy safety practices at US cancer centres: questionnaire surveySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
BMJ 334:407. 2007..To characterise current safety practices for the use of oral chemotherapy... - Patient-reported service quality on a medicine unitSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 18:95-101. 2006..Most studies rely on retrospective consumer surveys rather then more intensive data collection methods, possibly underestimating the incidence of service quality incidents...