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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...
What can hospitalized patients tell us about adverse events? Learning from patient-reported incidentsSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:830-6. 2005..Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to elicit incident reports from hospital inpatients in order to identify and characterize adverse events and near-miss errors...
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...- 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 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 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Who uses the patient internet portal? The PatientSite experienceSaul N Weingart
Stoneman Center for Quality Improvement, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:91-5. 2006..Although the patient Internet portal is a potentially transformative technology, there is little scientific information about the demographic and clinical characteristics of portal enrollees and the features that they access... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Lessons from a patient partnership intervention to prevent adverse drug eventsSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 16:499-507. 2004..Patient safety 'best practices' that call for patient participation to prevent adverse drug events have not been rigorously evaluated... - Patient-reported medication symptoms in primary careSaul N Weingart
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:234-40. 2005.... - 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... - Disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of careLenny Lopez
MDiv, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, Ninth Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1888-94. 2009..Little is known about how the characteristics of adverse events (AEs) affect the likelihood of disclosure or how the disclosure of an AE relates to patients' perception of quality of care... - Health coaching via an internet portal for primary care patients with chronic conditions: a randomized controlled trialSuzanne G Leveille
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
Med Care 47:41-7. 2009..Patient internet portals offer an efficient venue for coaching patients to discuss chronic conditions with their primary care physicians (PCP)... - Adverse drug events in ambulatory careTejal K Gandhi
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 348:1556-64. 2003..However, few data are available on adverse drug events among outpatients. We conducted a study to determine the rates, types, severity, and preventability of such events among outpatients and to identify preventive strategies... - Do medical inpatients who report poor service quality experience more adverse events and medical errors?Benjamin B Taylor
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 46:224-8. 2008..We hypothesized that patients who reported poor service quality were at increased risk of experiencing adverse events and medical errors... - Physicians' decisions to override computerized drug alerts in primary careSaul N Weingart
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Rose 112, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:2625-31. 2003..Although computerized physician order entry reduces medication errors among inpatients, little is known about the use of this system in primary care... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - Adverse events during hospitalization: results of a patient surveyFloyd J Fowler
Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:583-90. 2008.... - Beyond the comfort zone: residents assess their comfort performing inpatient medical proceduresGrace C Huang
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
Am J Med 119:71.e17-24. 2006..As a result, residents may be unskilled and uncomfortable performing procedures. This study characterizes residents' comfort performing medical procedures and identifies factors associated with lack of comfort... - Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribingTejal K Gandhi
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:837-41. 2005..Medication errors are common among inpatients and many are preventable with computerized prescribing. Relatively little is known about outpatient prescribing errors or the impact of computerized prescribing in this setting... - Overrides of medication alerts in ambulatory careThomas Isaac
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:305-11. 2009..Electronic prescribing systems with decision support may improve patient safety in ambulatory care by offering drug allergy and drug interaction alerts. However, preliminary studies show that clinicians override most of these alerts... - 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... - 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... - Asking for help: internal medicine residents' use of a medical procedure serviceGrace C Huang
Division of Primary Care and General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Hosp Med 4:404-9. 2009..Little is known about the professional help-seeking behavior of residents as they perform procedures in the hospital... - 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... - Factors associated with pain among ambulatory patients with cancer with advanced disease at a comprehensive cancer centerSherri O Stuver
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Oncol Pract 8:e17-23. 2012..To better understand the burden of pain among patients with advanced cancer, we examined the prevalence of pain reported during office and treatment visits... - Screening for chronic conditions using a patient internet portal: recruitment for an internet-based primary care interventionSuzanne G Leveille
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:472-5. 2008..Patient Internet portals have created new opportunities for assessment and management of chronic conditions... - 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.... - Creation of an innovative inpatient medical procedure service and a method to evaluate house staff competencyC Christopher Smith
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:510-3. 2004..The American Board of Internal Medicine requires substantiation of competence in procedure skills for all internal medicine residents; however, for most procedures, standards of competence do not exist... - Creating a quality improvement elective for medical house officersSaul N Weingart
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:861-7. 2004..The elective enrolled 26 residents in 3 years. Sixty-three percent of resident respondents said that the elective increased their understanding of QI in health care; 88% better understood QI in their own institution... - 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... - Using a multihospital survey to examine the safety cultureSaul N Weingart
Stoneman Center for Quality Improvement, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:125-32. 2004..A culture of safety survey was used to study features of the safety culture and their relationship with patient safety indicators... - Developing a high-performance team training framework for internal medicine residents: the ABC'S of teamworkAlexander R Carbo
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Patient Saf 7:72-6. 2011..We translated and adapted high-performance teamwork and communication principles from other industries and other disciplines to an inpatient internal medicine environment... - 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... - Discrepancies between explicit and implicit review: physician and nurse assessments of complications and qualitySaul N Weingart
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 37:483-98. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: We identified many discrepancies between explicit and implicit review of complications and quality. Physician reviewers may not consider process problems that are ubiquitous in hospitals to represent substandard quality... - Models of multidisciplinary cancer care: physician and patient perceptions in a comprehensive cancer centerCraig A Bunnell
Departments of Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
J Oncol Pract 6:283-8. 2010..The structure of such clinics and clinicians' perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of practicing in MDCs have not been well characterized... - NCCN Task Force Report: Oral chemotherapySaul N Weingart
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
J Natl Compr Canc Netw 6:S1-14. 2008..To address these issues, the NCCN convened a multidisciplinary task force consisting of oncologists, nurses, pharmacists, and payor representatives to discuss the impact of the increasing use of oral chemotherapy... - Looking for medical injuries where the light is brightSaul N Weingart
JAMA 290:1917-9. 2003 - Seeing error through new lensesSaul N Weingart
J Gen Intern Med 18:675-6. 2003 - Understanding of drug indications by ambulatory care patientsStephen D Persell
Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611 2927, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 61:2523-7. 2004..Patients' knowledge of the indications of their prescription medications was studied and those medications that were most likely to be taken without patients understanding the correct indication were identified... - Beyond Babel: prospects for a universal patient safety taxonomySaul N Weingart
Int J Qual Health Care 17:93-4. 2005
Research Grants
- Oral Chemotherapy Safety in Ambulatory Oncology: A Proactive Risk AssessmentSAUL WEINGART; Fiscal Year: 2007..As the use of oral chemotherapy grows, the results of this study may inform practice at a critical time. Lessons about oral chemotherapy safety are applicable to other high-alert medications in ambulatory care. ..