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| Rollin J FairbanksSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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Hazards with medical devices: the role of designRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 52:519-21. 2008- Usability study of two common defibrillators reveals hazardsRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:424-32. 2007..This usability study evaluates the user interface of 2 common monitor-defibrillators, the Lifepak10 and Lifepak12, to identify use-related hazards... - Emergency medical services provider perceptions of the nature of adverse events and near-misses in out-of-hospital care: an ethnographic viewRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:633-40. 2008..The objectives were to examine the perceptions of emergency medical services (EMS) providers regarding near-misses and adverse events in out-of-hospital care... 
Medical and nursing staff highly value clinical pharmacists in the emergency departmentRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Emerg Med J 24:716-8. 2007..Staff acceptance is clearly not a barrier to implementation of this programme...- Emergency department communication links and patternsRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:396-406. 2007..We characterize and describe the communication links and patterns between and within emergency department (ED) practitioner types... - Epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Rochester, New YorkRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States
Resuscitation 72:415-24. 2007..To characterize out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and factors that affect survival in a medium sized city that uses system status management for dispatch... - Ambulance personnel perceptions of near misses and adverse events in pediatric patientsJeremy T Cushman
University of Rochester, Department of Emergency Medicine, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA jeremy
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:477-84. 2010..To identify emergency medical services (EMS) provider perceptions of factors that may affect the occurrence, identification, reporting, and reduction of near misses and adverse events in the pediatric EMS patient... - Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:e27-31. 2007..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest... - Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:350-4. 2006..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest... - Description and evaluation of a pilot physician-directed emergency medical services diversion control programManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:54-60. 2006..To describe the characteristics and feasibility of a physician-directed ambulance destination-control program to reduce emergency department (ED) overcrowding, as measured by hospital ambulance diversion hours... - Validation of using EMS dispatch codes to identify low-acuity patientsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:24-31. 2005..To validate the predictive ability of previously derived emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch codes to identify patients with low-acuity illnesses... - Emergency medical service attitudes toward geriatric prehospital care and continuing medical education in geriatricsLars Kristofer N Peterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Prehospital Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:530-5. 2009.... - Identification of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest clusters using a geographic information systemE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:81-4. 2005.... - An emergency medical services program to promote the health of older adultsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:956-62. 2006..To evaluate the feasibility and effect of an emergency medical services (EMS) program that screened, educated, and referred older adults with unmet needs... - Association between poor sleep, fatigue, and safety outcomes in emergency medical services providersP Daniel Patterson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:86-97. 2012..To determine the association between poor sleep quality, fatigue, and self-reported safety outcomes among emergency medical services (EMS) workers... 
Advanced medical simulation applications for emergency medicine microsystems evaluation and trainingLeo Kobayashi
Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:1058-70. 2008....- The association between EMS workplace safety culture and safety outcomesMatthew D Weaver
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:43-52. 2012..Prior studies have highlighted wide variation in emergency medical services (EMS) workplace safety culture across agencies... - Poor interface design and lack of usability testing facilitate medical errorRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:579-84. 2004.... - Development of a simulation environment to study emergency department information technologyPriyadarshini R Pennathur
Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sisters Charity Hospital, St Joseph Campus, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Simul Healthc 5:103-11. 2010..The architecture integrates discrete event simulation modeling with clinical patient information. Evaluation components for electronic patient tracking system displays are also described... - The epidemiology of emergency medical services use by older adults: an analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care SurveyManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:441-7. 2007..To characterize older adult emergency department (ED) visits arriving by emergency medical services (EMS) and to identify factors associated with those patient visits... - Care without coverage: is there a relationship between insurance and ED care?Faber A White
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Emerg Med 32:159-65. 2007..In this pilot study of high-acuity patients, there was limited evidence of differences in most measures of ED-based patient care on the basis of insurance status... - Profiles in patient safety: misplaced femoral line guidewire and multiple failures to detect the foreign body on chest radiographyTimothy E Lum
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY 14642, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:658-62. 2005..The authors conclude that the design of the catheter kit and the Seldinger technique should be critically examined from a human factors standpoint and that radiographic interpretation is still heavily subject to human error... - Tort claims and adverse events in emergency medical servicesHenry E Wang
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann Emerg Med 52:256-62. 2008..The objective of the study is to characterize the types, frequencies, and outcomes of adverse events associated with insurance tort claims against EMS providers... - Emergency department digital radiology: moving from photos to pixelsFaber A White
MBA, Department of Emergency Medicine, 601 Elmwood, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:1213-22. 2004..Despite the unresolved issues, digital radiology will mature as a technology and improve EM practice, making it one of the great information technology advances in EM... - Association of pain score documentation and analgesic use in a pediatric emergency departmentKathryn M Kellogg
Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 28:1287-92. 2012..This study characterizes the association between pain score documentation and analgesic administration among pediatric emergency department patients... - Clinical pharmacy services in an emergency departmentRollin J Fairbanks
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 61:934-7. 2004 - Programmable infusion pumps in ICUs: an analysis of corresponding adverse drug eventsTeryl K Nuckols
THE RAND CORPORATION, Santa Monica, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:41-5. 2008..Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) frequently experience adverse drug events involving intravenous medications (IV-ADEs), which are often preventable... - Medical error and human factors engineering: where are we now?Valerie J Gawron
General Dynamics, and Industrial Engineering Department, State University of New York, New York at Buffalo, NY 14225, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:57-67. 2006..Finally, we describe studies that have examined medical error, and on the basis of these studies, present conclusions about how human factors engineering can significantly reduce medical errors and their effects...