Starting Points for the Psychiatrist
Patient Safety and Psychiatry, Recommendations to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association, A Task Force Report, Approved by the Board of Trustees, November 2002 (PDF)
Focusing on Quality of Care, Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatric Services 55:263, 2004. (See commentary of Discussant 4) (PDF)
Patient Safety Forum: Examining the Evidence - Do we know if psychiatric inpatients are being harmed by errors? What level of confidence should we have in data on the absence or presence of unintended harm? Psychiatric Services, Volume 54, Number 12, pp 1599-1603, 2004. (PDF)
- Evidence of a Problem, David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. (research base on medication errors)
- Contributing Factors, Miles F. Shore, M.D. (the medical field's attitudes toward errors)
- The Need for Data, Rosemary Gibson (the patient's perspective on errors)
- Challenges Ahead, Charles Bosk, Ph.D. (formulating an approach to change)
AHRQ Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web