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Today's Medical Headlines from AHRQ PSNet

• Bedside shift report improves patient safety and nurse accountability.
• Do not put medication safety "on hold" with boarded patients.
• Through and beyond anaesthesia awareness.
• What is patient safety culture? A review of the literature.
• A systems approach to morbidity and mortality conference.
• Adverse drug events in the outpatient setting: an 11-year national analysis.
• Barriers to incident notification in a regional prehospital setting.
• Patient handovers within the hospital: translating knowledge from motor racing to healthcare.
• Physicians' perceptions, preparedness for reporting, and experiences related to impaired and incompetent colleagues.
• Repeat medication errors in nursing homes: contributing factors and their association with patient harm.
• Revisiting old slides—how worthwhile is it?
• Swapping horses midstream: factors related to physicians' changing their minds about a diagnosis.
• To think is good: querying an initial hypothesis reduces diagnostic error in medical students.
• US public opinion regarding proposed limits on resident physician work hours.
• Creating a Patient Safety Strategy for Your Hospital Workshop.
• Just Culture Public Course.
• Computerized order entry systems may miss medication errors.
• Prone to error: earliest steps to find cancer.
• AdvocateDirectory.org.
• SafeMedicationUse.ca.
• Patient Safety Research Fellowship Award.
• Creating a Patient and Family Advisory Council.