"Patient Safety" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Efforts to reduce risk, to address and reduce incidents and accidents that may negatively impact healthcare consumers.
| Descriptor ID |
D061214
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.135.060.075.399
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Safety- Patient Safety
- Patient Safeties
- Safeties, Patient
- Safety, Patient
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Safety" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Safety" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2012 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
| 2014 | 11 | 10 | 21 |
| 2015 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2016 | 12 | 15 | 27 |
| 2017 | 13 | 9 | 22 |
| 2018 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 2019 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2020 | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| 2021 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Safety" by people in Profiles.
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Martins NRS, Martinez EZ, Sim?es CM, Barach PR, Carmona MJC. Analyzing and mitigating the risks of patient harm during operating room to intensive care unit patient handoffs. Int J Qual Health Care. 2025 Jan 17; 37(1).
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Tabaie A, Tran A, Calabria T, Bennett SS, Milicia A, Weintraub W, Gallagher WJ, Yosaitis J, Schubel LC, Hill MA, Smith KM, Miller K. Evaluation of a Natural Language Processing Approach to Identify Diagnostic Errors and Analysis of Safety Learning System Case Review Data: Retrospective Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Aug 26; 26:e50935.
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Uramatsu M, Kimura N, Kojima T, Fujisawa Y, Oto T, Barach P. Frontline nursing staff's perceptions of intravenous medication administration: the first step toward safer infusion processes-a qualitative study. BMJ Open Qual. 2024 Jun 27; 13(2).
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Sataloff RT, Ranjbar PA, Balouch B, Barna A, Al Omari AI, Martha V, Alnouri G. Overlapping otolaryngologic surgery: Safety and efficacy. Am J Otolaryngol. 2024 Jul-Aug; 45(4):104292.
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Perkons M, Wickersham A, Bharel S, Kuchera T, Jaffe R. Early Immersion in Team-Based Event Review: Experiential Patient Safety Education for PGY 1 Internal Medicine Residents. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11376.
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Li CJ, Nash DB. The Evolving Curriculum in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review. Am J Med Qual. 2022 Nov-Dec 01; 37(6):545-556.
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Barry JS, Swanson JR, Pearlman SA. Is medical error a crime? The impact of the State v. Vaught on patient safety. J Perinatol. 2022 09; 42(9):1271-1274.
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Wagner R, Weiss KB, Headrick LA, Sullivan AG, Clewett ER, Clements DS, Brigham TP, Arora S. Program Directors Patient Safety and Quality Educators Network: A Learning Collaborative to Improve Resident and Fellow Physician Engagement. J Grad Med Educ. 2022 08; 14(4):505-509.
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Olbrecht VA, Uffman JC, Morse RB, Engelhardt T, Tobias JD. Setting a universal standard: Should we benchmark quality outcomes for pediatric anesthesia care? Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 08; 32(8):892-898.
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Calem DB, Horan DP, Taylor MT, McEntee RM, Pedowitz DI, Emper WD, Ilyas AM. Use of Triggers to Detect Adverse Events After Outpatient Orthopedic Surgery at a Single Ambulatory Surgery Center. Orthopedics. 2022 Mar-Apr; 45(2):116-121.