Developing and implementing new safe practices: voluntary adoption through statewide collaboratives. Leape LL, Rogers G, Hanna D, Griswold P, Federico F, Fenn CA, Bates DW, Kirle L, Clarridge BR. Qual Safe Health Care. 2006 Aug; 15(4):289-95. Full text.

Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond? Mazur KM, Reed GW, Yood RA, Fischer MA, Baril J, Gurwitz JH. J Gen Intern Med . 2006 Jul;21(7):704-10. Full text.

The "To Err is Human" report and the patient safety literature. Stelfox HT, Palmisani S, Scurlock C, Orav EJ, Bates DW. Qual Saf Health Care . 2006 Jun;15(3):174-8. Full text.

Pediatric medication safety and the media: what does the public see? Stebbing C, Kaushal R, Bates DW. Pediatrics. 2006 Jun;117(6):1907-14. Full text.

Adverse drug events occurring following hospital discharge. Forster AJ, Murff HJ, Peterson JF, Gandhi TK, Bates DW. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Apr;20(4):317-23. Full text.

Prescribers' responses to alerts during medication ordering in the long term care setting. Judge J, Field TS, Deflorio M, Laprino J, Auger J, Rochon P, Bates DW, Gurwitz JH. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Apr 18; Full text.

Full disclosure and apology—an idea whose time has come. Leape LL. Physician Exec. 2006 Mar-Apr;32:11-14. Full text.

When things go wrong: responding to adverse events. A Consensus Statement of the Harvard Hospitals. Burlington: Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors. Full text .

Role of pharmacist counseling in preventing adverse drug events after hospitalization. Schnipper JL, Kirwin JL, Cotugno, Wahlstrom SA, Brown BA, Tarvin E, Horng M, Roy CL, Mckean SC, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2006 Mar 13;166(5):565-71.

Serious adverse drug effects -- Seeing the trees through the forest. Gurwitz JH. New Engl J Med. 2006 Mar 1;354(13):1413-15. Full text.

Recovery from medical errors: the critical care nursing safety net. Rothschild JM, Hurley AC, Landrigan CP, Cronin JW, Martell-Waldrop K, Foskett C, Burdick E, Czeisler CA, Bates DW. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006 Feb;32(2):63-72. Full text.

Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. Poon EG, Jha AK, Christino M, et al. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006 Jan 5;6:1. Full text.

How many hospital pharmacy medication dispensing errors go undetected? Cina JL, Gandhi TK, Churchill W, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Safety. 2006;32:73-80. Full text.

Problem doctors: is there a system-level solution? Leape LL, Fromson JA. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Jan 17;144(2):107-15. Full text.

Clinical application of a computerized system for physician order entry with clinical decision support to prevent adverse drug events in long-term care. Rochon PA, Field TS, Bates DW, Lee M, Gavendo L, Erramuspe-Mainard J, Judge J, Gurwitz JH. CMAJ. 2006 Jan 3;174(1):52-4. Full text.

Potential medication dosing errors in outpatient pediatrics. McPhillips HA, Stille CJ, Smith D, Hecht J, Pearson J, Stull J, Debellis K, Andrade S, Miller M, Kaushal R, Gurwitz J, Davis RL. J Pediatr. 2005 Dec;147(6):761-7.

Residents report on adverse events and their causes. Jagsi R., Kitch BT, Weinstein DF, Campbell EG, Hutter M, Weissman JS. Arch Intern Med . 2005 Dec 12-26;165(22):2607-13.

The costs associated with adverse drug events among older adults in the ambulatory setting.
Field TS, Gilman BH, Subramanian S , Fuller JC, Bates DW, Gurwitz JH. Med Care. 2005 Dec;43(12):1171-1176.

Medication safety in the ambulatory chemotherapy setting. Gandhi TK, Bartel SB, Shulman LM, Verrier D, Burdick E, Cleary A, Rothschild JM, Leape LL, Bates DW. Cancer. 2005 Dec 1;104(11):2477-83.

Closing the loop: follow-up and feedback in a patient safety program. Gandhi TK, Graydon-Baker E, Huber CN, Whittemore AD, Gustafson M. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005 Nov;31(11):614-21.

FDA drug prescribing warnings: is the black box half empty or half full? Wagner AK, Chan KA , Dashevsky I, Raebel MA, Andrade SE, Lafata JE, Davis RL, Gurwitz JH, Soumerai SB, Platt R. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2005 Nov 18;

Ethical issues in patient safety. Leape LL. Thorac Surg Clin. 2005 Nov;15(4):493-501.

Patient-reported service quality on a medicine unit. Weingart SN, Pagovich O, Sands DZ, Li JM, Aronson MD, Davis RB, Phillips RS, Bates DW. Int J Qual Health Care. 2005 Nov 10;

Intravenous medication safety and smart infusion systems: lessons learned and future opportunities.
Keohane CA, Hayes J, Saniuk C, Rothschild JM, Bates DW. J Infus Nurs. 2005 Sep-Oct 28;(5):321-8. Full text.

Improving acceptance of computerized prescribing alerts in ambulatory care. Shah NR , Seger AC, Seger DL, Fiskio JM, Kuperman GJ, Blumenfeld B, Recklet EG, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Oct 12;.

Frequency of high-risk use of QT-prolonging medications. Allen Lapointe NM., Curtis LH, Chan KA, Kramer JM, Lafata JE, Gurwitz JH, Raebel MA, Platt R . Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2005 Sep 22;e-pub ahead of print.

What can hospitalized patients tell us about adverse events? Learning from patient-reported incidents.
Weingart SN, Pagovich O, Sands DZ, Li JM, Aronson MD, Davis RB, Bates DW, Phillips RS. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Sep;20(9):830-6. Full text.

Outpatient prescribing errors and the impact of computerized prescribing. Gandhi TK, Weingart SN, Seger AC, Borus J, Burdick E, Poon EG, Leape LL, Bates DW. J Gen Intern Med. 2005; Sep 20(9):837-41.

Patient Safety Leadership WalkRounds at Partners HealthCare: Learning from Implementation. Frankel A., Grillo SP, Baher EG, Huber CN, Abookire S, Grenham M, Console P, O'Quinn M, Thibault G, Gandhi TK. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Safe. 2005 Aug;31(8):423-37. Full text.

Organizational change in the face of highly public errors. I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute experience. Conway JB, Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M.

Computerized physician order entry and medication errors: finding a balance. Bates DW. J Biomed Inform. 2005 Aug;38(4):259-61.

The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care. Rothschild JM, Landrigan CP, Cronin JW, Kaushal R, Lockley SW, Burdick E, Stone PH, Lilly CM, Katz JT, Czeisler CA, Bates DW. Crit Care Med. 2005;Aug;33:1694-1700.

What is the measure of a safe hospital? Medication errors missed by risk management, clinical staff, and surveyors. Grasso BC, Rothschild JM, Jordan CW, Jayaram G. J Psychiatr Pract. 2005 Jul;11(4):268-73.

A controlled trial of smart infusion pumps to improve medication safety in critically ill patients. Rothschild JM, Keohane CA, Cook EF, Orav EJ, Burdick E, Thompson S, Hayes J, Bates DW. Crit Care Med. 2005 Mar;33(3):533-40.

Physicians' views of interventions to reduce medical errors: does evidence of effectiveness matter? Rosen AB, Blendon RJ, DesRoches CM, Benson JM, Bates DW, Brodie M, Altman DE, Zapert K, Steffenson AE, Schneider EC. Acad Med. 2005 Feb;80(2):189-92.

Communicating critical test results: safe practice recommendations. Hanna D, Griswold P, Leape LL, Bates DW. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005 Feb;31(2):68-80.

Doing better with critical test results. Bates DW, Leape LL. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005 Feb;31(2):66-7, 61.

Factors and forces affecting EHR system adoption: report of a 2004 ACMI discussion. Ash JS, Bates DW. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jan-Feb;12(1):8-12.

Patient-reported medication symptoms in primary care. Weingart SN, Gandhi TK, Seger AC, Seger DL, Borus J, Burdick E, Leape LL, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Jan 24;165(2):234-40.

Prediction of missed myocardial infarction among symtomatic outpatients without coronary heart disease. Sequist TD, Bates DW, Cook EF, Lampert S, Schaefer M, Wright J, Sato L, Lee TH. Am Heart J. 2005 Jan;149(1):74-81.

Extended work shifts and the risk of motor vehicle crashes among interns. Barger LK,, Cade BE , Ayas NT, Cronin JW, Rosner B, Speizer EF, Czeisler CA; Harvard Work Hours, Work and Safety Group. N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 13;352(2):125-34. Full text.

An interview with Lucian Leape. Leape LL. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2004 Dec ;30(12):653-8. Full text.

Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting. Field TS, Gurwitz JH, Harrold LR, Rothschild JM, Debellis K, Seger AC, Fish LS, Garber L, Kelleher M, Bates DW. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 Nov-Dec;11(6):492-98. Full text.

Patient satisfaction profiling of individual physicians: impact of panel status. Murff HJ, Orav EJ, Lee TH, Bates DW, Fairchild DG. J Eval Clin Pract. 2004 Nov;10(4):553-61.

"I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": Dissatisfaction with test-result management systems in primary care. Poon EG, Gandhi TK, Sequist TD, Murff HJ, Karson AS, Bates DW. Arch Inter Med. 2004 Nov 8;164:2223-8.

Gender and risk of adverse outcomes in heart failure. Lee WY, Capra AM, Jensvold NG, Gurwitz JH, Go AS; Epidemiology, Practice, Outcomes, and Cost of Heart Failure (EPOCH) Study. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Nov 1;94(4):1147-52.

Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units.
Landrigan CP, Rothschild JM, Cronin JW, Kaushal R,, Burdick E, Katz JT, Lilly CM, Stone PH, Lockely SW, Bates DW, Czeisler CA.. N Engl J Med. 2004 Oct 28;351(18):1838-48. Full text.

Using information technology to improve surgical safety. Bates DW. British Journal of Surgery 2004 Aug;91:939-40. Full text.

Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor-induced cough. Morimoto T, Gandhi TK, Fiskio JM, Seger AC, So JW, Cook EF, Fukui T, Bates DW. J Gen Inter Med. 2004 Jun;19(6):684-91.

Patient characteristics and experiences associated with trust in specialist physicians. Keating NL, Gandhi TK, Orav EJ, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2004 May 10;164(9):1015-20.

Communication factors in the follow-up of abnormal mammograms. Poon EG, Haas JS, Puopolo AL, Gandhi TK, Burdick E, Bates DW, Brennan TA. J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Apr;19(4):316-23.

Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients: results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. 1991. Brennan TA, Leape LL, Laird NM, Hebert L, Localio AR, Lawthers AG, Newhouse JP, Weiler PC, Hiatt HH, Harvard medical practice Study I. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004 Apr;13(2):145-51:discussion 151-2. Full text.

The Internet as a vehicle to communicate health information during a public health emergency: a survey analysis involving the anthrax scare of 2001. Kittler AF, Hobbs J, Volk LA, Kreps GL, Bates DW. J Med Internet Res. 2004 Mar 3;6(1):e8. Full text.

Robert E. Gross Lecture. Making health care safe: are we up to it? Leape LL. J Pediatr Surg . 2004 Mar;39(3):258-66. No abstract available.

Quality measures for children's health care. Beal AC, Co JP, Dougherty D, Jorsling T, Kam J, Perrin J, Palmer RH. Pediatrics. 2004 Jan;113(1 Pt 2):199-209. Full text.

Risk adjustment for pediatric quality indicators. Kuhlthau K, Ferris TG, Iezzoni LI . Pediatrics. 2004 Jan;113(1 Pt 2):210-16. Full text.

Shuttling toward a safety culture. Healthcare can learn from probe panel's findings on the Columbia disaster. Frankel A., Haraden C. Mod Healtc. 2004 Jan 5;34(1):21. No abstract available.

Improving patient safety across a large integrated health care delivery system. Frankel A, Gandhi TK, Bates DW. Int J Qual Health Care. 2003 Dec;15 Suppl 1:i31-40.

Reliability of clinical guideline development using mail-only versus in-person expert panels. Washington DL, Bernstein SJ, Kahan JP, Leape LL, Kamberg CJ, Shekelle PG. Med Care. 2003 Dec;41(12):1374-81.

Relationship of pulmonary artery catheter use to mortality and resource utilization in patients with severe sepsis. Yu DT, Platt R, Lanken PN, Sands KE, Schwartz JS, Hibberd PL, Graman PS, Kahn KL, Snydman DR, Parsonnet J, Moore R, Bates DW; for the AMCC Sepsis Project Working Group. Crit Care Med. 2003 Dec;31(12):2734-41.

Race and gender disparities in rates of cardiac revascularization: do they reflect appropriate use of procedures or problems in quality of care? Epstein AM, Weissman JS, Schneider EC, Gatsonis C, Leape LL, Piana RN. Med Care. 2003 Nov;41(11):1240-55.

Complications in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis or respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia. Wilson DF, Landrigan CP, Horn SD, Smout R. J Pediatr. 2003 Nov;143(5 Suppl ):S142-9.

Safety of patients isolated for infection control. Stelfox HT, Bates DW, Redelmeier DA. JAMA 2003 Oct 8;290(14);1899-905.

Role of C-reative protein in deciding duration of antibiotic therapy in neonatal septicemia. Jaswal RS, Kaushal RK, Goel A, Pathania K. Indian Pediatr. 2003 Sep;40(9):880-3. Full text.

The godfather of patient safety sees progress. Interview by Mark Crane. Med Econ. 2003 Aug 8;80(15):29-30,33-4. Full text .

Characteristics of medical school faculty members serving on institutional reveiw boards: results of a national survey. Campbell EG, Weissman JS, Yucel R, Causino N, Blumenthal D. Acad Med. 2003 Aug;78(8):831-7. Full text.

What do we know about medication errors in inpatient psychiatry? Grasso BC, Rothschild JM, Genest R, Bates DW. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2003 Aug;29(8):391-400.

Seeing error through new lenses. Weingart SN. J Gen Intern Med. 2003 Aug;18(8):675-6. Full text.

Is it defensible to use volume standards for purchasing care? Leape LL. Annals of Surgery 2003 Aug;238(2):168-9.Full text.

Electronically screening discharge summaries for adverse medical events. Murff HJ, Forster AJ, Peterson JF, Fiskio JM, Heiman HL, Bates DW. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):339-50. Full text.

Improving safety with information technology. Bates DW , Gawande AA. N Engl J Med. 2003 Jun 19;348(25):2526-34. Full text.

Effects of computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems on medication safety. Kausal R, Shojania K, Bates D. Archives of Internal Medicine 2003 Jun;163(12):1409-16. Full text.

A clinical practice guideline for treatment of septic arthritis in children; efficacy in improving process of care and effect of outcome of septic arthritis of the hip. Kocher MS, Mandiga R, Murphy JM, Goldmann D, Harper M, Sundel R, Ecklund K, Kasser JR.J Bone Joint Surg Am . 2003 Jun;85-A(6):994-99.

Linking laboratory and pharmacy: opportunities for reducing errors and improving care. Schiff GD, Klass D, Peterson J, Shah G, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Apr 28;163(8):893-900.

A cost-benefit analysis of electronic medical records in primary care. Wang SJ, Middleton B, Prosser LA, Bardon CG, Spurr CD, Carchidi PJ, Kittler AF, Goldszer RC,Failrchild DG, Sussman AJ, Kuperman GJ, Bates DW. Am J Med. 2003 Apr 1;114(5):397-403.

Prioritizing strategies for preventing medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients. Fortescue EB, Kaushal R, Landrigan CP, McKenna KJ, Clapp MD, Federico F, Goldmann DA, Bates DW. Pediatrics. 2003 Apr;111(4 Pt 1):722-9. Full text.

A cohort study of the incidence of serious acute liver injury in diabetic patients treated with hypoglycemic agents. Chan KA, Truman A, Gurwitz JH, Hurley JS, Martinson B, Platt R, Everhart JE, Moseley RH, Terrault N, Ackerson L, Selby JV. Arch Intern Med. 2003 Mar24;163(6):728-34.

Multifaceted approach to reducing preventable adverse drug events. Silverman JB, Stapinski CD, Churchill WW, Neppl C, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. Am J Health Sys Pharm. 2003 Mar15;60(6):582-6. Full text.

Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting. Gurwitz JH, Field TS, Harold LR, Rothschild J, Debellis K, Seger AC, Cadoret C, Fish LS, Garber L, Kelleher M, Bates DW. JAMA 2003 Mar 5;289(9):1107-16. Full text.

The incidence and severity of adverse events affecting patients after discharge from the hospital. Forster AJ, Murff HJ, Peterson JF, Gandhi TK, Bates DW. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Feb 4;138(3):161-7. Full text.

A proposal for electronic medical records in U. S. primary care. Bates DW, Ebell M, Gotlieb E, Zapp J, Mullins HC. J AM Med Inform Assoc 2003 Jan-Feb;10(1):1-10. Full text.

Age and sex differences in the treatment of patients with initial acute myocardial infarction: a community-wide perspective. Harrold LR, Lessard D, Yarzebski J, Gurwitz JH, Gore JM, Goldberg RJ. Cardiology. 2003;99(1):39-46.

Patient Safety Leadership WalkRounds. Frankel A, Graydon-Baker E, Neppl C, Simmonds T, Gustafson M, Gandhi TK. Jt Comm J Qual Saf 2003 Jan;29(1):16-26. Full text.

Adherence to practice guidelines: The role of speciality society guidelines. Leape LL, Weissman JS, Schneider EC, Piana RN, Gatsonis C, Epstein AM. Am Heart J. 2003 Jan;145(1):19-26. Full text.

Risk Management in Therapeutics: when the patient becomes the last line of defense. Gurwitz JH, Andrade SE. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2002 Dec;11(8):637-8. No abstract available.

Analysis of medication-related malpractice claims: causes, preventability, and costs. Rothschild JM, Federico FA, Gandhi TK, Kaushal R, Williams DH, Bates DW. Arch Intern Med. 2002 Nov 25;162(21):2414-20.

Reporting of adverse events. Leape LL. N Engl J Med. 2002 Nov 14;347(20):1633-8. Full text.

Information technology and medication safety: what is the benefit? Kaushal R, Bates DW. Qual Saf Health Care. 2002 Sep;11(3):261-5. Full text.

What practices will most improve safety?: Evidence-based medicine meets patient safety [Controversies]. Leape LL, Berwick DM, Bates DW. JAMA 2002 Jul; 288(4):501-7. Full text.

Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients. Kaushal R, Bates DW, Landrigan C, McKenna KJ, Clapp MD, Federico F, Goldmann DA. JAMA. 2001 Apr 25;285(16):2114-20.

Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events: Implications for prevention. ADE Prevention Study Group. Bates DW, Cullen DL, Laird N, Peterson LA, Small SD, Servi D, Laffel G, Sweitzer BJ, Shea BF, Hallisey R, et al. JAMA 1995 Jul;274(1):29-34.