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What Did We Learn? ASIPS Study Results

The June 2004 issue of our newsletter, the ASIPS News, presents a summary of all publications and presentations about this project.

Patient preferences for notification of normal laboratory test results: A report from the ASIPS Collaborative

Baldwin, D. M.; Quintela, J.; Duclos, C.; Staton, E. W., and Pace, W. D. BMC Fam Pract. 2005 Mar 8; 6(1):11.
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Developing a Taxonomy for Coding Ambulatory Medical Errors: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative

Wilson D. Pace, Douglas H. Fernald, Daniel M. Harris, L. Miriam Dickinson, Rodrigo Araya-Guerra, Elizabeth W. Staton, Rebecca VanVorst, Bennett L. Parnes, Deborah S. Main. In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. Volume 2. Concepts and Methodology. AHRQ Publication No. 05-0021-2 . Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005 Feb.
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Mixed Methods Analysis of Medical Error Event Reports: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative

Daniel M. Harris, John M. Westfall, Douglas H. Fernald, Christine W. Duclos, David R. West, Linda Niebauer, Linda Marr, Javán Quintela, Deborah S. Main. In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. Volume 2. Concepts and Methodology. AHRQ Publication No. 05-0021-2 . Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005 Feb.
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Using Reported Primary Care Errors to Develop and Implement Patient Safety Interventions: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative

David R. West, John M. Westfall, Rodrigo Araya-Guerra, Laura Hansen, Javán Quintela, Rebecca VanVorst, Elizabeth W. Staton, Bethany Matthews, Wilson D. Pace. . In Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. Volume 3. Implementation Issues. AHRQ Publication No. 05-0021-3. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2005 Feb.
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Event reporting to a primary care patient safety reporting system: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative

Fernald DH, Pace WD, Harris DM, West DR, Main DS, Westfall JM. Annals of Family Medicine 2(4):327-332.  
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Database Design to Ensure Anonymous Study of Medical Errors: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative. 

Wilson D. Pace, Elizabeth W. Staton, Gregory S. Higgins, Deborah S. Main, David R. West, Daniel M. Harris. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 10(6), Nov / Dec 2003.
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Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety: A Comprehensive Process to Improve Care in Rural and Frontier Communities.

John Westfall, Doug Fernald, Elizabeth W. Staton, Rebecca VanVorst, David West, Wilson D. Pace. Journal of Rural Health. In Press for Fall 2004. Read current issue.