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Patient safety, clinical risk, medical error

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    Patterns and trends among physicians-in-training named in civil legal cases: a retrospective analysis of Canadian Medical Protective Association data from 1993 to 2017
    Allan McDougall, Cathy Zhang, Qian Yang, Taryn Taylor, Heather K. Neilson, Janet Nuth, Ellen Tsai, Shirley Lee, Guylaine Lefebvre and Lisa A. Calder
    September 13, 2022 10 (3) E781-E788; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20220075
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    Effect of electronic medication reconciliation at the time of hospital discharge on inappropriate medication use in the community: an interrupted time-series analysis
    Blayne Welk, Lauren Killin, Jennifer N. Reid, Kelly K. Anderson, Salimah Z. Shariff, Andrew Appleton, Glen Kearns and Amit X. Garg
    November 30, 2021 9 (4) E1105-E1113; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20210071
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    The role of hospital characteristics in patient safety: a protocol for a national cohort study
    Khara M. Sauro, G. Ross Baker, George Tomlinson and Christopher Parshuram
    November 23, 2021 9 (4) E1041-E1047; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200266
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    Impact of an internal medicine nocturnist service on care of patients with cancer at a large Canadian teaching hospital: a quality-improvement study
    Richard Dunbar-Yaffe, Robert C. Wu, Amit Oza, Victoria Lee-Kim and Peter Cram
    June 18, 2021 9 (2) E667-E672; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20200167
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    Repeat adverse drug events associated with outpatient medications: a descriptive analysis of 3 observational studies in British Columbia, Canada
    Corinne M. Hohl, Stephanie A. Woo, Amber Cragg, Maeve E. Wickham, Christine Ackerley, Frank Scheuermeyer and Diane Villanyi
    July 18, 2019 7 (3) E446-E453; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180190
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    Quality-related events reported by community pharmacies in Nova Scotia over a 7-year period: a descriptive analysis
    Adrian Boucher, Certina Ho, Neil MacKinnon, Todd A. Boyle, Andrea Bishop, Paola Gonzalez, Christopher Hartt and James R. Barker
    December 18, 2018 6 (4) E651-E656; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180090
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    Improved hospital safety performance and reduced medicolegal risk: an ecological study using 2 Canadian databases
    Qian Yang, Cathy Zhang, Kristen Hines and Lisa A. Calder
    November 19, 2018 6 (4) E561-E566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180077
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    Cost recovery by Health Canada and drug safety: a time-series analysis
    Joel Lexchin
    October 18, 2018 6 (4) E471-E477; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180146
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    Growth hormone treatment of Canadian children: results from the GeNeSIS phase IV prospective observational study
    Cheri Deal, Susan Kirsch, Jean-Pierre Chanoine, Sarah Lawrence, Elizabeth Cummings, Elizabeth T. Rosolowsky, Seth D. Marks, Nan Jia and Christopher J. Child; for the GeNeSIS National Board on behalf of the GeNeSIS Canada Investigators
    September 10, 2018 6 (3) E372-E383; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20180020
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    Clinical prediction rule for delayed hemothorax after minor thoracic injury: a multicentre derivation and validation study
    Marcel Émond, Chantal Guimont, Jean-Marc Chauny, Raoul Daoust, Éric Bergeron, Laurent Vanier, Lynne Moore, Miville Plourde, Batomen Kuimi, Valérie Boucher, Nadine Allain-Boulé and Natalie Le Sage
    June 13, 2017 5 (2) E444-E453; DOI: https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20160096

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