Quality & Patient Safety Portal: Reusable PubMed Searches

Search terms will vary, depending on the database you are using.  Below is a list of useful terms, with Medical Subject Headings noted (used in PubMed and MEDLINE OvidSP).  Be prepared to use synonyms in your searches, as patient safety is a relatively new concept to the literature.

• Patient Safety [MeSH, added 2012]
  
• patient AND safety
• Accident Prevention [MeSH]
  
• Medical Errors [MeSH]
  
• Iatrogenic Disease [MeSH]
  
• Disclosure [MeSH]
  
• Truth Disclosure [MeSH]
  
• Liablity [MeSH]
  
• Malpractice [MeSH]
  
• Safety Management [MeSH]
  
• Risk Management [MeSH}
  
• surgical procedure
• Checklist [MeSH, added 2010]
  
• surgical safety checklist

Search terms will vary, depending on the database you are using.  Below is a list of useful terms, with Medical Subject Headings noted (used in PubMed and MEDLINE OvidSP).  Be prepared to use synonyms in your searches, as QI is a relatively new concept to the literature.

• Quality Improvement[MeSH, added 2011]
• quality AND improvement
• Quality of Health Care[MeSH]
• Quality Assurance, Health Care[MeSH]
• Quality Indicators, Health Care[MeSH]
• Health Plan Implementation[MeSH]
• Total Quality Managment[MeSH]
• Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation[MeSH]
• Cost of Illness[MeSH]
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care[MeSH]

Anticoagulation

Care Transitions

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

Culture of Safety

Deep Vein Thrombosis

Disinfection and Sterilization

Falls Prevention

Hand-offs

Handwashing

Medical Errors and Patient Safety

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Patient Experience 

Pressure Ulcers

Pulmonary Embolism

Quality Improvement

Readmissions

Six Sigma

Staffing Effectiveness

Venous Thromboembolism

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

 

Please click on the links above.  Another tab will open to PubMed; please feel free to sign in before so that you will see Full Text Links - when you click on the article title - it will open in the Abstract format - over to the right your will see your Full Text Links.

 

 

Please note: Some of the following searches were located at the University of North Carolina Health Sciences Library guide and St. Michael's Unity Health Library guide, Toronto, ON. They were edited to fit DML.

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