Quality & Patient Safety Portal: Selected Databases

For an A-Z list of all of the library's databases, please go to the library's Databases page.

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]

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