Journals library
Introduction
The Patient Safety Journal library provides online access to the abstracts of a collection of articles, related to Patient Safety, published in 14 scientific journals. The journals are scanned every month. Links to relevant articles posted under 13 categories as follows:
- Blood safety
- Education, training, simulation
- General
- Infection control
- Information technology
- Injection and immunization safety
- International Classification for Patient Safety
- Management
- Nursing
- Patient involvement
- Radiotherapy
- Reporting and learning systems
- Safe surgery
All articles are in the English language and a substantial proportion are published on the Web. All journals are available in the WHO library on the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) database. HINARI provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, non-profit institutions in developing countries.
HINARI users can search and access full-text articles directly from the Pubmed (Medline) database.
Journals included
The journals included are as follows:
- Anaesthesia
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- British Medical Journal
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- International Nursing Review
- International Journal of Health Services
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Journal of Laboratory Clinical Medicine
- Journal of the American Medical Association
- Journal of Health Services Research Policy
- The Lancet
- Medical Education
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Quality and Safety in Health Care
The search strategy covers the following key words:
- Accidents
- Accidental overdose
- Adverse AND Patient
- Clinical competence
- Infection Control AND Safety
- Malpractice
- Medical errors
- Medication errors
- Patient safety
- Risk Management
- Safety
- Safety Management
- Safety OR harm OR malpractice
More information is available on the search strategy on request.