Guest editors
Contributors
Preface / Anne Matlow and Ronald M. Laxer.

Patient safety: a view from the top / Julianne M. Morath
The Incidence of adverse events and medical error in pediatrics / Paul J. Sharek and David Classen
Medical errors: understanding the parent's perspective / Margaret Keatings, Murray Martin, Andrew McCallum, and John Lewis
Disclosure of medical errors / Anne Matlow, Polly Stevens, Christine Harrison, and Ronald M. Laxer
Human factors engineering and patient safety / Matthew C. Scanlon, Ben-Tzion Karsh, and Emily M. Densmore
Reliability science and patient safety / Joseph W. Luria, Stephen E. Muething, Pamela J. Schoettker, and Uma R. Kotagal
The Impact of fatigue on patient safety / Christopher S. Parshuram
Medication errors in children / Eran Kozer, Matitiahu Berkovitch, and Gideon Koren
Computerized provider order entry and patient safety / Christoph U. Lehmann and George R. Kim
Handoffs in care: can we make them safer? / Kim Streitenberger, Karen Breen-Reid, and Cheryl Harris
Racial/Ethnic disparities and patient safety / Glenn Flores and Emmanuel Ngui
Patient safety: a view from down under / Karen L. Dunn, Annie Moulden, Peter McDougall, and Glenn Bowes
Tailoring the Institute for Health Care Improvement 100,000 Lives Campaign to pediatric setting: the example of ventilator-associated pneumonia / Martha A.Q. Curley, Ellen Schwalenstocker, Jayant K. Deshpande, Constance Crowley Ganser, David Bertoch, Jeffrey Brandon, and Paul Kurtin
Blueprint for patient safety / Polly Stevens, Anne Matlow, and Ronald M. Laxer
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