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Paul J. Sharek
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 102
Citations - 6701
Paul J. Sharek is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient safety & Health care. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 97 publications receiving 5988 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul J. Sharek include Stanford University & Boston Children's Hospital.
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Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care
Christopher P. Landrigan,Gareth Parry,Catherine B. Bones,Andrew D. Hackbarth,Donald A. Goldmann,Paul J. Sharek +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that harms remain common, with little evidence of widespread improvement, and further efforts are needed to translate effective safety interventions into routine practice and to monitor health care safety over time.
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Rates of medication errors among depressed and burnt out residents: prospective cohort study.
Amy M Fahrenkopf,Theodore C. Sectish,Laura K. Barger,Paul J. Sharek,Daniel Lewin,Vincent W. Chiang,Sarah Edwards,Bernhard L. Wiedermann,Christopher P. Landrigan,Christopher P. Landrigan +9 more
TL;DR: Depressed residents made significantly more medical errors than their non-depressed peers; however, burnout did not seem to correlate with an increased rate of medical errors.
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Effect of a Rapid Response Team on Hospital-wide Mortality and Code Rates Outside the ICU in a Children’s Hospital
Paul J. Sharek,Layla Parast,Kit Leong,Jodi Coombs,Karla Earnest,Jill Sullivan,Lorry R. Frankel,Stephen J. Roth +7 more
TL;DR: Implementation of an RRT was associated with a statistically significant reduction in hospital-wide mortality rate and code rate outside of the pediatric ICU setting.
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Adverse Events in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Development, Testing, and Findings of an NICU-Focused Trigger Tool to Identify Harm in North American NICUs
Paul J. Sharek,Jeffrey D. Horbar,Wilbert H. Mason,Hema Bisarya,Cary Thurm,Gautham Suresh,James Gray,William H. Edwards,Donald A. Goldmann,David C. Classen +9 more
TL;DR: A NICU-focused trigger tool for adverse event detection and to describe the incidence of adverse events in NICUs identified by this tool, which appears efficient and effective at identifying adverse events.
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Development, Testing, and Findings of a Pediatric-Focused Trigger Tool to Identify Medication-Related Harm in US Children's Hospitals
Glenn Takata,Wilbert H. Mason,Wilbert H. Mason,Carol Taketomo,Tina R. Logsdon,Paul J. Sharek +5 more
TL;DR: Adverse drug event rates in hospitalized children are substantially higher than previously described, and most adverse drug events resulted in temporary harm, and 22% were classified as preventable.