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JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS



SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS and BLOG POSTS

Nesin, N., Houck, S., Brown, J., & Burger, C. (2023). The Time Is Now: The Case for Transforming Primary Care. The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 46(2), 97-102.

The Time Is Now: The Case for Transforming Primary Care | Request PDF (researchgate.net)

West, R. L., Margo, J., Brown, J., Dowley, A., & Haas, S. (2022). Convergence of Service Providers and Managers’ Perspectives on Strengths, Gaps, and Priorities for Rural Health System Redesign: A Whole-Systems Qualitative Study in Washington County, Maine. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 13, 21501319221102041.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/21501319221102041

Brown, J., Papautsky, E.L., Patterson, E.S. (2021) Integrated Primary Care in Rural America Is Urgently Needed, Psychology Today.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/better-health-design/202105/integrated-primary-care-in-rural-america-is-urgently-needed 

Patankar, M. S., & Brown, J. P. (2019). Adapting systems thinking and safety reporting in high-consequence industries to healthcare. In Seminars in perinatology. WB Saunders.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0146000519301144

Academic Medicine: Uhlig, P., Doll, J.D., Brandon, K., Goodman, C., Medado-Ramirez, J., Barnes, M.A., Dolansky, M.A., Ratcliffe, T.A., Kornsawad, K., Raboin, E., Hitzeman, M., Brown, J. & Hall, L. (2018). Interprofessional practice and education in clinical learning environments: Frontline perspectives. An invited commentary. 

https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Interprofessional_Practice_and_Education_in.97861.aspx

Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare: Charles Burger, MD; Paula Eaton; Kalie Hess, MPH; Ashley Mills, MHA; Maureen O’Connor, MA; Darcy Shargo, MFA; Caroline Zimmerman, MPP; Sky Vargas, MBA; and Jeff Brown, MEd (2017).  A System-based Approach to Safety in Ambulatory Care and beyond.

https://www.psqh.com/analysis/system-based-approach-managing-patient-safety-ambulatory-care-beyond/

Military Medicine: Nemeth, C., Crandall, B., Brown, J. & Fallon, C. (2014). The mixed blessings of smart infusion devices and Healthcare IT. Society of Federal Health Professionals (AMSUS). 179(8):4-10 

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/179/suppl_8/4/4210171

Hospital Pharmacy. A Sociotechnical Model for Pharmacy, Classen D. and Brown, J. (2013). 48, 1–5. 

https://www.scribd.com/document/258995960/Hospital-Pharmacy-Supplement-March-172015

Nursing Management: Kosnik, L., Brown, J., and Maund, T. (2007). Learning from the Aviation Industry. Crew Resource Management Brings Collaborative Communication to Healthcare. 

https://journals.lww.com/nursingmanagement/Abstract/2007/01000/Patient_safety__Learning_from_the_aviation.8.aspx

Annals of Thoracic Surgery:  Thor Sundt, III, Jeffrey Brown, and Paul Uhlig (2005). Focus on Patient Safety: Good News for the Practicing Surgeon. 79:11-15. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15620906 

A comparative review of safety cultures. Federal Aviation Administration Technical Report, 
FAA Research Grant #5-G-009 (2005). Patankar, M. S., Bigda-Peyton, T., Sabin, E., Brown, J., & Kelly, T. 

http://www.ehcca.com/presentations/qualitycolloquium5/peyton_h4.pdf

Journal of Health Care Risk Management: Brown, J. (2004). Structuring Communication for Team-based Error Management, Volume 24 (4)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhrm.5600240404

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety: Brown, J. (2004). Closing the Communication Loop: Using Readback/Hearback to Support Patient Safety, Volume 30, Number 8.

https://www.jointcommissionjournal.com/article/S1549-3741(04)30053-5/fulltext

Journal of Health Care Risk Management: Brown, J. (2004). Achieving High Reliability: Other Industries 
can help health care's safety transformation. Volume 24 (2). Journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.  

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhrm.5600240206

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety: Paul Uhlig, Jeffrey Brown, Anne Nason, Addie Camelio, and Elise Kendall (2002).  The Collaborative Rounds Model. Article in the December 2002 section on John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety Award Recipients. 

https://www.readbyqxmd.com/read/12481601/john-m-eisenberg-patient-safety-awards-system-innovation-concord-hospital

Journal of Innovative Management: Martin D. Merry and Jeffrey P. Brown. Winter 2001/2002From a Culture of Safety To a Culture of Excellence:  Quality Science, Human Factors, and the Future of Healthcare Quality. 7 (2), 29-46.  

https://goalqpc.com/cms/docs/journals/Winter2001_2002.pdf


Patient Safety Beat: Five health care experts look to the future of patient safety.  
Newsletter of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety (2018).

https://www.betsylehmancenterma.gov/news/five-healthcare-experts-look-to-the-future-of-patient-safety-1



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BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

Chapter 07: Support for ICU Clinician Cognitive Work Through Cognitive Systems Engineering. Nemeth, C., Anders, S., Brown, J., Grome, A. and Crandall, B. Cognitive Systems Engineering in Health Care. Bisantz, A. M., Burns, C. M., & Fairbanks, R. J. (Eds.). (2015) CRC Press.  

https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Systems-Engineering-Health-Care/dp/1466587962

Chapter 08: Aviation Contexts and Evidence, Information, and Knowledge Innovation: Reliability, Teamwork, and Sensemaking. Brown, J. Thompson, S., Zipperer, L.  Patient Safety: Evidence, Information, and Knowledge Transfer. Zipperer L, ed. London, UK: Gower Publishing; 2014. ISBN: 9781409438571.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186%2Fs13037-014-0033-6.pdf

Chapter 10, Using Technology to Enhance Safety. The Essential Guide for Patient Safety Officers, Second Edition. , Brown J., Tonkel, J., Classen, D. (2013) Joint Commission Resources. Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.  

http://www.jcrinc.com/assets/1/14/PSOH12_Sample_Pages.pdf​

Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare Patankar, M., Brown, J., Bigda-Peyton, T., and Sabin, E. (2012). Human Factors Group, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, England.  

https://www.amazon.com/Safety-Culture-Manoj-S-Patankar/dp/0754672379/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Safety+culture+patankar&qid=1549895071&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Complications in cardiothoracic surgery: avoidance and treatmentPreventing complications: New frontiers of safety science in cardiothoracic surgery. Uhlig, P., Berry, B., Hendrick, A., Raboin, E., Brown, J., Erskin, J., & Raemer, D. (2010).In A. G. Little & W. H. Merrill (Eds) Blackwell Synergy Press.  

https://www.amazon.com/Complications-Cardiothoracic-Surgery-Avoidance-Treatment/dp/1405181036

Chapter 10, Collaborative Cross-Checking. Brown, J. (2008). Improving healthcare team communication: building on lessons from aviation and aerospace. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..​Nemeth, C. P. (Ed.). 

https://www.amazon.com/Improving-Healthcare-Team-Communication-Aerospace/dp/1138071781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549569057&sr=8-1&keywords=improving+healthcare+team+communication

Safety Ethics: Cases from Aviation, Healthcare, and Occupational and Environmental Health, Patankar, M., Brown, J., Treadwell, M. (2005) Human Factors Group, Routledge Publishing.  

https://www.routledge.com/Safety-Ethics-Cases-from-Aviation-Healthcare-and-Occupational-and-Environmental/Patankar-Brown/p/book/9780754642473