Annotated Bibliography of Safety Literature

To mitigate risk, define root causes, and improve patient safety in the transport medicine setting, it is necessary to understand the relevant medical and non-medical literature related to transport safety. Formated in an excel spreadsheet, the annotated bibliography will serve as a key resource and reference repository for everyone in the transport medicine community.

The document contains a thorough and extensive review of the safety literature related to the following domains:

  1. Ground critical care ambulance transport
  2. Helicopter medical transport
  3. Fixed wing medical transport
  4. Human factor errors associated with medical transport
  5. Medical errors and complications associated with medical transport
  6. Safety culture and safety management systems

The literature review contains results and conclusions for 167 medical transport safety research studies. A link to the abstract and/or the full article are included.

Click here for the Annotated Bibliography of Safety Literature.

Click here for the background information on the research project.