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  1. Medicare says it won't cover hospital errors. | PSNet

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    November 28, 2016 - May 24, 2015 HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

  2. The Other Side | PSNet

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    May 01, 2007 - VHA Directive 2002-070. [ go to related site ] American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. … Advisory statement on wrong site surgery. [ go to related site ] American Academy of Orthopaedic … Report of the task force on wrong-site surgery. [ go to related site ] North American Spine Society

  3. Renal Failure Due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia | PSNet

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    February 01, 2004 - not a single man in any study arm developed renal failure related to BPH.( 3 ) Given these data, the American … lower urinary tract symptoms suspected to be due to benign prostatic hyperplasia should include an American … The American Urological Association symptom index for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

  4. Check the Wristband | PSNet

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    August 03, 2009 - A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of patient identification and vital sign monitoring … A College of American Pathologists' Q-Probes study of quality issues in transfusion practice. … Continuous wristband monitoring over 2 years decreases identification errors: a College of American Pathologists

  5. Unexplained Apnea Under Anesthesia | PSNet

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    December 01, 2005 - The labels should conform to the standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).( … American Society for Testing and Materials. … American Society for Testing and Materials. D477494,1995. 19. Gaba DM, Fish K, Howard S, eds.

  6. Patient safety in women's health care: a framework for progress. | PSNet

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    January 12, 2011 - October 19, 2022 Burnout and medical errors among American surgeons.

  7. Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail can Teach us to Thrive. | PSNet

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    February 06, 2018 - October 20, 2015 Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care.

  8. Simulation-based training for patient safety: 10 principles that matter. | PSNet

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    January 02, 2017 - Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American

  9. Medication safety issue brief. Bar code implementation strategies. | PSNet

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    June 17, 2014 - Latency of ECG displays of hospital telemetry systems: a science advisory from the American

  10. System failure versus personal accountability--the case for clean hands. | PSNet

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    February 16, 2011 - unit: development, testing, and findings of an NICU-focused trigger tool to identify harm in North American

  11. Thinking fast and slow in medicine. | PSNet

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    June 21, 2017 - November 11, 2020 Outcomes of concurrent operations: results from the American College

  12. Safety In Dentistry | PSNet

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    August 01, 2016 - Indeed, 65% of the American population sees a dentist at least once per year ( 8 ), and dental care expenses … American Dental Association, Health Policy Institute; January 2014. [Available at] 10. … Chicago, IL: American Dental Association; April 2012. 14. … Chicago, IL: American Dental Association. 19. Kalenderian E, Ramoni RL, White JM, et al.

  13. The Impact of Communication on Medication Errors | PSNet

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    August 01, 2009 - American Family Physician 59 (3): 635–46. Lau WCY, Li X, Wong ICK, et al. … The American Journal of Medicine 95 (3): 315–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(93)90285-W . … Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 91 (8): 49. … Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 29 (1): 18–23.

  14. Maternal Safety | PSNet

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    January 01, 2015 - The burden of maternal morbidity and mortality is especially high in the African American community: … attention to issues of health equity, particularly the persistently higher death rates among African American

  15. Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: What's Wrong and How to Fix It | PSNet

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    August 01, 2012 - American Geriatrics Society 2012 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel. … American Geriatrics Society updated Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older … The Joint Commission inspects periodically at most American hospitals, and data about quality, and increasingly … Those are three things that you might not have seen in many American hospitals 20 or 30 years ago, but

  16. In Conversation With… Nicholas G. Castle, MHA, PhD | PSNet

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    August 01, 2012 - The Joint Commission inspects periodically at most American hospitals, and data about quality, and increasingly … Those are three things that you might not have seen in many American hospitals 20 or 30 years ago, but … American Geriatrics Society 2012 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel. … American Geriatrics Society updated Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 23, 2015 - Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. September 23, 2015 Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2015. ISBN: 9780309377690. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnosis-health-care The National Academy of Me…

  18. Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators to improve health care quality. | PSNet

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    December 23, 2008 - August 12, 2016 HealthGrades Quality Study: Second Annual Patient Safety in American

  19. The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation at 25: a pioneering success in safety, 25th anniversary provokes reflection, anticipation. | PSNet

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    January 01, 2015 - Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American

  20. Reduction in chemotherapy order errors with computerised physician order entry and clinical decision support systems. | PSNet

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    October 22, 2014 - March 15, 2006 American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
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