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October 18, 2023 - Handoffs
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Handoffs and Signouts. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2019.
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March 15, 2025 - Ambulatory Care Safety
March 15, 2025
Ambulatory Care Safety. PSNet [internet]. 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/ambulatory-care-safety
PSNet primers are regularly reviewed and updated by the UC Davis PSNet Editorial Team to ensure that
they reflect current research and practice in the patient safety field. Las…
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March 22, 2016 - Measuring and Responding to Deaths From Medical
Errors
March 22, 2016
Ranji SR. Measuring and Responding to Deaths From Medical Errors. PSNet [internet]. 2016.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/measuring-and-responding-deaths-medical-errors
Annual Perspective 2016
The Prevalence of Deaths Due to Preventable Adve…
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November 15, 2011 - Improving Health Care.
November 15, 2011
Schiff G
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-health-care
Quality and honesty play an influential role in the safety and cost of medical care. Gordon Schiff, the
director of clinical and quality research (Department of Medicine at Stoger Hospital, Chicago, Illinois),
exp…
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July 08, 2013 - Safe Site Invasive Procedure—Non-Operating Room.
July 8, 2013
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safe-site-invasive-procedure-non-operating-room
This protocol is designed to protect against wrong-site incidents in ambulatory care and to improve team
communication and patient e…
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September 17, 2008 - New perspectives on error in critical care.
September 17, 2008
Patel VL, Cohen T. New perspectives on error in critical care. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2008;14(4):456-9.
doi:10.1097/MCC.0b013e32830634ae.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-perspectives-error-critical-care
This review article describes approaches to safety…
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November 28, 2018 - ECRI Guidelines Trust.
November 28, 2018
ECRI Institute.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ecri-guidelines-trust
This website is a practical resource to review existing clinical practice guidelines in a centralized location.
Key components of the site include links to full-text guidelines and an assessment function tha…
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September 09, 2008 - Safety in obstetric critical care.
September 9, 2008
Scholefield H. Safety in obstetric critical care. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2008;22(5):965-82.
doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.06.009.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safety-obstetric-critical-care
In the context of obstetric clinical care, this article revie…
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April 14, 2010 - Human Factors Engineering for Healthcare Applications.
April 14, 2010
Beuscart-Zéphir MC, Aarts J, Elkin P, eds. Intern J Med Inform. 2010;79:223-303, e1-e88.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/human-factors-engineering-healthcare-applications
This special issue contains articles on human factors engineering and i…
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August 17, 2011 - Evaluating safety and competency at the bedside.
August 17, 2011
Kaplan T, Pilcher J. Evaluating safety and competency at the bedside. J Nurses Staff Dev. 2011;27(4):187-
90. doi:10.1097/NND.0b013e3182236634.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluating-safety-and-competency-bedside
This article describes an intensive …
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September 29, 2017 - Framework for patient safety research and improvement.
September 29, 2017
Pronovost P, Goeschel CA, Marsteller JA, et al. Framework for patient safety research and improvement.
Circulation. 2009;119(2):330-7. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.729848.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/framework-patient-safety-research-and-i…
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September 09, 2009 - Improving communication in the emergency department.
September 9, 2009
Redfern E, Brown R, Vincent C. Improving communication in the emergency department. Emerg Med J.
2009;26(9):658-61. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.065623.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-communication-emergency-department
Implementation of structu…
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June 27, 2018 - Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling.
June 27, 2018
Welch J.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/alarm-fatigue-hazards-sirens-are-calling
This article reports on alarm fatigue in clinical care, including the risks associated with it, and describes
tactics to help reduce nuisance alarms.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/i…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37016/psn-pdf
September 15, 2011 - Postoperative complications due to a retained surgical
sponge.
September 15, 2011
Sarda AK, Pandey D, Neogi S, et al. Postoperative complications due to a retained surgical sponge.
Singapore Med J. 2007;48(6):e160-4.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/postoperative-complications-due-retained-surgical-sponge
The authors…
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June 13, 2007 - Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
June 13, 2007
Cronenwett L, ed. Nurs Outlook. 2007;55(3):117-162.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quality-and-safety-education-nurses
This issue covers a variety of topics related to quality and safety education for nurses, including the
integration of safety content into dail…
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December 18, 2017 - Watson: Beyond Jeopardy!
December 18, 2017
Ferrucci D, Levas A, Bagchi S, et al. Watson: Beyond Jeopardy!. Artif Intell. 2012;199-200.
doi:10.1016/j.artint.2012.06.009.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/watson-beyond-jeopardy
This commentary describes how question answering systems can augment evidence-based decision
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September 02, 2016 - Drug shortages and clinicians: no time for complacency.
September 2, 2016
Rochon P, Gurwitz JH. Drug shortages and clinicians: no time for complacency. Arch Intern Med.
2012;172(19):1499-500.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/drug-shortages-and-clinicians-no-time-complacency
This article comments on the patient safety …
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July 14, 2009 - Medication errors and drug-dispensing systems in a
hospital pharmacy.
July 14, 2009
Anacleto TA, Perini E, Rosa MB, et al. Medication errors and drug-dispensing systems in a hospital
pharmacy. Clinics. 2006;60(4). doi:10.1590/s1807-59322005000400011.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-and-drug-dispensi…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39159/psn-pdf
May 04, 2010 - Radiologists' responses to inadequate referrals.
May 4, 2010
Lysdahl KB, Hofmann BM, Espeland A. Radiologists' responses to inadequate referrals. Eur Radiol.
2010;20(5):1227-33. doi:10.1007/s00330-009-1640-y.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/radiologists-responses-inadequate-referrals
Radiologists frequently receive i…
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March 04, 2011 - EU to tackle issue of patient safety.
March 4, 2011
Watson R. EU to tackle issue of patient safety. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2005;330(7496):866.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/eu-tackle-issue-patient-safety
This news extra from the British Medical Journal reports that European governments and health
professional…