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101. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2019 - discussions of risks, benefits and alternatives so that the patient (or surrogate) can make informed decisions … Second, there should be a named surrogate who can make decisions if the patient is unable.   … the admitting resident’s evident failure to have the patient designate an agent to make treatment decisions … is critically important to identify an agent who will consider specific clinical scenarios and make decisions … Advance Care Planning Decisions. Accessed Nov 2019 via the Web https://acpdecisions.org/  15.

102. "Do You Want Everything Done?": Clarifying Code Status | PSNet
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     March 27, 2024 - discussions of risks, benefits and alternatives so that the patient (or surrogate) can make informed decisions … Second, there should be a named surrogate who can make decisions if the patient is unable.   … is the admitting resident’s evident failure to have the patient designate an agent to make treatment decisions … is critically important to identify an agent who will consider specific clinical scenarios and make decisions … department physicians when asked to review the POLST document and determine code status and treatment decisions

103. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72586/psn-pdf
     December 23, 2020 - The goals of care conversations appropriately took place as the patient faced decisions about further … heavily on a single anchoring piece of information (in this case the DNR designation) when making decisions … ICU team, and social services agency established the patient’s capacity to make some, but not all, decisions … Are clinicians ever biased in their judgments of the capacity of older adults to make medical decisions … Capacity for mental healthcare decisions under the Mental Healthcare Act. 

104. Code Status vs. Care Status | PSNet
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     September 30, 2020 - The goals of care conversations appropriately took place as the patient faced decisions about further … ICU team, and social services agency established the patient’s capacity to make some, but not all, decisions … the case submitted, his subsequent care team did not treat the patient as though he could make any decisions … Are clinicians ever biased in their judgments of the capacity of older adults to make medical decisions … Capacity for mental healthcare decisions under the Mental Healthcare Act. 

105. To Transfer or Not to Transfer | PSNet
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     November 23, 2016 - Understand the rules and regulations behind triage and hospital choice decisions by emergency medical … The Commentary This case raises a key question: Did the decisions by EMS to take the patient to Hospital … EMS Destination Decisions EMS considered acute myocardial infarction as a potential cause for the AICD … transfers between hospitals for unstable patients.( 6 ) Since EMTALA was passed (1986), several court decisions … Federal EMTALA laws can play into EMS decisions when contact is made between EMS and online medical command

106. Spotlight Case July 2008 (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Epub 2008 Sep 26. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18824275 EMS Destination Decisions There … are no federal regulations or policies that dictate EMS decisions about where ambulances take patients … patients (e.g., in respiratory distress) most often taken to nearest hospital, after which transfer decisions … have not previously received care Take-Home Points (2) Federal EMTALA laws can play into EMS decisions

107. Opioid Overdose. | PSNet
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     April 06, 2022 - medications and information to raise awareness about the need to improve physicians' prescribing decisions

108. Selection of incorrect medication pump leads to chemotherapy overdose. | PSNet
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     September 09, 2015 - February 27, 2014 Checklists improve experts' diagnostic decisions. … , 2013 Between choice and chance: the role of human factors in acute care equipment decisions

109. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867531/psn-pdf
     January 15, 2025 - psychological-safety-healthcare-settings https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-counts-voiceable-concern-decisions-about-speaking-out-hospitals-qualitative-study

110. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 03, 2021 - This story examines how equipment shortages affected treatment decisions to culminate in rationing of

111. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865418/psn-pdf
     March 27, 2024 - information such as medical history and allergies, and healthcare workers must make or defer treatment decisions … health records (EHRs) and phone lines but also causes clinicians and administrators to make difficult decisions … short email or through another manual method) remains a top priority so leadership can make informed decisions … the duration of the downtime, staff and leadership should be prepared to make quick and difficult decisions

112. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33645/psn-pdf
     February 01, 2007 - Umpires make crucial split-second decisions under conditions of substantial pressure and uncertainty … processes used by umpires and medical diagnosticians are remarkably similar or identical, and the decisions … In an ideal world, medical decisions would be made using "normative" techniques? … especially when we need high-stakes decisions to be right 100% of the time. … Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; 1998. 5.

113. Electronic Err | PSNet
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     April 01, 2014 - subsequent adverse event, reported in this case arose when the admitting physician based medication decisions … In a blinded expert-panel study assessing medical decisions of physicians using an EHR compared to those … of similar physicians using traditional paper records, the experts scored the EHR-supported decisions … best practice safety techniques (eg, verifying critical patient information) when making key clinical decisions … of computer-based records, completeness of documentation, and appropriateness of documented clinical decisions

114. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 08, 2021 - obstetric-iatrogenesis-united-states-spectrum-unintentional-harm-disrespect-violence-and https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-bad-outcomes-questionable-clinical-decisions-preventable-medical-errors-case-cascade

115. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60928/psn-pdf
     September 16, 2020 - issue/risks-prescribing-cascade https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-bad-outcomes-questionable-clinical-decisions-preventable-medical-errors-case-cascade

116. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/837644/psn-pdf
     July 06, 2022 - reducing-administrative-harm-medicine-clinicians-and-administrators-together Budgetary and financial decisions

117. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49622/psn-pdf
     March 01, 2011 - The Commentary This case provides interesting, though common, examples of how seemingly benign decisions … This system undoubtedly flowed from decisions made by leaders and administrators at fairly high levels … Their decision, though, had direct consequences for behaviors and decisions of people at lower levels … This was a case—unfortunately not a rare one—in which organization-level decisions and software design … Take-Home Points Organizational decisions can have profound impacts on how work is carried out by frontline

118. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/862999/psn-pdf
     February 21, 2024 - untold-story-cyberattack-hospital-and-dying-woman https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assessing-biases-medical-decisions-clinician-and-ai-chatbot-responses-patient-vignettes

119. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865974/psn-pdf
     May 29, 2024 - minimizing-bias-when-using-artificial-intelligence-critical-care-medicine https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assessing-biases-medical-decisions-clinician-and-ai-chatbot-responses-patient-vignettes

120. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867144/psn-pdf
     November 13, 2024 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/life-mother-how-abortion-bans-lead-preventable-deaths Healthcare policy decisions