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February 01, 2024 - 11/30/22
Description: The overall goal of this learning lab was to reduce the rate of diagnostic error … Diagnostic error among vulnerable populations presenting to the emergency department with cardiovascular … Contributors to diagnostic error or delay in the acute care setting: a survey of clinical stakeholders … What contributes to diagnostic error or delay? … Contributors to diagnostic error or delay in the acute care setting: a survey of clinical stakeholders
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January 01, 2024 - As the lead Federal agency investing in research to improve diagnostic safety and reduce diagnostic error … MB)
Strategies for Improving Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error … Emergency Departments ( PDF , 3 MB)
Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error … Defining diagnostic error: a scoping review to assess the impact of the national academies' report improving
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November 06, 2020 - PSNet: Published a primer on 7/22/20 called COVID-19 and Dx
Error. … grant=R01+HS27614-01
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-diagnostic-error … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-diagnostic-error
https://www.cdc.gov … Recently Published Diagnostic Safety Relevant Papers:
o Reducing the Risk of Diagnostic Error in the … www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/222266/hospital-medicine/reducing-risk-diagnostic-error-covid
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/diagnostic-excellence-grants/index.html
June 01, 2023 - to create a taxonomy to classify the contribution of electronic health records (EHRs) to diagnostic error … Use data gathered from error reporting to facilitate implementation of a multiparameter strategy that … DECODE: Diagnostic Excellence Center on Diagnostic Error
Principal Investigators:
Ramin Khorasani … Evaluate the structure, process, and outcome effects of human-centered solutions on diagnostic error … Develop site-level and groupwide benchmarking reports of error rates, diagnostic processes, and diagnostic
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August 01, 2022 - health information technology, and other factors that can increase a woman’s risk of a CVD diagnostic error … The potential for a CVD diagnostic error can begin as soon as women describe their symptoms, according … team is studying the role of the ambulatory care environment in elevating the risk of a CVD diagnostic error … that clinicians use to help them predict CVD risk itself can be a contributing factor to diagnostic error … a human factors engineering approach cannot identify an overall formula for reducing CVD diagnostic error
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February 01, 2024 - Problem analysis using systems engineering methods to analyze the problem of diagnostic and therapeutic error … reassessing the diagnosis of patients (i.e., inside or outside their hospital rooms) when risk for diagnostic error … A structured approach to EHR surveillance of diagnostic error in acute care: an exploratory analysis … Identifying and assessing diagnostic error in acute care: is the electronic health record telling us … A structured approach to EHR surveillance of diagnostic error in acute care: an exploratory analysis
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October 01, 2021 - The initial diagnosis, while not correct, was not necessarily due to an error. … Talking about error can lead to perceptions that inadvertently suggest blame, but it’s important to remember … An example of a common type of cognitive error that can lead to a diagnostic error is called recency … Oftentimes a diagnostic error is the result of a combination of cognitive and systemic issues. … quickly to keep up with patient care when the ED is short-staffed might be more apt to make a thinking error
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August 01, 2022 - many Americans have experienced the health-related consequences and anxieties that follow a diagnostic error … One in 20 adults annually experiences a diagnostic error in outpatient settings. … These centers will develop expertise in at least one of four areas: error detection and prevention, resilience
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/mosaly-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Table 1: Description of simulated scenarios and corresponding embedded error in each scenario
Scenario … Description Embedded Error
1. … The error detection and
procedural compliance was calculated as the average score of error detection … and/or missing information, 1 denotes proper documentation of error
and/or missing information). … An alpha of 0.05 was used for
an acceptable type-I error for statistical significance.
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March 01, 2024 - primary care offices consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant source of error … a checklist and other resources to help patients understand what they can to do prevent diagnostic error … Diagnosis Improvement Course applies the TeamSTEPPS framework to the specific problem of diagnostic error
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-walsh.html
October 01, 2023 - Walsh received a 3-year AHRQ grant in 2015 to identify the factors that contribute to medication error
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February 01, 2024 - Diagnosis Improvement Course applies the TeamSTEPPS framework to the specific problem of diagnostic error … Helen Haskell, M.A., Mothers Against Medical Error.
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/situation/tools/monitoring.html
June 01, 2023 - Cross-monitoring is a harm and error reduction strategy that involves:
Monitoring actions of other … Instead, it is a way to provide a safety net or an error prevention or error interruption mechanism for
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March 01, 2024 - Most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating … 23 percent of patients treated at 29 academic medical centers in the U.S. experienced a diagnostic error … by Agency-funded research teams that have published essential insights into areas such as diagnostic error
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/distributed-cognition-er-nurses.pdf
August 01, 2022 - occurring in 5 percent of ED
visits translates to about 7 million cases of ED-based diagnostic error … What interventions could reduce diagnostic error in
emergency departments? … inform diagnosis and error. … Interdisciplinary communication: an uncharted source of medical error? … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis
of 583 physician-reported errors.
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/notes2.html
August 01, 2022 - Slide 9
Say:
To improve outcomes, human error, at-risk behavior, and reckless behavior should … Human error is a product of both system design and behavioral choices. … Human error can be managed through changes in processes, procedures, training, system design, or work … The proper management approach is to console providers who have committed a human error and to ensure … Forcing functions, checks, and redundancies are some features of systems intended to minimize the risk of error
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teamstepps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - Reducing Diagnostic Error: Measurement Considerations. … The challenges in defining and measuring diagnostic error. … The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine. … Minimizing diagnostic error: the importance of follow-up and feedback. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583
physician-reported errors.
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August 01, 2022 - If the focus is on the process and the system factors that facilitated the error, the process can be … adjusted to minimize human error, resulting in fewer opportunities to err again. … (Table 1)
Table 1: Behavior Classification
Normal Error (Human Error)
At-risk Behavior
Reckless … If a normal error has occurred, the provider undoubtedly feels bad and should be supported. … questions such as "Why was there human error?
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January 01, 2016 - Total Non-Feds on Travel: 0
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQUIPS)
Diagnostic Error … and final of three annual conferences to be held as part of the large conference grant "Diagnostic Error … response to the AHRQ funding mechanism PAR09-257 and supports the AHRQ/CQUIPS program to reduce medical error