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August 01, 2017 - vs. 41 percent), serious error disclosure (79 percent vs. 58 percent), trust-based error disclosure … , minor error (i.e., error that causes harm that is neither permanent nor life-threatening) disclosure … disclose this error. … Disclosure Minor
41%
61%
< .001
Error Disclosure Serious
58%
79%
< .001
Error … Construct
Minor Error Disclosure
Serious Error Disclosure
Error Disclosure Trust
Safety Culture
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August 01, 2012 - Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
Table 6: Categories of Medication Error … Appendix: The MATCH Work Plan
Category
Description
Example
A
No error … , capacity to cause error
NA
B
Error that did not reach the patient
NA
C
Error that … harm (omissions considered to reach patient)
Multivitamin was not ordered on admission
D
Error … caused temporary harm
Blood pressure medication was inadvertently omitted from the orders
F
Error
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August 01, 2012 - Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
Table 6: Categories of Medication Error … Appendix: The MATCH Work Plan
Category
Description
Example
A
No error … , capacity to cause error
NA
B
Error that did not reach the patient
NA
C
Error that … harm (omissions considered to reach patient)
Multivitamin was not ordered on admission
D
Error … caused temporary harm
Blood pressure medication was inadvertently omitted from the orders
F
Error
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August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Diagnostic Error … as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Introduction
Background
Diagnostic Error … in the Testing Process
Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error
Diagnostic … improve diagnostic testing should target breakdowns in the testing process that lead to diagnostic error … the failure to correctly interpret a diagnostic test result may reflect knowledge gaps or cognitive error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-mental-health-bmjqs.pdf
April 15, 2024 - Diagnostic error in mental health: a review
Diagnostic error in mental health:
a review
Andrea Bradford … In: Committee on Diagnostic Error
in Health Care. … Medical error. In: Sadock BJ,
Sadock VA, Ruiz P, eds. … The challenges in defining and measuring
diagnostic error. … Interventions targeted at
reducing diagnostic error: systematic review.
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January 01, 2024 - safety/error + defining diagnostic error
diagnostic safety/error + reporting diagnostic error
diagnostic … safety/error + cognitive process
diagnostic safety/error + cognitive biases
diagnostic safety/error … safety/error + telehealth
diagnostic safety/error + telemedicine
diagnostic safety/error + decision … safety/error + close the loop
diagnostic safety/error + interventions
diagnostic safety/error + … /error + implementation
diagnostic safety/error + organizational approaches
diagnostic safety/error
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January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Dystonia
5R01HS018413-02 REVISED Tanner CM
I
FINAL PROGRESS … , as described below. 3
5R01HS018413-02 REVISED Tanner CM
Definition of Diagnostic Error. … Except when specified below, results are from the
diagnostic error survey given to cases. … (c) Excess health costs due to diagnostic error (utilization-based). … Diagnostic error in primary torsion
dystonia.
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June 16, 2008 - Development of a Comprehensive Medical Error Ontology
Development of a Comprehensive
Medical Error … We believe that the ontology would also be useful in error reporting systems
and medical error and near-miss … Validate medical error ontology. … Error location.
5. Contributing factors.
6. Professional activity.
7. Time of error.
8. … For example, “Documentation Error”
(NIC) was added as a subconcept of “Process Error” (PTFP).
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January 01, 2025 - and
a practical group of sessions (Day 2 – Reducing Diagnostic Error). … decision-support tools and
organizational approaches to error reduction. … AHRQ’s interest in patient safety, medical
error, and diagnostic error in particular was emphasized … You had the clinicians speaking who are measuring, defining diagnostic error. … Consider error rates of ideal observers and systems.
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February 26, 2008 - Error Producing Conditions in the Intensive Care Unit
Error Producing Conditions in the
Intensive … factors
that contribute to error. … factors that contribute to error in the context of health care. … Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique. … have
the potential to reduce the risk of human error.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/trowbridge-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - advance the science of diagnostic error reduction. … The impact of
diagnostic error on patients, however, is clear. … Cognitive
interventions to reduce diagnostic error: a narrative review. … Diagnostic error in medicine:
analysis of 583 physician-reported errors. … • Short Course: Introduction to Diagnostic Error
• Short Course: A Workshop on Reducing Diagnostic Error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/singh2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Annual Conference
AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report … Singh) – Diagnostic Error in Medicine Annual Conference 4
12. … • Describing the epidemiology and impact of error in medical diagnosis. … • Identifying ways to measure diagnostic error. … A new section: Special Series –Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference.
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/medical-errors.html
Topic: Medical Errors
Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes--and can have serious consequences. Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. AHRQ has sponsore…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program-apa.html
April 01, 2018 - Terms
Continuing Education Patient Safety
Education Training
Eliminate Medical Error … Health Care Error Training
Health Care Quality Improvement
Health Literacy Training … Healthcare Error Training
Healthcare Quality Improvement
Iatrogenesis
Iatrogenisis … Health Education Training
Patient Healthcare
Clinical Malpractice
Patient Medical Error … Reducing Medical Error
Reducing Patient Injuries
Safer Patients
Teach Patient
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bundy-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - as information on the facility in which the error occurred. … Measures: The key measure of error harmfulness is known as ‘error category’ in the MEDMARX
taxonomy … designation (A–I) depending on the severity of the error. … error occurred (i.e.,
“near misses”). … errors are common error nodes.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions6.html
June 01, 2023 - of care represent a vulnerable moment for patients and families with high potential for diagnostic error … Each unique context carries its own risks for diagnostic error. … Table 1 highlights and summarizes specific strategies that can help mitigate diagnostic error at each … Care transitions, sources of error, and potential mitigating strategies
Care Transition … to scale up and nationally implement effective tools to mitigate diagnostic error.
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June 01, 2023 - patients transition from the inpatient to outpatient setting, is perhaps the setting where diagnostic error … In one study, 49 percent of patients experienced at least one medical error after discharge, related … review and adjudication process to categorize diagnostic error. … A systematic review of cognitive interventions to reduce diagnostic error across healthcare settings … However, most interventions were not tested directly for error reduction in clinical practice.
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January 01, 2016 - Diagnostic Error Measures: For Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Research
Diagnostic Error Measures … Diagnostic Error Measures
Types of Patient Safety & Quality Measures
xxVoluntary
Reporting
Chart … trigger report
• PPV > 70%
• Requires programming
• Fully automated
IOM Definition: Diagnostic Error … JAMA. 2001;285:2114-2120
Wrong-Patient Error Measures
Retract-and-Reorder Tool Applied to
Complete … Diagnostic Error Measures:�For Quality Improvement & �Patient Safety Research
Slide Number 2
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March 11, 2005 - AHRQ WebM&M—Online Medical Error Reporting and Analysis
211
AHRQ WebM&M—Online Medical
Error Reporting … Online Error Reporting and Analysis
215
Cases.” … Online Error Reporting and Analysis
217
Table 2. … Online Error Reporting and Analysis
221
6. Orlander JD, Fincke BG. … Adverse event/error types among published cases*
Figure 1.
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January 01, 2025 - 11) How preventable was the error? … Cognitive issues in diagnostic error
We conclude where most diagnostic error discussions begin—with … 65% (n=438) reported that others made
error, and 25% (n=170) answered that the error was made by the … involved in the error process. … Error reporting systems: New directions.