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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/results/research/submission-form-mw.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Review – Numerator on Review –
Medication List Blood Pressure Status/Intervention
Documentation Error … Documentation Error Documentation Error
Exception on Review –
Allergy Documentation
List Error … Exception on Review –
Diagnosis
Documentation Error
No Diagnosis on Review –
Diagnosis
Documentation … Error
Not Done Patient
Reason
Remaining Potential Quality Gaps: _______________________________
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/hospwebinar/just-culture-webcast-3-closing.pdf
June 01, 2017 - Just Culture Webcast Closing
Updating the Hospital Survey and
Nonpunitive Response to Error
• HSOPS … and a pilot study
– Version 2.0 to be released in early 2018
– Revising the Nonpunitive Response to Error … composite
to reflect Just Culture concepts
31
Nonpunitive
Response to
Error
Response to
Error … quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/index.html
Updating the Hospital Survey and NonpunitiveResponse to Error
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions7.html
June 01, 2023 - Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Diagnostic Error … Defining, identifying, and measuring error in emergency medicine. … Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error (SPADE): a conceptual framework and methodological … Cognitive bias impact on management of postoperative complications, medical error, and standard of care … Cognitive interventions to reduce diagnostic error: a narrative review.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/hripcsak-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - NLP was found to
complement and improve upon error detection based on coded data. … We also
expected that it would often be unclear whether an error actually occurred. … The error recovery component
is used if a parse of the complete sentence cannot be obtained. … , based on defined
parameters collected during the error reporting process. … Dynamic adaptation to critical care medical environment: error recovery as cognitive
activity.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-4.html
August 01, 2023 - NAM report Improving Diagnosis in Healthcare highlighted the critical deficiencies in diagnostic error … The report identified four broad priority research topics related to diagnostic error 60 :
Patient … children’s conditions compared with their own. 39 Partnership with parents in preventing diagnostic error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/joo-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Error to Improve Patient Safety in COPD and Asthma (REDEFINE … Reducing Diagnostic Error to Improve Patient Safety in COPD and Asthma
(REDEFINE Study)
Principal Investigator … Key Words
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma, Diagnostic Error (DE), Spirometry
3. … PURPOSE
Aim 1: Determine the prevalence of and characteristics associated with diagnostic error (DE) … Reducing Diagnostic Error to Improve Patient Safety in COPD and Asthma (REDEFINE Study)
2.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module1-introduction.pptx
January 12, 2022 - You might wonder, how often does diagnostic error happen? … Diagnostic error is a patient safety issue. … By error type:
Missed – No diagnosis is ever reached. … Even highly skilled, motivated professionals are vulnerable to error. … What Is Diagnostic Error?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/04-yount-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
June 01, 2019 - Events Reported 65
Communication Openness 64
Teamwork Across Units 62
Feedback & Communication About Error … 62
Staffing 50
Nonpunitive Response to Error 41
Handoffs & Transitions 37
33
34
Comparing to the … 62 69 69
Staffing 50 53 55
Nonpunitive Response to Error 41 47 50
Handoffs & Transitions 37 48 49 … 62 69 69 66
Staffing 50 53 55 56
Nonpunitive Response to Error 41 47 50 30
Handoffs & Transitions 37 … 62 69 69 66
Staffing 50 53 55 56
Nonpunitive Response to Error 41 47 50 30
Handoffs & Transitions 37
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/acute-care-threats-long-desc.html
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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/czeisler-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The definitions used to classify incidents are provided in the
following table:
Medical Error Any error … in the delivery of medical care,
whether harmful or trivial
Serious Medical Error A medical error … Serious
Error
A serious medical error that is not intercepted but
does not cause detectable harm, … Error A serious medical error related to the ordering or
administration of pharmaceuticals, blood … error, or error with little potential for harm.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/brady-summit2016-breakout.pdf
September 28, 2016 - www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-
releases/2015/saving-lives.html
What Makes Addressing
Diagnostic Error … • Who owns the Dx error problem? … NAM (formerly IOM)
Definition of Diagnostic Error
The failure to:
(a) establish an accurate and timely … Measuring Diagnostic Error
• Research projects
• Medical liability claims
• Patient safety and quality … NAM (formerly IOM) �Definition of Diagnostic Error
Recommendations from �the Improving Diagnosis in
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Schiff.pdf
January 01, 2005 - What is the probability that the error resulted in the adverse outcome? … How preventable was the error? … Error in medicine. JAMA 1994;272:1851–7.
45. Reason J. Human error. … Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical
Error. … Change ideas for preventing and minimizing diagnostic error
Figure 1.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-1.html
September 01, 2023 - Strategies for Improving Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error … Strategies for Improving Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error … Despite growing awareness of diagnostic error, most healthcare systems do not track or record diagnostic
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-appa2.pdf
January 01, 2018 - , 2014, 2016, or 2017
Person-Centered Care
Improving
Average Annual
Percent Change
Standard
Error … -1.1 0.0 0.02 HHCAHPS 6 (2012-
2017)
Not Changing
Average Annual
Percent Change
Standard
Error … forms
-0.7 0.0 0.00 MEPS 6 (2011-
2016)
Worsening
Average Annual
Percent Change
Standard
Error … -1.52 0.0 0.00 HHCAHPS 6 (2012-
2017)
Not Changing
Average Annual
Percent Change
Standard
Error … Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Not Changing
Average Annual
Percent Change
Standard
Error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/hospwebinar/just-culture-webcast-1-intro.pdf
November 09, 2016 - Feedback & communication about error
– 3. Frequency of event reporting
– 4. … Nonpunitive response to error
– 7. Organizational learning--continuous improvement
– 8. … Nonpunitive Response to Error Survey
Items
– Staff feel like their mistakes are held against them. … Lowest Performing Composite Results –2016 AHRQ Comparative Database
Defining Nonpunitive Response to Error … Nonpunitive Response to Error Survey Items
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-terminology.pdf
April 01, 2025 - Unlike some error-focused terms, such as “diagnostic error,” that emphasize shortcomings,
diagnostic … • How were judgments of “error” and preventability determined? … Diagnostic Error
The 2015 National Academy report sought a consensus definition for diagnostic error … Descriptions of various categories of diagnostic error follow. … The concept of
“error without harm” or an error rescued before harm impacts a specific patient is referred
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/brown-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - "Evaluating the System
of Medication Error in an In-Patient Setting." … "Data Warehousing Technologies to Understand
Medication Error Processes." … "Use of Data Warehousing Technologies to Understand
Medication Error Processes." … "Use of Data Warehousing Technologies to Understand
Medication Error Processes." … “Use of data mining techniques
in analyzing medication error data.”
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/yang-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - software tools were developed for detecting simple errors and inconsistencies
based on pre-defined error … Novel error detection algorithms, including multiple machine
learning-based algorithms, were developed … to detect advanced errors that are not supported by
rule-based error detection. … Two
methods (Median absolute deviation, Error-leveling) were developed to generate error statistical … In comparison, human
workers might not be well suited for the repetitive error detection tasks.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Whitten_85.pdf
June 05, 2008 - from the medical error equation.6, 7, 8
Although past efforts to address this important issue are … of execution) or the original intended
action was not correct (e.g., an error of planning). … This latter example is most closely
aligned with the lay notion of medical error. … Media mistakes in coverage of the Institute
of Medicine’s error report. … Indiana medical error
reporting system: Final report for 2006.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - in the read prevents the initiating error from being caught. … Review and Comparison with Published Literature: Medication error studies were analyzed by type of error … This type of human error typically occurs during routine tasks. … Summary of Potential for Harm by Stage and Medication Error Category
Error
Category
Prescribing Dispensing … Medication Error Frequency by Stage and Medication Error Category
Category Prescribing/Ordering Dispensing