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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/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/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/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/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/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/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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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
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kuo-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - error" as follows: "A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or
lead to inappropriate … Medication error nodes (i.e., when the error was thought to have occurred) included
prescribing, dispensing … The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention: About
Medication Error … Physician order entry system cuts error rate, improves path compliance, tracks data. … The impact of computerized physician order entry on
medication error prevention.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/fraser-dunagan-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Error-related
concerns varied by key patient and hospital characteristics. … Content of medical error disclosures. … The Wrong Shot: Error Disclosure. … Hospitalized Patients’ Attitudes about Participation in Error
Prevention. … Aim 2: Evaluate methods for analyzing medical error and safety event data.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/oconnor-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - It also appears that a
given physician makes the same error recurrently. … error is the main dependent variable of interest for Hypothesis 1. … However, it is important to recall that,
among all patients with an error of commission or an error … rates, other error reduction strategies
may significantly reduce error rates. … Analyses for each
error included patients with specified errors pre-intervention.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/goeschel-summit2016.pdf
June 02, 2025 - errors and near misses in clinical practice
8 Goals to Improve Diagnosis and
Reduce Diagnostic Error … Priorities for
Organization Focused Research
1: How to tie NAM recommendations to existing work
Dx Error … Slide Number 6
8 Goals to Improve Diagnosis and Reduce Diagnostic Error
8 Goals to Improve Diagnosis … and Reduce Diagnostic Error
Three Pragmatic Challenges and Priorities for Organization Focused Research … Acrobat Accessibility Report
Accessibility Report
Filename:
Goeschel AHRQ Dx Error
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/grants-2022.html
July 01, 2025 - 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 … Addressing electronic health record contributions to diagnostic error. … academic center for diagnostic excellence whose focus is to eliminate patient harms from diagnostic error … Evaluate the structure, process, and outcome effects of human-centered solutions on diagnostic error
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions2.html
June 01, 2023 - and to Diagnostic Errors and Uncertainty
EDs are among the most common settings in which diagnostic error … both about the diagnostic process and these overall expectations, may yield diagnostic uncertainty, error … to Diagnostic Error and Uncertainty
Receiver-specific issues may also influence diagnostic error and … Research on diagnostic uncertainty and error at the ED-hospital interface should move forward in two … Promising approaches toward this end (e.g., Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error) 53 must
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/etchegaray3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Methods: We created two new surveys – HPWS and error disclosure culture – across these five
studies … predictive validity of two new
measures – one to measure HPWS practices, and the other to measure error … Key Words: high-performance work systems (HPWS), error-disclosure culture, measurement
equivalence, … Error disclosure: A
new domain for safety culture assessment. … Error Disclosure: A New Domain for Assessing Safety Culture.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Results
Laboratory test error rates (and other metrics) significantly predicted real-world error rates … The results indicated
that error rates on the tasks were positively correlated with real-world error … error rates (adjusted R2 = .12 and R2 = .18). … With the error rate (the complement of the error rate will be called the accuracy rate) of a new drug … Pseudo-code for error detection algorithm.
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January 29, 2008 - First, we need to define medical error. … Error or delay in diagnosis
2. Failure to employ indicated
tests
3. … Technical error in the
performance of a procedure
6. Error in administering
treatment
7. … Error in dose or method of
use of a drug
8. … behavior may be related to several categories of
error.
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April 01, 2025 - The national consciousness of medical error was stirred by the landmark 1991 Harvard Medical Practice … Study 13,14 that described the epidemiology of medical error and reported on the incidence of adverse … As the field evolved to consider diagnostic errors as a subset of medical error, the term diagnostic … The goal of Safety-I is to prevent, avoid, minimize, or mitigate error and harm. … Unlike some error-focused terms, such as “diagnostic error,” that emphasize shortcomings, diagnostic