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January 01, 2024 - The tables include the relative frequencies by type of device, by device defect, failure or use error … Percentage Frequency
Unknown 57.5% 22,873
Device defect or failure, including HIT 29.6% 11,791
Use error … 8.9% 3,534
Combination or interaction of device defect or failure and use error 4.0% 1,574
Device … Frequency
Unknown 95.1% 5,134 4.7% 253
Device defect or failure, including HIT 92.5% 3,604 7.2% 263
Use error … 87.5% 1,255 13.0% 189
Combination or interaction of device defect or failure and use error 88.0% 611
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November 01, 2024 - 1
Diagnostic Safety Research
at the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Diagnostic Error … Diagnostic error is a significant and underrecognized threat to patient safety. … and add to inequities in health outcomes.2-10
■ Delayed or missed diagnosis of cancer is a common error … Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis
of 583 physician-reported errors.
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August 01, 2017 - Breakout 2 (afternoon): Use of Data and Measurement in Reducing Error (video)
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August 01, 2017 - Breakout 1 (morning): Use of Data and Measurement in Reducing Error (video)
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June 01, 2020 - For example, reports from clinicians who have witnessed diagnostic error have the advantage of rich detail … Synthesizing Data and Enhancing Confidence in Measurement
Determining the presence of diagnostic error … or no error) may be insufficient for cases involving greater uncertainty, which call for more graded … assessment approaches reflecting varying degrees of confidence in the determination of error. 20,94 … Other factors related to diagnostic error, such as the presence of patient harm (e.g., clear evidence
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January 01, 2004 - Categorization of diagnostic error
Historically, diagnostic error was seen at an individual level as … Cognitive error includes both errors of
ignorance and implementation. … usually associated with less knowledge-based thinking (medication error,
procedural error, and others … Human error. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press; 1990.
22. Hammond KR. … A case study in medical
error: the use of the portfolio entry.
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January 01, 2024 - The presence of any service quality deficiency
more than doubled the odds of any adverse event or error … Patient safety, medical error, patient-physician communication, information
technology. … Medical error is prevalent in healthcare. … ’s performance is an unwieldy method for error
measurement [6]. … Epidemiology of medical error.
BMJ 2000; 320: 774-7.
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January 01, 2003 - do not catch the initiating error. … Human error in hospitals and industrial
accidents: current concepts. … A methodology for modeling
operator error in probabilistic risk assessment. … Operating at the sharp end: the
complexity of human error. In: Bogner MS, editor. … Human error in medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum; 1994. pp.255–310.
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June 11, 2003 - of Safety” led to a paradigm shift in
assessing an individual’s performance, event occurrences, and error … Prior to the patient safety initiative, under the then-existing error reporting
system, staff members … This delay and the lack of
timely feedback to hospital staff could lead to reoccurrence of an error. … The hospital
had to undertake a paradigm shift in the way it assessed individual performance
and error … The
survey results found that 90 percent of the staff felt confident in their error
reporting.
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January 01, 2012 - teams
Staff retention and performance
Pay structure and clinical ladder
Decreased agency
Web-based error … 58.20% 42.93% 51.59% 49.03% 70.30% 56.68% 82.61% 62.65% 59.77% 66% 71% 76%
Feedback and comm about error … 45.39% 42.98% 48.70% 26.06% 39.26% 57.94% 67.82% 29.37% 44.34% 44% 51% 60%
Nonpunitive response to error … 58.20% 42.93% 51.59% 49.03% 70.30% 56.68% 82.61% 62.65% 59.77% 66% 71% 76%
Feedback and comm about error … 45.39% 42.98% 48.70% 26.06% 39.26% 57.94% 67.82% 29.37% 44.34% 44% 51% 60%
Nonpunitive response to error
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January 01, 2004 - medication errors that
occur, the clinical importance of these errors, or effective strategies for error … This would provide a conservative
estimate of medication dosing error rates. … Therefore, it is difficult for pharmacies to
correctly determine if a weight-based dosing error has … Medication
error prevention by clinical pharmacists in two
children’s hospitals. … The impact of
computerized physician order entry on medication
error prevention.
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January 01, 2024 - Working longer than 12.5 consecutive hours was associated with
a significantly higher risk of error, … Short sleep durations were also associated with an increased risk of making an
error and difficulties … and almost doubled the risk of making error
among critical care nurses (AACN Sample). … Fatigue, performance, and medical error. In: Bogner MS, ed.
Human error in medicine. … Human error in
medicine. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1994:13-25.
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September 01, 2020 - Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error Reduction
Rationale for Use … Next Page
Table of Contents
Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error … We will discuss the evidence for the effectiveness of checklists for diagnostic error reduction and factors
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March 01, 2025 - Issue Briefs Journal Articles Diagnostic error in mental health: a review . … Defining diagnostic error: a scoping review to assess the impact of the national academies' report improving … You can search diagnostic error to find related studies and resources.
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April 03, 2008 - Introduction
Although error reporting has been widely substantiated in the literature as an integral … • Promoting a fair and just culture for error reporting. … Differing definitions of
actual and potential error
• Providing unit-based in-services. … Time/effort required for
error reporting
• Implementing the End-of-shift Safety Report. … Voluntary
medication error reporting program in a Japanese
national university hospital.
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January 01, 2004 - [Message] Good error messages. … [Error] Prevent errors. … cause error.25, 26 For example, an isolated step in a task affords error,
such as the step of entering … internal, the higher the
error affordance because internal representations are more error prone. … Medical Device Usage Errors
335
established a strong correlation between error affordance and error
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August 01, 2022 - programs, but many struggle to ensure that solutions to errors are really addressing the cause of the error … and not just checking the box on their process when they do their analysis of the error. … In Rosemary Gibson's book:
Responding to medical error is a part of health care where we should be … Being shamed or blamed for the error.
Revealing poor skills/abilities.
… This is a cornerstone of the CANDOR process of investigating the root cause of how an error occurred,
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September 01, 2021 - Immediately After Childbirth: State of the Science
Introduction
The Contribution of Diagnostic Error … underrecognition occurs is needed to inform targeted approaches to address this important diagnostic error … process issues. 35–37
Simulation can also be used to identify, understand, and address diagnostic error … misinterpretation, as well as system errors (latent safety threats), to support reduction in diagnostic error … Simulation can be a useful modality for addressing diagnostic error in maternal health by facilitating
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September 01, 2020 - Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error Reduction
References … Previous Page
Table of Contents
Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error … Debiasing versus knowledge retrieval checklists to reduce diagnostic error in ECG interpretation. … Developing checklists to prevent diagnostic error in Emergency Room settings. … Human Error. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 1990.
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January 01, 2024 - care. 1-9 For example, an estimated 5 percent of the U.S. adult population experiences a diagnostic error … setting every year, 1 and approximately 0.7 percent of inpatients experience harm from a diagnostic error