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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/dream-lab-long-desc.html
August 01, 2025 - reports, and applied natural language processing and machine learning to identify patterns in diagnostic error … proactive patient engagement strategies. 4 The lab also created a revised version of the DEER (Diagnostic Error … Defining diagnostic error: A scoping review to assess the impact of the National Academies’ report Improving … Defining diagnostic error: A scoping review to assess the impact of the National Academies' report Improving
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/herwaldt-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - This function
tracks Error Flag, PID, Sample ID, Requisition ID, Order Card ID, date/time, Error Message … Correct error
before proceeding
NoAll
scans
match? … Correct error
before proceeding
Correct error
before proceeding
Complete tests, type/screen
as ordered … Correct error
before proceeding
Step 4. … Prevented Error = Mismatch between two different, valid Patient IDs
Skipped Step = An upstream scan
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/epner-summit2016-wrapup.pdf
September 28, 2016 - Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
• Vision
Creating a world where no patients are harmed
by diagnostic error … Improve Diagnosis (CID)
• CID aims to bring much-needed attention,
awareness and action to diagnostic error … effective
tools for improving diagnostic performance and
reducing harm associated with diagnostic error … Awareness Campaign
10
• Objectives
Drive awareness and attention to the problem of diagnostic
error … in an effort to put diagnostic error prominently on the
nation’s health radar
Drive engagement intended
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - culture 3 :
Our processes are designed to prevent failure
We are committed to detect and learn from error … support and reward reporting; discipline occurs based on risk-taking
Nonpunitive Response to Error … item
2 Composites all items reverse-worded:
Handoffs & Transitions
Nonpunitive Response to Error … National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention A–I Error Severity Taxonomy … Four items elicit perceptions of feedback about error.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/patient-id-errors-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - intended to answer one primary question, “What PSPs can assist in decreasing patient
identification error … Site" OR
"Medical Mistake*" OR
"Disclosure of Error*" OR
"Mental Error*" OR
"Action Error*"))) … Patient Surger*"
OR "Wrong-
Patient Surger*" OR
"Wrong Procedure Error*"
OR "Wrong-
Procedure Error … *" OR
"Mental Error*" OR
"Action Error*")
AND
((MH "Operating Rooms")
OR (AB
"Operating Room … Patient Identification Error in the Operating Room Search
Terms
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-2.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 … It is reasonable, however, to think that the principles that enable error reporting and guide process
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/crane.html
August 01, 2017 - and Medical Liability—Recommendations for Measurement, Analysis, and Interpretation: A Commentary
Error … Each reported error was coded with just one primary error but with up to four additional associated or … reporting, and the psychological barriers to admitting involvement in an error in patient care. … "Every error counts": a web-based incident reporting and learning system for general practice. … Does error and adverse event reporting by physicians and nurses differ?
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-4.html
September 01, 2020 - Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error Reduction
Factors That Influence … Next Page
Table of Contents
Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error … cases as well. 18 Checklists may be more effective in difficult cases because there is more room for error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Chan.pdf
January 01, 2004 - requires
careful attention to the vulnerabilities of any system.1
Table 1: Potential sources of error … Free text comments were investigated as potential sources of error in the
program or its data sources … In most cases, clinician reports were false positives
for error. … Incorrect adverse drug
reaction (ADR) notification
1 Error in the data conversion, leading
to the … Computer decision
support as a source of interpretation error: the case of
electrocardiograms.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/findings.html
March 01, 2017 - were followed by issues surrounding medication prescribing, management, and adherence and diagnostic error … Medication Issues
One of the most widely studied sources of medical error in both acute and nonacute … Each of these gaps in medication safety has yielded different approaches to reduce opportunity for error … Diagnostic Error
Estimates of diagnostic error in outpatient care suggest that approximately 1 in 20 … Ultimately, diagnostic error relates to the principle of uncertainty inherent in the diagnostic process
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/hoff-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - hierarchy and outcome over process, the nature of resident and attending responses to the
act of error … Willingness to develop
logics that link contextual factors to increased probability for the
error or … events in a way
that questions the underlying assumptions upon which the work
leading to that error … The study comparatively examined three error-prone medical residency
settings through a single-case, … However, it decreased the presence of specific learning best practices
around error such as inquiry
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/03-SOPS_101_Webcast-GRAY-Overview.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Safety Culture Assessed
Across SOPS Surveys
• Teamwork
• Communication Openness
• Communication About Error … • Organizational Learning—Continuous improvement
• Response to Error
• Staffing
• Supervisor/Management … in medical
offices supports accurate diagnoses
► Assist in identifying processes and sources of error
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/events/webinars/just-culture.html
December 01, 2018 - scores on the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture , particularly the Nonpunitive Response to Error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Harper.pdf
March 01, 2004 - Abstract
Spurred by a controversial report from the Institute of Medicine on the prevalence
of medical error … previously unknown, but safety-critical information for developing a
proactive approach to managing human error … Introduction
“The most detrimental error is failing to learn from an error.”1
The past decade has … Fueled by a report from the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) suggesting that human error is responsible for … Human error. New York: Cambridge
University Press; 1990.
2.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/improving-safety-diagnosis-long-desc.html
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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/barnsteiner-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - • How do differing definitions of “error” among providers and administrators affect
error reporting, … • Can a taxonomy of errors improve error reporting? … • What is the relationship between nurse fatigue and error rate? … • Does the dissemination of error reports influence subsequent error reporting and
rates? … • How do staffing ratios and staff stability (turnover rate) affect error rates?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Risk Assessment
C.5.a Error Science and Medicine
The study of error and safety in the 20th century … If info is
wrong, the
Fenwal armband
on patient will
catch the error. … risk of error in the care of a pediatric
patient. … Human Error. Cambridge University Press: New York, 1990.
7 Norman D. … Promoting Patient Safety and Preventing Medical Error in Emergency Departments.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn-about-cusp-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - Can you identify examples of human error in your unit or hospital? … Slide 16: Managing Error and Risk 3
Say:
To improve outcomes, human error, at-risk behavior, and … 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
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program-ape.html
April 01, 2018 - Errors
18
408
-- Clinical Misdiagnosis
0
410
-- Diagnostic Test Interpretation Error … 2
409
-- Radiograph Interpretation Error
1
412
Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off … -- Simulators
0
669
-- Students
0
676
-- Teamwork Training
0
619
Error … Reporting and Analysis
206
625
-- Error Analysis
185
627
---- Failure Mode Effects … 626
---- Root Cause Analysis
73
688
---- Patient Safety Indicators
3
620
-- Error
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/ehr-reports.pdf
March 01, 2016 - .........14
Case Study..............................................................14
Sources of Error … ....15
Inclusion Errors ............................................................16
Inclusion Error … One by one, the Medical
Director and her DBA figured out and corrected the
cause of each error. … Once an error is found,
it is important to document the information both by
the nature of the error … Inclusion Error Examples
1.