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May 01, 2017 - • Can you identify examples of human
error in your unit or hospital? … SAY:
To improve outcomes, human error, at-risk
behavior, and reckless behavior each should
be managed … 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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April 01, 2025 - Human Error . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 1990. … Human error: models and management. BMJ. 2000 Mar 18;320(7237):768-770. PMCID: PMC1117770. … Patterns of error in interpretive pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2022 May 4;157(5):767-773. … https://www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1 … https://www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol2
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January 01, 2007 - Introduction
Although the extent of medical error has been well characterized among general medicine … Since physicians are doing the reporting, this would mean less
opportunity for them to notice an error … Second, the level of clinical responsibilities and the corresponding available time to devote to
error … Finding and fixing medical
error: Opportunities for clinicians. … Error in medicine. JAMA 1994; 272:
1851-1857.
12 Chaudhry SI, Olofinboba KA, Krumholz HM.
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August 01, 2022 - occurring in 5 percent of ED
visits translates to about 7 million cases of ED-based diagnostic error … What interventions could reduce diagnostic error in
emergency departments? … inform diagnosis and error. … Interdisciplinary communication: an uncharted source of medical error? … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis
of 583 physician-reported errors.
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August 01, 2022 - occurring in 5 percent of ED
visits translates to about 7 million cases of ED-based diagnostic error … What interventions could reduce diagnostic error in
emergency departments? … inform diagnosis and error. … Interdisciplinary communication: an uncharted source of medical error? … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis
of 583 physician-reported errors.
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June 01, 2023 - They did not acknowledge that I had really been sick due to their error in diagnosis and never had to … Types and prevalence of patient/family-reported diagnostic errors
Type of Diagnostic Error … Concerns by Aspects of Diagnosis
Empowered Patient Coalition Survey 19
(n=184)
Medical Error … columns total more than 100 percent because narratives often identify multiple forms of diagnostic error … The Medical Error Recontact Survey percentages were calculated by the authors from unpublished data.
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April 01, 2014 - Cuando ocurre un error, tratamos de averiguar los problemas en los procesos que dieron lugar al error … Cuando un error sigue ocurriendo, cambiamos la manera en que se trabaja.
C10. … Cuando el paciente recibe un medicamento con algún error que podría causarle daño al paciente pero no … Cuando el paciente recibe un medicamento con algún error que no tiene la posibilidad de causar daño, … Cuando un error que podría haber causado daño al paciente se corrige ANTES de que el medicamento
salga
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March 26, 2008 - considered preventable.2 Administration is the stage of the
medication use process most vulnerable to error … Critical care studies in high-alert IV medication
administration found error rates of 34 percent14, … Look-alike and work-alike drugs and drugs with sound-alike names all increase the possibility of
error … CPOE systems do not address this type of error,4 and bedside barcode scanning alone is
not sufficient … ISMP medication
error report analysis. Hosp Pharm 2005; 40: 210-12.
32.
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July 18, 2008 - tools, strategies, behaviors, and principles
can be implemented as countermeasures to elements of the error … Ambulatory
Care Setting
Patients and health care providers have become increasingly aware of medical error … Further analysis revealed
judgment error (79 percent), failure of vigilance or memory (59 percent), … chain.9
A literature review and collaborative project,10 “diagnosing diagnosis error,” formulated … , and mitigation of medical error and help
tocreate a safer environment for patients and families.
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June 01, 2021 - Slide 4
Active Failures
SAY:
Active failures occur because of human error. … Though the resident can still receive the wrong medication due to human error, or active failures, we … It could also be due to human error, or “active failure”— the long-term care clinician did not count … A simple clerical error is another possible human error.
Slide 13
Why Did It Happen? … Imagine what changes you can make to the system which may protect against human error.
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April 02, 2020 - Reducing Diagnostic Error: Measurement Considerations. … The challenges in defining and measuring diagnostic error. … The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine. … Minimizing diagnostic error: the importance of follow-up and feedback. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583
physician-reported errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - Reducing Diagnostic Error: Measurement Considerations. … The challenges in defining and measuring diagnostic error. … The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine. … Minimizing diagnostic error: the importance of follow-up and feedback. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583
physician-reported errors.
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April 01, 2025 - institutions to fulfill the NASEM report’s recommendations to create reporting systems for diagnostic error … For example, stories of a medical error that led a young boy to die of sepsis prompted multiple statewide … improvement was profoundly impacted when a physician within their own organization experienced a medication error
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September 28, 2016 - .
• Develop a knowledge base for learning
about errors' causes and effective error
prevention. … Diagnostic Error:
Magnitude of the Problem
• 12 million or 5 % U.S. adults seeking outpatient care … each year experience a diagnostic error. … • Evaluate diagnostic error as a quality of care challenge
• Examine the epidemiology, burden of … Slide Number 50
Slide Number 51
Slide Number 52
Diagnostic Error: �Magnitude of the Problem
Study
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January 01, 2025 - We explored the variable definitions of error; individual
and organizational variability in decision … Key Words: medication delivery, decision making, human factors, error, harm, safety, systems
PURPOSE … The goal of the Operating Room Systems
based Medication Administration error Reduction Team (OR SMART … A medication error can be described as “any error involving
the prescribing, ordering, selection, or … A medication error in the perioperative setting is three times more likely to result in harm
that in
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January 01, 2024 - To assess the impact of stimulated reporting on reported error/adverse event
rates. … Scope: Background: Error Reporting Systems, and Learning from Error
Although iatrogenic injury causes … The goals will be to refine error detection and classification schemes so that reports can
be used by … However, there was no impact on the serious
medication error rate or the preventable ADE rate. … may be
defined as the defect in the system that permitted such an error to occur.
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August 01, 2022 - While restitution for patients and families affected by medical error is essential, the standard process … frustration and anger for patients and can diminish the opportunity for hospitals to learn and improve from error
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August 01, 2022 - Slide 9
Say:
To improve outcomes, human error, at-risk behavior, and reckless behavior … 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 … Forcing functions, checks, and redundancies are some features of systems intended to minimize the risk of error
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June 15, 2003 - limitations of current reporting systems and realities constraining their use inhibit
widespread error … Safety infrastructure
Error reporting systems and associated information sharing and problem-
solving … , ongoing quality improvement programs, and
internal reporting systems for complying with multiple error … Some hospitals also
keep separate, customized medication error databases, while other hospitals use … Finally, there is a high degree of
informal error reporting that is not captured by any system.
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July 01, 2025 - Safety Strategies for Improving Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error … Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes Evidence on Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error