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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-West_102.pdf
March 31, 2008 - Error Coding and Classification
All error reports were reviewed and then coded by teams of at least … attributes could be assigned to the same error. … Multiple roles could be involved in any single error event. … Attributes of errors related to harm (N = 608)
Error type
Error attributes
[N (%)]
Future risk … Medical error
taxonomies. A research forum; 2003.
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January 01, 2004 - These included where in the process the error
occurred, what disciplines were involved, the error distribution … error occurred that
resulted in a patient death. … error code. … Unit-dose dispensing of the drug involved in the error will prevent an
error with that drug, but not … Human error. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press; 1990.
8.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/diy-run-chart-tool.xlsx
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Safety Net Medical Home Initiative
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/distributed-cognition-er-nurses6.html
August 01, 2022 - What interventions could reduce diagnostic error in emergency departments? … Understanding the social in diagnosis and error: a family of theories known as situativity to better … 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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/basco-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Key Words: medication error, children
B. … Dosing Error Results: We are still conducting these analyses. … Factors associated with receipt of error, answering Aim 3. … In the LASA error study, no patient characteristic was predictive of receipt of an error. … The LASA
error frequencies suggested by these data are undoubtedly underestimates of the true LASA error
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load1.html
May 01, 2024 - the Institute of Medicine in 1999, was one of the first publications to bring the issue of medical error … In addition, diagnostic error may result in serious harm to more than 500,000 Americans each year across … a patient. 1 , 7
Unfortunately, identification of inaccurate diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic error … often takes place after the error has occurred. … Retrospective investigation into the contributing factors that led to the diagnostic error are subsequently
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January 01, 2007 - there was concern about a possible error. … Figure 2 shows the distribution of error types in 2005 and 2006. … Distribution of error types over 2 years (all CFM clinics). … “ No error
1. adverse outcome, no error
2. unhappy patient, no adverse outcome, no … error
3. no error, patient choice
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/cohen-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - to detect and
correct the error before it reaches patients. … This represents a prescribing error capture rate of 74%. … Medication error reporting systems. In Medication Errors. 2nd ed. … The probability and management of human error. … Technique for human error rate prediction (THERP).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/auerbach-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Results: Overall, 550 patients (23.0%, 95% CI 20.9-25.3%) experienced a diagnostic error. … Key Words: Diagnostic error, Patient safety, diagnosis, quality, health services research
3. … We also created models to understand the
factors that make a diagnostic error more or less likely. … rates deviated significantly
from the group mean error rate. … underwent review,
550 (23.0%, 95% CI 20.9-25.3%) experienced a diagnostic error
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/state-of-science-2.html
June 01, 2020 - The recent NASEM report defines diagnostic error as the “failure to establish an accurate and timely … longitudinal continuum of patient care, as well as pragmatic tools to help measure and address diagnostic error … evaluated in research settings, few HCOs take a systematic approach to measure or monitor diagnostic error … Use of a single method to identify diagnostic error, such as manual chart reviews or voluntary reporting … Table 1 describes various data sources and strategies that could enable measurement of diagnostic error
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March 25, 2008 - Error measurement has many limitations,
including the issues of error identification, hindsight bias … If an error rate is:
Identified errors
Potential opportunities for that error to occur
then, the … Error is attributed correctly. … .19 Similar to error identification through chart review, correct determination of a
numerator of error … Therefore, calling something “human error” or “error” might not be factually meaningful.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/jones-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - ; 50%, by cause of error; and 20%, by therapeutic class of the
drugs involved in an error. … We never went past the type of error. … (n = 30)
Severity of error 13
Type of error 22
Phase (node) of medication use process in which error … originated
11
Cause of the error 14
Drugs involved in the error 22
Actions taken in response to … an error report to prevent error
from recurring
12
Source: Outcomes survey
17
Table 3.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions4.html
June 01, 2023 - This transition is prone to technical and diagnostic error due to not only the high patient acuity and … The study did not explicitly look at medical error. … It is challenging to explicitly evaluate diagnostic error as an outcome in the postoperative period: … Although medical error and information omission are common outcomes in many studies, none isolate the … effect of handoff standardization on diagnostic error in the postoperative period.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Pace.pdf
January 01, 2004 - We then
applied 337 of 421 available taxonomy codes to 608 error reports. … (AAFP)-Linnaeus Primary Care Patient Safety Taxonomy9 primarily applied a
single global code to an error … reports to develop a
hierarchical taxonomy that describes error processes in primary care. … We then analyzed all three approaches to
error classification to identify those codes and constructs … National Coordinating Council for Medication Error
Reporting and Prevention.
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December 01, 2015 - ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0!
May 2015 ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0! … Jun 2015 ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0! ERROR:#DIV/0!
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/scott-cawiezell-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Medication error was defined as a dose that was discrepant to the medication order. … During the analyses, medication error was
considered with and without wrong-time medication error, because … had an error rate
(% of medications administered in error) of 40.1%; CMT/As, 34.2%. … Table 4: Percentage of Observed Medications in Error Across Observation Periods
Medication Error Type … 65%
of medications observed) had an error rate of 5.6%.
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September 01, 2024 - Patients and caregivers who have experienced a diagnostic error can provide a unique perspective. … goals, and concerns are too often the last to be considered. 3 , 4 The issues surrounding diagnostic error … Almost one-quarter of Americans have been affected by a diagnostic error experienced personally or by … Diagnostic process Source: Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care; Board on Health Care Services … Goals for Improving Diagnosis and Reducing Diagnostic Error Source: Committee on Diagnostic Error in
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/Medication_Dashboard_Data_2025.xlsx
January 01, 2025 - of Medication/Substance Event Safety Concern Frequency Percent
Incorrect action (process failure or error … patient/family action (e.g., self-administration error) Other: Please specify 1,434 22.5%
Incorrect … error) Storing 127 2.0%
Incorrect patient/family action (e.g., self-administration error) Transcribing … error) Other 2,220 50.9%
Incorrect patient/family action (e.g., self-administration error) Policies … error) Transcribing 673 6.9%
Incorrect patient/family action (e.g., self-administration error) Unknown
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/thorpe-rask-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Key Words: Patient Safety, Error Reporting, Voluntary, Medication Error, Guideline
Adherence, Error … The mean error
reduction was 28% in 2002 and 34% in 2003. … , reported psychological reactions to medical
error, and organizational policies on error disclosure … Disclosure of medical error: the need for moral courage. … Disclosing medical error: How much to tell?
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January 01, 2017 - Which is more error
prone – intuition or
normative approach? … What’s the Cost
of Dx Error?
Understanding the costs of dx error would motivate ….. … ”
• Add these slides if Victor doesn’t cover
them
Diagnostic Error
Error-related
Harm
40,000 … – 80,000
deaths/yr
The Toll of Dx Error
Leape et al. … What’s the Cost �of Dx Error?