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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/lamb-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Most if not all knowledge of error rates in radiotherapy is from error reporting. … Error reporting is known to
underestimate error prevalence because not all errors are detected, and barriers … Error
bars represent one standard error. … The result of our retrospective error search showed that errors were underreported: the actual error … rate was
66% greater than the reported error rate.
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January 01, 2004 - Error factors included level of harm and whether patients and others were aware
of the error and the … The level of harm caused by the error and whether
patients and others were aware of the error and any … You put yourself in the hands of your
professional…”
Error factors
The outcome of the error—who … Error outcome and patient
awareness of the error outweighed any other determinants for disclosure related … to
the error itself.
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May 28, 2008 - the error. … error without injury).
3. … Not a medication error (excluded from the study).
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A medication error is an error in drug ordering … Was a possible error found? … Was anyone notified of the error?
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November 29, 2004 - , a
lipid-control error, or a pharmacy error. … : (a) glycemic-control error; (b) lipid-control error; or (c) pharmacy
error. … N % Error N %
Error status
unknown N %
A1c < 7%
At goal
1,371 33.0%
A1c 7 – 7.9% … Column C provides the error rate in the subgroup at risk,
while column D provides the error rate in … another type of error.
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February 01, 2004 - Error reports were then read to ensure that each
report represented a mutually exclusive error. … Reports that included more than one
error were divided into separate error reports. … Examples of error reports
Medical domain
categories
Example error report
Preventive Medicine “ … Examples of error reports, cont. … Error discovered.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/berner-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Diagnostic Error in Medicine. Adv Health Sci Educ
Theory Pract. 2009 Sep;14 Suppl 1. … Diagnostic error in medicine: introduction. … Educational strategies to reduce diagnostic error: can you teach this stuff? … Diagnostic error in medical education: where wrongs can make rights. … Reducing diagnostic error with computer-based clinical decision support.
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July 01, 2003 - Data elements and error characteristics
Error characteristics—type of error
Illegible prescription … No error
A Circumstances or events that have the capacity to cause error
Error, no harm
B … , did constitute an error. … If more than one error was found per prescription, each
error was evaluated separately. … , thus qualifying to be an error.
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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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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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June 02, 2025 - :#N/A 25%
Dec'12 ERROR:#N/A 25%
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Safety Net Medical … :#N/A 0%
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Oct'12 ERROR:#N/A 0%
Nov'12 ERROR:#N/A … 0%
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Mar'13 ERROR:#N/A 0% … Apr'13 ERROR:#N/A 0%
May'13 ERROR:#N/A 0%
Jun'13 ERROR:#N/A 0%
Safety Net Medical Home Initiative
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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.