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Health Care Simulation … https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/index.html
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/eliminate-diagnostic-errors.html
August 01, 2022 - News
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AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors … AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors … However, reliable estimates indicate that diagnostic errors nevertheless remain far too common. … An estimated 250,000 diagnostic errors occur annually in U.S. hospitals. … Regardless of the setting, diagnostic errors can derail proper care and may lead to severe injury or
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/diagnostic-safety/toolkit.html
November 01, 2018 - Patient Safety Resources by Setting
Ambulatory Care
Reducing Diagnostic Errors … News and Events
Education & Training
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Reducing Diagnostic Errors … in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit
The Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics … Toolkit aims to assist primary care practice teams with a systematic approach to reduce diagnostic errors … through the measurement, screening, recognition, diagnosis, follow-up, and reduction of diagnostic errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/pace-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - errors (42%). … Communication errors (39.6%) and medication errors (39.6%) were frequently reported. … for one in five errors. … , communication errors, and errors involving clinicians and
nonclinicians. … errors in which the provider of record is a direct participant; errors of
judgment and knowledge; errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-walsh.html
October 01, 2023 - Extensions (NCEs)
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Grantee Profile
Preventing Medication Errors … Walsh is working to prevent medication errors and adverse drug events among children, particularly those … Medication errors that occur outside the hospital can be lethal for children with chronic conditions, … Children with cancer are at particularly high risk for errors due to weight-based dosing calculations … With a continued focus on reducing medication errors in children with chronic conditions, Dr.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/dxsafety-issuebriefs.html
January 01, 2024 - Training
Resources
AHRQ Papers on Diagnostic Safety Topics
Diagnostic errors … Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors … Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors … Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes ( PDF , 2 MB)
The Contribution of Diagnostic Errors … Journal Articles
The PRIDx framework to engage payers in reducing diagnostic errors in health care
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-conversation.html
October 01, 2021 - DM: Do diagnostic errors happen often?
JB: They’re more prevalent than one might think. … DM: Are all wrong diagnoses considered diagnostic errors?
JB: No. … DM: Why do diagnostic errors occur in the first place? … Errors related to the way we think are called cognitive errors. … They will make it possible to avoid the high costs and human toll that diagnostic errors exact.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/863.html
May 01, 2023 - Events
Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors … Today's Headlines:
Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors . … Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors
A majority of diagnostic errors … Of 199 diagnosis-related claims, EHRs were considered a potential contributor to diagnostic errors in … 2023
Internet Citation: Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201509.html
January 01, 2018 - Impact Case Studies
AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors … Newsletter
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AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors … May 2015
AHRQ-sponsored research on how clinical pharmacy services can reduce medication-related errors … The Institute of Medicine has identified medication errors as the most common type of error in health … 2015
Internet Citation: AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/831.html
September 01, 2022 - Newsletter
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AHRQ’s Measure Dx Tool: Discover and Learn From Diagnostic Errors … Now
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AHRQ’s Measure Dx Tool: Discover and Learn From Diagnostic Errors … Population, 2019 )
Today's Headlines:
AHRQ’s Measure Dx Tool: Discover and Learn From Diagnostic Errors … AHRQ’s Measure Dx Tool: Discover and Learn From Diagnostic Errors
Despite the frequency of diagnostic … errors, clinicians and healthcare organizations seldom learn from diagnostic events due to the complexity
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/pridx-framework.pdf
July 05, 2023 - The PRIDx framework to engage payers in reducing diagnostic errors in healthcare
Mini Review
Kisha … Blackall and Hardeep Singh
The PRIDx framework to engage payers in
reducing diagnostic errors in healthcare … Despite growing interest in the
measurement and prevention of diagnostic errors, direct
engagement of … Advancing the science ofmeasurement of diagnostic
errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework. … Diagnostic error inmedicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
March 01, 2024 - Among those patients, about 18 percent of errors caused temporary harm, permanent harm, or death. … The urgent need to reduce these errors—which include diagnoses that are either inaccurate, delayed, or … Safety Centers of Excellence are working to better characterize, understand, and measure diagnostic errors … and training; health information technology; identification, analysis, and reduction of diagnostic errors … They underscore the imperative to mitigate diagnostic errors and harm.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/index.html
March 01, 2024 - Healthcare
Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety
AHRQ tools to reduce diagnostic errors … Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit aims to assist primary care practice teams … with a systematic approach to reduce diagnostic errors among children in three important areas: elevated … through the measurement, screening, recognition, diagnosis, follow-up, and reduction of diagnostic errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/defining-diagnostic-error-a-scoping-review.pdf
April 27, 2022 - Patient Focus
Five studies explored patient reports of diagnostic errors. … Types and origins of diagnostic
errors in primary care settings. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported
errors. … Malpractice claims related to
diagnostic errors in the hospital. … Diagnostic errors in medicine: a case of neglect.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/improving-safety-diagnosis-long-desc.html
February 01, 2024 - Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study . … Providers' and Patients' Perspectives on Diagnostic Errors in the Acute Care Setting . … Analyzing diagnostic errors in the acute setting: a process-driven approach . … design and development of a diagnostic time-out to address diagnostic errors in acute care . … Analyzing diagnostic errors in the acute setting: a process-driven approach.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/diagnostic-excellence-grants/index.html
June 01, 2023 - 01
Project Aims:
Develop a multidisciplinary diagnostic excellence center to address diagnostic errors … , accelerate its implementation in a large healthcare system, and evaluate its impact on diagnostic errors … Propose, prioritize, and codesign patient-centered solutions to mitigate diagnostic errors. … Carry out a comprehensive program evaluation, including analysis of rates of diagnostic errors and process … and outpatient) to improve patient/family and clinician communication and experience and to reduce errors
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January 01, 2024 - Home
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Diagnostic Errors … Today's Headlines:
Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults . … Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults
A random sample of patients from … The researchers concluded that three-quarters of these diagnostic errors contributed to temporary or
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/engaging-patients-improve.html
July 01, 2022 - Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety
Diagnostic errors … Research suggests that 79 percent of diagnostic errors are related to the patient-clinician encounter … and up to 56 percent of these errors are related to miscommunication during the encounter. … , uninterrupted, and in a way that gives clinicians the information they need can reduce diagnostic errors … Organization
Toolkit Infographic (PDF, 743 KB) provides statistics about incidents of diagnostic errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances/vol4/Miranda.pdf
July 01, 2004 - Others
specified particular actions that patients could take to avoid errors, such as
maintaining a … refers to
“medical errors.” … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 20 tips
to help prevent medical errors. … Preventing
medical errors: communicating a role for Medicare
beneficiaries. … Prescription errors tied to lack of advice:
pharmacists skirting law, Mass. study finds.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
April 02, 2020 - Types and origins of diagnostic
errors in primary care settings. … Measuring errors and adverse events in health care. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … The global burden of diagnostic errors
in primary care. … Malpractice claims related to
diagnostic errors in the hospital.