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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/index.html
January 01, 2024 - Medication errors are likely higher with patients with limited health literacy, as they are more likely … Medication errors are likely higher with patients with limited health literacy.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - Errors associated with schematic tasks are labeled "slips" and occur because of lapses in concentration … Errors associated with failures of attentional behavior are labeled "mistakes" and often occur because … Most errors in health care are slips rather than mistakes. … or posting one on a rapid response cart or kit or on a wall is unlikely to be effective at reducing errors … Checklist effectiveness for reducing errors can be enhanced when—
They are created or adapted to meet
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/SOPS-Hospital-Survey-2.0-English-05.18.21.docx
June 09, 2016 - When staff make errors, this unit focuses on learning rather than blaming individuals
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/tools/ts-t-taq-questionnaire.pdf
May 31, 2023 - Teams that do not communicate
effectively significantly increase their
risk of committing errors. … Poor communication is the most
common cause of reported errors.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/instructor/fundamentals/module5/ebsitmonitor.pdf
January 01, 2013 - In fact, poor situation monitoring has been considered a contributor to clinical
errors,9 whereas high … This can serve to reduce errors and thus enhance patient safety. … The potential for improved teamwork to reduce medical
errors in the emergency department.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dagnostic-safety-workgroupmeeting-notes-july2022.pdf
November 03, 2022 - • Diagnostic Errors Focus
o Initiated improvement project to better identify and facilitate the … reporting of diagnostic errors through voluntary event reporting (I-
STAR).
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/programs/index.html?page=2
April 28, 2024 - Research
AHRQ offers toolkits, recommendations, and other resources to improve quality, reduce errors … toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for long-term care facilities to improve quality, reduce errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/index.html
February 01, 2024 - These include identification errors, delayed or missed diagnoses, redundant testing, treatment delays … or errors, medication errors, and unexpected clinical deterioration. … Bedside clinicians’ perceptions on the contributing role of diagnostic errors in acutely ill patient … Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study . … Providers' and Patients' Perspectives on Diagnostic Errors in the Acute Care Setting .
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety_facguide.pdf
May 01, 2017 - presentation, we will do the following:
• Describe the rationale for the use of
checklists for reducing errors … Errors associated with schematic
tasks are labeled “slips” and occur because of
lapses in concentration … Errors associated with failures of
attentional behavior are labeled “mistakes”
and often occur because … Most errors in health
care are slips rather than mistakes. … Checklist effectiveness for reducing errors can
be enhanced when—
• they are created or adapted to
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/safety-assess.html
October 01, 2020 - facilities can minimize such safety problems as health care-associated infections, patient falls, medication errors … The toolkit:
Targets six areas of safety—infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/797.html
January 01, 2022 - PICC Lines Safer
New Patient Safety Network Cases Offer Commentaries on Avoiding Severe Medical Errors … New Patient Safety Network Cases Offer Commentaries on Avoiding Severe Medical Errors
Two new Web M … Web) case studies from AHRQ's Patient Safety Network (PSNet) include expert analyses of medical errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/index.html
June 01, 2023 - This toolkit is designed to help staff actively engage patients and their care partners to prevent errors … effectiveness reviews that cover health topics suggested by the public.
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors … Other Resources
Question Builder
20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors
Patients and Providers
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/868.html
June 01, 2023 - Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action , highlights the greater potential for diagnostic errors … The brief describes factors that can contribute to diagnostic errors during transitions in care and strategies … to prevent and reduce these errors.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/advancing-diagnostic-equity.pdf
November 15, 2022 - Diagnosis-related inequity is
particularly challenging to address especially given that diag-
nostic errors … But, for
marginalized patients, prevalence and factors contributing to
diagnostic errors are even further … Given the prevalence of diagnostic errors and growing atten-
tion to longstanding issues of inequity … The frequency of diagnostic errors in
outpatient care: estimations from three large observational studies
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sops/international/hospital/translators.html
October 01, 2014 - Our procedures and systems are good at preventing errors from happening.
A10. … We are informed about errors that happen in this unit.
C5. … In this unit, we discuss ways to prevent errors from happening again.
7. … through the hospital's event reporting system; the items are not about disclosure or reporting of errors … Nonpunitive Response to Errors
( More about this dimension: In a nonpunitive environment, when a mistake
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/patient-family-engagement/index.html
April 01, 2018 - This toolkit is designed to help staff actively engage patients and their care partners to prevent errors … effectiveness reviews that cover health topics suggested by the public.
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors … Other Resources
Question Builder
20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors
Patients and Providers
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/index.html
November 01, 2021 - Toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for long-term care facilities to improve quality, reduce errors
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/882.html
September 01, 2023 - AHRQ Grantee Protects Patients From Drug-Drug Medication Errors . … AHRQ Grantee Protects Patients From Drug-Drug Medication Errors
AHRQ grantee Daniel C. … These efforts are helping to protect patients from preventable medication errors. Access Dr.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/hsops2-pt2_transition_apx.pdf
September 01, 2019 - (C1)
We are informed about errors that happen in this
unit. … (C2)
In this unit, we discuss ways to prevent errors from
happening again. … (A17R)
Our procedures and systems are good at preventing errors from happening. … (C1)
We are informed about errors
that happen in this unit. … (C2)
In this unit, we discuss ways to
prevent errors from happening
again.
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ahrqpubs.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/index.html
November 01, 2016 - Patients and families who engage with health care providers ask good questions and help reduce the risk of errors