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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/index.html
January 01, 2023 - Home
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Health Care Simulation … https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/index.html
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-1.html
September 01, 2023 - Safety
Reports
Papers on Diagnostic Safety Topics
Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Safety and Organizational Safety Culture Related to Diagnosis
References
Diagnostic errors … malpractice cases. 1 We do not have systematic and rigorous ways to define and enumerate diagnostic errors … One of the best ways to collect information about diagnostic errors is through self-reporting by patients … Page originally created September 2023
Internet Citation: Learning From Diagnostic Errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/questions/resources/20-tips.html
November 01, 2020 - My Questions for This Visit
20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors
Next Steps After Your … Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. … Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. … Most errors result from problems created by today's complex health care system. … But errors also happen when doctors * and patients have problems communicating.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/eliminate-diagnostic-errors.html
August 01, 2022 - News
Blog
AHRQ Views
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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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kazi-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - studied, medication administration errors (MAEs) remain a persistent problem in
healthcare, with errors … Errors in Anticoagulation Therapy through EHR data
Results
Interview Study
PM-based Medication Errors … Errors in Anticoagulation Therapy through EHR data
Results
Interview Study
PM-based Medication Errors … Errors in Anticoagulation Therapy through EHR data
Results
Interview Study
PM-based Medication Errors … Errors in Anticoagulation Therapy through EHR data
Results
Interview Study
PM-based Medication Errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Mohr.pdf
February 01, 2004 - Learning from Errors in Ambulatory Pediatrics
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Learning from Errors in
Ambulatory Pediatrics … Web-based tool for reporting errors; (2) identify the types and
range of errors; and (3) identify errors … for reporting errors; (2) identified the
type and range of errors; and (3) identified errors that can … Errors in the medical treatment domain were most frequent (38 percent)
followed by administrative errors … Of the errors within the
medical treatment domain (Table 4), 84 percent were medication errors.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/strom2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - and possibly facilitated errors. … Prescribing errors are the major source of medical errors and largest proportion of
medication errors … or perceptions of errors. … In addition to perceived errors
and observed errors, we have also determined (see below) that 67% … to errors they prevent.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/index.html
March 01, 2024 - AHRQ funds research to better understand how diagnostic errors happen and what can be done to prevent … Pediatricians self-report an appreciable number of diagnostic errors . … AHRQ has awarded 4 grants that will more precisely define the scope of diagnostic errors. … Understanding what contributes to these errors. … Learning more about the link between diagnostic errors and outcomes, including adverse events.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.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
Resources
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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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/OConnor.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors
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Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors … development of specific interventions to reduce it may be a
productive strategy to reduce passive errors … Introduction
The contribution of medical errors to adverse clinical outcomes is well
documented in … thus far have focused on errors related
to inappropriate use or misuse of various therapies. … Medication
errors observed in 36 health care facilities.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-3.html
September 01, 2023 - Safety Topics
Specific Barriers and Challenges to Reporting and Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error
Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Improve Diagnostic Safety
Specific Barriers and Challenges to Reporting and Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Questions about diagnostic errors challenge their sense of competency and can undermine confidence. … Internet Citation: Specific Barriers and Challenges to Reporting and Learning From Diagnostic Errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/lepguide/chapter2.html
September 01, 2020 - Adapt Current Systems To Better Identify Medical Errors Among LEP Patients. … Improve Reporting of Medical Errors for LEP Patients. … Address Root Causes To Prevent Medical Errors Among LEP Patients. … Written translation errors. … Address Root Causes To Prevent Medical Errors Among LEP Patients
Background
Medical errors among
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/diagnostic-error-grants/index.html
January 01, 2021 - year 2019 for AHRQ to initiate a research agenda to understand and solve the problem of diagnostic errors … In 2019, AHRQ awarded the four grants below that will more precisely define the scope of diagnostic errors … University of California, San Francisco
Project Aims:
To determine the incidence of diagnostic errors … , and to use risk estimates to calculate incidence and impact of factors contributing to those errors … To explore machine learning techniques that yield robust, accurate models to predict diagnostic errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bundy-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - errors that are harmful. … , not in all errors that occurred. … Outpatient errors involved significantly more dispensing errors (p < 0.001) and more
errors due to … Family notification of medication errors was reported in only 12% of errors. … errors; most of these errors involved patients <6 months of age.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/20tips/20tips.pdf
September 01, 2011 - 20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors
… But medical errors can
occur anywhere in the health care system: In
hospitals, clinics, surgery centers … Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis,
equipment, or lab reports. … Most errors result from problems created by today’s
complex health care system. … But errors also happen
when doctors* and patients have problems
communicating.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Grayson.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Do Transient Working Conditions Trigger Medical Errors? … errors) through this system. … Errors that reached the patient as well as near-miss errors or
errors that were caught before they reached … Both medication errors and procedural errors, such as
performing the wrong test on a patient, were included … errors in a district general hospital.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/johnson-baughman-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Show Your Work: Do Prescription Annotations Impact Near-miss Medication Errors … Show Your Work:
Do Prescription Annotations Impact Near-miss Medication Errors?
Kevin B. … Those errors include cognitive errors (wrong medication, no medication for an
appropriate indication … , wrong patient); prescribing errors (wrong formulation, wrong dose,
wrong route, wrong frequency, errors … Committee on Identifying and Preventing
Medication Errors. Preventing medication errors.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/gandhi-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - that
are potential ADEs
Entire
pharmacy
Pre &
post
Review of medication dispensing errors
by … that are potential
ADEs and ii) ADEs due to medication
transcribing and administering errors
2 ➢ … Measures included target dispensing errors, defined as dispensing
errors that barcode technology was … Gandhi 4.16.07
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pharmacy with undetected errors. … How many hospital pharmacy medication
dispensing errors go undetected?
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/state-of-science-5.html
June 01, 2020 - Types and origins of diagnostic errors in primary care settings. … Autopsy-detected diagnostic errors over time in the intensive care unit. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … Use of a novel, modified fishbone diagram to analyze diagnostic errors. … OPSI Offers Free Diagnostic Errors Webinar on Sept. 19.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/magid-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The primary outcome of the study will be the occurrence of
medication errors. … Any strategy employed alone, however, cannot eliminate medication
errors (Ballentine et al 2003). … , administration route errors, drug substitution errors, and errors involving
drug allergies (Bates … When potential errors
are detected, alerts are triggered. … All three projects resulted in a measurable decrease in medication errors.