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January 01, 2024 - Diagnostic errors in hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to intensive care. … Keywords: Diagnostic Safety and Quality, Medical Errors, Hospitals, Inpatient Care, Quality of Care, … This paper describes the Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study, whose aim … was to define the prevalence and underlying causes of diagnostic errors (DEs) in patients who die in … Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study.
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April 14, 2004 - CU
conducted a 3-year project that collected medical errors from 38 primary care
practices affiliated … Process Errors Detected in Family Physician Offices
(Testing Process Errors). … The ASIPS PSRS accepted clinician and staff reports of errors
anonymously or confidentially. … The Testing Process Errors study involved
eight family practice offices. … and skill
errors, errors of commission or omission.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/science-of-safety-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - Slide 6: How Do These Errors Happen? … Errors also occur because systems frequently are not designed to catch mistakes before they reach the … on the Science of Safety
Say:
Science of safety training helps providers recognize that most errors … Say:
Errors happen because people are fallible. … Science of safety training helps providers and others understand that the majority of errors arise from
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June 01, 2023 - a Call to Action
References
OR-to-ICU Handoff-Specific Contributors to Diagnostic Errors … found that death after surgery related to communication, system, diagnostic, and judgment error—all errors … significantly higher than death related to technical error. 79
Strategies To Mitigate Diagnostic Errors … These interventions resulted in fewer information omissions and errors, but the statistical quality of … This research could more explicitly explore how the HATRICC bundle could be used to reduce diagnostic errors
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June 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile on Kathleen Walsh, M.D., M.Sc., Highlights Work To Prevent Pediatric Medication Errors … Grantee Profile on Kathleen Walsh, M.D., M.Sc., Highlights Work To Prevent Pediatric 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, … Walsh has identified factors that contribute to medication errors and injuries in children with chronic
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March 01, 2022 - Diagnostic error in medicine—analysis of 583 physician-reported errors . … Accuracy of the Safer Dx Instrument to identify diagnostic errors in primary care . … Patient safety strategies targeted at diagnostic errors—a systematic review . … System-related interventions to reduce diagnostic errors: a narrative review . … Reducing diagnostic errors worldwide through diagnostic management teams .
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Recent Research Studies
Diagnostic errors in hospitalized adults who died or were transferred … Identifying and classifying diagnostic errors in acute care across hospitals: early lessons from the … Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study.
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November 01, 2020 - My Questions for This Visit
20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors
Next Steps After Your … for This Visit
Prioritize questions while in the waiting room.
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors … Learn to prevent medical errors that can occur anywhere in the health care system and can involve medicines
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July 12, 2018 - Annually,
1 in 20 outpatients experiences a diagnostic error
55%
of patients said
diagnostic errors … 9
ED admissions
are related to an
adverse drug event
An estimated
160
million
medication
errors … Reduce errors
and improve visit
efficiency by setting
the visit agenda
together with
Be Prepared
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September 01, 2021 - Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
The Contribution of Diagnostic Errors … Prevalence of diagnostic errors as predictors of obstetric outcomes among post-natal mothers in Bungoma … Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework. … ‘More than words’ - interpersonal communication, cognitive bias and diagnostic errors. … Reducing diagnostic errors in medicine: what’s the goal?
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September 01, 2022 - Nurses are key in preventing deadly diagnostic errors in cardiovascular diseases. … Diagnosis is a team sport - partnering with allied health professionals to reduce diagnostic errors. … Diagnostic error: safe and effective communication to prevent diagnostic errors . … Communication breakdowns and diagnostic errors: a radiology perspective. … Learning from patients' experiences related to diagnostic errors is essential for progress in patient
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Harder.pdf
May 19, 2003 - Burns
Abstract
Heparin administration errors can have severe consequences for patients. … administration process through the
use of a computerized protocol at a large Midwestern hospital, errors … still
occurred—2.01 errors per 1,000 doses charged. … This is
likely to lead to errors, either in the conversion of one unit of measurement to the
other … It is likely that
inexperience of this kind would make errors more likely to occur.
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May 05, 2008 - Introduction
Medical errors have been recognized as a relatively common and potentially avoidable cause … We hypothesized that:
(1) communication errors commonly occur during the postoperative handoff process … In health care, for example, this may
involve new methods to detect medication errors. … A look into the
nature and causes of human errors in the intensive care
unit. … Residents’ suggestions for
reducing errors in teaching hospitals.
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November 01, 2022 - Medication errors that occur at home, especially during transitions of care such as patient discharge … The preventable harms for these medication errors include adverse drug events (ADEs), unscheduled hospital … There is an increased potential for medication errors as more responsibilities of medication management … Xiao identified frequent errors that occurred during the placement of central lines or central venous
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February 01, 2021 - instance, checklists have been successful in preventing hospital-acquired infections and preventing errors … The use of checklists has also been recommended as a tool to reduce diagnostic errors. … Diagnostic errors are frequent and often have severe consequences but have received little attention … provide knowledge and recommendations to encourage HCOs to begin to identify and learn from diagnostic errors
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July 01, 2018 - Award
Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety
Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors … Council—Calgary, Alberta
Patients are Powerful
Patients.About.Com
Persons United Limiting Sub standards and Errors … Care
Picker Institute
Picker Institute Europe
Planetree
Persons United Limiting Sub standards and Errors … of America
Persons United Limiting Sub standards and Errors of NY
Quality and Safety Education for
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps/officebasedcare/ts-obc-online-module9.pptx
March 07, 2019 - Identify errors common to organizational change. … We then go to step five, which is called errors common to change. … Kotter identifies ways to institutionalize change and counter these errors. … Module 9 Summary
In this module, you learned to:
List Kotter’s Eight Steps of Change
Identify errors … Identify errors common to organizational change.
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May 01, 2018 - Evidence on variations in health outcomes, medical errors, and receipt of quality health care as a function … and increased likelihood of clinical errors ( Flores et al., 2005 ; Karliner et al., 2007 ). … (It should be noted that, although research has documented a variety of interpretation errors during … assessments, the clinical significance of such errors has not been well characterized.) … Elderkin-Thompson and colleagues also found interpretation errors in more than 50 percent of videotaped
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July 18, 2008 - International
taxonomy of medical errors in primary care-Version 2. … A
preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family
practice. … Preventing medication errors: Quality chasm series. … Strategies to reduce medication errors in ambulatory
practice. … EPITOME program educates patient to
help reduce medication errors.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/development-and-usability-testing-common-formats.pdf
January 01, 2022 - , MPH*†
Objectives: A lack of consensus around definitions and reporting standards
for diagnostic errors … A lack of consensus around definitions and reporting standards
for diagnostic errors limits the extent … Diagnosing diagnosis errors: lessons
from a multi-institutional collaborative project. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of
583 physician-reported errors. … Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic
errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework.