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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/beprepared_quickstartfull.pdf
January 01, 2015 - Safe and effective communication to prevent diagnostic errors. … & Quality Healthcare; 2013. http://psqh.com/safe-and-effective-
communication-to-prevent-diagnostic-errors … dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X683929
http://psqh.com/safe-and-effective-communication-to-prevent-diagnostic-errors … http://psqh.com/safe-and-effective-communication-to-prevent-diagnostic-errors
Implementation Quick
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November 29, 2017 - By preparing and engaging patients for new ambulatory care appointments, you can potentially:
Reduce errors … These gaps have the potential to cause patient harm and safety errors, including increased hospital readmissions … Patients who require appointments with other clinicians are more vulnerable to patient safety errors. … By preparing patients for new ambulatory care appointments, you can potentially:
reduce errors related
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January 01, 2004 - This requires a culture that views errors
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opportunities to improve the system, not the result of … Our procedures and systems are good at preventing errors from happening
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January 01, 2004 - Introduction
Studies show that more problems are caused by medical device usage errors,
than are the … result of device malfunctions.1 Although device users are traditionally
blamed for these errors, there … is widespread evidence to indicate that a large
number of device usage errors are the result of poorly … Section 7 surveyed the subject’s attitudes
toward errors and error prevention. … Healthcare
employee attitudes toward medical device-use errors
and their prevention.
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July 01, 2023 - Describe the connection between communication and medical errors. … According to the Joint Commission, these errors are reported over 50 percent of the time and represent … Were errors made or avoided?
Are resources available? … employ advocacy and assertion frequently has been identified as a major contributor to the clinical errors … Research supports the connection between communication errors and errors in patient care delivery.
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January 01, 2015 - Diagnostic errors in primary care: lessons learned Yes Yes Strong Review of evidence of diagnostic errors … Recommendations to identify errors. … avoid
medication errors in practice. … Speak Up: Help Prevent Errors in Your Care Yes Yes Strong Speak-Up! … Yes Moderate Evidence-based guidelines for how to prevent medical
errors.
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September 14, 2023 - deviation by ~half of caregivers
► >40% dose deviation by ~quarter of caregivers
• >90% of 300K annual med errors … Implementing Strategies to Prevent Home Medication Administration Errors in Children With Medical Complexity … Preventing Home Medication Administration Errors
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Medical Complexity = Unique
Vulnerability … Implementing Strategies to Prevent Home Medication Administration Errors in Children With Medical Complexity … area where they can have all
this information…and that can make life simpler
and cut down on human errors
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April 01, 2022 - Errors often occur because systems frequently are not designed to catch mistakes before they reach the … Standardization makes errors in the system become more apparent, which allows us to address them. … Understanding more about the science of safety helps providers recognize that most errors arise from … So, data from defects analysis can be extremely valuable in helping to identify system errors and pointing … The goal is to learn as much as possible about potential latent and active errors contributing to the
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February 01, 2017 - Slide 21: Attention Screening Exam
Count the number of errors. … Inattention is present if the patient commits more than two errors. … Use only if CAM-ICU or ICDSC are not performed
Enter the number of errors, 0 to 10 . … Enter " NK " if the exam was performed, but number of errors is not known.
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March 23, 2008 - Errors
conference: Executive summary. Acad Emerg Med
2000; 7: 1180-1182.
8. … Association of perceived medical errors with resident
distress and empathy. … The Institute of Medicine report on
medical errors – Could it do harm? … Views
of practicing physicians and the public on medical
errors. … to their
errors: An exploration.
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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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August 02, 2018 - past 3 months…
“Physicians sometimes copy and paste incorrect
information in notes…”
“I think the errors … I notify the appropriate person of these errors.”
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January 01, 2015 - Safe and effective communication to prevent diagnostic
errors. … http://psqh.com/safe-and-effective-communication-to-prevent-
diagnostic-errors.
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February 24, 2008 - (AHRQ) funded, voluntary network of hospitals working to report, analyze, and learn from
medical errors … This compares item A18 (non-reverse-worded),
“Our procedures and systems are good at preventing errors … about changes implemented, and
discuss ways to prevent errors. … Reducing errors in medicine.
Br Med J 1999; 319: 136-137.
2. Brennan TA, Leape LL. … Lucian Leape on the causes and prevention
of errors and adverse events in health care.
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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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May 01, 2016 - , were a
contributing factor in 14 percent of errors in the sample. … improvements to
prevent similar errors in the future” (Corbett et al., 2013). … , were a contributing factor in 14 percent of errors in
the sample. … The researchers also learned through the project that the taxonomy used to classify
errors could be … Improving patient safety and restructuring medical liability using ACEs:
Medication errors.
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January 01, 2017 - Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Attention Screening Exam
Count the number of errors … Inattention is present if the patient commits more than two errors
If the patient squeezes on every … Use only if CAM-ICU or ICDSC are not performed
Enter the number of errors, 0 to 10
Enter “X” if the exam … if unable to assess
RASS = -4 or -5
SAS = 1 or 2
Enter “NK” if the exam was performed, but number of errors
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January 01, 2013 - of safety is
Reporting -- the people in direct contact with risks and hazards freely report their errors … necessary to engineer a reporting culture—an organization in which people are prepared to report their errors … knowledgeable about a process to make decisions, and
resists the temptation to blame individuals for errors … to Leverage Change
Example- Hospital x Greatest opportunities:
Feedback & Communication About Errors
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April 10, 2018 - That’s at least 160 million errors. … In the primary care setting, medication safety issues include prescribing errors, contraindications, … Results in a complete and accurate medicine list
Reduces medicine errors
Offers the opportunity to reduce … One clinician observed, “It closes the gaps, reduces medication errors, offers the opportunity to reduce
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May 15, 2017 - Their results
should then be compared to identify and correct data entry errors. … Finally, if you have programmed the CAHPS instrument into a Web survey, issues with
skip pattern errors … • Having an original file will allow you to correct any data errors made during the cleaning process … An audit will also identify possibly coding errors. … Conducting the audit immediately after data entry allows you to catch errors before proceeding
with