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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/West.pdf
September 01, 2005 - errors. … and diagnostic testing errors. … These errors represent nearly 60 percent of
all medical errors reported to ASIPS in which clinical harm … • Diagnostic testing errors (with a focus on lab tests): More than 50
percent of all medical errors … and
identify errors immediately when they occur.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-McCabe_39.pdf
March 28, 2008 - Using Data Mining to Predict Errors in Chronic Disease Care
Using Data Mining to Predict Errors
in … Errors of Omission
Feedback strategies committed more errors of omission than feedforward strategies … All models committed
fewer errors in the low A1c cells (feedforward strategies committed no errors). … Precision is the percentage of the actual errors among all the encounters that were classified as
errors … and overpredicting errors.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-care-transitions1.html
June 01, 2023 - other providers, but also these providers may be at high risk for anchoring bias and other cognitive errors … Each transition of care has certain underlying context-specific factors contributing to diagnostic errors … Cognitive errors can include:
Faulty hypothesis generation (such as failing to consider rare diseases … In addition to cognitive errors of omission and commission, communication errors may follow similar patterns … transition-specific contributors, and (3) recommended strategies to prevent and mitigate diagnostic errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/lambert3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - One in six medication errors involves name
confusion. … attributable to medical errors, but most agree that errors are a threat to patient safety.2,3
Errors … Substitution errors are more interesting, because they correspond to potentially harmful wrong-drug errors … There were 1408 substitution errors overall. … Total number (%) 1783 (14.6%) 1408 (9.66%) 1268 (9.20) 285
% of errors that were
substitution errors
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Predicting and Detecting Drug Name Confusion Errors
3.A. … Automated detection of look-alike/sound-alike medication errors. … Both studies nonetheless found scores of potential errors. … Does Tall Man lettering prevent drug name
confusion errors? … How many hospital pharmacy medication dispensing errors go
undetected?
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kaprielian_9.pdf
January 01, 2007 - Errors in prescribing medication.
2. … Errors related to filing systems.
4. Errors in dispensing medications.
5. … Errors in responding to abnormal laboratory test results.8
Studies have found that most errors in … The most common issues were errors in
reporting results to providers and errors in responding to results … A
preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family
practice.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1-3.html
June 01, 2023 - Perceptions of Safety and Medical Errors from Patients’ Perspectives
Four past findings have relevance … They were, in fact, directly related to the hole in my new valve….No one spoke to me about the errors … A handful of population-based surveys of Americans’ experiences with medical errors document cases that … respondents believed involved diagnostic problems. 24 , 29 , 38 About half of reported medical errors … Types and prevalence of patient/family-reported diagnostic errors
Type of Diagnostic Error
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ce.effectivehealthcare.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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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/5steps/cincorecsp.html
September 01, 2014 - https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/5steps/cincorecsp.html
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-current-state3.html
January 01, 2024 - Incidence and Contributing Factors
This domain covers the frequency of diagnostic errors and factors … Incidence
Quantifying diagnostic errors through incidence rates and other methodologies helps provide … studies have now demonstrated that diagnostic errors are frequent or harmful in different healthcare … Contributing Factors
Studies show that diagnostic errors nearly always have multifaceted causes and … Burden
The burden of diagnostic errors exists beyond just health outcomes.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-current-state-references.html
January 01, 2024 - Types and origins of diagnostic errors in primary care settings. … A critical appraisal of AHRQ’’s ““diagnostic errors”“ report. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … Strategies to reduce diagnostic errors: a systematic review. … Reducing diagnostic errors in primary care.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/simulproj15/index.html
August 01, 2018 - Home
Research
Research Findings & Reports
Fact Sheets
Medical Errors … Reports: Patient Safety
Evidence-based Practice Center Reports
Fact Sheets
Medical Errors … https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/simulproj15/index.html
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-5.html
September 01, 2020 - validity of checklist use is high and several experts have promoted checklist use to reduce diagnostic errors … These types of errors are easily prevented by a checklist that prevents clinicians from skipping steps … Conversely, checklists used for diagnostic safety seem to focus on errors of planning. … These errors occur when the plan of an action was incorrect (e.g., due to lack of knowledge). … An important and unanswered question for diagnostic safety is whether checklists can prevent such 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/vol3/Shaha.pdf
May 01, 2004 - Why
medication errors? … :
• Interception of prescribing errors improved 30.9 percent … • Prescribing errors themselves were reduced by 31.6 percent. … Relationship between medication errors and adverse
drug events. … Draft guidelines for preventing medication errors in
pediatrics.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/yazdany-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The proposed Aims were:
Aim 1: To analyze the frequency and determinants of errors and adverse events … Among adverse events, medication errors are of particular
concern because they are common, costly, and … Despite the frequency of ambulatory patient safety errors and adverse
events, most efforts to study … The
ASPIRE reach program sought to address this gap by studying ambulatory patient safety errors
for … Third, some important patient safety errors are
not amenable to EHR-based quality measurement.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/MeasureDx-infographic.pdf
July 01, 2022 - Measurement Priority
Measure Dx
Making Diagnostic Safety Your
Measurement Priority
1
Why
Diagnostic errors … experience a diagnostic error
in the outpatient setting every year.a
About
250,000
harmful diagnostic errors … The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from
three large observational studies … Prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors in hospitalised adults: a systematic review and meta-
analysis
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-refs.html
August 01, 2023 - Overcoming Diagnostic Errors in Medical Practice. J Pediatr . … The potential for errors in children with special health care needs. … Medication errors in the homes of children with chronic conditions. … Diagnostic Errors and Diagnostic Calibration. JAMA . … Cognitive Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Pediatr Emerg Care .
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-current-state.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The global burden of diagnostic errors
in primary care. … Diagnostic
errors in paediatric cardiac intensive care. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … Checklists to reduce diagnostic errors. … Reducing diagnostic errors in primary care.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-ref.html
September 01, 2023 - Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error
Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital. … Voluntary electronic reporting of medical errors and adverse events. … Reflection on medical errors: a thematic analysis. Med Teach 2023 Jun 12:1-7. … Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework.
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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/Rudman.pdf
January 01, 2004 - errors (28.6 to 88.9 percent), intercepted pharmacist medication errors
(30.0 to 65.9 percent), and … , with the largest increases for
prescribing errors (2.1 to 14.8 percent) and improper dose errors … Comparison of medication errors, adverse drug events, and intercepted errors
Year
Annual
admission … in intercepted medication errors
and physician-attributed medication errors. … Comparison of medication errors, adverse drug events, and intercepted errors
Table 2.