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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/murphy-diagram
January 01, 2023 - They are similar to other analysis methods such as fault trees as they analyze errors based on the … potential causes of those errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/decreasing-ades-montana-frontier-critical-access-hospitals-through-hit
January 01, 2023 - Type of Care
Acute Care
Health Care Theme
Adverse Events
Medication Errors … appears to have improved the overall reporting of prescription, transcription, and dispensing process errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/ahrq-funded-project-resources-archives/primary-care-visual-error
January 01, 2023 - Visual Medication Error Reporting Tool is a tool using pictures/diagrams to be used in the reporting of errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/integrating-contextual-factors-clinical-decision-support-reduce-contextual
January 01, 2023 - Contextual errors occur when a care plan is inappropriate because of inattention to patient context. … Contextual errors can lead to diminished healthcare outcomes and an increase in healthcare costs related … decision support (CDS) can be used to alert clinicians to both red flags and factors to avoid contextual errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-reconciliation-improve-quality-transitional-care/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Period
September 2009 – July 2013
AHRQ Funding Amount
$1,181,628
Summary: Medication errors … account for approximately 20 percent of all medical errors in the United States each year. … facilitation of inpatient MR improves completion of MR and decreases the incidence of drug-related medical errors … Determine whether electronic facilitation alters medication reconciliation and the incidence of medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-health-record-information-design-and-usability-toolkit
January 01, 2023 - While health information technology (IT) systems are expected to significantly reduce medication errors … , studies have found that issues with usability and information design can actually facilitate errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/guide-to-evaluating-hie-projects-appendix-d.pdf
June 16, 2021 - an outpatient practice, the office manager
believed they were making a large number of prescription errors … On the other hand, if you observe the following data…
Before After
Number of Errors in 100 Sampled … the e-prescribing system, the errors may have shown up in the sampled
prescriptions by chance. … Random events might even result in one or two fewer errors before
implementation, giving the impression … that the system was causing errors rather than preventing
them.
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digital.ahrq.gov/technology/computerized-provider-order-entry-system
January 01, 2023 - Photographs in Electronic Health Records
Preventing Wrong-Drug and Wrong-Patient Errors … Preventing Wrong-Drug and Wrong-Patient Errors With Indication Alerts in CPOE Systems – Final Report. … in CPOE Systems
Beyond mixed case lettering: Reducing the risk of wrong drug errors … Beyond mixed case lettering: Reducing the risk of wrong drug errors requires a multimodal response. … Risk factors associated with medication ordering errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/adelman-jason-stuart
July 24, 2024 - Patient Safety
Event Date
July 24, 2024 - 2:30pm
- July 24, 2024 - 4:00pm
Medication errors … Preventable medication errors cost the nation more than $21 billion annually across all care settings … Principal Investigator
Adelman, Jason Stuart
Project Name
Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors … Project Name
Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors in an EMR That Allows Multiple Records Open
Develop … Principal Investigator
Adelman, Jason Stuart
Project Name
Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/university-mississippi-medical-center
January 01, 2023 - University of Mississippi Medical Center
Detecting Med (Medication) Errors … Principal Investigator
Brown, Andrew
Project Name
Detecting Med (Medication) Errors … in Rural Hospitals Using Technology
Detecting Med (Medication) Errors in Rural … Technology
Description
Implemented and evaluated a voluntary system for reporting medical errors … rural hospitals; identified barriers to technology, described the epidemiology and root causes of the errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/thomas-eric
January 01, 2023 - Remote Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Monitoring
Types and origins of diagnostic errors … Types and origins of diagnostic errors in primary care settings. … Eric
Project Name
Using Electronic Records to Detect and Learn from Ambulatory Diagnostic Errors … Teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitation. … Teamwork behaviours and errors during neonatal resuscitation.
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-dissemination/conference-proceedings/ahrq-funded-research-2018-amia-annual-symposium
January 01, 2018 - AHRQ Research Profile
AMIA Title
Type
Abraham, Joanna
An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors … Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems
Clinician Perspectives on Duplicate Medication Ordering Errors … Measures To Capture Violations of the Five Rights of Medication Safety ; Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024755-hettinger-final-report-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - to determine why these errors occur and how to make informed changes to improve the EHR. … for approximately 34 errors. … Potential solutions for these errors include
1. … quickly and easily EHR errors can occur. … Role of computerized physician order entry systems
in facilitating medication errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/partnering-improve-patient-safety-rural-wv
January 01, 2023 - small, rural hospitals across the state in an online patient safety network designed to prevent medical errors … catalogued more than 24,000 "events," information that WVMI and hospital staff have used to identify errors … and determine how to prevent future errors. … cases, the data are used to increase hospitals' attention to problems that might be rooted in medical errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/2006StromPepper_051211comp.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Review of IT Structures of
PennMedicine
CCEB
Improving Patient Safety
by Reducing Medication Errors … psychometric
personality inventory
CCEB
Project 4 Outcomes
• The “near misses” for medication errors … CCEB
Project Four
Qualitative Summary Outcomes
• An emerging theme focused on the
errors created … by technological
solutions designed to reduce errors
• Several examples illustrate the
unintended … :�Overall Organization
Project 4: Medication Errors�Related to Workplace Stressors�(Ross Koppel, PhD
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/improving-hit-safety-slides-020717.pdf
February 07, 2017 - • ~5 million errors per year are tied to wrong medications;
1 in 4 medication errors involves a … ; 1.3 errors per note; 9 errors
per 1000 words … ; % = number of errors of a specific type divided by the total number of errors
58
Clinical … Across Note Stages
Total
Errors
Clinical
Information
Errors
n (%)
General
English … Figure
Errors by Semantic Type.
Clinical Informat ion Errors in SR Notes. .
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/conducting-measurement-activities-health-information-technology-initiative
January 01, 2023 - Ambulatory Setting
Hospital
Health Care Theme
Clinical Decision Making
Medication Errors … Reduction of medication errors due to the adoption of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). … The use of e-prescribing systems was estimated to avert approximately 14.3 million medication errors … Further, it was estimated that as many as 86 million medication errors could have been averted in 2008 … Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/sullivan-sean
January 01, 2023 - Preparing for ambulatory computerized prescriber order entry by evaluating preimplementation medication errors … Preparing for ambulatory computerized prescriber order entry by evaluating preimplementation medication errors … the Impact of an ACPOE/CDS System on Outcomes
Characterization of prescribing errors … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic. … The impact of computerized provider order entry on medication errors in a multispecialty group practice
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-without-harm-slides-07242024.pdf
January 12, 2025 - as the Wrong-Patient
Retract-and-Reorder measure, can be developed and used to
detect medication errors … medication discontinuation to pharmacies, we
can improve patient safety by reducing
medication errors … Technical
errors
4. Memory-based (lapses)
Aronson JK, Ferner RE. … • The first RAR measure identified wrong-patient errors. … New RAR measures
identify wrong dose, wrong frequency, and wrong route medication errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/complexity-incidence-and-costs-related-delayed-diagnosis-venous
September 01, 2024 - Despite the risks, healthcare systems lack standardized tools to measure and track VTE diagnostic errors … automate the detection of missed and delayed VTE diagnoses, identify factors contributing to these errors … electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) evaluation to include delayed and missed VTE diagnostic errors … Identify the costs associated with VTE diagnostic errors and the cost benefit of timely VTE diagnosis … will develop prediction models using ML to estimate the extra costs associated with these diagnostic errors