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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/lobach-df-et-al-1997
January 01, 1997 - functioning following the introduction of a new version of [the EMR] one month into the study (ie, systems errors … : 86.8% of total errors) or from the presence of data in the paper chart which had not been captured … electronically (ie, recording errors: 13.2% of total errors). … More than 70% of the system errors were false positive recommendations in which the performance of studies
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/ems-based-tipi-cardiac-care-qi-error-reduction-system
January 01, 2023 - EMS Based TIPI-IS Cardiac Care QI-Error Reduction System
Project Final Report ( PDF , 1.05 MB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ…
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-spotlights
January 01, 2018 - technologies present increasing opportunities for improving and transforming healthcare by reducing human errors … However, some research suggests that the introduction of health IT can also potentially cause new errors … Safety—Especially for Children
A Prototype Computerized Provider Order Entry System Reduced Medication Errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs022911-chaudhry-final-report-2017.pdf
January 01, 2017 - We then further enhanced the CDSS to address the errors before
implementation in the practice. … The errors can be broadly categorized into
four broad categories: (1) data source errors; (2) modeling … errors (include two sub-
categories); (3) programming errors; and (4) evaluation errors. … Solution
Data Source
errors
Errors in coded
problem list
5 No Feed back to the data
sources … in this paper
has the potential to
eliminate such manual
errors
2.
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digital.ahrq.gov/program-overview/research-stories/improving-safety-postoperative-handoff-communication-telemedicine
January 01, 2023 - Currently, nearly one-third of medical errors and adverse events in healthcare can be tied to miscommunication … approach to support smart precision handoffs that enhance the care team’s resilience to communication errors … teams for promoting effective and efficient handoffs, while providing a safety net against handoff errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/lesselroth-bj-felder-rs
January 01, 2023 - [Link]
Abstract
Errors associated with medication documentation account for a substantial fraction … of preventable medical errors. … Although studies suggest that reconciliation tools can reduce errors, it remains unclear how best to
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/johnson-success-story.pdf
June 16, 2021 - Medication Prescribing
Made Simpler and Safer
Children are particularly vulnerable to medication
errors … Medication errors
pose a greater threat to children than to adults for a
number of reasons. … In an effort to reduce outpatient pediatric medication
errors and to save time calculating doses, Dr … Electronic Prescribing (PedSTEP)
project, which looked at the impact of e-prescribing
on medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-information-exchange-1
January 01, 2023 - Medication errors pose a significant threat to patients undergoing transitions (Forster, Murff, Peterson … adequately monitor the entire regimen, much less intervene to reduce discrepancies, duplications, or errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015002-ferris-final-report-2008.pdf
January 01, 2008 - The reduction in dosing errors was partially offset by errors
resulting from improper use of the CDS … Rates for dosing errors fell 37% overall in the intervention group. … No dosing errors
occurred when the active form of CDS was employed. … Errors by paediatric
residents in calculating drug doses. Arch Dis Child. … Medication
errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.
Jama.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-healthcare-quality-information-technology/annual-summary/2008
January 01, 2008 - Goal: Knowledge Creation
Summary: The purpose of this completed project was to reduce medical errors … shift organizational culture from one that discouraged disclosure and blamed individuals for medical errors … events submitted through SVMC’s internal reporting system, based on self-report, and identified actual errors … in transcription, administration, and near misses for the four types of medication errors: ordering, … medication verification and electronic medication administration records, and assess their value in reducing errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/virtual-continuity-and-its-impact-complex-hospitalized-patients-care/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - communication with and involvement by the PCP in the care of hospitalized patients should decrease medication errors … , diagnostic errors, and follow up errors, thereby improving medical care quality and safety as well … the impact of Virtual Continuity, a pre-post study will compare the frequency of discharge medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-0093_cpoe.pdf
August 01, 2008 - improve the safety and
efficiency of medication and test ordering processes by reducing order entry errors … Order
entry errors can occur, for example, when providers order medications that adversely interact
with … CPOE, if implemented and used
correctly, can automatically check for many such potential errors, helping … processes, without systematic integration of patients’ medical information, may result in order
entry errors … deliveries from vendors,
but several projects reported problems integrating products with other systems and errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/population/surgeon
January 01, 2024 - Delivery through Health Information Technology
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors … Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of Clinical Decision … Project Name
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/process-decision-program-chart
January 01, 2023 - Description
The process decision program chart (PDPC) provides a systematic means of finding errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs022087-singh-final-report-2018.pdf
January 01, 2018 - (18/28) and by “data entry errors” (10/28). … Errors in cancer diagnosis: current
understanding and future directions. … Understanding diagnostic errors in medicine: a
lesson from aviation. … Electronic
health record-based surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care. … Diagnostic Error in
Medicine: Analysis of 583 Physician-Reported Errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-laboratory-monitoring-community-practices-randomized-trial/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Period
September 2007 - February 2012
AHRQ Funding Amount
$990,640
Summary: Medication errors … Most believed they commit few laboratory monitoring errors and were surprised at the error rates reported
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/smith-kenneth-j
January 01, 2023 - communication tools and computer-based medication reconciliation to decrease hospital discharge medication errors … communication tools and computer-based medication reconciliation to decrease hospital discharge medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-using-community-utility-eprescribing-gateway
January 01, 2023 - Ambulatory Setting
Pharmacy
Health Care Theme
Adverse Events
Medication
Medication Errors … Physicians reviewed and rated suspected adverse drug events and medication errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/08-0085_bcma.pdf
August 01, 2008 - Medication errors pose a serious threat to patient safety. … Each year in the United States,
nearly 7,000 deaths are linked to medication errors. … These errors can occur at any stage in the
process of medication use (e.g., prescribing, dispensing, … administration record) in conjunction with bar-coding equipment and software to avert
medication administration errors … Better information, available more
quickly, led to reductions in medication errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/improving-delivery-health-services-health-systems-level
January 01, 2020 - While errors may happen at all stages of the medication process, different tools have been developed … Digital healthcare tools can reduce medication dosing errors and preventable adverse events such as drug-drug … hospital inpatient computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system, to identify medication ordering errors … The research team found that all reported ordering errors were due to a combination of associated risk