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Medication Errors … Errors can happen in the hospital, at the doctor's office, at the pharmacy, or at home. … You can help prevent errors by
Knowing your medicines.
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February 01, 2021 - ; (2) How common are these diagnostic errors and any associated harms? … Are context-specific systems factors associated with errors/harms? … Diagnostic errors in an accident and emergency department. … Using voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency medicine. … Diagnostic errors—the next frontier for patient safety.
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Diagnostic Errors … Methods of measuring diagnostic errors in the ED are highly variable. … Root causes of ED diagnostic errors were mostly cognitive errors linked to the process of bedside diagnosis … Key process failures were errors in diagnostic assessment, test ordering, and test interpretation. … Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.
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Refractive Errors … Refractive errors are vision problems that happen when the shape of the eye keeps you from focusing well … Four common refractive errors are
Myopia, or nearsightedness - clear vision close up but blurry … Glasses or contact lenses can usually correct refractive errors.
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June 01, 2024 - To detect increased risks for random errors, two investigators independently conducted trial sequential … analysis using conventional thresholds for type I (α = 0.05) and type II (β = 0.10) errors. … regression analyses to determine predictors of increased risks for random errors. … Regrading of outcomes with increased random errors showed that 74% should have been downgraded based … Increased risks for random errors are common in outcomes graded as high certainty of evidence.
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Diagnostic Errors … Methods of measuring diagnostic errors in the ED are highly variable. … Root causes of ED diagnostic errors were mostly cognitive errors linked to the process of bedside diagnosis … Key process failures were errors in diagnostic assessment, test ordering, and test interpretation. … Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.
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August 01, 2023 - Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 258_Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic … Methods
of measuring diagnostic errors in the ED are highly variable. … • Root causes of ED diagnostic errors were mostly cognitive errors linked to the
process of bedside … Diagnostic performance dashboards:
tracking diagnostic errors using big data. … Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.
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February 01, 2024 - the effects of computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) on the prevention of medication errors … Improved or targeted medication-related CDSSs were associated with reductions of medication errors and … Other unintended consequences included CDSS-related errors, overdependence on alerts, alert fatigue, … Overall, CDSSs reduce medication errors and adverse drug events, with moderate- and low-certainty evidence … Timeline
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June 01, 2024 - Abstract | June 2021 Background: Statistical testing in phase III clinical trials is subject to chance errors … Using an empirical Bayes methodology, we estimated the number of false-positive and false-negative errors … in these trials and the errors under alternative P value thresholds and/or sample sizes. … Applying an alternative P value threshold and/or sample size could reduce false-positive errors and slightly … increase false-negative errors.
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September 01, 2023 - Making Healthcare Safer IV: Computerized Clinical Decision Support To Prevent Medication Errors … Review Questions
What is the frequency and severity of medication errors … In what ways is computerized clinical decision support used for preventing medication errors and adverse … can provide medication-related alerts, such as reminders or recommendations, to prevent medication errors … Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events . September 7, 2019. Accessed on May 8, 2023.
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May 08, 2023 - Project Title: Making Healthcare Safer IV: Computerized
Clinical Decision Support to Prevent Medication Errors … What is the frequency and severity of medication errors and adverse drug events?
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Drug Events. … September 7, 2019. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/medication-errors-and-
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April 01, 2025 - and III (2020) have shown the positive impact of patient safety practices on the reduction of medical errors … Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults Computerized Clinical Decision Support To Prevent Medication Errors … Rapid Evidence Product | Feb 9, 2024
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You can help prevent medical errors … To reduce the risk of medical errors, you can
Ask questions if you have doubts or concerns.
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June 01, 2024 - Most funnel plots present treatment effects against their standard errors, and the contours depicting … However, treatment effects and their standard errors are frequently associated even if no publication … studies may relate to their sample sizes besides P values (which are partly determined by standard errors
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February 28, 2025 - and 911 Workforce: A Systematic Review
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Diagnostic Errors … Emergency Department: A Systematic Review
Systematic Review December 15, 2022
Diagnostic Errors … Prehospital Airway Management
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October 01, 2024 - We judged two PLSs as fully capturing the PICO elements; five with minor PICO errors. … We judged three PLSs as accurately reporting the results; and four with minor result errors. … We judged three PLSs as having major result errors for incorrectly reporting total participants.
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February 28, 2025 - and 911 Workforce: A Systematic Review
Updated Review August 14, 2023
Diagnostic Errors … Emergency Department: A Systematic Review
Systematic Review December 15, 2022
Diagnostic Errors … Prehospital Airway Management
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January 01, 2010 - Systematic Errors:
Include selection bias and confounding, in which values tend to be inaccurate in … a particular direction
Nonsystematic Errors:
Are attributable to chance
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Result … The most comprehensive assessment of quality includes considerations of systematic errors, nonsystematic … errors, and inferential errors. … in design with minor errors.
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You can help prevent medical errors … To reduce the risk of medical errors, you can
Ask questions if you have doubts or concerns.