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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/medication/safemed_facguide.docx
May 01, 2017 - Although mistakes are not necessarily more common with these drugs, the consequences of errors are more … To reduce the risk of errors, these medications require special safeguards such as the following:
Improving … Errors and slips in medication administration, fetal and maternal monitoring, and delays in responding … able to focus on patient care and have confidence that untoward events (change in patient condition, errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps/webinars/2015-materials/teamstepps-monthly-webinar-may2015.pptx
January 01, 2015 - JAMA 2013; 310: 2262-2270
Pre-RHB Post-RHB p-value
Medical Errors 33.8 18.3 <0.001
Preventable … a problem
Cross monitoring / Feedback Improve performance
Assertive statement Identify potential errors … 05.2 Page ‹#›
TeamSTEPPS®
I-PASS
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Advocacy and Assertion
Strategy for Avoiding Errors … incident reports
Daily solicited error reports from physicians
All types and severities of medical errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/grandrounds/mod01-grand-rounds-slides.pdf
April 01, 2016 - Organizations have quality and safety programs, but many struggle to ensure
that solutions to errors … In this Health Affairs article, doctors report they don’t always
disclose medical errors. … ■ Likelihood of involvement in future errors.
■ Risk of depression.
■ Risk of suicide.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/pfepc-fullguide-final508.pdf
April 01, 2018 - These included:
� Errors in Diagnosis, defined as “the failure to (a) establish an accurate and timely … � Medication Errors, including failures in communicating, prescribing, filling, and
dispensing, as … Medication errors are common patient safety incidents in
primary care, with rates ranging between 1 … Frequency of medication errors in primary care
patients with polypharmacy. … Frequency of medication errors in primary
care patients with polypharmacy.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/fundamentals/module1/m1evidencebase.html
March 01, 2014 - Can aviation safety methods cut obstetric errors? OB/GYN Malpractice Prev 2004 Aug;11(8):57-64. … Lessons from the cockpit: how team training can reduce errors on L&D (Grand Rounds). … Doing what counts for patient safety: Federal actions to reduce medical errors and their impact.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/qsrs/index.html
September 01, 2022 - Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human , revealed more than 15 years ago the extent of medical errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules.html
August 01, 2022 - Harms such as hospital-acquired infections or medication errors can happen during any stage of care.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/35th-anniversary/index.html
April 01, 2024 - toolkits, designed to help doctors, nurses, hospital managers, patients, and others reduce medical errors … disinfection interventions for reducing healthcare-associated infections, practices to prevent medication errors … On April 16, 2014, an AHRQ-funded study concluded that outpatient diagnostic errors affect 1 in 20 U.S
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve/pharmacy/tools.html
January 01, 2024 - Instructions
Explicit, standardized instructions improve patients’ understanding, and possibly reduce errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/guiding-principles.html
December 01, 2023 - healthcare algorithms and provides the healthcare community with guiding principles to avoid repeating errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/fundamentals/module3/igcommunication.html
March 01, 2019 - 1995 and 2005, ineffective communication was identified as the root cause of 66 percent of reported errors … Information Exchange Strategies
Say:
A number of tools and strategies to potentially reduce errors … What communication errors were avoided? … Errors caused by misunderstood dosage amounts or drugs with similar sounding names were avoided.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool5.html
March 01, 2013 - Lack of understanding and errors can then be rectified with further directed teaching and reevaluation … with the DE) and/or primary care provider (PCP), i depending on the nature of the inconsistencies or errors … Examples of system/provider errors include:
Conflicting information (e.g., the AHCP lists one type … For example, your hospital may identify common errors patients make and use this information to improve
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/lep/handouts/trainershandouts_all.docx
September 01, 2012 - limited-English-proficient (LEP) patients tend to be more severe and more frequently due to communication errors … inaccurate and incomplete medical history; ineffective or improper use of medications or serious medication errors … interpreters such as patients’ family members or house staff frequently make medical interpretation errors … , and these errors are significantly more likely to have potential clinical consequences.7
Despite evidence … Errors in medical interpretation and their potential clinical consequences in pediatric encounters.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/teamstepps/lep/handouts/stafftrainhandouts_all.docx
September 01, 2012 - limited-English-proficient (LEP) patients tend to be more severe and more frequently due to communication errors … inaccurate and incomplete medical history; ineffective or improper use of medications or serious medication errors … interpreters such as patients’ family members or house staff frequently make medical interpretation errors … , and these errors are significantly more likely to have potential clinical consequences.7
Despite evidence … Errors in medical interpretation and their potential clinical consequences in pediatric encounters.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/about.html
December 01, 2017 - recommendations, and other resources for hospitals and hospital administrators to improve quality, reduce errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/fed-IWG-dxsafety-Nov19mtg.pdf
November 15, 2019 - of a research informed tool, the Revised Safer Dx
Instrument , to help identify/measure diagnostic errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b2a_combo_ratesgenbysas.pdf
March 01, 2016 - software programs, you should be aware that
a few steps are essential for running the programs without errors … obtaining risk-adjusted rates, you may adjust these variables so that the
program will still run without errors … Errors may not appear until you run the IQI_PROVIDER_1.SAS, PSI_PROVIDER_1.SAS, or
PDI_PROVIDER_1.SAS
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/userguide/hospitalusersguide.pdf
July 01, 2018 - about changes implemented, and discuss ways to
prevent errors. … The next step is to check the data file for possible data entry errors. … 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.
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/policy/electronic/disclaimers/index.html
October 01, 2014 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding errors
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pbrn.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/focus-diagnostic-safety.html
March 01, 2023 - Researchers are encouraged to investigate the incidence of diagnostic errors and their causes, and findings