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1. Medical Errors and Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2023 - Home Research Research Findings & Reports Fact Sheets Medical Errors … Reports: Patient Safety Evidence-based Practice Center Reports Fact Sheets Medical Errors … Making Healthcare Safer Reports AHRQ Research Studies Medical Errors … and Patient Safety Medical errors and patient safety fact sheets Health Care Simulation … https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/index.html  

2. AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2022 - News Blog AHRQ Views AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors … AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders AHRQ Expands Its Repertoire to Eliminate Diagnostic Errors … However, reliable estimates indicate that diagnostic errors nevertheless remain far too common. … An estimated 250,000 diagnostic errors occur annually in U.S. hospitals. … Regardless of the setting, diagnostic errors can derail proper care and may lead to severe injury or

3. Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2018 - Patient Safety Resources by Setting Ambulatory Care Reducing Diagnostic Errors … News and Events Education & Training Resources Reducing Diagnostic Errors … in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit The Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics … Toolkit aims to assist primary care practice teams with a systematic approach to reduce diagnostic errors … through the measurement, screening, recognition, diagnosis, follow-up, and reduction of diagnostic errors

4. Preventing Medication Errors Among Children With Chronic Conditions in Outpatient and Home Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2023 - Extensions (NCEs) Contracts Grantee Profile Preventing Medication Errors … Walsh is working to prevent medication errors and adverse drug events among children, particularly those … Medication errors that occur outside the hospital can be lethal for children with chronic conditions, … Children with cancer are at particularly high risk for errors due to weight-based dosing calculations … With a continued focus on reducing medication errors in children with chronic conditions, Dr.

5. AHRQ Papers on Diagnostic Safety Topics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2024 - Training Resources AHRQ Papers on Diagnostic Safety Topics Diagnostic errors … Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors … Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors … Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes ( PDF , 2 MB) The Contribution of Diagnostic Errors … Journal Articles The PRIDx framework to engage payers in reducing diagnostic errors in health care  

6. Advancing Diagnostic Safety: An AHRQ Leadership Conversation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2021 - DM: Do diagnostic errors happen often? JB: They’re more prevalent than one might think. … DM: Are all wrong diagnoses considered diagnostic errors? JB: No. … DM: Why do diagnostic errors occur in the first place? … Errors related to the way we think are called cognitive errors. … They will make it possible to avoid the high costs and human toll that diagnostic errors exact. 

7. Veinte consejos para ayudar a evitar errores médicos | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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8. Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2023 - Events Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors … Today's Headlines: Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors . … Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors A majority of diagnostic errors … Of 199 diagnosis-related claims, EHRs were considered a potential contributor to diagnostic errors in … 2023 Internet Citation: Issues With Electronic Health Records Contribute to Diagnostic Errors

9. AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors in E.D. Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2018 - Impact Case Studies AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors … Newsletter Events AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors … May 2015 AHRQ-sponsored research on how clinical pharmacy services can reduce medication-related errors … The Institute of Medicine has identified medication errors as the most common type of error in health … 2015 Internet Citation: AHRQ Research Inspires Efforts at Banner Desert To Reduce Drug Errors

10. When It Comes to High-Quality Healthcare, Diagnostic Safety Tops the List | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

11. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Healthcare Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety AHRQ tools to reduce diagnostic errors … Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics Toolkit aims to assist primary care practice teams … with a systematic approach to reduce diagnostic errors among children in three important areas: elevated … through the measurement, screening, recognition, diagnosis, follow-up, and reduction of diagnostic errors

12. Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study . … Providers' and Patients' Perspectives on Diagnostic Errors in the Acute Care Setting . … Analyzing diagnostic errors in the acute setting: a process-driven approach . … design and development of a diagnostic time-out to address diagnostic errors in acute care . … Analyzing diagnostic errors in the acute setting: a process-driven approach.

13. Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - 01 Project Aims: Develop a multidisciplinary diagnostic excellence center to address diagnostic errors … , accelerate its implementation in a large healthcare system, and evaluate its impact on diagnostic errors … Propose, prioritize, and codesign patient-centered solutions to mitigate diagnostic errors. … Carry out a comprehensive program evaluation, including analysis of rates of diagnostic errors and process … and outpatient) to improve patient/family and clinician communication and experience and to reduce errors

14. Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Home News Newsletter AHRQ News Now Diagnostic Errors … Newsroom Blog Newsletter AHRQ News Now Events Diagnostic Errors … Today's Headlines: Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults . … Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults A random sample of patients from … The researchers concluded that three-quarters of these diagnostic errors contributed to temporary or

15. Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Toolkit for Engaging Patients To Improve Diagnostic Safety  Diagnostic errors … Research suggests that 79 percent of diagnostic errors are related to the patient-clinician encounter … and up to 56 percent of these errors are related to miscommunication during the encounter. … , uninterrupted, and in a way that gives clinicians the information they need can reduce diagnostic errors … Organization Toolkit Infographic  (PDF, 743 KB) provides statistics about incidents of diagnostic errors

16. Speaking Plainly: Communicating the Patient’s Role in Health Care Safety (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2004 - Others specified particular actions that patients could take to avoid errors, such as maintaining a … refers to “medical errors.” … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 20 tips to help prevent medical errors. … Preventing medical errors: communicating a role for Medicare beneficiaries. … Prescription errors tied to lack of advice: pharmacists skirting law, Mass. study finds.

17. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science (pdf file)
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    April 02, 2020 - Types and origins of diagnostic errors in primary care settings. … Measuring errors and adverse events in health care. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … The global burden of diagnostic errors in primary care. … Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital.

18. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety--March Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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    March 08, 2019 - a strategy and framework for healthcare organizations to measure, analyze, and reduce diagnostic errors … DOD • Deep-dive analysis of treatment delays that result in significant errors. … • Contributions of human factors to errors that have led to harm. … The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine will hold its annual Diagnostic Errors in Medicine meeting

19. AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Impact Case Studies AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors … Events AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors … June 2008 AHRQ-sponsored research on how clinical pharmacy services can reduce medication-related errors … ASHP aims to prevent medication errors, help people make the best use of medicines, and assist pharmacists … Internet Citation: AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors

20. Outpatient Medication Errors Prevalent Among Pediatric Leukemia, Lymphoma Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Home News Newsletter AHRQ News Now Outpatient Medication Errors … Today's Headlines: Outpatient Medication Errors Prevalent Among Pediatric Leukemia, Lymphoma Patients … Outpatient Medication Errors Prevalent Among Pediatric Leukemia, Lymphoma Patients An AHRQ-supported … of children with leukemia or lymphoma experienced adverse drug events due to outpatient medication errors … 2023 Page originally created January 2023 Internet Citation: Outpatient Medication Errors