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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Neuspiel_43.pdf
March 05, 2008 - Results: In the first year, 80 errors were reported, compared with only 5 errors reported
during the … reported plus
unreported errors. … Preventing
medication errors. … Potential
medication dosing errors in outpatient pediatrics. … Learning
from errors in ambulatory pediatrics.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0903.html
October 01, 2014 - Georgia Hospitals Use AHRQ Blood Thinner DVD to Help Reduce Errors, Improve Safety
Search All Impact … Association (GHA) are using a video developed as a result of an AHRQ-sponsored project to help combat medical errors … The 55-minute video, Discussing Unanticipated Outcomes and Disclosing Medical Errors, dramatizes right … undertook research to demonstrate that "sincerity pays" and that malpractice claims are less likely when errors … Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA)
Topic(s):
Patient Safety,
Medical Errors
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-ref.html
September 01, 2023 - Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error
Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital. … Voluntary electronic reporting of medical errors and adverse events. … Reflection on medical errors: a thematic analysis. Med Teach 2023 Jun 12:1-7. … Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework.
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-psychological-safety-ref.html
September 01, 2023 - Clinician Psychological Safety in Reporting and Discussing Diagnostic Error
Learning From Diagnostic Errors … Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital. … Voluntary electronic reporting of medical errors and adverse events. … Reflection on medical errors: a thematic analysis. Med Teach 2023 Jun 12:1-7. … Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kuo-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - other types of MEs (e.g., prescribing
errors due to missing information or errors in spelling). … , including errors in
ordering medications (13%) and errors in implementing medication orders (6%).1 … reducing such errors. … monitoring errors. … other types of MEs (e.g., prescribing errors due to missing information or errors in spelling).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/scott-cawiezell-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Scope
Earlier research suggests that medication errors, excluding wrong-time errors, average 10%
or … , including wrong-time errors. … Although the ICC was lower when considering medication
errors without wrong-time medication errors ( … between
the rate of interruptions and medication errors when wrong-time medication errors were
included … when considering the variable that only included medication errors
excluding wrong-time errors (p=
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - errors (38/1000 doses). … Transcription errors are an important contributor to medication errors,14 but
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relatively few studies … these transcription errors. … Research on drug-use-system errors. … Calculation and expression of rate
errors were found in 17.5% of errors; 13.4%of
errors involved incorrect
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/improving_diagnosis_flyer.pdf
April 01, 2019 - ■ Diagnostic errors affect more than 12 million Americans each year and may seriously harm approximately … ■ Fifty-five percent of patients said diagnostic errors were a chief concern in outpatient visits … AHRQ is also funding research to
better understand how diagnostic errors happen, what can be done to … It outlines
three key areas of interest:
■ Quantifying the incidence of diagnostic errors. … ■ Understanding what contributes to these errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/Improving_diagnosis_flyer.pdf
April 01, 2019 - ■ Diagnostic errors affect more than 12 million Americans each year and may seriously harm approximately … ■ Fifty-five percent of patients said diagnostic errors were a chief concern in outpatient visits … AHRQ is also funding research to
better understand how diagnostic errors happen, what can be done to … It outlines
three key areas of interest:
■ Quantifying the incidence of diagnostic errors. … ■ Understanding what contributes to these errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-5.html
September 01, 2020 - validity of checklist use is high and several experts have promoted checklist use to reduce diagnostic errors … These types of errors are easily prevented by a checklist that prevents clinicians from skipping steps … Conversely, checklists used for diagnostic safety seem to focus on errors of planning. … These errors occur when the plan of an action was incorrect (e.g., due to lack of knowledge). … An important and unanswered question for diagnostic safety is whether checklists can prevent such errors
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/savage-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Developing Definitions, Measurement Strategies, and Links to Medication Errors … Workarounds:
Developing Definitions, Measurement Strategies, and Links to Medication Errors
Principal … about workarounds and the
manner in which workarounds lead to potential patient risk in medication errors … Key Words: Workarounds, Medication Errors, Intensive Care Units, Nursing, Pharmacy
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Workarounds … Areas of emphasis have included medication prescribing,
dispensing, and administration errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Wakefield2.pdf
January 01, 2003 - medication errors are not reported; and the estimated percentage of medication
errors actually reported … Although
errors can occur during the prescribing and dispensing phases, the MAE survey
focuses on errors … medication
administration errors occur. … These are to
(1) detect errors; (2) estimate the frequency of specific errors; (3) assess the
effects … Conclusion
When medication errors are not reported, the potential to avoid future
preventable errors
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0802.html
October 01, 2014 - AHRQ Research Helps Pharmacists in Mentoring Program to Reduce Drug Errors in Emergency Departments … 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
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1.html
July 01, 2023 - 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 … Patient Experience as a Source for Understanding the Origins, Impact, and Remediation of Diagnostic Errors
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/yang-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - total errors. … , patient setup errors, and treatment plan errors [53, 60]. … However, detecting errors based on manually defined rules is limited. … ,
for example, prescription errors. … 40%
errors, and potentially prevent the most severe errors in real time.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/diagnostic-safety-tops-the-list.html
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 … as improving diagnosis in pediatric care, how to best learn from patient experiences, how diagnostic errors … They underscore the imperative to mitigate diagnostic errors and harm.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/crane-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Reducing medical errors
3. Promoting evidence-based care
4. … : both active errors and latent errors
• Safety targets: medication prescribing, patient identification … PAs also agreed
that making errors in medicine is inevitable. … share information about errors and their
causes. … PAs make errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/studdert-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - We analyzed the characteristics of errors. … • Patients’ role in errors. … nature of errors. … Our findings highlight the complexity of errors,
especially diagnostic errors that occur in the ambulatory … • Trainee involvement in errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/aderia/
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