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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-current-state.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The global burden of diagnostic errors
in primary care. … Diagnostic
errors in paediatric cardiac intensive care. … Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU. … Checklists to reduce diagnostic errors. … Reducing diagnostic errors in primary care.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-brief1.pdf
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.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
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.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/index.html
August 01, 2024 - management, healthcare-associated infections, nursing-sensitive practices, procedural events, and diagnostic errors … and disinfection interventions to prevent HAIs, and several practices designed to prevent medication errors … Chapters Diagnostic Errors (PDF, 2.6 MB) Failure To Rescue (PDF, 1.8 MB) Sepsis Recognition (PDF, … Events in Older Adults (PDF, 415.7 KB) Harms Due to Opioids (PDF, 2.1 MB) Patient Identification Errors
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/MeasureDx-infographic.pdf
July 01, 2022 - Measurement Priority
Measure Dx
Making Diagnostic Safety Your
Measurement Priority
1
Why
Diagnostic errors … experience a diagnostic error
in the outpatient setting every year.a
About
250,000
harmful diagnostic errors … The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from
three large observational studies … Prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors in hospitalised adults: a systematic review and meta-
analysis
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
May 07, 2008 - Results: All interventions reduced errors (range, 13 to 45 percent),
with more than 4,000 errors avoided … Detection of potential errors triggered alerts. … Examining systems issues that contribute to near-misses or errors. … Medication errors were reduced in all projects. … Medication errors drop with Kaiser alert
system. Rocky Mountain News; May 27, 2005. 4.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/yazdany-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The proposed Aims were:
Aim 1: To analyze the frequency and determinants of errors and adverse events … Among adverse events, medication errors are of particular
concern because they are common, costly, and … Despite the frequency of ambulatory patient safety errors and adverse
events, most efforts to study … The
ASPIRE reach program sought to address this gap by studying ambulatory patient safety errors
for … Third, some important patient safety errors are
not amenable to EHR-based quality measurement.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program-ape.html
April 01, 2018 - 1
406
-- Prostheses and Implants
0
451
-- Restraints
6
407
Diagnostic Errors … Critical Lab Results
0
413
Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation
13
411
Identification Errors … /Preventable Adverse Drug Events
96
420
---- Administration Errors
14
419
---- … Dispensing Errors
11
448
---- Monitoring Errors and Failures
23
417
---- Ordering … /Prescribing Errors
6
418
---- Transcription Errors
5
415
-- Side Effects/Adverse
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Comden.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Discussion: The models
provide contextual maps of the errors and behaviors that lead to medication … However, pharmacy dispensing errors—internal or
external—that enter the facility are captured in the … per
medication order, and errors per oral medication dose. … errors in a district general hospital. … Errors today and errors tomorrow. N
Engl J Med 2003;348:2570–2.
24. Blegen MA, Vaughn T.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/national-academy-medicine.html
February 01, 2018 - AHRQ:
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care , published in 2015, this report investigates diagnostic errors … Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series Released: July 20, 2006
According to one estimate … Preventing Medication Errors puts forward a national agenda for reducing medication errors based on estimates … of the incidence and cost of such errors and evidence on the efficacy of various prevention strategies … by which government, health care providers, industry, and consumers can reduce preventable medical errors
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1-1.html
June 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 … broad language, rather than trying to give patients and families more precise definitions of “medical errors … and family conceptions of adverse events do not always conform to clinical definitions of diagnostic errors
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/corbett-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Scope: The magnitude of medication errors in the United States and the associated human
and economic … Key Words: transitional care; medication safety; medication discrepancy; medication errors;
adverse … Health
systems expend considerable resources reducing medication errors in the hospital setting. … A steep increase in domestic fatal
medication errors with use of alcohol and/or street drugs. … Preventing medication errors: Quality Chasm Series.
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/hoff-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - In the surgical culture, appropriate
learning best practices around errors and near misses committed … The errors observed varied in terms of source, seriousness, and
focus. … Errors * (n=24) MICU Errors (n=27)
Individual practices:
Habit of inquiry 0 (0/9) 33 (2/6)
Self-reflection … Regardless of
setting, most errors occurred when the resident was alone. … Learning to avoid learning: The paradoxes of residency training around
medical errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/lepguide.pdf
September 01, 2012 - Patient Safety Terminology
Medical errors*:
Medical errors happen when something that was planned as … Most errors result from
problems created by today’s complex health care system, but errors also happen … If anything, errors related to LEP are bundled as being caused by “communication
errors,” which does … We identified three common causes of errors (or potential errors) for LEP and culturally diverse
patients … Address Root Causes To Prevent Medical Errors Among LEP Patients
Background
Medical errors among LEP
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Linzer.pdf
January 01, 2002 - Stress was measured using a 4-item scale, past errors were self reported, and the
likelihood of future … errors was self-assessed using the OSPRE (Occupational
Stress and PReventable Error) measure. … Regression analyses assessed predictors of stress, past errors, and future
errors. … addressed errors committed in the management of
common chronic medical conditions. … future errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/gallagher2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Yet errors are frequently not disclosed to
patients. … easily within a blame-free framework for discussing
errors. … Disclosing errors to patients: Perspectives of registered
nurses. … Health plan members'
views about disclosure of medical errors. … Views of practicing
physicians and the public on medical errors.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/liebman-hyman-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - diverse group of individuals from various disciplines to share
information about disclosure of medical errors … medical malpractice claims; and 3) the potential benefits to patient
safety from disclosing a medical errors … error, and ways to help physicians and other
healthcare providers handle their emotional reactions to errors … , MD, and Eran Bellin, MD, Montefiore Medical Center’s
Computerized System for residents to Report Errors … shaping an
agenda for overcoming institutional barriers to change regarding disclosure of medical
errors
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/ehr-reports.pdf
March 01, 2016 - They found no errors in the report
logic. … For validation purposes it is useful to categorize
clinical quality report errors into “inclusion errors … Other inclusion errors can be caused by workflow
issues, which are errors caused by failure to note … Exclusion Errors
The fact that with exclusion errors the patient is
not in the report means that the … All reports contain errors, and
2.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-medication-safety.pdf
April 30, 2025 - characteristics
similar to harmful errors. … to errors they prevent. … An important unanticipated benefit was identification of medication errors. … ) while creating other types of
MEs (e.g., prescribing errors due to missing information or errors in … Medication administration errors decreased and pump-related errors were
few.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/golden-west-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - occur and the circumstances surrounding those errors … occur and the circumstances surrounding those errors … occur and the circumstances surrounding those errors … Preliminary Research Agenda: Medical Errors and Patient Safety. … National Summit on
Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research. October 2000.