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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.
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September 01, 2014 - https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/5steps/cincorecsp.html
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August 01, 2018 - Home
Research
Research Findings & Reports
Fact Sheets
Medical Errors … Reports: Patient Safety
Evidence-based Practice Center Reports
Fact Sheets
Medical Errors … https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/errors-safety/simulproj15/index.html
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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.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/grants-2022.html
March 01, 2024 - 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
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/tools/index.html
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
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April 27, 2022 - Patient Focus
Five studies explored patient reports of diagnostic errors. … Types and origins of diagnostic
errors in primary care settings. … Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported
errors. … Malpractice claims related to
diagnostic errors in the hospital. … Diagnostic errors in medicine: a case of neglect.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/diagnostic-excellence-grants/index.html
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
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January 01, 2024 - Home
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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
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/professional-training/lepguide/app-b.html
September 01, 2020 - English proficiency , which is absolutely necessary to adapt current systems to better identify medical errors … This problem highlights the importance addressing root causes to prevent medical errors among LEP patients … This problem highlights the need to address root causes to prevent medical errors among LEP patients … ensure that staff are comfortable identifying issues, and (2) the need to improve reporting of medical errors … communication and LEP patient safety. 64 , 65
While this case may seem extreme, research shows that errors
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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
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances/vol4/Miranda.pdf
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.
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www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/singh-summit2016.pdf
September 01, 2016 - MEASUREMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS IS THE FIRST STEP TO IMPROVEMENT
MEASUREMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC
ERRORS … www.houston.hsrd.research.va.gov/bios/singh.asp
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January 01, 2016 - Quality Measures
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Chart
Reviews
Trigger
Tools
Automated
Measures
• 1% of errors … reported
• Good for analysis of errors
• Not useful as an outcome
measure to test interventions … Wrong Patient Errors Leading to
Diagnostic Errors:
1) Order tests on wrong-patient
2) Read results of … Wrong Patient Errors Leading
to Diagnostic Errors
xxVoluntary Reporting
Chart
Reviews
Trigger … Medication Errors in Pediatric Inpatients
Charts reviewed of 1120 patients.
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www.qualitymeasures.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.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/events/webinars/jan-2017.html
January 01, 2017 - Fear of Making Mistakes/Errors Slide 39. Frame Errors Positively Slide 40. … Rather than avoid errors, learners are asked to embrace errors as part of the initial events of learning … (others), Subtle errors (others), Obvious errors (self), subtle errors (self), and error recovery. … All errors need to be represented—slips, errors, mistakes.
Dror I. … teams to perform subtle errors and the other team grade them (they circle the errors they will perform
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September 28, 2016 - Series
Foundational Reports
1999 2001
To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
• Medical errors … action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong
plan to achieve an aim
• The majority of errors … • Errors cost $17 billion – $29 billion per year in hospitals
in the US
However, more recent data … .
• Develop a knowledge base for learning
about errors' causes and effective error
prevention … • Diagnostic errors are the leading type of paid
medical malpractice claims
• Diagnostic errors can
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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
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January 01, 2023 - Home
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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
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Internet Citation: Outpatient Medication Errors
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January 01, 2017 - George Bernard Shaw
Measuring Diagnostic Errors
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Human Factors
What factors make dx easier … • ER The petri dish for diagnostic errors
• Inpatients One in ten diagnoses is probably wrong. 36,000 … Dx
errors are COMMON in patients with anemia, asthma, COPD
CRICO - Analysis of
4519 claims related … Slide Number 25
Slide Number 26
Diagnostic errors are a significant but underappreciated challenge … BLUNT end���� SHARP end
Safer Dx Framework for Measurement & Reduction
Measuring Diagnostic Errors