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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-care-safety-characterizing-task-interruptions-during-interactions-between
March 05, 2025 - The researchers estimated that, on average, professionals were interrupted 10.5 times per hour, and that
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevalence-potentially-inappropriate-medication-prescribing-us-nursing-homes-2013-2017
March 27, 2024 - This retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries estimated that the prevalence of PIM use was 77% among
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43115/psn-pdf
December 18, 2014 - Using a
model to extrapolate these findings, nearly 650,000 patients in United States hospitals are estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40092/psn-pdf
December 22, 2010 - Investigators estimated that nearly $185,000 was
saved per 100 discharges, arguing that their intervention
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43589/psn-pdf
November 17, 2014 - Diagnosis-related concerns were estimated to occur in 0.5% of all
hospital admissions.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39526/psn-pdf
December 02, 2014 - tertiary care hospital, found that overall inpatient mortality
decreased after CPOE was launched, with an estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46245/psn-pdf
June 28, 2017 - A previous study estimated that about 10% of
patients receiving home care experienced an adverse event
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47208/psn-pdf
July 19, 2018 - This represents almost $150 million in savings from harm avoided for an estimated 9000
children.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/measuring-and-responding-deaths-medical-errors
April 01, 2008 - The seminal Institute of Medicine To Err Is Human report estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans … renewed in 2016 with the publication of a widely publicized study in the British Medical Journal that estimated … Even if the true population prevalence of deaths from errors is much lower than that estimated in the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/factors-associated-potentially-missed-diagnosis-appendicitis-emergency-department
December 16, 2020 - The researchers estimated the frequency of missed appendicitis was 6% among adults and 4.4% among children
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47750/psn-pdf
January 30, 2019 - association-adverse-effects-medical-treatment-mortality-united-states-
secondary-analysis
The seminal report, To Err Is Human, famously estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/new-evidence-based-estimate-patient-harms-associated-hospital-care
October 19, 2022 - The seminal 1999 Institute of Medicine study estimated that as many as 98,000 patients may die each
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-discrepancies-emergency-department-retrospective-study
October 04, 2023 - Misdiagnosis in the emergency department (ED) is estimated to affect over 7 million patients each year
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33561/psn-pdf
September 15, 2024 - For example, a 2006 study estimated that a typical hospital might
experience a case of wrong-site surgery … A 2013 study estimated that more than 4000 surgical never events occur yearly in the
United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-dependence-and-overdose-after-surgery-rate-risk-factors-and-reasons
August 05, 2020 - on a retrospective review of medical records of patients at one academic medical center, researchers estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevalence-harmful-diagnostic-errors-hospitalised-adults-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
April 01, 2020 - review, the authors pooled over 80,000 patients and 760 harmful diagnostic errors from 22 studies and estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/economic-burden-nurse-sensitive-adverse-events-22-medical-surgical-units-retrospective-and
December 15, 2021 - This economic analysis estimated the impact of nurse-sensitive adverse events—including pressure ulcers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/overstating-inpatient-deaths-due-medical-error-erodes-trust-healthcare-and-patient-safety
April 01, 2020 - The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/economic-impact-medication-error-systematic-review
November 04, 2020 - This systematic review of the costs associated with medication errors found that estimated costs per
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/healthy-life-years-lost-and-excess-bed-days-due-6-patient-safety-incidents-empirical-evidence
May 18, 2022 - This retrospective medical record review and modeling study estimated healthy life-years lost due to