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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/alarming-reality-medication-error-patient-case-and-review-pennsylvania-and-national-data
June 28, 2017 - The authors review estimated incidence of medication errors at both local and national levels.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/potential-costs-and-consequences-associated-medication-error-hospital-discharge-expert
September 05, 2018 - judgement from four experts assessing 81 cases involving medication errors at discharge, the authors estimated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-safety-and-eliminating-redundant-tests-cutting-costs-us-hospitals
May 27, 2011 - The seminal Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human estimated that preventable errors cost the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medicare-payment-selected-adverse-events-building-business-case-investing-patient-safety
September 18, 2009 - Medical errors have been estimated to cost the US health care system more than $17 billion per year
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/complication-rates-central-venous-catheters-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
December 07, 2016 - This meta-analysis estimated that approximately 3% of patients who have a CVC for three days experience
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-clinical-pharmacy-admission-medication-reconciliation-program-medication-errors-high
August 30, 2017 - Although the nature of this work is time-consuming, the program saves an estimated $1.3 million per year
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/efforts-improve-patient-safety-result-13-million-fewer-patient-harms-interim-update-2013
January 07, 2015 - These adverse events continue to decline steadily, with an estimated 9% decrease in most recent year
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/never-events
June 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/predictors-gaps-patient-safety-and-quality-us-hospitals
December 23, 2020 - Most hospitals in the study had more than a 10% gap between their estimated best possible performance
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-adverse-effects-medical-treatment-mortality-united-states-secondary-analysis
November 11, 2020 - The seminal report, To Err Is Human , famously estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year in the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/roadmap-patient-safety-research-approaches-and-roadforks
July 17, 2019 - May 17, 2023
The association between patient-reported incidents in hospitals and estimated
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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/node/50841/psn-pdf
January 29, 2020 - The estimated
risk of HIV transmission due to blood transfusion is 1 in 1.5 million (based on incidence … data, the risk of fatality due to an ABO-mismatched red blood cell
transfusion could therefore be estimated … signs/symptoms and usually patients survive.15
The risk of a lethal hemolytic transfusion reaction was estimated … Others have estimated that 1 in every 19,000 units
of red blood cells is transfused to the wrong patient
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/outpatient-adverse-drug-events-identified-screening-electronic-health-records
June 08, 2016 - One classic study estimated the incidence of medication errors in outpatients at 27 per 100 patients
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medicares-decision-withhold-payment-hospital-errors-devil-details
March 13, 2013 - This commentary outlines the details of the proposed policy, the estimated impact on costs, and the expected
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/anatomic-pathology-databases-and-patient-safety
April 08, 2008 - Investigators first categorized the data into error types and frequency and also estimated the discrepancy
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-workload-and-adverse-events
August 31, 2011 - At this site, they estimated that a 10% increase in occupancy led to a 15% increase in adverse events
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/us-emergency-department-visits-outpatient-adverse-drug-events-2013-2014
February 23, 2018 - Investigators estimated that 4 emergency department visits for ADEs occurred per 1000 patients annually
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/feedback-loop-failure-modes-medical-diagnosis-how-biases-can-emerge-and-be-reinforced
November 01, 2023 - March 19, 2019
Using estimated true safety event rates versus flagged safety event rates
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/social-cost-adverse-medical-events-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
February 10, 2015 - The annual cost of preventable adverse events to the United States health care system has been estimated