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March 26, 2015 - For example,
many institutions have still not followed best practices for the administration of vincristine
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September 26, 2016 - This study
provides an excellent example of how human factors principles can be used to improve the
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January 19, 2012 - The study provides an excellent example of the role of context in
implementation and ongoing oversight
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September 24, 2016 - September 24, 2010
Framing patient safety initiatives: working model and case example
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October 01, 2012 - scope, and it has been successfully
applied without complex technical or electronic resources.(4) For example … The field of diagnostic error and performance is another
example of one of these emerging subject areas … One example of this linkage is demonstrated through the research program, "Proactive Risk Assessment … Further implementation of TeamSTEPPS in
medical offices is underway and demonstrates another example
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September 01, 2015 - An example of a warfarin dosing guideline is shown in the Table . … One example is a policy that eliminates standing orders for warfarin and requires the order to be rewritten … For example, pharmacy-managed inpatient anticoagulation consultation services have been demonstrated … directed to a dedicated anticoagulation pharmacist prior to the dispensing of the medication.( 8,9 ) For example
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January 24, 2018 - maintain the patency of a stoma in the absence of a replacement gastrojejunostomy (GJ) tube is one example … For example, the case study described using a Foley catheter to maintain patency of a stoma in the absence … supported by clinical guidelines ( 6 ) if the stoma tract is mature.( 7 ) This temporary measure, an example … For example, the use of a Foley catheter highlighted that a replacement GJ tube should always be available
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June 01, 2011 - RW: Can you give us your favorite example or two from outside of health care? … universal law: automobile seat belts actually do reduce deaths and injuries, although the
record of, for example … patient safety
and health care issues, and it's one that also appears in many other safety contexts, for example … This seems to have been the case, for example, in the federal Minerals
Management Service.
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July 01, 2005 - For example, if an intern wrote a 10-fold overdose of medication, the observer was not generally in a … When they did catch
something—for example, once one of the observers noticed an x-ray hanging backwards—they … For example, we noticed that sleep-deprived interns would often fail to do a very
thorough history … For example, one patient was
admitted with complete heart block, and it was not recognized that he had
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December 01, 2004 - commonly include reactions typically associated with a medication's known pharmacologic activity; for
example … For example, if a hospitalist fails to arrange appropriate
follow-up for a patient with a solitary pulmonary … For example, in a recent audit of discharge
summaries at our hospital, the median delay between patient … severity could be reduced if
corrective measures were instituted earlier and more effectively).(6) An example
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April 24, 2018 - For example, if the sentinel lymph node was not correctly identified and instead a distant lymph node … A very well-known example, Atul Gawande’s “Checklist Manifesto” demonstrated a 19-item surgical safety … checklist reduced complications in high-income countries from 9.3% to 6.6%. 8 Another example from … One such example is breast cancer reconstruction, here procedures are completed in sequence not concurrently
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June 01, 2007 - can be useful
in providing facilities with opportunities for improvement.(7)
New York, for example, … Pennsylvania, for example, distributes its quarterly Patient Safety
Advisories electronically to an … Utah, for
example, developed a Web site that enables users to query hospital discharge data for occurrences … Tufts Health Plan in Massachusetts, for
example, uses publicly available state data to monitor opportunities
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December 01, 2015 - For many reasons (as in this case example), hospitalized patients are often monitored using telemetry … For example, the resident and nurse could have checked the patient's full diagnostic
standard 12-lead … One example would be to build in prompts for users. … For example, if the hospital default setting for high heart rate is
set at 130, but a certain patient
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May 11, 2014 - For example, the surgeon may recommend a dose in units/hr, with the anesthesiologist converting this … For example, orders for heparin are verbal, there is no pharmacist review, the heparin doses are prepared … Applying aviation principles of crew resource management to the OR is one example of an approach that … Example of similar-looking heparin vials.
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January 01, 2017 - For certain diagnoses (for example, acute coronary syndrome), the risk of death was elevated
during … However, patients with other diagnoses (for example, complications
of cancer) continued to have elevated … Further studies that examine the weekend
effect in specific settings of care—for example, comparing
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December 01, 2004 - For example, if a hospitalist fails to arrange appropriate follow-up for a patient with a solitary pulmonary … corrective measures were instituted earlier and more effectively
Note to author: please see below an example … of ameliorable event:
An example is a patient who develops c. difficile diarrhea following discharge
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January 01, 2018 - In a vivid example of copy and paste,
once the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was mistakenly given … For example, Epic's EHR
can now identify the source of every character within a note, whether it is … For example, we should explore natural
language processing and its potential role in helping providers
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October 01, 2012 - For example, not being able to focus on the medication
activity, being distracted by constant interruptions … high-alert medications are readily available as a reference source for clinicians.(3) IV phenytoin is an
example … Although her persistence is laudable, it is probably also an example of
anchoring bias.(8) When the
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January 01, 2016 - For example, diagnoses can be completely
missed (cancer missed despite alarming symptoms), wrong (patients … For example,
the Department of Veterans Affairs has successfully implemented initiatives where researchers … For example, with further refinement, a single clinician could
use the recently developed Safer Dx instrument
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March 15, 2007 - This decision making
represented the wrong approach in this setting, an example of a rule-based error … effectively than those who understand neither the context nor the orders.(1,2,9
) The Figure shows an example … Example Insulin Protocol. (Reprinted with permission of Richard Hellman, MD.)