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  1. Choosing a Patient Safety Organization | PSNet

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    April 01, 2020 - Fact Sheet/FAQs Choosing a Patient Safety Organization Citation Text:

  2. High-Alert Medication Learning Guides for Consumers. | PSNet

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    April 30, 2019 - Fact Sheet/FAQs High-Alert Medication Learning Guides for Consumers.

  3. Accidental exposures to fentanyl patches continue to be deadly to children. | PSNet

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    January 13, 2021 - Fact Sheet/FAQs Accidental exposures to fentanyl patches continue to be deadly to

  4. Oral Dosage Forms that Should Not Be Crushed. | PSNet

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    January 26, 2023 - Fact Sheet/FAQs Oral Dosage Forms that Should Not Be Crushed.

  5. 10 Medication Safety Tips for Hospitalized Patients. | PSNet

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    February 06, 2019 - Fact Sheet/FAQs 10 Medication Safety Tips for Hospitalized Patients.

  6. In Conversation with…Robert M. Wachter, MD | PSNet

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    October 01, 2008 - You can envision that many hospitals may figure out ways to document care well, but may in fact not be … That in fact, hospitals should be paying for things that shouldn't happen, and that this type of policy … But if, in fact, the Medicare payment system remains a DRG-like system where we will pay for a given … Many of the things that people talk about as safety issues in fact are. … Well, in fact, it is. What we don't really know is how to fix that.

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 21, 2013 - Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery. May 21, 2013 The Joint Commission. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/universal-protocol-preventing-wrong-site-wrong-procedure-wrong-person- surgery According to an AHRQ-supported study, wrong-site surgery occurred at a rate of approxi…

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 07, 2019 - Diagnostic error has received comparatively less attention, despite the fact that landmark patient safety … In fact, current quality measurements do not take diagnostic accuracy into account at all, meaning that

  9. In Conversation With… Lawrence Smith, MD | PSNet

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    February 01, 2012 - see it as a fundamental part of the hospitalist mindset and job description as opposed to just the fact … But nobody can counter the fact that the operation takes longer and the OR becomes less efficient. … LS : We have certainly focused on the fact that medicine is a skillset, even the cognitive fields of … At the same time, we cannot lose sight of the fact that there's still a mandate to produce competent … The medical literature to date supports the fact that more supervision improves patient safety and that

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2015 - How does NQF deal with the fact that new science can come along and sometimes change the suitability … psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-mark-graban-ms-mba http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1401602 fact … where we were mostly doctors around the table, I was wowed by the power of the consensus model and the fact … It isn't the fact that people are being overly polite, but that at the end of the day having everyone

  11. Patient-specific electronic decision support reduces prescription of excessive doses. | PSNet

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    November 02, 2010 - Clinicians accepted one in four of the CDSS warnings—a seemingly low proportion that is, in fact, much

  12. Ways You Can Help Your Family Prevent Medical Errors! | PSNet

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    December 24, 2008 - Fact Sheet/FAQs Ways You Can Help Your Family Prevent Medical Errors!

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 04, 2009 - Identification of patient information corruption in the intensive care unit: using a scoring tool to direct quality improvements in handover. November 4, 2009 Pickering BW, Hurley K, Marsh B. Identification of patient information corruption in the intensive care unit: using a scoring tool to direct quality improve…

  14. Four Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults. | PSNet

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    March 26, 2008 - Fact Sheet/FAQs Four Medication Safety Tips for Older Adults. … Highlighting how aging affects medication absorption that may lead to complications, this fact sheet

  15. Computer technology and clinical work: still waiting for Godot. | PSNet

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    October 19, 2022 - October 23, 2013 The science of human factors: separating fact from fiction.

  16. Jake Tapper shares harrowing story of daughter's near-fatal misdiagnosis. | PSNet

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    January 18, 2023 - Inspection: Evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration's National Consult Delay Review and Associated Fact

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 26, 2025 - Responding to Patient Safety Events February 26, 2025 Shaikh U. Responding to Patient Safety Events. PSNet [internet]. 2025. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/responding-patient-safety-events Background Patient safety events that occur in health care facilities require prompt action to ensure that further harm is mit…

  18. Identifying Adverse Events Not Present on Admission: Can We Do It? | PSNet

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    October 01, 2008 - You can envision that many hospitals may figure out ways to document care well, but may in fact not be … That in fact, hospitals should be paying for things that shouldn't happen, and that this type of policy … But if, in fact, the Medicare payment system remains a DRG-like system where we will pay for a given … Many of the things that people talk about as safety issues in fact are. … Well, in fact, it is. What we don't really know is how to fix that.

  19. In Conversation With… Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS | PSNet

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    April 19, 2023 - Not everybody will in fact use all of the flexibility. … In fact, for any of the other patient outcomes, there were no differences. … And the fact that we were able to cut that in half. … Once the trial came out, the evidence was clear there was no harm to patients, and in fact the residents

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    July 11, 2017 - The accompanying editorial notes that some of the mortality increase may be accounted for by the fact
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