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October 21, 2015 - improving-patient-safety-clinical-oncology-applying-lessons-normal-accident-
theory
The Normal Accident Theory suggests that failures … are inevitable in complex environments, but proactive
analysis of potential failures within systems
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June 15, 2017 - issue/introductions-during-time-outs-do-surgical-team-members-know-one-anothers-
names
Communication failures … introductions-during-time-outs-do-surgical-team-members-know-one-anothers-names
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communication-failures-operating-room-observational-classification-recurrent-types-and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43040/psn-pdf
March 05, 2014 - derived from James Reason’s model of organizational accidents, which differentiates
active from latent failures … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/managing-risks-organizational-accidents
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communication-failures-insidious-contributor-medical-mishaps
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45493/psn-pdf
December 07, 2016 - This review discusses ways to
protect against large-scale failures of health IT systems and categorizes … the types of failures that can
occur.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/decimal-numbers-and-safe-interpretation-clinical-pathology-results
July 16, 2014 - January 12, 2011
Operational failures in general practice: a consensus-building study … May 22, 2024
Impacts of operational failures on primary care physicians' work: a critical … November 16, 2022
Operational failures detected by frontline acute care nurses.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836812/psn-pdf
March 30, 2022 - analysis (FMEA) is a structured adverse event analysis tool that aims to
prospectively identify potential failures … The goal of FMEA is to prioritize
failures based on their potential seriousness and to design and implement … actions to mitigate or prevent
failures in order of priority. … The term “effects
analysis” refers to analyzing the consequences of such failures by prioritizing their … improving-process-while-changing-practice-fmea-and-medication-administration
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-blood-transfusion-failures-fmea-effective-assessment-method
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/building-patient-safety-skills-common-pitfalls-when-conducting-root-cause-analysis
May 07, 2018 - This piece highlights common failures in root cause analysis (RCA) and explains how each undermines … June 27, 2018
Multiple latent failures align to allow a serious drug interaction to harm
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January 23, 2019 - The United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) is known for both patient safety achievements and failures … August 31, 2022
Operational failures in general practice: a consensus-building study
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pilot-study-examining-undesirable-events-among-emergency-department-boarded-patients-awaiting
August 04, 2021 - A prior study found that communication failures were a contributing factor to errors in this situation … October 15, 2014
Inquiry into reporter's death finds multiple failures in care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effects-interdisciplinary-collaboration-hospitals-medication-errors-integrative-review
June 16, 2021 - Communication failures hinder safety of health care delivery and are particularly prevalent in medication … September 6, 2017
Failures in communication through documents and documentation across
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/scandal-sentinel-event-recognizing-hidden-cost-quality-trade-offs
November 04, 2020 - Latent factors are known to contribute to system-level failures. … meet performance targets and insufficient safety culture led to unintended consequences and system failures
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October 12, 2022 - This review discusses ways to protect against large-scale failures of health IT systems and categorizes … the types of failures that can occur.
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September 16, 2020 - Systemic failures can enable poor practice to perpetuate without regard to safety. … More
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November 11, 2020 - Communication failures are a common cause of patient harm. … November 17, 2021
Communication failures contributing to patient injury in anaesthesia
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November 30, 2022 - disseminated tuberculosis in a patient with lung cancer and discusses the how cognitive biases and systems failures … September 8, 2021
Preventing and mitigating radiology system failures: a guide to disaster
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February 08, 2023 - This review examined the use of learning from failures in postgraduate medicine and found further research … Download Citation
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Using trainee failures
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November 28, 2018 - Organizations are encouraged to learn from their failures, but evidence shows that changes after … This commentary presents a model to help organizations learn from system failures through focusing
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September 23, 2020 - different types of flawed human behavior and designing effective organizational responses to these failures … March 27, 2024
Latent and active failures perfectly align to allow a preventable adverse
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December 16, 2020 - Systemic weaknesses in the Veterans Affairs health system have resulted in high-profile failures . … Care Network Credentialing Process of a Former VA Surgeon and Veterans Health Administration Oversight Failures
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April 26, 2023 - Coordination is dependent on effective communication.( 4 )
The Evidence for Communication Failures … At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, failures of team communication were identified in 61% of the 42 … Taxonomy of Communication Failures . … —There are many types of communication failures and many ways to classify them. … Fundamentally, they can be broken down into failures of message transmission and reception.