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April 01, 2025 - Develop plans and strategies to prevent those foreseen potential failures.
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March 01, 2017 - Recognize that there will often be failures in addition to successes. … Encourage staff to find the silver linings or the pearls of wisdom in these failures.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/tools/PCMH/pcpf-module-12-intro-to-assessing-practices.pdf
September 01, 2015 - review and observation as tools to conduct “fall-out” assessments, where a forensic
analysis of system “failures … track patients who failed to receive their lab results within the
specified time period and identify failures … The practice can use these data to
correct and improve the process and reduce failures in the future
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Perry_49.pdf
March 27, 2008 - opportunities for reassessing situations for the explicit purpose of identifying
and correcting hazards and failures … Communication
failures in patient sign-out and suggestions for
improvement: A critical incident analysis … Communication failures: An insidious contributor to
medical mishaps.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/match/chapter-4.html
July 01, 2022 - method to identify design flaws and to understand underlying root causes for medication reconciliation failures
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/match/chapter-4.html
July 01, 2022 - method to identify design flaws and to understand underlying root causes for medication reconciliation failures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Anthony.pdf
January 01, 2005 - Errors occur when latent
conditions or system failures occur that are the consequences of failures in … hospital discharge is a time when accidents and
adverse events happen because latent conditions or system failures … are combined
with active failures. … As Moray8 and Van Cott9 point out, the prevention of
active or sharp end failures requires re-engineering
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - systematic tabular method for evaluating and documenting the causes and effects of
known types of component failures … response to The Joint
Commission requirement.10 In application to the healthcare environment, component failures … are
replaced by process step fail-points, and an assessment of the likelihood of failures is added. … outcome/consequence). his risk information is used to identify the most significant (e.g., highest
risk) failures … issues
• Frequent interruptions
• Number of hand-offs
• Information lost or left behind
• Fax failures
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March 01, 2023 - November 16, 2022
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Fishbone diagrams are a useful way to identify major causes of process failures … as well as
specific failures that fall into these general categories. … team and patients in this process to ensure that you fully understand underlying causes
of process failures
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April 07, 2008 - Inefficiency,
redundancy, communication problems, usage problems, and system failures are among the … The challenge to the health care industry is to understand
and improve processes that lead to system failures … We do not have a means to show the patterns of our efficiencies or
failures. … that integrates technologic components and
corporate and manufacturing methodologies, so that system failures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module1-presenters-notes.pdf
January 12, 2022 - Estimates based on autopsy data suggest that 40,000 to 80,000 people die each year
from diagnostic failures … The events in the story show how harmful communication failures
can be.
… • Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures: 2015 CRICO Strategies National CBS Report. … 2015. https://www.rmf.harvard.edu/malpractice-data/annual-benchmark-
reports/risks-in-communication-failures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module1-introduction.pptx
January 12, 2022 - Estimates based on autopsy data suggest that 40,000 to 80,000 people die each year from diagnostic failures … The events in the story show how harmful communication failures can be. … Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures: 2015 CRICO Strategies National CBS Report. … 2015. https://www.rmf.harvard.edu/malpractice-data/annual-benchmark-reports/risks-in-communication-failures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/edenvironmentalscan/edenvironmentalscan.pdf
December 01, 2014 - 41
Appendix D: Past Interventions Aimed to Prevent ED Discharge Failures 42
Emergency Department … ED discharge failures have been described as follows:
ED revisits within specified timeframes (e.g … All
have fairly low specificity, underscoring the difficulty in predicting discharge failures. … ED discharge failures for uninsured and underinsured
patients included 72-hour returns1 (odds ratio … Appendix D: Past Interventions Aimed To Prevent ED Discharge Failures
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June 04, 2008 - Potential harm to patients 5,312
Potential harm to health care provider 371
“Other” (e.g., out-of-box failures … results, inappropriate labeling, unclear instructions in labeling/
packaging, repeated quality control failures … , defective sample collection devices, and calibration
failures.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/failure-rescue-long-desc.html
April 01, 2021 - Using incident reports to assess communication failures and patient outcomes .
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Dingley_14.pdf
February 06, 2008 - and patient harm.1, 2, 3 A review of reports from the Joint
Commission reveals that communication failures … In the acute care setting, communication failures lead to increases in patient harm, length
of stay, … 13, 14, 15
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Analysis of 421 communication events in the operating room found communication failures … Communication
failures in the operating room: An observational
classification of recurrent types and
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/taba.4.1.html
December 01, 2017 - ARRA ACTION: Comparative Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery Systems for American Indians and Alaska Natives Using Enhanced Data Infrastructure
Table A.4.1. Verisk condition classifications
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January 01, 2025 - Conclusions and Significance
By systematically identifying where, how, why, and how frequently failures
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm8b.html
October 01, 2014 - Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs
Section 8: The Care Management Evidence Base (continued)
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Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs
Introduction
Section 1: Planning a Care Management …
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May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
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Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PSI 11: Postoperative Respiratory Failure
Why Focus on Postoperative Respiratory Failure? …