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  1. Reengineering hospital discharge: a protocol to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and boost patient satisfaction. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reengineering-hospital-discharge-protocol-improve-patient-safety-reduce-costs-and-boost
    May 20, 2009 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  2. Targeted communication intervention using nursing crew resource management principles. | PSNet

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    August 12, 2015 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  3. Engaging patients and informal caregivers to improve safety and facilitate person- and family-centered care during transitions from hospital to home: a qualitative descriptive study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/engaging-patients-and-informal-caregivers-improve-safety-and-facilitate-person-and-family
    March 08, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention … September 30, 2010 Oncology nurses' perceptions about involving patients in the prevention

  4. Systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies to encourage patients to remind healthcare professionals about their hand hygiene. | PSNet

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    February 01, 2011 - Hand hygiene is critical to prevention of health care–associated infections . … Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  5. Safety of clinical and non-clinical decision makers in telephone triage: a narrative review. | PSNet

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    July 05, 2017 - March 19, 2019 Improving hospital infant safe sleep compliance by using safety prevention

  6. Avoiding iatrogenic harm to patient and family while discussing goals of care near the end of life. | PSNet

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    September 09, 2010 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  7. Diagnostic reasoning and cognitive biases of nurse practitioners. | PSNet

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    October 19, 2022 - March 19, 2018 Defining the critical role of nurses in diagnostic error prevention: a

  8. Implementing bedside handover: strategies for change management. | PSNet

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    July 05, 2013 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  9. Polypharmacy in the elderly--when good drugs lead to bad outcomes: a teachable moment. | PSNet

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    September 29, 2017 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  10. Perioperative patient safety: a multisite qualitative analysis. | PSNet

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    September 20, 2023 - 2023 Patient safety culture as a space of social struggle: understanding infection prevention

  11. The CARE approach to reducing diagnostic errors. | PSNet

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    November 06, 2013 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  12. Matching nurse skill with patient acuity in the intensive care units: a risk management mandate. | PSNet

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    April 24, 2018 - August 28, 2024 Associations between negative patient safety climate and infection prevention

  13. Using ORA to explore the relationship of nursing unit communication to patient safety and quality outcomes. | PSNet

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    December 11, 2008 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  14. How can we keep patients with dementia safe in our acute hospitals? A review of challenges and solutions. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-can-we-keep-patients-dementia-safe-our-acute-hospitals-review-challenges-and-solutions
    February 04, 2015 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  15. Maintaining safety in the dialysis facility. | PSNet

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    May 25, 2011 - August 4, 2021 Managing the prevention of retained surgical instruments: what is the

  16. Trends in anesthesia-related liability and lessons learned. | PSNet

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    August 22, 2018 - March 28, 2011 Prevention of surgical malpractice claims by a surgical safety checklist

  17. Findings from the ISMP Medication Safety Self-Assessment for hospitals. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/findings-ismp-medication-safety-self-assessment-hospitals
    September 26, 2017 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  18. The normalization of deviance: a threat to patient safety. | PSNet

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    December 21, 2016 - August 11, 2021 Infection prevention in the operating room anesthesia work area.

  19. The problem with checklists. | PSNet

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    March 29, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 01, 2011 - Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: What have we learned about assessment of fall risk? Ann L. … RW: What does the best fall assessment program look like? … But whenever the patient's condition changes, they should be reassessed for fall risk. … Let's shift a little bit to other proposed prevention strategies, particularly in environmental ones … But they should not receive an injury as a result of a fall.
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