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  1. Clinical handover incident reporting in one UK general hospital. | PSNet

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    May 03, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  2. Track, trigger and teamwork: communication of deterioration in acute medical and surgical wards. | PSNet

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    August 06, 2014 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  3. The Henry Ford Health System No Harm Campaign: a comprehensive model to reduce harm and save lives. | PSNet

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    May 11, 2019 - October 31, 2014 Positive deviance: a new tool for infection prevention and patient safety

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 15, 2024 - event as preventable requires some judgment about the degree to which the evidence supports specific prevention … Preventable adverse events: those that occurred due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention

  5. In Conversation with…Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH | PSNet

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    November 01, 2008 - We asked him to speak with us about how research on UTI prevention provides broader lessons for patient … RW : There may be some trade-offs in terms of patients being forced out of bed and an increased fall … SS : Well, I think that infection prevention in many ways is a paradigm for patient safety, at least … Accordingly, a technological solution might seem to be the desired approach to prevention. … Guideline for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

  6. Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet

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    July 31, 2023 - Education can focus on promoting a culture of safety, implementing error-prevention strategies, recognizing … Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … at the Patient Safety Authority was reviewing newborn-related safety events and discovered a newborn fall … A newborn fall often means the baby was dropped, likely by exhausted parents who fall asleep holding

  7. In Conversation with... Regina Hoffman about Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet

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    July 31, 2023 - Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … at the Patient Safety Authority was reviewing newborn-related safety events and discovered a newborn fall … A newborn fall often means the baby was dropped, likely by exhausted parents who fall asleep holding … Education can focus on promoting a culture of safety, implementing error-prevention strategies, recognizing

  8. Safety Culture in EMS | PSNet

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    May 26, 2021 - There are organizations where I’ve had a patient fall in my care and the first thing I had to do was … How do we shift the thinking to the idea that these are harms that may happen to the patient, be it a fall … stretcher, if we're trying to move them from bed to from stretcher to bed in the hospital and they fall … I've had a patient fall.

  9. In Conversation With... Chris Cebollero, BS, CCEMT-P | PSNet

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    May 26, 2021 - There are organizations where I’ve had a patient fall in my care and the first thing I had to do was … How do we shift the thinking to the idea that these are harms that may happen to the patient, be it a fall … stretcher, if we're trying to move them from bed to from stretcher to bed in the hospital and they fall … I've had a patient fall.

  10. Cost of medication-related problems at a university hospital. | PSNet

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    January 13, 2021 - Study Classic Cost of medication-related problems at a university hospital. Citation Text: Cost of medication-related problems at a university hospital. Schneider PJ; Gift MG; Lee YP; Rothermich EA; Sill BE Copy Citation Save Save to yo…

  11. Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community. | PSNet

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    September 30, 2015 - Multi-use Website Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community. Citation Text: Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community. Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community. 525 University Ave, Suite 630, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L3, Canada. …

  12. Drive to Deprescribe. | PSNet

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    August 19, 2020 - Multi-use Website Drive to Deprescribe. Citation Text: Drive to Deprescribe. The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin …

  13. The role of racism as a core patient safety issue. | PSNet

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    March 18, 2020 - Related Resources ‘I felt like I was dying’: how women with postpartum depression fall

  14. Measurement for improvement: a survey of current practice in Australian public hospitals. | PSNet

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    December 29, 2014 - January 12, 2011 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … July 29, 2020 6-PACK programme to decrease fall injuries in acute hospitals: cluster

  15. Labeling morphine milligram equivalents on opioid packaging: a potential patient safety intervention. | PSNet

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    March 06, 2019 - October 7, 2020 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  16. Frontline hospital workers and the worker safety/patient safety nexus. | PSNet

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    July 05, 2017 - Commentary Frontline hospital workers and the worker safety/patient safety nexus. Citation Text: Sokas R, Braun B, Chenven L, et al. Frontline hospital workers and the worker safety/patient safety nexus. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013;39(4):185-192. Copy Citation Format: …

  17. Improving medication administration safety in a community hospital setting using Lean methodology. | PSNet

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    September 23, 2020 - Commentary Improving medication administration safety in a community hospital setting using Lean methodology. Citation Text: Critchley S. Improving medication administration safety in a community hospital setting using Lean methodology. J Nurs Care Qual. 2015;30(4):345-351. doi:10.1097/N…

  18. Advancing a More Health-Literate Approach to Patient Safety | PSNet

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    May 31, 2017 - October 23, 2019 The impact of post-fall huddles on repeat fall rates and perceptions

  19. Complexity and safety. | PSNet

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    February 01, 2012 - Commentary Complexity and safety. Citation Text: Carrillo RA. Complexity and safety. J Safety Res. 2011;42(4):293-300. doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2011.06.003. Copy Citation Format: DOI Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote tagged PubMedId RIS …

  20. Magnet in Support of Patient Safety. | PSNet

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    November 01, 2012 - March 2, 2016 Infection Prevention.
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