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  1. Staff warned about the lack of psychiatric care at a VA clinic. They couldn’t prevent tragedy. | PSNet

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    December 12, 2018 - August 2, 2023 ‘I felt like I was dying’: how women with postpartum depression fall through

  2. High-risk, high-alert medication management practices in a regional state psychiatric facility. | PSNet

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    January 06, 2017 - June 7, 2008 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  3. The accuracy of trigger tools to detect preventable adverse events in primary care: a systematic review. | PSNet

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    January 22, 2016 - January 22, 2016 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  4. Programmable infusion pumps in ICUs: an analysis of corresponding adverse drug events. | PSNet

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    January 16, 2008 - August 4, 2021 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  5. Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates. | PSNet

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    September 23, 2020 - January 23, 2019 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  6. "Saying sorry": some strategies for effective apology within the workplace. | PSNet

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    August 11, 2021 - June 25, 2010 Improving hospital safety culture for falls prevention through interdisciplinary

  7. Anesthesia workspaces for safe medication practices: design guidelines. | PSNet

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    November 29, 2017 - Patient Safety Primers Retained Surgical Items: Causation and Prevention

  8. Patient safety in psychiatric inpatient care: a literature review. | PSNet

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    September 27, 2017 - 2022 Shared understanding of resilient practices in the context of inpatient suicide prevention

  9. A plan for achieving significant improvement in patient safety. | PSNet

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    September 23, 2020 - Impact of pharmacist-led discharge medication reconciliation on error and patient harm prevention

  10. Patient safety culture: factors that influence clinician involvement in patient safety behaviours. | PSNet

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    April 16, 2014 - November 9, 2011 Insights into the climate of safety towards the prevention of falls

  11. How one medical checkup can snowball into a ‘cascade’ of tests, causing more harm than good. | PSNet

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    February 03, 2021 - September 29, 2017 National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention: recommendations

  12. Hand-off Communications. | PSNet

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    January 04, 2017 - September 18, 2019 Root cause analysis and actions for the prevention of medical errors

  13. A prospective review of adverse events during interhospital transfers of neonates by a dedicated neonatal transfer service. | PSNet

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    March 03, 2011 - human errors contribute to the majority of adverse events around interhospital transfers, and targeted prevention

  14. Review: bringing patient safety to the forefront through structured computerisation during clinical handover. | PSNet

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    January 13, 2021 - September 5, 2018 Defining the critical role of nurses in diagnostic error prevention

  15. The relationship between patient safety culture and patient outcomes: a systematic review. | PSNet

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    March 11, 2020 - December 29, 2014 Positive deviance: a new tool for infection prevention and patient

  16. Final Progress Report: Accountability and Health Safety – A Statewide Approach (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - Enables the user to evaluate the organization’s falls prevention program, develop an improvement plan … letter submitted by Kenneth Thorpe on September 17, 2002, demonstration project evaluation activities fall … Key Words: error reporting, medication errors, patient safety, voluntary Publications: Fall 2003 … Presentation at GHA State Patient Safety Conference Spring 2004 GHA SMU Telnet Presentation Fall … error.htm II.B “Assessment and Development of a Patient Safety Health Communication Plan for the Prevention

  17. Examples of Physician Quality Measures for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2019 - Examples of Physician Quality Measures for Consumers Following are a few examples of physician quality measures that research evidence and practical experience suggest are appropriate for reporting to consumers. The list is categorized by the Institute of Medicine’s domains for a quality health care system; for…

  18. Patient safety in the ED. | PSNet

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    August 11, 2010 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Patient safety in the ED. Citation Text: Patient safety in the ED. Hospitals & health networks. 2006;80(5):6 p. following 48, 2. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote tagged PubMedId RIS …

  19. Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. | PSNet

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    November 16, 2022 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. Citation Text: Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. Welch J. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Lin…

  20. Root Cause Analysis Playbook. | PSNet

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    July 05, 2017 - Book/Report Root Cause Analysis Playbook. Citation Text: Root Cause Analysis Playbook. Chicago, IL: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; 2015. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter…
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