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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41470/psn-pdf
November 15, 2024 - Hospital Safety Grade. … (CDC), and the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS), this website provides grades for hospitals … in the United States based on their
safety. … The Fall 2024 hospital safety grade results document improvements in healthcare associated
infections … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-safety-grade
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/leapfrog-hospital-survey
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/front-line-defense-role-nurses-preventing-sentinel-events-third-edition
November 27, 2018 - Nurses have an important role in ensuring patient safety on the front line. … May 28, 2014
The Role of Hospitalists in Patient Safety. … January 7, 2009
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Organisational strategies to implement hospital pressure ulcer prevention … April 27, 2016
Special Issue on Falls.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-safety-grade
June 21, 2023 - in the United States based on their safety. … The Fall 2024 hospital safety grade results document improvements in healthcare associated infections … January 21, 2021
Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis: Recommended Practices for Hospitals … December 17, 2024
Safety in Numbers: Hospital Performance on Leapfrog’s Surgical Volume … September 27, 2016
Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/partnered-pharmacist-charting-admission-general-medical-and-emergency-short-stay-unit-cluster
July 06, 2011 - Medication discrepancies during hospital admission are common and can lead to preventable harm. … a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020. … June 13, 2011
Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance. … acute hospitals: cluster randomised controlled trial. … and drug concentration consistencies in children's hospitals in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-patient-safety-culture-through-teamwork-and-communication-teamstepps
November 21, 2016 - July 17, 2013
Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals … May 6, 2015
Partnership for Patients (PfP) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 Final … October 19, 2016
Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in … May 24, 2015
Preventing Patient Falls: A Systematic Approach From the Joint Commission … June 12, 2007
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Health Care
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/leadership-committed-safety
December 23, 2016 - Specific suggested actions include involving hospital boards and patients in safety efforts and making … December 23, 2016
Medical device alarm safety in hospitals. … February 10, 2021
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities … October 3, 2017
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on … September 24, 2010
The High Costs of Weak Compliance With the New York State Hospital
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33714/psn-pdf
July 01, 2011 - For instance, if you have a hospital chain with hospitals in many states, they cannot
aggregate information … across state lines easily or even across hospitals within a state without, in most
cases, losing legal … The whole survey was about incident reporting systems in those hospitals, to find out how many were … health care–associated infections, medication errors, pressure ulcers, falls, and a
few others. … I think the CDC was operating at about 350 hospitals then, and now they're in several thousand.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/human-factors-complex-sociotechnical-systems
June 09, 2021 - September 13, 2023
A roadmap to advance patient safety in ambulatory care. … January 20, 2021
Information flow during pediatric trauma care transitions: things falling … Acute Hospital Care Units
April 26, 2023
Perspective … and Nicole Werner, PhD
November 16, 2022
From fable to reality at Parkland Hospital … in people and systems.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/semi-supervised-classification-patient-safety-event-reports
October 31, 2011 - a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020. … of adverse events between hospitals and hospital departments. … March 24, 2012
Adverse-event-reporting practices by US hospitals: results of a national … November 25, 2009
Falls in English and Welsh hospitals: a national observational study … Quality and Safety Professionals
General Internal Medicine
Hospital Medicine
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-patient-safety-intersection-safety-culture-clinician-and-staff-support-and-patient
April 15, 2015 - August 21, 2019
Is the availability of hospital IT applications associated with a hospital's … risk adjusted incidence rate for patient safety indicators: results from 66 Georgia hospitals. … December 22, 2008
Improving hospital safety culture for falls prevention through interdisciplinary … Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia. … June 12, 2007
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Health Care
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/curriculum-development-and-implementation-national-interprofessional-fellowship-patient
November 18, 2016 - December 21, 2018
Inpatient suicide on mental health units in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals … September 19, 2016
Death by suicide within 1 week of hospital discharge: a retrospective … June 21, 2017
Suicide and suicide attempts on hospital grounds and clinic areas. … November 21, 2012
Root cause analysis of reported patient falls in ORs in the Veterans … January 27, 2012
Residents' suggestions for reducing errors in teaching hospitals.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45511/psn-pdf
July 21, 2017 - In this cluster randomized trial, hospital wards were designated either to receive usual
hospital care … included pressure ulcers, venous thromboembolism, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and falls … While the
participating hospital wards were able to collect safety feedback from patients in a feasible … in the patient
engagement wards and the usual care wards. … psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/health-care-associated-infections
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/enhancing-electronic-health-record-usability-pediatric-patient-care-scenario-based-approach
July 13, 2010 - a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020. … January 25, 2017
Cost of inpatient falls and cost-benefit analysis of implementation … January 13, 2021
Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance … March 28, 2011
Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and … August 2, 2010
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Children's Hospitals
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/managing-risk-during-transition-new-iso-tubing-connector-standards
December 23, 2016 - The Joint Commission issues sentinel event alerts in response to significant emerging safety risks … January 25, 2023
Health care workers in the midst of crisis. … February 10, 2021
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities … December 23, 2016
Safe use of opioids in hospitals. … Dosing
August 21, 2005
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Hospitals
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nurses-practice-environments-error-interception-practices-and-inpatient-medication-errors
December 15, 2011 - February 2, 2011
Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals … a Japanese hospital. … July 19, 2010
Relationship between call light use and response time and inpatient falls … medical and surgical wards of selected hospitals in Kuwait. … January 23, 2008
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Hospitals
Nurses
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/practically-speaking-rethinking-hand-hygiene-improvement-programs-health-care-settings
September 03, 2011 - January 22, 2025
Decreasing handoff-related care failures in children's hospitals. … review of root cause analyses of falls leading to adverse events. … May 22, 2019
Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation, Second Edition … September 10, 2013
Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating … July 21, 2010
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-we-finally-getting-serious-about-medical-errors
May 11, 2016 - Copy Citation
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Hospital Survey on … January 27, 2021
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Combined impact of Medicare's hospital pay for performance programs on … March 21, 2017
'Global Trigger Tool' shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten … August 26, 2009
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33730/psn-pdf
June 01, 2012 - a national approach to appointing risk managers in hospitals. … In fact, the economic incentives in hospitals still work against risk management to some extent
because … For instance, there are millions of falls reported in this database, but relatively few classic
adverse … This is very public, very visible, and if you are running a hospital you can get
tremendous heat. … If you
want to study falls on a national basis for instance, after you have 500 or 1000 falls you probably
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34766/psn-pdf
March 05, 2013 - safety practices (including computerized order entry, use of
pharmacists on rounds, methods to prevent falls … nosocomial infections, and interventions to create a
culture of safety), became quite influential, in … was the first effort to subject safety practices
to the same scrutiny as other clinical practices in … now-famous list of the top 11 practices became the focus of many a new patient safety program at
hospitals … , and it is worth reviewing recent literature before adopting even the most
highly rated practices in
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/noise-distraction-interruption-and-safety-hazard
February 01, 2014 - in student providers: a scoping review. … December 7, 2022
Effects of a communication-and-resolution program on hospitals' malpractice … November 30, 2012
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Do falls and other … September 24, 2016
Interruptions and multitasking in nursing care. … Error
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