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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/school-nursing-quality-and-safety-officer-nursing-students-use-safety-reporting-tools-and
October 19, 2022 - safety officer: nursing students' use of safety reporting tools and their perception of safety issues in … November 21, 2017
Overtreatment in the United States. … July 17, 2024
Safety of inpatient care in surgical settings: cohort study. … June 5, 2019
Medication safety initiative in reducing medication errors. … October 19, 2011
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/thinking-fast-and-slow-medicine
June 21, 2017 - Commentary
Thinking fast and slow in medicine. … Thinking fast and slow in medicine. … Thinking fast and slow in medicine. … incidents in a Dutch exploratory cohort study? … November 23, 2011
Safety and risk management interventions in hospitals: a systematic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/skin-deep-diagnosis-affective-bias-and-zebra-retreat-complicating-diagnosis-systemic
July 29, 2020 - Analyzing a case that resulted in delayed diagnosis of an uncommon condition, this commentary discusses … July 29, 2020
Association between long-term opioid use in family members and persistent … January 29, 2020
New persistent opioid use after minor and major surgical procedures in … August 16, 2017
Postoperative opioid prescribing and the pain scores on Hospital Consumer … The effect of opioid prescribing guidelines on prescriptions by emergency physicians in
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quality-pharmacologic-care-vulnerable-older-patients
August 27, 2012 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
An exploration of safety climate in … 2011
Implementation of the World Health Organization Trauma Care Checklist Program in … April 12, 2023
Determination of unnecessary blood transfusion by comprehensive 15-hospital … September 17, 2014
Facility-level variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing … March 11, 2011
Appropriateness of use of medicines in elderly inpatients: qualitative
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-price-must-we-pay-safety-excessive-cost-epinephrine-auto-injectors-leads-error-prone-use
September 14, 2016 - September 14, 2016
Selected medication safety risks to manage in 2016 that might otherwise … June 10, 2018
Accidental IV infusion of heparinized irrigation in the OR. … June 30, 2021
Anticoagulant safety takes center stage in 2007. … Resources
Annual Perspective
Annual Perspective: Topics in … March 18, 2010
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assessment-potential-impact-reminder-system-reduction-diagnostic-errors-quasi-experimental
April 19, 2011 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Validation of a diagnostic reminder system in … November 16, 2022
Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance … August 4, 2021
Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting. … Related Resources
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Equity in … February 20, 2019
Diagnostic Error in Medicine.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/time-ordered-comorbidity-correlations-identify-patients-risk-mis-and-overdiagnosis
December 07, 2022 - February 22, 2023
Breast cancer screening in Denmark: a cohort study of tumor size and … January 12, 2022
Streamlining care in crisis: rapid creation and implementation of a … 2020
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Racial and ethnic discrepancy in … Clinical decision support improves the appropriateness of laboratory test ordering in … December 19, 2017
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-apologies-way-reduce-malpractice-risks
October 23, 2018 - They discuss the current presence of apology laws at the state level and the limited role they play in … protecting clinicians who err and apologize in a court of law. … October 16, 2024
Clinical practice guideline: safe medication use in the ICU. … July 5, 2023
The role of apology laws in medical malpractice. … June 5, 2013
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-whiteboards-trauma-center-operating-suite-can-teach-us-about-emergency-department
August 29, 2011 - Study
What whiteboards in a trauma center operating suite can teach us about emergency … What whiteboards in a trauma center operating suite can teach us about emergency department communication … The authors observed and photographed ways in which staff used a whiteboard in a surgical trauma unit … August 2, 2012
Safety in EMS. … December 1, 2010
Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting:
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/studying-technical-work-emergency-care
September 29, 2010 - June 9, 2011
Resilience and resilience engineering in health care. … July 14, 2010
Improving handoffs in the emergency department. … in a high risk emergency department. … December 30, 2014
6-PACK programme to decrease fall injuries in acute hospitals: cluster … January 3, 2017
Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-information-optimize-medical-outcomes
August 04, 2021 - November 18, 2016
Medication errors in anesthesiology: is it time to train by example … March 13, 2013
Improving team performance during the preprocedure time-out in pediatric … December 18, 2017
Perceived causes of prescribing errors by junior doctors in hospital … January 30, 2013
Observer-based tools for non-technical skills assessment in simulated … and real clinical environments in healthcare: a systematic review.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/attending-work-hour-restrictions-it-time
November 28, 2012 - July 29, 2020
Trends and patterns in reporting of patient safety situations in transplantation … studies: identifying what contributes to successful interventions to promote hand hygiene in patient … September 29, 2017
Errors in drug computations during newborn intensive care. … March 27, 2005
Predictive combinations of monitor alarms preceding in-hospital code blue … June 8, 2022
Ethical considerations in the development of the Flexibility in Duty Hour
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-mistaken-dnr-orders
October 19, 2022 - Supportive Care in Cancer. 2006;14(8). doi:10.1007/s00520-006-0023-z. … Supportive Care in Cancer . 2006; 14 (8) .
View more articles from the same authors. … Supportive Care in Cancer. 2006;14(8). doi:10.1007/s00520-006-0023-z. … March 21, 2017
The use of a checklist in a pediatric oncology clinic. … January 3, 2007
Hospitals save money, but safety is questioned.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/healthcare-management-strategies-interdisciplinary-team-factors
November 13, 2011 - July 13, 2010
Patient-clinician diagnostic concordance upon hospital admission. … November 6, 2024
Adverse diagnostic events in hospitalised patients: a single-centre, … August 16, 2023
Causes for medical errors in obstetrics and gynaecology. … May 1, 2019
Quality and Safety in Women's Health Care. Second Edition. … May 19, 2010
Teamwork in obstetric critical care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/verbal-medication-orders-or
March 06, 2024 - Commentary
Verbal medication orders in the OR. … Verbal medication orders in the OR. AORN J. 2007;86(4):626-9. … This article describes the causes of medication errors in the operating room and discusses prevention … Verbal medication orders in the OR. AORN J. 2007;86(4):626-9. … multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/bundaberg-and-beyond-duty-disclose-adverse-events-patients
January 12, 2022 - The authors discuss current disclosure policy in Australia and the practical, ethical, and legal issues … January 12, 2022
Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid … May 4, 2022
Results and lessons from a hospital-wide initiative incentivised by delivery … May 8, 2017
Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in the ICU: a systematic … May 8, 2019
Criminalisation of unintentional error in healthcare in the UK: a perspective
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-medical-malpractice-closed-claims-data-reduce-surgical-risk-and-improve-patient-safety
December 01, 2010 - Risk Management and Patient Safety
December 1, 2010
Teamwork in … March 3, 2021
Omissions of care in nursing home settings: a narrative review. … January 12, 2022
A reengineered hospital discharge program to decrease rehospitalization … 26, 2011
Predictive power of the "trigger tool" for the detection of adverse events in … October 26, 2010
Critical diagnoses (critical values) in anatomic pathology.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/critical-incident-stress-debriefing-after-adverse-patient-safety-events
April 03, 2019 - Resources From the Same Author(s)
The impact of adverse events on clinicians: what's in … 3, 2014
Case studies of patient safety research classics to build research capacity in … July 27, 2022
The impact of adverse events on clinicians: what's in a name? … July 1, 2017
Monitoring for medication errors in outpatient settings. … August 22, 2009
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.245_slideshow.ppt
July 01, 2011 - anticoagulants
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Case: Watch the Warfarin
A frail 80-year-old man with a past medical history of dementia, falls … , and atrial fibrillation presented to the hospital with confusion and weakness. … the hospital.
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Case: Watch the Warfarin (2)
After 48 hours he was clinically improved and back … atrial fibrillation
Dabigatran is as effective as warfarin in preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation … http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21239798
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Best practices for managing warfarin at hospital
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/recurrent-hypoglycemia-care-transition-failure
December 23, 2020 - Errors are likely to be reduced when hospitals use electronic medical record (EMR) systems, because the … Such lack of standardization also impedes efforts to move information in electronic form from hospital … In the hospital, a family member who has access to the patient's medication administration record may … November 20, 2015
Safe use of cellular telephones in hospitals: fundamental principles … Related Resources
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