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  1. Medical misdiagnoses can have fatal consequences. | PSNet

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    July 27, 2011 - July 20, 2011 How to avoid falling victim to a hospital mistake.

  2. WHO Patient Safety Curriculum Guide: Multi-Professional Edition. | PSNet

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    February 14, 2024 - March 19, 2018 Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program.

  3. Mix-up (wrong route of administration) of bladder irrigation with intravenous (IV) infusions. | PSNet

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    March 27, 2005 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) National Center for Patient Safety Falls

  4. Nurses' role in detecting deterioration in ward patients: systematic literature review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nurses-role-detecting-deterioration-ward-patients-systematic-literature-review
    March 27, 2018 - March 6, 2005 Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care.

  5. Hospital-error oversight called lax: state takes too long to investigate mistakes, patient advocates say. | PSNet

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    May 04, 2015 - Optimizing post-acute care patient safety: a scoping review of multifactorial fall prevention

  6. Most surgery in wrong spot done on spine: 11 such cases found in state since 2006. | PSNet

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    August 06, 2008 - June 10, 2015 Man falls off surgical table; St. Joseph's Hospital sued.

  7. Alarm Interventions During Medical Telemetry Monitoring: A Failure Mode & Effects Analysis. | PSNet

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    March 18, 2010 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Medication assessment: one determinant of falls

  8. Safety Quality and Informatics Leadership Program. | PSNet

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    May 01, 2015 - July 16, 2018 Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program.

  9. Organ donor's surgery death sparks questions. | PSNet

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    April 06, 2016 - April 6, 2016 How to avoid falling victim to a hospital mistake.

  10. Disease management: a mid-decade evolution toward patient safety. | PSNet

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    January 28, 2010 - Strategies to improve the patient safety outcome indicator: preventing or reducing falls

  11. The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    June 01, 2018 - Confronting Quality Problems There are several areas where the quality of American health care is falling … receive high-quality health care services, there are a number of areas where the quality of care is falling

  12. Interventions-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1306 (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2013 - names of hospital and clinical staff to reduce risk of patient disorientation and delirium; fall- prevention … blood pressure, labs, medication compliance), treatment (wound care, medication reconciliation), prevention … If the onus of improving patient adherence falls on the provider, staffing needs might increase because … lighting, soft colors, and noise abatement features, handrails, flooring that is less likely to cause falls … available resources.51 However, this design poses many risks to the elderly population, including falls

  13. ElderTree Baseline Survey (pdf file)

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    October 16, 2014 - If you do not drive, please skip to the next section of questions on Falls Risk (#22). 9 … FALLS RISK 22. A fall is when your body goes to the ground without being pushed. … The following two questions are about any falls you may have had in the past 6 months. … How many of these falls require medical attention? … Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much     d.

  14. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    January 01, 2024 - Safety Publication Date: July 2021 Generalizability and Spread of an Evidenced-based Fall Prevention

  15. Advancing Patient-Centered Care for People Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2025 - Advancing Patient-Centered Care for People Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions AHRQ Vision AHRQ envisions a sustainable healthcare system that delivers high-value, coordinated, integrated patient-centered care, based in primary care, that will optimize individual and population health by preventing and ef…

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2014 - He did volunteer that he typically had difficulty falling asleep, often taking a single dose of diphenhydramine … Implications for prevention. ADE Prevention Study Group. JAMA. 1995;274:29-34. [go to PubMed] 2.

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 01, 2014 - Medical Devices in the "Wild" December 1, 2014 Gurses AP, Doyle PA. Medical Devices in the "Wild". PSNet [internet]. 2014. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/medical-devices-wild The Case A 75-year-old man with a history of congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary artery disease, diabetes, chronic pain, arthritis, and…

  18. Safer prescribing and care for the elderly (SPACE): cluster randomised controlled trial in general practice. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safer-prescribing-and-care-elderly-space-cluster-randomised-controlled-trial-general-practice
    November 18, 2020 - November 24, 2021 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management

  19. Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process. | PSNet

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    December 18, 2024 - Study Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process. Citation Text: Murphy DR, Zimolzak AJ, Upadhyay DK, et al. Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023;30(9):1526-1531. …

  20. Medical malpractice litigation and daylight saving time. | PSNet

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    March 24, 2019 - Study Medical malpractice litigation and daylight saving time. Citation Text: Gao C, Lage C, Scullin MK. Medical malpractice litigation and daylight saving time. J Clin Sleep Med. 2024;20(6):933-940. doi:10.5664/jcsm.11038. Copy Citation Format: DOI Google Scholar BibTeX En…
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