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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-health-care-strikes-patient-mortality-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
April 27, 2022 - and the impact of patient safety huddles on teamwork and safety culture: an evaluation of the Huddle Up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-note-quality-and-quality-care-cross-sectional-study
June 05, 2018 - Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Care Setting
August 5, 2022
Speaking up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-mortality-during-unannounced-accreditation-surveys-us-hospitals
August 03, 2022 - 1984 hospitals surveyed by The Joint Commission between 2008 and 2012 from 3 weeks prior to a survey up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-occurrence-surgical-complications-and-hospital-finances
April 21, 2015 - relies on the assumption that adverse events are financially harmful to hospitals over the long term, so up-front
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-symptom-checkers-self-diagnosis-and-triage-audit-study
December 08, 2021 - emergency department admission diagnosis and hospital discharge diagnosis and its impact on length of stay, up-triage
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33646/psn-pdf
February 01, 2007 - For example, in North America, "fever and rash" should bring up Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, toxic … In the UK, meningococcal disease would be
much higher up on the differential diagnosis list and, in … decision-making has been the sacrosanct, protected area of
a physician, and if we can help physicians come up … We grew up with books on our shelves. … signs and symptoms and lab abnormalities and it actually knows what
diagnosis they ultimately ended up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/removing-insult-injury-disclosing-adverse-events
February 01, 2006 - information about what happened.( 5 ) The patient who later learns about what happened and suspects a "cover-up … Institutions have adopted policies to follow suit. … along, two things happen: first, the natural self-protectiveness that any of us feel when we've screwed up … to patients after an error, and some risk managers, who have traditionally said, you're just opening up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/846975/psn-pdf
March 28, 2023 - Some patients may not be able to
follow up with another provider. … can measure screening usually, but often we cannot measure whether a referral was
actually followed up … Sarah Mossburg: As we wrap up this conversation, could tell us what you see as the next steps for this
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withjohn-banja-phd
February 01, 2006 - along, two things happen: first, the natural self-protectiveness that any of us feel when we've screwed up … to patients after an error, and some risk managers, who have traditionally said, you're just opening up … information about what happened.( 5 ) The patient who later learns about what happened and suspects a "cover-up … Institutions have adopted policies to follow suit.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/air-side-caution
April 21, 2015 - This pause also encourages all individuals present to speak up about potential patient safety threats … Explicit, step-by-step instructions presented in an easy-to-follow manner provide the best chance for … Catheters
October 27, 2021
WebM&M Cases
Picking Up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/miscommunication-or-leads-anticoagulation-mishap
May 08, 2019 - The surgeon did not share critical information, the newly hired anesthesiologist did not speak up about … Cases
Failure to Adhere to Dietary Restrictions Leading to Complications and Poor Follow-up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/turn-other-cheek
October 26, 2010 - surgical margins are evaluated, and it has the highest success rate of all treatments for skin cancer—up … A follow-up review of wrong site surgery. Sentinel Event Alert. December 5, 2001.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-elsabeth-kalenderian-dds-mph-phd-and-muhammad-f-walji-phd
December 22, 2020 - But there are also things like wrong tooth extraction, which people mentioned but don’t seem to come up … for which we would expect to do more of a root cause analysis, but we didn’t frequently pick those up … We have to work with the faculty and get them up to speed on these concepts too.
… I have trouble getting some traction, but I'm not giving up because the dental center/school is getting … Pain was the least cited AE in interviews despite pain being the most common AE to follow dental procedures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/adverse-events-dentistry
December 22, 2020 - Pain was the least cited AE in interviews despite pain being the most common AE to follow dental procedures … But there are also things like wrong tooth extraction, which people mentioned but don’t seem to come up … for which we would expect to do more of a root cause analysis, but we didn’t frequently pick those up … We have to work with the faculty and get them up to speed on these concepts too.
… I have trouble getting some traction, but I'm not giving up because the dental center/school is getting
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73303/psn-pdf
May 26, 2021 - closely
aligned with emergency medical services (EMS) care principles: the duty to act, the duty to follow … Preventing medical errors: the bottom-up approach to Just Culture. EMS World. July 16, 2019.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/never-events
June 15, 2024 - loss of an irreplaceable biological specimen Patient death or serious injury resulting from failure to follow … up or communicate laboratory, pathology, or radiology test results Environmental events Patient or staff
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49817/psn-pdf
January 01, 2018 - slow-down-right-drug-wrong-formulation
The Case
A 65-year-old man presented to his primary care clinic for follow-up … the safety of health information technology requires shared
responsibility: it is time we all step up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/implementing-patient-safety-program-large-national-health-system
January 01, 2008 - What are the elements of a dashboard that you might follow centrally? … When I left, they were building up the modules for MRSA [methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus … At Tenet, the resistance was often from people who hadn't kept up as much with the latest. … We're willing to make experiments of change and follow what happens and make sure we don't have any unintended … We have to come up with other systems or toolkits to help them achieve standardization of systems that
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33717/psn-pdf
September 01, 2011 - would equate with substantially greater expenditures of staff time spent on
reviewing and following-up … Closing the loop: follow-up
and feedback in a patient safety program.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/moving-pains
August 17, 2017 - that has become trickier since the patient safety movement has begun encouraging patients to "speak up … Speak Up: Help Prevent Errors in Your Care—Brochures and Poster. … Available at: http://www.jointcommission.org/GeneralPublic/Speak+Up/gp_speakup_bro.htm . … Bottom Up
June 1, 2012
Perspective
The Comprehensivist