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October 30, 2019 - One doctor. 25 deaths. How could it have happened?
October 30, 2019
Healy J, Farr I, Feiger L, Duffy C. New York Times. October 11, 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/one-doctor-25-deaths-how-could-it-have-happened
Systemic failures persistently undermine processes meant to keep patients safe. This news story discu…
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June 28, 2023 - Inside the preventable deaths that happened within a
prominent transplant center.
June 28, 2023
Blau M. ProPublica. June 14, 2023.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inside-preventable-deaths-happened-within-prominent-transplant-center
Medical errors during organ transplants can have catastrophic consequences. This repo…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safely-home-what-happens-when-people-leave-hospital-care-settings
August 02, 2023 - Book/Report
Safely Home: What Happens When People Leave Hospital Care Settings?
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Safely Home: What Happens When People Leave Hospital Care Settings? London, UK: Healthwatch England; July 2015.
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June 14, 2023 - What Happened to Patient Safety.
June 14, 2023
Sheridan S. Turn on the Lights. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. May 2023
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-happened-patient-safety
Patient engagement is an important component in patient safety. This episode from the Turn on the Lights
podcast (hosted by I…
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June 10, 2018 - Fatal PCA adverse events continue to happen...better
patient monitoring is essential to prevent harm
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March 02, 2011 - presented to illustrate the importance of bridging what happens at the
bedside with what needs to happen
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-james-p-bagian-md-pe
February 26, 2025 - The way I would look at it is to try to understand what happened, why did it happen, and what do you … Why did it happen? What are we going to do to prevent it in the future? … Our goal is to make sure that this cannot or is very unlikely to happen in the future and whether there's … Unfortunately, in today's health care industry there are many places where that doesn't happen.
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May 01, 2019 - Deny, Dismiss, Dehumanise: What Happened When I
Went to Hospital.
May 1, 2019
Cullen A. Uitgeverij van Brug: The Hague, The Netherlands; 2019. ISBN: 9789065232236.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/deny-dismiss-dehumanise-what-happened-when-i-went-hospital
Patient stories offer important insights regarding the impact m…
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June 14, 2023 - coping-errors-operating-room-intraoperative-strategies-postoperative-strategies-and-sex
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surgical-errors-happen-are-learners-trained-recover-them-survey-north-american-surgical
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August 28, 2024 - assessing-stops-framework-coping-intraoperative-errors-evidence-efficacy-hints-hubris-and
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surgical-errors-happen-are-learners-trained-recover-them-survey-north-american-surgical
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September 09, 2015 - Book/Report
Deny, Dismiss, Dehumanise: What Happened When I Went to Hospital.
Citation Text:
Deny, Dismiss, Dehumanise: What Happened When I Went to Hospital. Cullen A. Uitgeverij van Brug: The Hague, The Netherlands; 2019. ISBN: 9789065232236.
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August 01, 2009 - time at the right dose without asking the nurses to do endless workarounds to
make sure that will all happen … Now without stopping the work, what could happen at that point is that the nurse does go procure the … RW: Does this not happen in health care because the nurse doesn't think about her work that way? … If you look at the financial
market, what will happen is that for all the finger pointing that's going … Maybe the first measures are very simple: yes or no, did a never event
happen?
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March 08, 2017 - using-information-external-errors-signal-clear-and-present-danger
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/could-it-happen-here-learning-other-organizations-safety-errors
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May 05, 2021 - Fatal mistakes: why do ten-fold medication errors in
children keep happening?
May 5, 2021
Parry C. The Pharmaceutical Journal. April 22 2021.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fatal-mistakes-why-do-ten-fold-medication-errors-children-keep-happening
Weight-based prescribing in children harbors challenges to accura…
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April 26, 2023 - Doctors must stop tuning out Black women. It happened
to me, as a pregnant OB-GYN.
April 26, 2023
Gillispie-Bell V. USA Today. April 14, 2023.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/doctors-must-stop-tuning-out-black-women-it-happened-me-pregnant-ob-gyn
Structural racism and implicit biases can lead to poor quality of care …
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-jessica-behrhorst-about-evolution-root-cause-analysis
February 26, 2025 - “Why did it happen?” “What are we doing to keep it from happening again?” … direct causes of an adverse event and the systemic weaknesses that may have allowed the event to happen
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February 26, 2025 - direct causes of an adverse event and the systemic weaknesses that may have allowed the event to happen … “Why did it happen?” “What are we doing to keep it from happening again?”
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July 01, 2008 - What then needs to happen is the institutions need to track what the
solutions are, and they need to … serious incidents, called sentinel events, and any
hospital board would like to see these things never happen … Wrong site surgeries are a pretty good example of this—they happen to every big
institution a few times
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withrobert-m-wachter-md
October 01, 2008 - If you are going to promulgate a policy that either publicly reports adverse events that happen in hospitals … to be sure that the hospital is not being blamed, for lack of a better word, for things that didn't happen … Sometimes patients are sent to us because they've had bad things happen—they're very ill and it's our … That in fact, hospitals should be paying for things that shouldn't happen, and that this type of policy … DRG-like system where we will pay for a given diagnosis, I think it is inevitable that when adverse events happen
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-lucian-leape-md
June 12, 2019 - create a safe environment in an operating room, and that turns out to be difficult and doesn't just happen … Why can't you just make it happen? … They've learned over the last 10 years how to get this to happen. … Even though we haven't found the magic bullet to make it happen or pulled the right lever, I'm hopeful … Finally, I think the culture change we seek will happen faster than we expect.