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digital.ahrq.gov/2019-year-review/research-summary/using-aviation-technology-prevent-healthcare-errors-health-it
January 01, 2019 - Profile: Context is Critical: Understanding When and Why Electronic Health Record-Related Safety Hazards Happen … improvements in EHR design and usability
As a practicing clinician, you see themes of errors that happen … They happen over and over again and more than 99 percent of the time nothing bad happens.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb17.html
December 01, 2017 - Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities
Appendix B17: Handout for Inservice #1, Why Falls Happen
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb15.html
December 01, 2017 - Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities
Appendix B15: Pre and Posttests for Inservice #1, Why Falls Happen
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide5/notes.html
August 01, 2022 - Why did the event happen? … issue and redirect the conversation toward a shared goal of ensuring that a similar event does not happen
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/carman-presentation.pdf
October 08, 2025 - “ How do we make engagement
happen?” … “What are the different ways in
which
we can
make it happen?” … Well, it can’t happen
in
ten
minutes.
… It needs to happen every week at church. It needs to happen at the bridge club. … It needs to
happen
at a variety of places.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/sops-hsops-2-translation-guidelines.pdf
August 01, 2023 - (negatively worded)
• More about this item: When patient safety problems happen, this unit does not … do anything
to ensure the problem does not happen again.
4. … negatively worded)
• More about this item: Staff feel like they are unfairly blamed when mistakes happen … We are informed about errors that happen in this unit.
C2. … When errors happen in this unit, we discuss ways to prevent them from happening again.
C3.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/089-or-traffic-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - Slide 14
Case Example: Why Did It Happen?
SAY:
The CUSP team next examined “Why did it happen?”
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/088-or-traffic.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Why did it happen?
How to reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again? … discussion focused around OR traffic
Members felt that door openings during the surgical case appeared to happen … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
OR Traffic
14
Case Example: Why Did It Happen
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/penicillin-allergy.pdf
June 01, 2021 - _______________
o How soon after starting the antibiotic did the reaction happen (e.g., minutes to hours … by:
Datetime:
Reviewed by physician:
How soon after starting the antibiotic did the reaction happen
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/cusp.html
October 01, 2024 - Assessment The Premortem Tool is a proactive way to anticipate risks and failures before they actually happen … Learning From Defects A "defect" is defined as "Anything that you don't want to have happen again."
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/848382/psn-pdf
May 03, 2023 - Events that inspired change: the importance of sharing
what happened to stop it from happening again.
May 3, 2023
Myers E, Allen C. Events that inspired change: the importance of sharing what happened to stop it from
happening again. Patient Saf. 2023;5(1):62-63. doi:10.33940/001c.74079.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/iss…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140603_QI/3_rachel_grob.pdf
June 02, 2025 - past 12 months)
Positive experiences: 1 Question with
narrative guide (what happened, how did it
happen … (past 12 months)
Positive experiences: 1 Question with narrative guide
(what happened, how did it happen
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod2sess1.html
October 01, 2014 - Sometimes systems create "an accident waiting to happen." … Following up —The next step is being clear about what will happen after the message is given and received
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand-sci-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - Slide 4: How Can These Errors Happen? … The first step in comprehending why they happen is accepting that people are not perfect. … Why did it happen?
What will we do to reduce the recurrence?
How will we know it worked? … Why did it happen?
How will you reduce the risk of recurrence?
How will you know it worked?
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integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/Update_Geriatric_Depression_Scale-15.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Are you afraid that something bad is going to happen to you? YES / NO
7. … Are you afraid that something bad is going to happen to you? YES / NO
7.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/sensemaking/learn-from-defects-facilitator-guide.pdf
May 01, 2017 - • Why did it happen?
• What will you do to reduce risk? … • Skill-based failures happen when a
Slide 4
Sensemaking and Learn From Defects for Perinatal … The consequent event is described in terms of
the event’s consequences:
• Harm that did happen
• … Why did it happen?
• Step 1. Visualize the factors that
led to the event.
• Step 2. … • Defects are clinical or operational
events that you do not want to happen
again.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/teaching-medical-error-apologies-development-multi-component-intervention
August 04, 2021 - October 19, 2022
Surgical safety does not happen by accident: learning from perioperative … July 26, 2023
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Bad things can happen
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/distribute/promote/multiple/using-media.html
September 01, 2019 - Bad press can happen because the people you worked with didn’t take the time to understand your work, … While any of these misfortunes can happen, they are not reasons to avoid working with the media entirely … Bad press can happen to anyone.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-patient-narrative-martino.pdf
June 01, 2021 - An Update on the CAHPS Patient Narrative Item Sets - Martino
UPDATED NARRATIVE ITEM SETS FOR THE
CAHPS CLINICIAN & GROUP SURVEY
Steven Martino, PhD
Overview of Narrative Item Set Development Process
• Literature review and environmental scan
• Drafting of narrative items
• Pretesting to assess readability and …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/learndefects.doc
June 02, 2025 - A defect is any clinical or operational event or situation that you would not want to have happen again … Why did it happen? Below is a framework to help you review and evaluate your case.