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41. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Healthcare Safer report, published in 2020, includes 47 evidence-based patient safety practices in selected harm … It includes evidence for more specific harm areas than the preceding reports.

42. Generic Dashboard | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - examines their location and contributing factors, as well as prevention actions and extent of residual harm

43. Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that rates of in-hospital adverse events for healthcare related patient harm … Adverse events are often defined as physical or psychological harm caused by a person’s interaction with

44. AHRQ Slide Template 2004
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    January 01, 2013 - addressing process challenges Improving compliance Learning from near falls and falls that do not involve harm … , in addition to learning from falls with harm Tools Assessing Fall Prevention Care Processes (5B

45. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training for Health Care Professionals Audio Script | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2020 - Be specific about how long you expect a benefit or harm to last. … When there's a risk of harm rather than a virtual certainty, it can be challenging to explain. … cannot answer these questions correctly, STOP the line; that is, halt any activity that could cause harm

46. Module 2: Obtaining Organizational Buy-in and Support | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - Transparency is also vital in addressing system factors that may contribute to harm. … choices should be emphasized more than the outcome of the choices, which may or may not have resulted in harm … recognize when they are engaging in at-risk behavior and how their behavior might cause unjustifiable harm

47. Improving Medication Safety for Older Adults | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2022 - safety from a systems perspective and develop tools that community pharmacists can use to reduce patient harm … These efforts are helping pharmacists reduce harm from both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medication

48. Approach to Patients Reporting Penicillin Allergies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - After viewing or presenting this presentation viewers will be able to— Discuss the potential harm

49. Longitudinal Evaluation of the Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Demonstration Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2022 - focused on three main approaches to improving patient safety and reducing medical liability: Preventing Harm … These projects addressed improved communication by assessing attitudes toward error and harm disclosure

50. Tools To Improve Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant source of error and patient harm … can be used by any healthcare organization interested in promoting diagnostic excellence and reducing harm

51. Staff Safety Assessment
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    January 01, 2006 - What can be done to minimize harm or prevent safety hazards? … 11 Exercise Please complete the following: List all defects that have the potential to cause harm Discuss

52. Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: (pdf file)
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    January 18, 2017 - Be specific about how long you expect a benefit or harm to last. … When there’s a risk of harm rather than a virtual certainty, it can be challenging to explain. … cannot answer these questions correctly, STOP the line; that is, halt any activity that could cause harm

53. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process Toolkit (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2017 - consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant source of error and patient harm … The survey also asks staff and physicians to consider the potential harm caused by problems with your … What is the usual harm for patients? … • To score each survey, multiply the “frequency” score by the “harm” score to get a total score … Medical testing errors in this office do not harm patients. 9.

54. Reducing Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Reducing hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) is an important patient safety goal, because HACs cause harm

55. Board Checklist | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2012 - What might we do to prevent that harm?”)    

56. Issue Brief 9: Improved Diagnostic Accuracy Through Probability-Based Diagnosis (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - Introduction Errors that occur during the diagnostic process can lead to missed or wrong diagnoses and can harm … risks” and “benefits” vs. the more neutral, transparent, and quantifiable comparison of “chance of harm … of patient benefit and harms, tests, like all other health services, will either help patients or harm … results and subsequent missed diagnoses that are truly causing symptoms, with potential for patient harm

57. Role of the Nurse Manager, Unit Team Lead
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    July 07, 2012 - safety and quality through their leadership Nurse managers support nursing staff in preventing patient harm … scores and action to improve Staff involvement in analyzing defects and developing plans to address harm

58. Module 5: Visual Management - Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - The top center has key measures including number of procedures since last harm event and near miss. … To start with, you can track key outcome measures, including days since last harm event and days since … Agree on a clear definition of both harm and “near miss” so that your tracking is consistent over time … You may choose to start with only a couple of items, such as a measure of last harm together with a visual

59. Overview of Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care Principal Investigator:  Eric J. … multimethod trigger-based, prospective clinical surveillance system to detect all-cause preventable harm … Implementing a robust process improvement program in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce harm … Creating a comprehensive, unit-based approach to detecting and preventing harm in the neonatal intensive … Transdisciplinary Learning Lab to Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste Principal Investigator:

60. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - can be used by any healthcare organization interested in promoting diagnostic excellence and reducing harm … Call to Action Diagnostic Safety Issue Brief #5: Despite the enormous financial cost and patient harm