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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_learn_from_defects_facnotes.docx
December 01, 2017 - A defect can be a specific harm to a patient. … 2) What can you do to prevent this harm or SSI? … ASK:
Can you give an example of a patient harm? … ASK:
Did the factor increase the harm or the risk for harm or decrease it? … What can I do to prevent that harm?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/safety/changes-slides.pptx
November 01, 2019 - Identify relevant factors that could improve antibiotic use
Identify interventions to reduce future harm … 10
Antibiotic-related adverse events are events that either caused harm or had the potential to cause … harm. … patient (want to change these)
Positive contributing factors – Factors that limited the impact of harm … Work with all relevant team members to determine solutions to prevent future harm.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/action-alliance-webinar-june-2024.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Way
Safer
Together
Team
of
Teams
Key Factors
• Relentless Pursuit of the Vision of Zero Harm … then North America
Solutions for Patient Safety
OUR MISSION:
Working together
to eliminate serious harm … 1,627
HAC Teams
Support & Commitment from
140+
Organizational Executives
The SPS Journey Toward Zero Harm … • Receive assessment and training tools
to support local efforts to reduce
diagnostic harm. … Pictures
Collaboration: Ohio and then North America
Children’s Hospitals
The SPS Journey Toward Zero Harm
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/sheridan_screening_overuse.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Stacey Sheridan, MD MPH
AHRQ Grant Number: P01 HS021133
It is just a screening test; what is the harm … While many
screening tests are beneficial, some do more harm than good. … How can a screening test cause harm? … educational materials we learned that:
Fewer than half of patients recognize that screening can cause harm
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-3.html
August 01, 2023 - addition, leading organizations in pediatric safety have begun efforts to educate about, study, and reduce harm … Care . 60 Nonetheless, MDOs occur even in this setting designed to identify new diagnoses well before harm … diagnoses, rarer and atypical presentations may go unrecognized, exposing patients to more risk of harm … visits. 81 Overall, the existing literature suggests that identifying, learning from, and reducing harm … these observations into effective and feasible interventions that can prevent misdiagnosis-related harm
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Schyve.pdf
April 27, 2005 - This should
come as no surprise, given that “first, do no harm” has been the ethical watchword
throughout … of
techniques that we might employ to bring reality closer to the ideal of doing no
(preventable) harm … The realization of the magnitude of this failure and that there are potential
routes to reducing harm … Even today, preventable patient harm is too often
associated with error—usually human error—both within … How can we intervene to prevent harm from
unintended consequences?
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0901.html
October 01, 2014 - New York City Uses AHRQ Patient Safety Culture Survey to Reduce Patient Harm
Search All Impact Case … multi-year campaign to improve the culture of safety across the organization and reduce chances for patient harm
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps/webinars/2013-materials/teamstepps-monthly-webinar-oct2013.pptx
January 01, 2013 - Types of Physical Harm Experienced From Adverse Events by English-Speaking and
LEP Patients
English … Percent
Types of Physical Harm Experienced From Adverse Events by English-Speaking and LEP Patients … 366 (46.1%) 89 (40.1%)
No harm 194 (24.4%) 24 (10.8%)
No detectable harm 177 (22.3%) 58 (26.1%)
Minimal … temporary harm 46 (5.8%) 43 (19.4%)
Moderate temporary harm 7 (0.9%) 7 (3.2%)
Severe temporary harm … Percent
Types of Physical Harm Experienced from Adverse Events by English Speaking and LEP Patients
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module1/grand-rounds-presentation-slides.pptx
January 01, 2014 - Some organizations struggle to improve the way they and their care teams respond to medical harm. … The CANDOR process aims to change that.
1
Do Less Harm Video
2
Module 1
To get started, let’s watch … Video: Do Less Harm
2
Presentation Goals
Highlight the gap between optimal response to medical injury … It is about reducing HARM.
Ask what is responsible…not who is responsible. … An understanding of the changes that have been made to prevent harm to another patient.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/naa-commitment-statement.pdf
March 12, 2024 - Alliance for
Patient and Workforce Safety
Commitment
Vision
Safe care everywhere, zero preventable harm … safety and well-being; and learning health system development toward
our vision of zero preventable harm
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Nosek.pdf
March 01, 2004 - determined that a significant number of such events do have the
potential to cause serious patient harm … error, harm includes Categories E–I events … § No harm definition: An event that reached the patient but did not result in harm.
** Harm definition … Additionally, 9 of the 10 leading “harm” drugs in the DoD data and 8 of the 10
leading “harm” drugs … Percentage of inpatient and outpatient events, stratified by harm and reported
Table 2.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/auerbach-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Errors
contributed to temporary harm, permanent harm, or death in 436 (17.8% of patients, 95% CI
15.9% … For each case with an error, we assessed the extent of the error's contribution to patient
harm using … the NCC-MERP scale, which provides explicit definitions of harm (e.g., considering
an error to have … was judged to have contributed to temporary
harm, permanent harm, or death in 77.1% (95% CI 72.3%-81.9% … For instance, determining the potential for patient harm based on the timing of test
results and the
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/prevention-chronic-care/decision/research-centers/new_model_thinking.pdf
February 01, 2014 - help save lives, but not everyone realizes that preventive services
also have the potential to cause harm … preventive services to be of value, the
potential for benefit must be greater than the potential for harm
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/index.html
August 01, 2022 - practitioners can use to respond in a timely, thorough, and just way when unexpected events cause patient harm … A traditional approach when unexpected harm occurs often follows a "deny-and-defend" strategy, providing
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-4.html
June 01, 2020 - data gathering, HCOs have a variety of options to begin measurement to reduce preventable diagnostic harm … any setting to assess how they could begin their journey to measure and reduce preventable diagnostic harm
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/patientsafety/qdr2016-ptschartbook.pdf
July 19, 2017 - Conditions
Near-Miss Patient Event,
No Harm
Patient Event,
Harm
N
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Ev
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ts … Common Types of Event and Harm:
■ Events that reached the patient—with or without harm—were … of patient
harm is known. … “High harm” refers to the number of patient safety event reports submitted to CHPSO with severe harm … of patient
harm is known.
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/overview/contact.html
June 01, 2024 - helping to realize the National Action Alliance's vision of safe care everywhere and zero preventable harm
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - harm. 1
Image: Man wearing jeans and orange/black striped T-shirt sitting with hands raised to chin … What can you do to prevent or minimize this harm? … or risk of harm, decreased it, or was not applicable. … or risk of harm, decreased it, or was not applicable. … or risk of harm, decreased it, or was not applicable.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules.html
August 01, 2022 - practitioners can use to respond in a timely, thorough, and just way when unexpected events cause patient harm … Organizational Learning and Sustainability
“We realize mistakes happen, and we can forgive that; but you harm … Generally, the CANDOR process begins with identification of an event that involves harm.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/visual/visual-mgmt.pptx
May 01, 2017 - Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability
Key outcome measures
Days since last harm … 221
Werner 111
Carletta 221
Safety training chart Date Revised
Number of
Procedures since
last harm … Date Opportunity Action Results
Smith ASC Excellence in Safety: No Harm … Keep track of count of procedures since last harm incident each day update the board. … ###1
Ardella Ruffo A16:00
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Safety Check
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Our Surgery Center “Excellence in Safety: No Harm