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  1. A clinician's guide to surgical fires: how they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out. | PSNet

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    March 12, 2025 - Commentary A clinician's guide to surgical fires: how they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out. Citation Text: A clinician's guide to surgical fires. How they occur, how to prevent them, how to put them out. Health Devices. 2003;32(1):5-24. Copy Citation Format: …

  2. Research Summary | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-summary
    January 01, 2018 - Research Summary Overview AHRQ’s Health Information Technology (IT) Program’s mission is directly aligned with the overall AHRQ mission. Through rigorous research, AHRQ generates the ground-breaking knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve health system performance and health out…

  3. How to make surgery safer. | PSNet

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    August 17, 2016 - Newspaper/Magazine Article How to make surgery safer. Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL February 25, 2015 View more articles from the same authors. This newspaper…

  4. Submit Your Toolkit | PSNet

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    Breadcrumb Home Improvement Resources Toolkits Toolkit Submissions PSNet encourages healthcare-related organizations to help make care safer by submitting a Patient Safety Toolkit to support the implementation of products, services, processes, systems, policies, organizational stru…

  5. Safety in numbers. | PSNet

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    November 11, 2015 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Safety in numbers. Citation Text: Safety in numbers. Robeznieks A. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL December 2…

  6. Antibiotic-Use-Commitment-Poster (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/safety/antibiotic-use-commitment-poster.docx
    November 01, 2019 - AHRQ Pub. No. 17(20)-0028-EF November 2019 Our institution is committed to prescribing the most appropriate antibiotics when they are needed and to not prescribing antibiotics when they are not needed. Please ask a member of your medical team if you have any questions about antibiotics. Thank you! Antibiotics are lif…

  7. Learning Management System. | PSNet

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    April 30, 2024 - Multi-use Website Learning Management System. Citation Text: Learning Management System. Patient Safety Authority. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL …

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 17, 2017 - Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and catheter- associated infections: results of two national collaboratives. October 17, 2017 Meddings J, Reichert H, Greene T, et al. Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (H…

  9. U.S. inaction lets look-alike tubes kill patients. | PSNet

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    September 01, 2008 - Newspaper/Magazine Article U.S. inaction lets look-alike tubes kill patients. Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL September 1, 2010 View more articles from the same aut…

  10. Hospital bracelets face hurdles as they fix hazard. | PSNet

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    August 15, 2012 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Hospital bracelets face hurdles as they fix hazard. Citation Text: Hospital bracelets face hurdles as they fix hazard. Hartocollis A. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook …

  11. When doctors make mistakes. | PSNet

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    September 07, 2016 - Newspaper/Magazine Article When doctors make mistakes. Citation Text: When doctors make mistakes. Burleigh N. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL …

  12. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    July 01, 2025 - Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare Background In 2015, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report titled Improving Diagnosis in Health Care . This report was a continuation of two previously published reports from the Ins…

  13. Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients In Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients In Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings Transitions of care among ambulatory sites are vulnerable to patient safety gaps. Patients who transition from one ambulatory care facility clinician to another are especially vulnerable to patient safety errors. This is due, in…

  14. The Importance of MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/importance.html
    October 01, 2024 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs The Importance of MRSA Prevention Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents MRSA Prevention Toolkit: ICUs & Non-ICUs The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention The Importance of MRSA Prevention Decolonization Tools & Resources for Decolonization Too…

  15. Swiss Cheese Model | PSNet

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    September 13, 2021 - Swiss Cheese Model September 13, 2021 Anonymous (not verified) Reason developed the "Swiss cheese model" to illustrate how analyses of major accidents and catastrophic systems failures tend to reveal multiple, smaller failures leading up to the actual hazard. In the model, each slice of cheese represents a safe…

  16. Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. | PSNet

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    June 11, 2014 - Book/Report Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Citation Text: Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2011. Copy Cit…

  17. Braidwood-Bulletin-033023 (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/braidwood-bulletin-033023.pdf
    March 30, 2023 - www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Statement in Response to the Braidwood v. Becerra Ruling WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 30, 2023 – The following statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in response to the Braidwood v. Becerra ruling can be attributed to Ta…

  18. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/index.html
    June 01, 2025 - Practice Improvement AHRQ develops, tests and shares resources and strategies to assist health systems and clinicians deliver high-quality, safe, high-value healthcare. These evidence-based tools, toolkits, and training resources can help clinicians address challenging changes in medical practice and deliver th…

  19. Organisation Patient Safety Incident Reports. | PSNet

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    October 26, 2007 - Multi-use Website Organisation Patient Safety Incident Reports. Citation Text: Organisation Patient Safety Incident Reports. National Patient Safety Agency Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitte…

  20. Tennessee Center for Patient Safety. | PSNet

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    May 03, 2023 - Multi-use Website Tennessee Center for Patient Safety. Citation Text: Tennessee Center for Patient Safety. Tennessee Center for Patient Safety. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter …
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