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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safety-nicu-preventing-medication-errors-computerized-provider-order-entry
March 08, 2017 - July 14, 2021
Communication techniques for patients with low health literacy: a survey … April 1, 2024
Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions. … August 4, 2010
Effect of antiseptic handwashing vs alcohol sanitizer on health care-associated
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/understanding-role-facility-design-acquisition-and-prevention-healthcare-associated
March 28, 2018 - AHRQ-funded efforts to reveal how designing around space and human factors can reduce the spread of health … December 30, 2014
Health Literacy Research: Current Status and Future Directions. … September 29, 2017
Salzburg Global Seminar Session 565—Better Health Care: How Do We … December 29, 2014
Around the Patient Bed: Human Factors and Safety in Health Care. … June 9, 2011
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December 24, 2008 - Health care–associated infections are a known contributor to adverse events among patients on dialysis … December 10, 2024
AHRQ Health Information Technology Research: 2018 Year in Review. … October 23, 2019
Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry: Findings from the AHRQ Health … February 12, 2019
Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety: Responding to Ebola and Other … April 15, 2015
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March 07, 2018 - This news article describes barriers to addressing disruptive behaviors in health care such as clinician … February 17, 2011
To improve health care, focus on fixing systems — not people. … July 8, 2015
Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary. … October 7, 2008
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/just-cup-tea-introduction-seips-framework
January 31, 2018 - Epsom, UK: National Health Service; March 21, 2023. … Epsom, UK: National Health Service; March 21, 2023. … Epsom, UK: National Health Service; March 21, 2023. … Copy Citation
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/analysis-reported-drug-interactions-recipe-harm-patients
January 20, 2016 - October 7, 2015
Errors originating in hospital and health-system outpatient pharmacies … March 27, 2018
Medication errors attributed to health information technology. … January 16, 2019
Health literacy and patient safety events. … April 16, 2018
Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health … December 9, 2015
DOD and VA Health Care: Medication Needs During Transitions May Not
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/advancing-anticoagulation-stewardship-playbook
March 23, 2012 - November 15, 2022
National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. … September 28, 2022
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of … September 12, 2018
Complexity and the Adoption of Innovation in Health Care. … November 15, 2011
Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary. … July 12, 2023
Roadmap to Health Care Safety for Massachusetts.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pediatric-safety
March 08, 2015 - Hospitals & health networks. 2009;83(5):8 p following 32, 2. … Hospitals & health networks . 2009; 83 (5) :8 p following 32, 2 . … Hospitals & health networks. 2009;83(5):8 p following 32, 2. … March 24, 2017
Health literacy and patient safety events. … April 1, 2003
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/beyond-quick-fix-strategies-improving-patient-safety
March 14, 2018 - Toronto, ON: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; 2015. … Toronto, ON: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; 2015. … Toronto, ON: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; 2015. … April 28, 2021
Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary. … September 30, 2015
Improving Diagnosis in Health Care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49703/psn-pdf
March 01, 2014 - disease-specific
information appropriate to their levels of health literacy and language capacities … Electronic health records (EHRs) and associated e-health tools have all been developed to foster patient … Pathways linking
clinician–patient communication to health outcomes. … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-edward-kelley-phd
December 01, 2014 - We have enough trouble getting people to come to our health centers and our health facilities to get … literacy. … But we'll still have to do a big investment in terms of building some of that health care literacy around … Health services for patient safety
5. Health care–associated infections
6. … Health care worker protection
7. Health care waste management
8.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33695/psn-pdf
April 01, 2010 - literacy. … To Err Is Human: Building A Safer Health System. … NQF endorses 30 universal health care safe practices. Am J Health Syst Pharm.
2003;60:1078-1079. … Issue Brief Cent
Stu Health Syst Change. 2004;77:1-6. [go to PubMed]
16. … Hosp Health Netw. 2007;81:26-27. [go
to PubMed]
18.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49434/psn-pdf
February 01, 2004 - literacy, or may face bias and discrimination within the health care system.(2,3) Even when
symptoms … Am J Public Health. … Health insurance coverage and utilization of
health services by Mexican Americans, mainland Puerto Ricans … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/transition-nowhere
March 21, 2009 - Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services … Care transitions is a hot topic in health care, with innovations in health care policy and payment reform … literacy, lack of access to a telephone or transportation, functional deficits, sensory deficits impeding … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-beverley-h-johnson
February 01, 2013 - literacy and mental status and language and all those things. … The acuity and severity of illness, delirium, dementia, low health literacy, and cultural factors all … Health Expect. 2007;10:259-267. [go to PubMed]
16. … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ismps-safe-medicine
January 26, 2023 - January 26, 2023
Deep Dive: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Healthcare. … 20, 2019
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Be an Active Member of Your Health Care Team.
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July 08, 2022 - crises.2 Not surprisingly, vulnerable populations with limited health
care access have the lowest rates … literacy, or are unhoused
or incarcerated.3
Unfortunately, the common practice is to discuss goals … Garima Agrawal, MD, MPH
Associate Physician Diplomate
Division of Hospital Medicine
UC Davis Health … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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February 26, 2025 - , as well as six multi-part questions, and it is designed to be accessible to lower literacy populations … Department of Health and Human Services. … The “Behavioral Health Vital Signs” initiative. … Womens Health Issues. 2015;25(3):193-197. … IPV Health. 2018. Accessed April 28, 2021.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49815/psn-pdf
December 01, 2017 - literacy, cognitive
impairment, nonavailability of the patient's primary caregiver at the time of medication … reconciliation, and
transfer from another health care institution with suboptimal transfer of information … Or they may assume that these substances simply promote general health and will not
have any impact … Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33845/psn-pdf
November 01, 2017 - Professor in the Information School with an adjunct appointment in the
Division of Biomedical and Health … literacy level of an average patient. … Many attribute it to their
electronic health records. Some of it is the clunkiness of it. … That will be a big change in both the technologies for health and probably in the way health is delivered … They will be a
forcing function in ways that health policies haven't been quite as effective.