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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/becoming-high-reliability-organization
May 04, 2015 - Special or Theme Issue
Becoming a High Reliability Organization. … High reliability attainment is a stated goal for health care organizations. … March 4, 2015
Evaluating the Patient Safety Indicators: how well do they perform on Veterans … prevent a recurrence of patient safety incidents: an observational study. … improvement: findings from six case studies.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/examining-impact-ahrq-patient-safety-indicators-psis-veterans-health-administration-case
December 15, 2011 - This finding corroborates a prior study in surgical patients. … Author(s)
Validating the Patient Safety Indicators in the Veterans Health Administration: do … December 15, 2014
Partnering with VA stakeholders to develop a comprehensive patient … June 20, 2011
How hospitals select their patient safety priorities: an exploratory study … February 10, 2012
How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/or-peeping
May 01, 2015 - The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations do not protect privacy for … the patient's recently bereaved family members in a waiting room, continues to be discussed in a variety … Our solution to this conundrum—how to take advantage of the usefulness of video without compromising … Cognitive properties of a whiteboard: A case study in a trauma center. … March 2, 2011
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/putting-patient-patient-safety-investigations-barriers-and-strategies-involvement
June 23, 2021 - May 1, 2019
A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … December 3, 2014
Case studies of patient safety research classics to build research capacity … September 17, 2010
So many ways to be wrong: completeness and accuracy in a prospective … August 17, 2022
How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 … A new documentary explores what happens when they do—and how to fix it.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-house-officers-cope-their-mistakes
June 26, 2015 - In this article, the authors report on how house officers cope with their medical mistakes and how different … RIS
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Do … to patients. … September 19, 2016
How accurately do older adult emergency department patients recall … : Why A Thorough Psychosocial History Can Improve Care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/structured-judgement-method-enhance-mortality-case-note-review-development-and-evaluation
May 27, 2011 - A structured judgement method to enhance mortality case note review: development and evaluation. … According to this study, retrospective case note review using a structured approach and a standardized … March 28, 2011
A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … October 9, 2013
What do hospital staff in the UK think are the causes of penicillin medication … January 30, 2013
How dangerous is a day in hospital?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/print/pdf/node/845971
January 01, 2024 - From board to bedside: how the application of financial structures to safety and quality can drive
accountability … First, Do No Harm: Value-driven Patient Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Jochen Profit, MD, … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/first-do-no-harm-value-driven-patient-safety-neonatal-intensive-care-unit … First, Do No Harm: Value-driven Patient Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/exploration-rapid-response-team-model-care-descriptive-dual-methods-study
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Save to … Rapid response team (RRT) activations bring together a team of providers to immediately assess and treat … Qualitative interviews with nurses and physicians highlighted how the collaborative RRT model improves … July 20, 2022
How do nurses use early warning scoring systems to detect and act on patient … deterioration to ensure patient safety?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/diagnosing-missed-diagnosis
October 26, 2022 - Reilly, MD, MS, and Christopher Webster, DO | March 1, 2017
View more articles from the same authors … be disproportionately influenced by how a problem is described, by whom it is described, or even the … disease states) Promote knowledge of atypical presentations of disease Symptom-based Reading Case … reports (e.g., NEJM series) Flash card review to build clinical knowledge base Raising awareness … April 8, 2018
Teaching about how doctors think: a longitudinal curriculum in cognitive
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33691/psn-pdf
December 01, 2009 - what we could do to make things
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/regret-among-primary-care-physicians-survey-diagnostic-decisions
November 13, 2019 - patients (e.g., regular blood glucose tests may have prevented a stroke that likely occurred due to … Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Thresholds, rules and defensive strategies: how … January 19, 2022
Blackbox error management: how do practices deal with critical incidents … A qualitative interview study. … September 23, 2020
Signs and symptoms to determine if a patient presenting in primary
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/first-do-no-harm-practitioners-ability-diagnose-system-weaknesses-and-improve-safety-critical
March 03, 2021 - Commentary
First do no harm: practitioners' ability to 'diagnose' system weaknesses … First do no harm: practitioners’ ability to ‘diagnose’ system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical … First do no harm: practitioners’ ability to ‘diagnose’ system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical … to do no harm: empowering local leaders to make care safer in low-resource settings. … January 12, 2022
How to do no harm: empowering local leaders to make care safer in low-resource
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hand-hygiene-compliance-patient-safety
October 19, 2022 - This commentary relates how hand hygiene compliance contributes to infection prevention and safe care … What can we do about it? … January 14, 2011
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. … January 4, 2019
Case study: preventing surgical complications at Baystate Medical Center … February 19, 2014
As she lay dying: how I fought to stop medical errors from killing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/sensemaking-and-co-production-safety-qualitative-study-primary-medical-care-patients
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Trust, temporality and systems: how do patients understand patient safety … A qualitative study. … theatre case study. … general practice: ethnographic case study.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/Webmm/submit-case-info
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/malpractice-claims-related-diagnostic-errors-hospital
September 16, 2020 - Citation Text:
Gupta A, Snyder A, Kachalia A, et al. … RIS
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Mind the overlap: how system problems contribute to cognitive failure … October 11, 2023
Checklists to reduce diagnostic error: a systematic review of the literature … July 9, 2018
Do written disclosures of serious events increase risk of malpractice claims
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/systematic-biases-group-decision-making-implications-patient-safety
July 24, 2024 - These four concepts can serve as a theoretical framework for future empiric work to characterize and … RIS
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Why do acute healthcare staff behave unprofessionally towards each other … and how can these behaviours be reduced? … addressing disruptive physician behavior: a composite case study.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/allergy-holter
May 01, 2008 - The Commentary
Do your patients understand you? … Holter" case demonstrates how literate patients can have inadequate health literacy. … individuals will make errors, that errors will do harm, or both" ( 5 ) —appear to favor a recurrence … AHRQ's recommended 11 top patient safety practices based on strength of scientific evidence.( 19 )
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reducing-disruptive-effects-interruption-cognitive-framework-analysing-costs-and-benefits
September 11, 2013 - This article explains how interruptions affect cognition and how disruption may lead to errors. … patient internet portal to prevent adverse drug events: a randomized, controlled trial. … September 1, 2016
Do medical inpatients who report poor service quality experience more … case study. … July 1, 2017
New technology, new errors: how to prime an upgrade of an insulin infusion
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/weaving-healthcare-tapestry-safety-and-communication
September 29, 2017 - This commentary describes how a medical-surgical unit developed an initiative that combined nursing theory … , compassion, clinical nurse leadership, and crew resource management to bolster implementation of a … September 25, 2024
Organizational learning starting points and presuppositions: a case … study from a hospital’s surgical department. … November 19, 2014
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