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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49387/psn-pdf
February 01, 2003 - He was scheduled to
receive a dose of IV haloperidol at 7AM. … accounts
for about 15% of all inpatients at UCSF) to see how often there were identical last names over … It
is also important to remember that these 'flukes' do happen, and the thousands of medication
administrations … If the codes do not match, the nurse is alerted to the
possibility of an error. … Do not allow patients with similar or the same names to be placed in the same room (ideally, they
would
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-maureen-bisognano
February 26, 2025 - How did the work change when To Err Is Human came out and all of a sudden it became a big national … And, "How do we best deal with them?" … How much of that do you see as an enabler? … How do you navigate that? … How do you think about that?
MB : There's a formula that I walk around with in my head.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49450/psn-pdf
June 01, 2004 - Clinicians may appreciate that error disclosure is "the right thing to do" but experience
insurmountable … Patients especially value understanding how
an error happened and how recurrences will be prevented, … Determining exactly how an error happened
and formulating a plan for preventing recurrences can be especially … Do house officers learn from their mistakes? JAMA.
1991;265:2089-94.[ go to PubMed ]
10. … Why do people sue doctors? A study of patients and relatives taking
legal action.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33747/psn-pdf
March 01, 2013 - the opportunity it provides to
rehearse skills in a risk-free environment, to engage in repeated and … Having established that simulation works, the next question may be, How does simulation compare with … This raises a third question: Why are some simulation interventions better than others (and
how can … faculty time, training expenses, facility
fees, and opportunity costs (i.e., what else could trainees do … However, much remains to be learned about how to optimally implement simulation-based education.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/maternal-safety
January 10, 2024 - Patient Safety Threats and Challenges As research evolves and begins to recognize nationally how historic … hear the stories and threats to safety and understand how to provide consistently safe access and equitable … or do not receive the right care quickly enough in an emergency. … Deaths: A Guide for Moving Maternal Mortality Review Committee Data to Action to help organizations … The cycle to respectful care: a qualitative approach to the creation of an actionable framework to address
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withsteven-j-spear-dba-ms-ms
August 01, 2009 - what to do is a profound misunderstanding. … So if a nurse goes to pour meds and there's a med missing, what does she do? … and they kept saying, "How do we engage the front line?" … The way to phrase the reform question is: How do you provide better care to more people in less time … What can organizations do to move from a workaround culture to a culture that uses operational failures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49467/psn-pdf
December 01, 2004 - a reticent patient with a
question like: "What do you mean by 'weak'?" … Even in the absence of technology,
many patients know how, or can be quickly taught, to take their pulse … should do if the weakness
persisted or increased, or what other symptoms should prompt a call. … he still was weak, or called
the patient back a few hours later to see how he felt. … The question should be
whether the patient needs emergency evaluation, and if not, to determine how
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/five-system-barriers-achieving-ultrasafe-health-care
September 29, 2017 - not at a calculated and accepted risk. … September 29, 2017
Adverse events in medicine: easy to count, complicated to understand … , and complex to prevent. … a taxonomy of adaptive strategies. … November 6, 2024
How to do no harm: empowering local leaders to make care safer in low-resource
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/does-app-day-keep-doctor-away-ai-symptom-checker-applications-entrenched-bias-and
March 14, 2018 - Commentary
Does an app a day keep the doctor away? … Does an app a day keep the doctor away? … This article discusses AI-powered symptom check apps and how implicit and explicit biases (e.g., health … Does an app a day keep the doctor away? … May 15, 2024
To do no harm - and the most good - with AI in health care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/multidisciplinary-approaches-reducing-error-and-risk-patient-care-setting
January 05, 2017 - Multidisciplinary approaches to reducing error and risk in a patient care setting. … The authors share how a single adverse event catalyzed 7 years of efforts to bring patient safety to … Multidisciplinary approaches to reducing error and risk in a patient care setting. … January 2, 2017
A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … January 28, 2010
WebM&M Cases
Do Not Disturb!
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-diagnostic-collaborators-sharing-visit-notes-promote-accuracy-and-safety
April 15, 2020 - This commentary summarizes research on how sharing notes with patients can improve the timeliness of … follow-up to confirm a diagnosis, identify documentation errors , and strengthen communication between … A PSNet interview discussed use of OpenNotes to engage patients in their care. … June 7, 2023
COVID-19 and open notes: a new method to enhance patient safety and trust … December 18, 2014
Do patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867986/psn-pdf
March 24, 2025 - If they are positive, how often do we reassess their risk to monitor them over time? … They
have been using evidence-based screenings, they have trained their personnel on how to do a good … This will clearly delineate how
to do the screening, when to do the screening, what screener you are … Make sure everyone on the team is trained and practiced in how to do it. … do and are well-trained in how to do it.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49728/psn-pdf
March 01, 2015 - month, this can add up to a significant
hazard. … to a
barcode medication administration (BCMA) system. … ,
therefore, considered to have a minimal impact. … How many hospital pharmacy medication dispensing errors go
undetected? … The authors are solely
responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/african-partnerships-patient-safety-lessons-learned
December 01, 2014 - How do we roll out programs that are relevant across the board for those scale variations within the … How do you even begin thinking about that issue of scale and spread given the size and variation in your … have the same issues around staff motivation, too many patients, how to get people to do the right thing … How important is it to have an internationally recognized champion to give these programs a face? … So is that part of what we're trying to do, and if we are, how does that infrastructure get built?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/antibiotic-and-opioid-stewardship-dentistry
December 07, 2020 - how we needed to standardize the services that we were providing. … In general, dental practices also do not have access to a comprehensive electronic medical history. … If they do, do they know how to use it? … I believe that study was limited to one state, but she did do a national survey of the National Dental … For example, for a long time there's been a sink next to the dental chair, how long did it take us to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33833/psn-pdf
May 01, 2017 - How do you think that folds into this narrative about how things got out of hand with opioids? … But the right thing to do is to have a difficult conversation. … That's a reflection of how these can
be self-perpetuating. … It was a message that we were conditioned by
nature to hear because of how much we want to help people … If your goal as a doctor is to help more than
harm, we need to seriously rethink how we prescribe opioids
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/surveillance-monitoring-improve-patient-safety-acute-hospital-care-units
April 26, 2023 - Thus, finding someone unresponsive when you come in to do vital signs or give a medication happens more … Your brain is designed to do that, to filter out noise. … As far as early warning and risk scores, we do think these can be used to identify people who need to … To do that, you need to design the system to detect a deviation that’s more severe and more sustained … We know that is a vulnerability: new people not understanding the system, its rationale, and how to use
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/851568/psn-pdf
July 31, 2023 - Authors, reviewers and others in a position to control the
content of this activity are required to … Articulate how to minimize clinician bias in assessment of substance use disorders. … These medications control autonomic hyperactivity and decrease
sympathetic activation; however, they do … Free text
communication is a type of order that providers can use to instruct nurses about how to titrate … The authors are solely
responsible for this report’s contents, findings, and conclusions, which do not
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49460/psn-pdf
September 01, 2004 - error, is confronted
with the problem of if, and how, to report it. … a decision, reasoning that "It seemed wrong, but what do I know?" … This particular case emphasizes the issue of a student not knowing what to do. … their own when deciding how to report and to whom. … a case like this one, students should be oriented to an "error
ombudsman"—someone who knows how to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33703/psn-pdf
November 01, 2010 - 2,3,6-8) In this article, I will review the present state of patient safety
measurement, reflecting on how … and fail to provide information on the true rate of a particular
safety event for a given population … To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. … [go to PubMed]
10. Brown C, Hofer T, Johal A, et al. … Evaluating the patient safety indicators: how well do they perform
on Veterans Health Administration