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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/look-back-and-talk-openly-responding-and-communicating-about-risk-large-scale-error-pathology
November 16, 2016 - The situation arose when a routine peer review in Australia identified one pathologist as having an unusually … This prompted review of more than 7000 cases by independent pathologists who identified clinically significant
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identification-priorities-improvement-medication-safety-primary-care-prioritize-study
October 05, 2016 - The top three problems identified included incomplete medication reconciliation during a transition … Download Citation
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unit-based-incident-reporting-and-root-cause-analysis-variation-three-hospital-unit-types
April 14, 2011 - reporting systems and root cause analyses remain the main mechanisms by which adverse events are identified … While similar safety issues and root causes were identified across all units and services, medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/electronic-health-record-based-triggers-detect-potential-delays-cancer-diagnosis
January 19, 2012 - The algorithm identified patients with elevated prostate-specific antigen levels, positive fecal occult … The American Medical Association has identified better follow-up of abnormal test results as a key area
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-and-public-involvement-healthcare-systematic-mapping-review-systematic-reviews
August 24, 2016 - The review identified 37 systematic reviews on PPI in healthcare decision-making; three of these focused … Adverse events, readmissions, and mortality were commonly studied outcomes in the identified reviews
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/comparing-outcomes-reporting-and-trigger-tool-methods-capture-adverse-events-emergency
May 04, 2017 - Of the 285 adverse events identified during the study period, 77.2% were captured by reporting systems … August 4, 2010
Identified safety risks with splitting and crushing oral medications.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41355/psn-pdf
April 05, 2013 - infections, adverse drug events, retained foreign bodies after surgery,
and wrong-site surgery), but identified … Based on this
limited dataset, the authors identified 4 cost-effective safety interventions, including
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36753/psn-pdf
April 30, 2014 - The investigators identified 149 errors in 93 patients, associated with a high risk of clinical adverse … Errors were identified
at every point of the process, from the transplant team to the pharmacy to the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39800/psn-pdf
January 19, 2011 - This prospective cohort study of six outpatient practices identified more than 1200 medication errors … Their findings suggest that e-
prescribing may effectively address many of the issues identified, particularly
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45473/psn-pdf
April 24, 2018 - This retrospective study analyzed all PSIs
identified by standard algorithms over a 1-year period at … A review team
reversed 185 of the 657 PSIs initially identified, citing the two main reasons for reversal
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49601/psn-pdf
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was consulted and, after removing the tampons, they identified the posterior nasopharynx … When no source can be identified anteriorly, nasal endoscopy should be considered. … Once the source of the bleeding has been identified, cauterization, either chemical with silver nitrate … In certain
patients, the source cannot be identified or the bleeding is diffuse, which is more often … First, the
bleeding source must be accurately identified and treated.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-470
December 31, 2024 - This systematic review of 267 clinical guidelines identified 4,666 perioperative patient safety recommendations … the authors noted that only a small subset of recommendations met high methodological standards and identified … This integrative review of missed opportunities to diagnose cancer identified "closing the loop" as a … the authors noted that only a small subset of recommendations met high methodological standards and identified … The analysis identified barriers to speaking up, such as hierarchical structures and poor work environment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45207/psn-pdf
August 17, 2016 - Incident reporting systems and root cause analyses remain the main mechanisms by which adverse events
are identified … While similar safety issues and root causes
were identified across all units and services, medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33690/psn-pdf
December 01, 2009 - We and other investigators
identified that these high-risk physicians do not treat sicker or more suit-prone … And once a physician is identified, walk
us through what happens in your system. … There needs to be a written plan to define expectations for the high-risk physician, what the identified … Unfortunately, we now have many
circumstances in which we've identified individuals at one institution … We believe that whenever variation is identified by
whatever surveillance system, you apply the same
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/communicating-findings-delayed-diagnostic-evaluation-primary-care-providers
June 21, 2016 - In this study, investigators identified specific abnormal test results requiring follow-up and tested … Laboratory test ordering and results management systems: a qualitative study of safety risks identified
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42498/psn-pdf
December 30, 2014 - The algorithm identified patients with elevated
prostate-specific antigen levels, positive fecal occult … The American Medical
Association has identified better follow-up of abnormal test results as a key area
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43814/psn-pdf
June 21, 2015 - improving-hand-hygiene-eight-hospitals-united-states-targeting-specific-
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Although appropriate handwashing has been identified … Each hospital investigated and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39438/psn-pdf
March 23, 2011 - This review of 17 published studies identified
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41133/psn-pdf
December 29, 2014 - The situation arose when a routine peer review in Australia
identified one pathologist as having an … This prompted review of
more than 7000 cases by independent pathologists who identified clinically significant
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41557/psn-pdf
August 01, 2012 - These six laboratory values have been previously identified as having high
positive predictive value … However, in this study, 1342 triggers—representing 622 unique
episodes—led to only 91 identified ADEs