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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ten-years-later-alarm-fatigue-still-safety-concern
October 25, 2023 - Clinical approaches include customization of alert parameters to reduce nonactionable alarms, while … engineering solutions include reducing the volume or adjusting the tone of auditory alerts.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/transformation-through-collaboration-2018-2019-mha-keystone-center-annual-report
September 26, 2016 - The achievements noted in the 2022-2023 data review include reduction both fall and blood- or blood-product … Areas of focus for improvement work reported on include health equity , workforce wellbeing, and maternal
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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/veterans-health-administration-stratification-tool-opioid-risk-mitigation-storm-shows
October 30, 2024 - Note that the target population does not include patients with OUD in medication-assisted treatment ( … STORM is one of several VHA overdose prevention initiatives that include the distribution of naloxone … Teams must include a facility lead and representation from the facility’s substance abuse disorder (SUD … Key features include the following:
Data that populates a clinical decision support tool that is … Case reviews are conducted by an interdisciplinary team and include follow-up to ensure a treatment plan
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ten-principles-more-conservative-care-full-diagnosis
August 04, 2021 - Recommendation highlights include a renewed focus on history-taking and physician examination, as discussed … May 1, 2019
How often do prescribers include indications in drug orders?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/indication-documentation-and-indication-based-prescribing-within-electronic-prescribing
December 18, 2019 - Requiring a prescriber to include an indication for a medication can reduce the risk of wrong-patient … This review identified 21 studies describing interventions to encourage prescribers to include indications
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fda-safety-communication-caution-when-using-robotically-assisted-surgical-devices-womens
September 01, 2021 - Recommendations for patients who may seek to have robotically assisted surgery include asking about their … Suggestions for health care providers include completing specialized training on procedures they perform
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/barriers-and-facilitators-bedside-nursing-handover-systematic-review-and-meta-synthesis
August 25, 2021 - Benefits include humanization of the patient and improved patient safety; barriers include provider
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/listening-women-recommendations-women-color-improve-experiences-pregnancy-and-birth-care
August 12, 2019 - Recommendations for providers include the inclusion of patients as partners in decision making and … Recommendations for health care systems include implicit bias training and education to reduce judgment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-and-caregiver-perspectives-causes-and-prevention-ambulatory-adverse-events
November 24, 2021 - Adverse event (AE) investigations typically only include organizational or regulatory professionals … Themes identified include: (1) patients and teams have specific safety responsibilities; (2) proactive
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39946/psn-pdf
October 20, 2023 - The achievements noted in the 2022-2023 data review include reduction both fall
and blood- or blood-product … Areas of focus for improvement work reported on include health equity, workforce wellbeing, and maternal
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45607/psn-pdf
July 14, 2019 - The materials include information on collaborative projects led by the Duke
Patient Safety Center and … Current areas of emphasis include building resilience
and joy in practice.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47803/psn-pdf
October 07, 2021 - User-related problems include opening of the staple line, misapplied staples, and staple gun
difficulties … Recommendations include ensuring availability of various staple sizes and avoiding use of
staples on
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50921/psn-pdf
February 19, 2020 - factors in retail pharmacy environment that degrade pharmacists’ ability to safely practice, which include … Strategies highlighted to mitigate the problem
that have been inconsistently applied include scheduled
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/839326/psn-pdf
November 02, 2022 - This article
discusses factors that contribute to medication errors and smart pumps, which include out-of-date … Recommendations for improvement include the
creation, testing, and updating of drug libraries.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/use-strategies-high-reliability-organisations-patient-hand-resident-physicians-practical
July 02, 2014 - The integral components of an effective signout include providing accurate and updated information, … Unfortunately, this mixed-methods study found that most resident handoffs did not include these key elements
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-patient-safety
March 03, 2011 - The authors found that safety research does not uniformly include ethnically diverse populations or adjust … improve characterization of the role disparities play in adverse events, the authors call for research to include
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/does-full-disclosure-medical-errors-affect-malpractice-liability-jury-still-out
November 16, 2011 - Notable factors suggested from the literature include poor communication with patients, the presence … May 20, 2015
Disclosure-and-resolution programs that include generous compensation offers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/good-practice-guides-medication-errors-part-1-and-part-2
August 03, 2016 - Recommendations include expanding the definition of adverse reaction to include medication errors
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/848088/psn-pdf
April 26, 2023 - Safety recommendations include changes in medical education on how to handle
uncertainty in clinical … settings and amending dialysis guidelines to include risk of air embolus associated
with unclamped
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/853610/psn-pdf
September 20, 2023 - Clinical approaches include customization of alert parameters to reduce
nonactionable alarms, while … engineering solutions include reducing the volume or adjusting the tone of
auditory alerts.