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  1. The impacts of using community health volunteers to coach medication safety behaviors among rural elders with chronic illnesses. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impacts-using-community-health-volunteers-coach-medication-safety-behaviors-among-rural
    September 15, 2011 - Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis (HFMEA) as an effective mechanism in preventing infection

  2. Surgeon and surgical trainee experiences after adverse patient events. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surgeon-and-surgical-trainee-experiences-after-adverse-patient-events
    January 09, 2019 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection

  3. The influence of race and gender on pain management: a systematic literature review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/influence-race-and-gender-pain-management-systematic-literature-review
    December 02, 2020 - The influence of organizational context on quality improvement and patient safety efforts in infection

  4. COVID-19 has united patients and providers against institutional betrayal in health care: a battle to be heard, believed, and protected. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/covid-19-has-united-patients-and-providers-against-institutional-betrayal-health-care-battle
    June 29, 2009 - The influence of organizational context on quality improvement and patient safety efforts in infection

  5. Diagnostic errors in primary care pediatrics: Project RedDE. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-errors-primary-care-pediatrics-project-redde
    April 08, 2018 - December 2, 2015 Validating a decision tree for serious infection: diagnostic accuracy

  6. Decisions about critical events in device-related scenarios as a function of expertise. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/decisions-about-critical-events-device-related-scenarios-function-expertise
    January 02, 2017 - Systematic review: antimicrobial urinary catheters to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection

  7. Enhancing safe medication use in home care: insights from informal caregivers. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/enhancing-safe-medication-use-home-care-insights-informal-caregivers
    December 02, 2020 - July 5, 2023 Families’ experiences of central-line infection in children: a qualitative

  8. Rapid-cycle improvement during the COVID-19 pandemic: using safety reports to inform incident command. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/rapid-cycle-improvement-during-covid-19-pandemic-using-safety-reports-inform-incident-command
    August 12, 2020 - November 11, 2020 Process failures that increase the risk of infection through respiratory

  9. Educational levels of hospital nurses and surgical patient mortality. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/educational-levels-hospital-nurses-and-surgical-patient-mortality
    February 09, 2011 - June 2, 2021 Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection.

  10. Systems approach to health service design, delivery and improvement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/systems-approach-health-service-design-delivery-and-improvement-systematic-review-and-meta
    February 02, 2022 - Results and lessons from a hospital-wide initiative incentivised by delivery system reform to improve infection

  11. Safety leadership: a meta-analytic review of transformational and transactional leadership styles as antecedents of safety behaviours. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/safety-leadership-meta-analytic-review-transformational-and-transactional-leadership-styles
    June 10, 2020 - January 5, 2011 The importance of leadership in preventing healthcare–associated infection

  12. Planning for a pandemic: mitigating risk to radiation therapy service delivery in the COVID-19 era. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/planning-pandemic-mitigating-risk-radiation-therapy-service-delivery-covid-19-era
    November 11, 2020 - and the risk mitigation strategies used to enhance continuity of care while minimizing the risk of infection

  13. Medication errors in overweight and obese pediatric patients: a systematic review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-overweight-and-obese-pediatric-patients-systematic-review
    December 09, 2020 - June 30, 2021 Patient and family engagement in catheter-associated urinary tract infection

  14. National Aeronautics and Space Administration "threat and error" model applied to pediatric cardiac surgery: error cycles precede ∼85% of patient deaths. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-threat-and-error-model-applied-pediatric
    March 07, 2018 - February 14, 2024 Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection.

  15. Assisting beginners in root cause analysis operations: analysis and recommendations regarding the spread of COVID-19 in nursing facilities for the elderly. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assisting-beginners-root-cause-analysis-operations-analysis-and-recommendations-regarding
    June 08, 2022 - Residing in Nursing Homes February 24, 2022 Nursing homes fined for COVID infection

  16. Fall prevention implementation strategies in use at 60 United States hospitals: a descriptive study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-implementation-strategies-use-60-united-states-hospitals-descriptive-study
    November 11, 2020 - deterioration and hospital‐acquired complications in adult patients with isolation precautions for infection

  17. Preventability of hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventability-hospital-acquired-venous-thromboembolism
    December 21, 2014 - View More Related Resources The association of acute COVID-19 infection

  18. First do no harm: practitioners' ability to 'diagnose' system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/first-do-no-harm-practitioners-ability-diagnose-system-weaknesses-and-improve-safety-critical
    March 03, 2021 - March 1, 2023 Families’ experiences of central-line infection in children: a qualitative

  19. Failure to rescue following emergency surgery: a FRAM analysis of the management of the deteriorating patient. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/failure-rescue-following-emergency-surgery-fram-analysis-management-deteriorating-patient
    May 19, 2021 - February 16, 2022 Mortality due to hospital-acquired infection after cardiac surgery.

  20. Nursing staff's perceptions of patient safety in psychiatric inpatient care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nursing-staffs-perceptions-patient-safety-psychiatric-inpatient-care
    September 27, 2017 - Work hours, work stress, and collaboration among ward staff in relation to risk of hospital-associated infection
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