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101. Health literacy and medication understanding among hospitalized adults. | PSNet
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     July 18, 2012 - Lower health literacy , cognitive impairment, and polypharmacy were all associated with lower understanding

102. Competence and certification of registered nurses and safety of patients in intensive care units. | PSNet
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     September 10, 2014 - Intensive care units with a higher proportion of certified registered nurses had lower rates of certain … Greater nursing experience also was correlated with lower rates of medication errors.

103. Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance. | PSNet
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     December 19, 2018 - Error rates calculated from hospital incident reports were much lower than those drawn from either clinician … Performance Issues September 7, 2019 A culture of openness is associated with lower

104. Bowel Injury After Laparoscopic Surgery | PSNet
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     May 04, 2011 - kind of culture will require formal training in effective behaviors; such training is associated with lower … Protocol-based care is associated with not just shorter hospital stays but also a lower incidence of … It is most likely through these mechanisms that use of checklists leads to lower complications and mortality

105. The impact of primary care providers' bias on depression screening for lesbian women. | PSNet
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     September 10, 2014 - Providers who recommended screening showed slightly more positive explicit attitudes and slightly lower

106. In Conversation With... Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH | PSNet
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     September 28, 2022 - the quintuple aim of better health outcomes, better patient experience, better provider experience, lower … An example of a service that can lower the cost of monthly internet and phone service for qualifying … models all identify functions that ultimately lead to improved access, equity, and quality care, at a lower … such as lack of access to transportation may lead to missed care or delayed diagnoses; patients with lower

107. Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: What's Wrong and How to Fix It | PSNet
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     August 01, 2012 - much lower or worse patient safety culture than existed in the hospital benchmark group. … With that high a turnover, you expect to have lower quality, and you would also expect patient safety … Even though nursing homes rank themselves lower than hospitals, we thought that there was still probably … We surveyed nurse aides, and we found that their scores were also much lower than the hospital scores … and lower than the administrator scores, which was what we predicted.

108. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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     July 31, 2023 - Despite implementing EBD, rates of distractions were lower at the older facility; “interruption by physician … Participants reported the care provided was safe, but of lower quality than was typical.

109. Maternal and neonatal health care worker well-being and patient safety climate amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | PSNet
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     October 05, 2022 - High levels of healthcare worker (HCW) burnout may be associated with lower levels of patient safety … Leadership WalkRounds is associated with better patient safety culture, higher employee engagement and lower

110. Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices. | PSNet
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     June 09, 2010 - The authors found that hospitals that had fully implemented the safe practices had a lower incidence … of failure to rescue and lower overall postoperative mortality.

111. An evaluation of shared mental models and mutual trust on general medical units: implications for collaboration, teamwork, and patient safety. | PSNet
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     October 03, 2012 - surveyed inpatient nurses and physicians and found discordant perceptions of each others' roles as well as lower … RN assessments of excellent quality of care and patient safety are associated with significantly lower

112. The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes. | PSNet
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     October 11, 2017 - with trainee physicians' involvement had a slightly higher incidence of complications, but a slightly lower … June 21, 2017 Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower

113. National trends in hospital-acquired preventable adverse events after major cancer surgery in the USA. | PSNet
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     September 03, 2014 - The highest-volume hospitals in this study had lower PSI event rates and failure-to-rescue rates compared … with lower-volume hospitals.

114. Examining the relationship of an all-cause harm patient safety measure and critical performance measures at the frontline of care. | PSNet
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     April 15, 2015 - hospital developed a robust trigger tool to measure all-cause patient harm and assessed what predicted lower … employee engagement, stronger safety culture , and better patient experience were all correlated with lower

115. Nursing accreditation system and patient safety. | PSNet
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     September 23, 2009 - The self-reported rate of patient safety problems was lower for Taiwanese nurses who had completed … May 6, 2015 Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower

116. The relationship between safety culture and voluntary event reporting in a large regional ambulatory care group. | PSNet
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     September 12, 2012 - Attitudes Questionnaire , had more voluntary reports of safety problems than ambulatory practices with lower … Performance Issues September 7, 2019 A culture of openness is associated with lower

117. Nurse working conditions and patient safety outcomes. | PSNet
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     October 26, 2011 - Lower nurse-to-patient ratios and increased overtime both negatively impacted patient safety and in-hospital … The study confirms and extends the findings of previous studies, which have demonstrated that lower nurse

118. "Recurrent" Appendicitis | PSNet
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     September 20, 2006 - The Case An 85-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with right lower quadrant pain … Postoperatively, the patient continued to have right lower quadrant pain, which led to a repeat CT scan … the operation was performed open, future physicians might be confused when a patient sporting a right lower

119. Early death after discharge from emergency departments: analysis of national US insurance claims data. | PSNet
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     June 30, 2021 - Hospitals that admit a lower proportion of emergency department patients to the inpatient setting had … Consistent with prior studies relating patient outcomes to volume , higher-volume emergency departments had lower

120. Effect of a multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on medication safety after hospitalization in persons prescribed high-risk medications: a randomized clinical trial. | PSNet
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     April 28, 2021 - pharmacist, communication with the primary care team, and telephone follow-up) did not result in a lower … April 5, 2017 Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower