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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-susan-smith-md
August 01, 2019 - We thought about whether we could measure the complexity of dictation and documentation to allocate scribes … Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33644/psn-pdf
December 01, 2006 - Establishing a Safety Culture: Thinking Small
December 1, 2006
Hoff TJ. Establishing a Safety Culture: Thinking Small. PSNet [internet]. 2006.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/establishing-safety-culture-thinking-small
Perspective
Safety cultures are the holy grail in any risky industry. Like all holy grails, th…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50931/psn-pdf
February 26, 2020 - Timely diagnosis of esophageal perforation
February 26, 2020
Utter GH, Cooke DT. Timely diagnosis of esophageal perforation. PSNet [internet]. 2020.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/timely-diagnosis-esophageal-perforation
The Case
A man with mixed connective tissue disease on low-dose prednisone and methotrexate pre…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49730/psn-pdf
April 01, 2015 - Transition to Nowhere
April 1, 2015
Farrell TW. Transition to Nowhere. PSNet [internet]. 2015.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/transition-nowhere
The Case
A 75-year-old man with a history of prostate cancer, poorly controlled myotonic dystrophy, hypertension,
and chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital …
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49404/psn-pdf
June 01, 2003 - Not a Miscarriage
June 1, 2003
Learman LA. Not a Miscarriage. PSNet [internet]. 2003.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/not-miscarriage
The Case
A 32-year-old woman, gravida 3, para 1, with a history of Type 2 diabetes mellitus on metformin, presented
at 7 and 2/7 weeks by last menstrual period (LMP). The patient rep…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50393/psn-pdf
September 01, 2019 - Patient Safety and the Evolution of WebM&M and PSNet
September 1, 2019
Ranji SR, Wachter R. Patient Safety and the Evolution of WebM&M and PSNet. PSNet [internet]. 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-and-evolution-webmm-and-psnet
Perspective
Progress in any field requires scholarship and dissem…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33761/psn-pdf
February 01, 2014 - Interruptions and Distractions in Health Care: Improved
Safety With Mindfulness
February 1, 2014
Beyea SC. Interruptions and Distractions in Health Care: Improved Safety With Mindfulness. PSNet
[internet]. 2014.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/interruptions-and-distractions-health-care-improved-safety-mindfulne…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33602/psn-pdf
March 15, 2025 - Individual Clinician Performance Issues
March 15, 2025
Individual Clinician Performance Issues. PSNet [internet]. 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/individual-clinician-performance-issues
PSNet primers are regularly reviewed and updated by the UC Davis PSNet Editorial Team to ensure that
they reflect current res…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/computerized-provider-order-entry-and-patient-safety
January 01, 2014 - Annual Perspective
Computerized Provider Order Entry and Patient Safety
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, and Kaveh Shojania, MD | January 1, 2015
View more articles from the same authors.
Citation Text:
Sarkar U, Shojania KG. Computerized Provider Order Entry and Patien…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/topics-0
March 03, 2025 - Topics
Guides for key topics in patient safety through context, epidemiology, and relevant AHRQ PSNet content. The Patient Safety 101 Primer provides an overview of the patient safety field and covers key definitions and concepts.
Featured Topics in Patient Safety
Updated Date: March 3, 2025
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-chalapathy-venkatesan-and-kathy-helak-about-application-safety-ii
August 28, 2024 - As a healthcare system, we have a lot of external objective measures of high performance in safety, such … Still, underneath those objective measures, we saw inconsistent performance and recurrent safety events
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/medication-safety-nursing-homes-whats-wrong-and-how-fix-it
August 01, 2012 - work in nursing homes has revolved around assessing quality: what makes a quality nursing home and measures … something called Nursing Home Compare, and that compares staffing levels, deficiency citations, and quality measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/application-safety-ii-principles
August 28, 2024 - As a healthcare system, we have a lot of external objective measures of high performance in safety, such … Still, underneath those objective measures, we saw inconsistent performance and recurrent safety events
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45206/psn-pdf
October 17, 2017 - Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on
Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and … Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and … /psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-association-between-hospital-survey-patient-safety-culture-hsops-
measures-and … not be a crucial
component of programs to reduce HAIs; second, survey results may not be an accurate measure … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-association-between-hospital-survey-patient-safety-culture-hsops-measures-and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45352/psn-pdf
September 01, 2018 - Because
public reporting programs measure hospital performance using averages or rankings of observed … determined the gap between the best possible performance a hospital might
achieve on quality and safety measures … and its actual performance on those measures as publicly reported
by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/medical-scribes-and-patient-safety
August 01, 2019 - Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures. … We thought about whether we could measure the complexity of dictation and documentation to allocate scribes
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/getting-root-matter
September 01, 2005 - medications (indication, dose, interactions) as well as other non-medication-related patient safety measures … In the case of vasopressors, standard dosing scales that attempt to prevent overdoses should be programmed
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-beverley-h-johnson
February 01, 2013 - The Joint Commission have disseminated materials to motivate and inform patients and families about measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-witheric-coleman-md-mph
December 01, 2007 - something interesting about the fundamental role of measurement: that there are no real performance measures … If performance measures suddenly materialized and showed that we really stink at moving information from … hospitals to skilled nursing facilities or to home, what's the magic in those measures? … value of having community-wide or even nationwide quality measurements and public reporting of those measures … measure of their transition experience.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/care-transitions
December 01, 2007 - working with the American College of Physicians and other organizations to develop care transition measures … something interesting about the fundamental role of measurement: that there are no real performance measures … If performance measures suddenly materialized and showed that we really stink at moving information from … hospitals to skilled nursing facilities or to home, what's the magic in those measures? … measure of their transition experience.