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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/strategies-optimizing-or-drug-safety
November 30, 2022 - Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. … October 7, 2020
Preventing medical injury. … 19, 2015
Medication misadventures resulting in emergency department visits at an HMO medical … March 27, 2005
Costs of medical injuries in Utah and Colorado. … November 29, 2017
The Institute of Medicine report on medical errors—could it do harm
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/lack-emergency-medical-services-documentation-associated-poor-patient-outcomes-validation
June 14, 2017 - Study
Lack of emergency medical services documentation is associated with poor patient … of audit filters for prehospital trauma care. … In this study of trauma patients, failure of emergency medical technicians to document vital signs was … of audit filters for prehospital trauma care. … October 14, 2009
Addressing prehospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/danger-10-intravenous-calcium-chloride-extravasation
April 24, 2024 - Multiple services were contacted to assist with management of this complicated wound. … After conservative treatment for nearly three weeks, the wound did not show any appreciable healing, … To prevent iatrogenic injuries of this type, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists must work together to … Management of severe calcium chloride extravasation injury: a case report. … WebM&M Cases
Weight and Height Juxtaposition in the Electronic Medical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-liability-climate-and-prospects-reform
September 29, 2017 - Commentary
The medical liability climate and prospects for reform. … The medical liability climate and prospects for reform. … The medical liability climate and prospects for reform. … February 17, 2011
Beyond negligence: avoidability and medical injury compensation. … January 4, 2012
Administrative compensation for medical injuries: lessons from three
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/are-we-safer-today
February 26, 2025 - In the Harvard Medical Practice Study , nurses and medical records analysts screened 31,429 records … What we found in our recent study was that one in four patients suffers an injury during a hospitalization … will develop a dangerous pressure injury. … But if you are seeing a patient with an ankle injury, it should be underscored that there is a rule so … AI to figure out how severe the injury has been.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/disclosing-medical-errors-patients-attitudes-and-practices-physicians-and-trainees
February 15, 2011 - Disclosing medical errors to patients: attitudes and practices of physicians and trainees. … This study surveyed faculty physicians, residents, and medical students at four academic medical centers … February 22, 2012
A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … April 12, 2011
Medical errors: should you apologize? … July 23, 2010
Removing Insult from Injury: Disclosing Adverse Events.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36254/psn-pdf
February 02, 2011 - Extended work duration and the risk of self-reported
percutaneous injuries in interns. … Extended work duration and the risk of self-reported percutaneous
injuries in interns. … research in the intensive care setting has demonstrated that extended work shifts result in more
serious medical … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-reducing-interns-work-hours-serious-medical-errors-intensive-care-units … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/interns-compliance-accreditation-council-graduate-medical-education-work-hour-limits
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/840495/psn-pdf
November 30, 2022 - Made whole: the efficacy of legal redress for black women
who have suffered injuries from medical bias … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/made-whole-efficacy-legal-redress-black-women-who-have-suffered-injuries … -
medical-bias
Women of color are at risk of bias that reduces the safety of their medical care experience … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/made-whole-efficacy-legal-redress-black-women-who-have-suffered-injuries-medical-bias … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/made-whole-efficacy-legal-redress-black-women-who-have-suffered-injuries-medical-bias
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/more-750-hospitals-face-medicare-crackdown-patient-injuries
June 27, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article
More than 750 hospitals face Medicare crackdown on patient injuries … Citation Text:
More than 750 hospitals face Medicare crackdown on patient injuries. Rau J. … November 28, 2007
Minnesota is first state with policy to stop billing after medical … October 3, 2007
Coming clean on medical mistakes. … View More
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/innovative-mobile-approach-patient-safety-services-case-taiwan-health-care-provider
September 27, 2017 - Citation
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Surgeon commitment to trauma … care decreases missed injuries. … mechanism in preventing infection caused by accompanying caregivers during COVID-19-experience of a city medical … June 15, 2012
System approach to prevent common bile duct injury and enhance performance
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/profiles-patient-safety-misplaced-femoral-line-guidewire-and-multiple-failures-detect-foreign
April 03, 2017 - implementing a complex and innovative patient safety learning laboratory project in a large academic medical … July 29, 2020
Association of low-dose whole-body computed tomography with missed injury … diagnoses and radiation exposure in patients with blunt multiple trauma. … February 9, 2011
Delayed or missed diagnosis of cervical spine injuries.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33837/psn-pdf
July 01, 2017 - , we know from pretty well established
evidence that only about 2% or 3% of instances of negligent injury … it would be useful for us to deliberate about what we think the value of different common
types of injuries … That caring relationship doesn't end when an injury occurs,
particularly if the injury is our fault. … They reduce the underlying
safety problems that can lead to injuries that lead to claims. … Then, we have a few
cases in which EHR systems themselves have had problems that have led to injuries
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45727/psn-pdf
August 03, 2017 - explained how researchers developed key questions to help assess fatigue in prehospital emergency
medical … sleep-deprivation-and-clinical-performance
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/addressing-prehospital-patient-safety-using-science-injury-prevention-and-control … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/addressing-prehospital-patient-safety-using-science-injury-prevention-and-control
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psnet.ahrq.gov/curated-library/covid-19-pandemic-impact-healthcare-associated-conditions
July 21, 2025 - indicate that hospitals with closed visitations experienced larger performance deficits across measures of medical … Learning during crisis: the impact of COVID-19 on hospital-acquired pressure injury … care delivery, including how hospitals prevent common hospital-acquired conditions such as pressure injuries … data, the authors of this study did not identify a longitudinal increase in hospital-acquired pressure injuries … The authors discuss how prior organizational efforts to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries allowed
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74253/psn-pdf
January 12, 2022 - The risk of pressure injuries of the skin and soft tissue has increased during the pandemic. … presence of ventilation devices creates additional points of pressure that increase the risk of pressure injury … guidance developed by the Sepsis Alliance Institute, resources developed by the
National Pressure Injury … Medical device-related pressure injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic. … J Wound
Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2020;47(5):430-434. doi:10.1097/WON.0000000000000689
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47851/psn-pdf
May 22, 2019 - communication-and-resolution-after-adverse-health-care-incident
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-experiences-communication-and-resolution-programs-after-medical-injury … narrative-review-do-state-laws-make-it-easier-say-im-sorry
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/sorry-never-enough-how-state-apology-laws-fail-reduce-medical-malpractice-liability-risk
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/potential-collective-intelligence-emergency-medicine
June 12, 2024 - The Potential of Collective Intelligence in Emergency Medicine: Pooling Medical Students' Independent … August 17, 2022
High delayed and missed injury rate after inter-hospital transfer of … severely injured trauma patients. … 2020
Diagnostic error in the emergency department: follow up of patients with minor trauma … Communication in interdisciplinary teams: exploring closed-loop communication during in situ trauma
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73970/psn-pdf
October 21, 2021 - webinar discussed how patients and families feel about
support mechanisms after they have experienced medical … making-communication-and-resolution-programmes-mission-critical-healthcare-organisations
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-experiences-communication-and-resolution-programs-after-medical-injury
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/fumbled-handoff-inpatient-rehab
December 21, 2018 - The Case An 18-year-old man with no significant past medical history sustained a traumatic brain injury … of part of the skull bone) due to brain swelling as a result of his injury. … He survived, but required prolonged care in the adult trauma intensive care unit (ICU). … The patient in question had complex care needs due to traumatic brain injury leading to prolonged mechanical … perhaps an adult LTACH, capable of complex tracheostomy and gastrostomy care in the setting of brain injury
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-act
November 09, 2011 - Citation
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VA Health Care: VA Uses Medical … Injury Tort Claims Data to Assess Veterans’ Care, but Should Take Action to Ensure That These Data Are … January 8, 2014
VA Health Care: VA Uses Medical Injury Tort Claims Data to Assess Veterans