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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/applying-root-cause-analysis-improve-patient-safety-decreasing-falls-postpartum-women
August 04, 2021 - findings to design a quality improvement intervention that significantly reduced the fall rate over a 6-month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-discharge-safety-pediatric-emergency-department
June 22, 2022 - Over a 19-month period, implementation of the revised discharge process led to the elimination of preventable
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/retrospective-review-medication-dose-errors-pediatric-emergency-department-medication-orders
January 12, 2022 - Over 46,000 medication orders were placed in a 12-month period: of those, 32,000 bypassed pharmacist
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pause-pediatrics-implementation-pediatric-diagnostic-time-out
April 20, 2022 - implementation of diagnostic timeouts among eight pediatric hospital medicine providers over a 12-month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pediatric-clinician-comfort-discussing-diagnostic-errors-improving-patient-safety-survey
July 06, 2022 - Over a 2-month period, researchers surveyed pediatric clinicians to asses their comfort discussing medical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevented-harm-and-cost-avoidance-pharmacist-intervention-while-utilizing-discharge
October 19, 2022 - This study found an estimate cost avoidance of $47,000 - $231,000 during one month in one hospital.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/therapeutic-duplication-general-surgical-wards
December 22, 2021 - After one month of education and reminders, the rate of therapeutic duplication decreased by more than
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/elopement-evidence-based-mitigation-and-management
October 19, 2022 - After implementation, the number of elopements occurring over a six-month period decreased from 34 to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/elimination-emergency-department-medication-errors-due-estimated-weights
July 08, 2020 - approaches to develop and test a method of entering weights that eliminated these errors during the 6-month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/mothers-milk-whose-mother
November 15, 2023 - The Case A 2-month-old otherwise healthy infant was admitted to the hospital to rule out sepsis … The Commentary The case reveals a busy pediatric unit; a relatively healthy 2-month-old infant; an … Errors One pediatric hospital calculated the risk for breast-milk errors to be 1.04 errors per month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43799/psn-pdf
January 07, 2015 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/omission-high-alert-medications-hidden-danger
Analyzing incidents reported over a 4-month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44518/psn-pdf
January 22, 2016 - immediate
postcourse tests, but the group that included error training performed significantly better one month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44519/psn-pdf
December 02, 2015 - According to a 3-month follow-up survey, the majority of patients had
implemented the pharmacist's recommendations
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34893/psn-pdf
February 26, 2009 - More than 800 ADEs occurred during the 9-month study period, with nearly
42% deemed preventable.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioid-dose-reductions-and-potential-adverse-events-multi-site-observational
March 04, 2020 - associated with higher odds of emergency department visits, opioid overdose, and all-cause mortality in the month
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-simulation-based-closed-loop-communication-training-medical-errors-pediatric-emergency
July 22, 2020 - Increases in perception of closed-loop communication ability were sustained one-month after training.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/mid-summer-fog
September 29, 2017 - The July effect refers to the expectation that processes and outcomes of patient care in the month … Each year, many clinicians and organizational leaders dread this otherwise lovely month, concerned about … Pneumothorax after insertion of central venous catheters in the intensive care unit: association with month … of year and week of month.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/system-wide-hospital-child-maltreatment-patient-safety-program
September 15, 2021 - Over a 30-month period, the program identified potential diagnostic errors and safe discharge concerns
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43798/psn-pdf
January 07, 2015 - By the end of the 19-month pilot program, the service enhanced the quality of final medication
lists
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41265/psn-pdf
January 03, 2017 - This system resulted in a
significant reduction in the use of UAAs over the 6-month study period.