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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49750/psn-pdf
January 01, 2016 - According to the American Hospital Association, 35.4 million admissions occur annually in United States … hospitals.(1) Among those admissions, approximately 16 million occur through the emergency department … For example, an unplanned direct admission may occur when an ill patient presents
to a physician's office … On the other hand, a planned direct
admission may occur when a patient is pre-scheduled for a procedure … acuity level of patients require nurses to continuously reprioritize their list of tasks.(3)
Errors occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/35127/psn-pdf
February 24, 2011 - medical errors should produce greater insight through increased acknowledgment of errors
when they occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44585/psn-pdf
November 04, 2015 - to use at least two patient identifiers when obtaining an
imaging study, wrong-patient events still occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43596/psn-pdf
December 19, 2014 - the anesthesiology field has long been involved in the patient safety movement, errors continue to
occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43945/psn-pdf
September 09, 2015 - hospital-and-procedure-incidence-pediatric-retained-surgical-items
Retained surgical items are classified as never events, but they continue to occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47473/psn-pdf
December 05, 2018 - offers recommendations for clinicians to
demonstrate their concern and improve practice when problems occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46274/psn-pdf
September 13, 2017 - adoption of the Universal Protocol and widespread prevention efforts, wrong-site surgeries
continue to occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38930/psn-pdf
January 04, 2010 - clinical consequences in Australia,
estimating that nearly 200,000 medication-related hospital admissions occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34990/psn-pdf
June 22, 2009 - The authors determined that ADRs occur as frequently in
pediatric patients as in adult patients and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42134/psn-pdf
July 16, 2013 - developing-and-pilot-testing-practical-measures-preanalytic-surgical-specimen-
identification
Surgical specimen identification errors occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45673/psn-pdf
December 07, 2016 - publication explores how mistakes such as selecting
the wrong drug from an ordering pick list can occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44474/psn-pdf
September 24, 2016 - interruptions-wild-development-sociotechnical-systems-model-interruptions-
emergency
Interruptions are a known safety hazard that occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43811/psn-pdf
July 18, 2018 - annual-benchmarking-report-malpractice-risks-diagnostic-process
This analysis of more than 4700 diagnosis-related malpractice claims found that most errors occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44106/psn-pdf
September 12, 2016 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/planning-mr-suite-what-can-be-done-enhance-safety
Although rare, adverse events still occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44099/psn-pdf
November 06, 2015 - sorry-i-meant-patients-left-side-impact-distraction-left-right-discrimination
Wrong-side procedures still occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/612828/psn-pdf
February 23, 2022 - into the early post-transplant period, the first 3 months
after transplant when more acute events occur … Early vascular
complications that can occur within a week of transplant include vascular thrombosis, … which may occur with
(secondary thrombosis) or without (primary thrombosis) immune rejection.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47524/psn-pdf
June 19, 2019 - suggest that incorporating the patient voice can enhance knowledge
regarding why diagnostic errors occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73121/psn-pdf
April 07, 2021 - effect-implementation-barcode-technology-and-electronic-medication-administration-record
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/review-medication-errors-are-new-or-likely-occur-more-frequently-electronic-medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40000/psn-pdf
November 10, 2017 - measurable entity fails to
account for the complex social and organizational dynamics that allow errors to occur
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46183/psn-pdf
July 12, 2017 - crico-strategies-national-cbs-report
Medication errors are a persistent challenge in health care that can occur