-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delay-appropriate-diagnosis-and-treatment-leading-death-pulmonary-embolism
December 31, 2024 - per year, with 200,000 to 300,000 deaths per year. 1 150,000 to 200,000 PE-related hospitalizations occur … Miscommunication may occur verbally, in written reports, or both.
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/reducing-preventable-patient-harm-due-retained-surgical-items-rsi-bundle
July 23, 2024 - Despite awareness of adverse effects, surgical errors continue to occur at a high rate; 10% of preventable
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hemorrhagic-shock-after-elective-spine-surgery-failure-rescue-after-limited-response-nursing
April 27, 2022 - SPOTLIGHT CASE
Hemorrhagic Shock after Elective Spine Surgery: Failure to Rescue after Limited Response to Nursing Concerns.
Citation Text:
Zakaluzny S. Hemorrhagic Shock after Elective Spine Surgery: Failure to Rescue after Limited Response to Nursing Concerns.. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD):…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delayed-management-necrotizing-soft-tissue-infection-who-does-patient-belong
March 31, 2021 - mortality if not (and sometimes even when) treated in a timely and aggressive manner. 1 Rarely, NSTIs can occur … a timely fashion, 4 and a recent expert panel concluded that operation for NSTIs should optimally occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/risk-mitigation-using-anesthesia-risk-alert-program-applying-proactive-approach-data
February 26, 2025 - protocol that is nimble and flexible to care as it happens instead of only identifying problems after they occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/dangerous-detour
November 28, 2018 - among the roughly 30,000 suicides occurring each year in the US, approximately 1,500 suicides (5%) occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/e-prescribing-e-error
February 03, 2021 - State how commonly prescription errors occur with e-prescribing. … list with patients as part of the visit summary would also help to identify discrepancies when they occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/who-nose-where-airway
May 01, 2016 - The traditional method of preventing RFOs in surgery has been to perform structured counts that occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus
June 24, 2010 - While invasive MRSA infections occur more commonly in the hospital, 15% occurred in persons without any
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/worst-headache
July 01, 2016 - therefore unlikely to produce any cranial nerve findings.( 2 ) Meningismus and ocular hemorrhages also occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/good-catch-operating-room
August 27, 2017 - Good Catch in the Operating Room
Citation Text:
Day J, Paige JT. Good Catch in the Operating Room. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2019.
Copy Citation
Format:
Google Scholar BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote …
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/result-stopped-here
December 01, 2006 - The Result Stopped Here
Citation Text:
Astion ML. The Result Stopped Here. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2004.
Copy Citation
Format:
Google Scholar BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote tagged Pub…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/role-community-pharmacists-patient-safety
October 24, 2021 - What are some of the common patient safety events that can occur across these different settings?
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60641/psn-pdf
July 01, 2020 - Predictors and triggers of incivility within healthcare
teams: a systematic review of the literature.
July 1, 2020
Keller S, Yule S, Zagarese V, et al. Predictors and triggers of incivility within healthcare teams: a
systematic review of the literature. BMJ Open. 2020;10(6):e035471. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035471.…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/print/pdf/node/842920
December 14, 2022 - PSNet
Curated Library
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Diagnostic Errors Case Studies
Curated Library
Web M&Ms
A Postpartum Woman with an Erroneous SARS-CoV-2 Test
Stephen A. Martin, MD, EdM, Gordon D. Schiff, MD, and Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH | April 28, 2021
A pregnant patient was admitted for…
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/duplicate-therapies-retail-pharmacy
August 05, 2022 - addition to opportunities for an improved patient counseling process, both cases reflect errors that occur … place so that pharmacists are aware of what to do in certain situations where dispensing errors may occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/case-mistaken-intubation
July 01, 2016 - described in this case, where a patient was resuscitated against his wishes, is among the gravest that can occur … There is little data regarding how often such unwanted resuscitations occur.
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/management-cardiac-arrest-unconventional-locations
June 14, 2023 - Improve Patient Safety
The errors that occurred in both cases reflect errors of omission that commonly occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-470
December 31, 2024 - LSAEs) are rare, healthcare organizations must maintain policies on LSAE disclosure (LSAED) should they occur
-
psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/airway-obstruction-during-anterior-cervical-spine-surgery
January 29, 2021 - Pneumothorax can occur in trauma patients who may have undiagnosed rib fractures. … Some crises occur infrequently, and checklists are particularly helpful when dealing with uncommon problems