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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/frequency-types-and-potential-clinical-significance-medication-dispensing-errors
February 03, 2011 - Errors occurred in approximately 1 of 40 doses dispensed by a unit-dose medication dispensing system.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/case-study-safety-impact-implementing-smart-patient-controlled-analgesic-pumps-tertiary-care
August 31, 2016 - After adverse events occurred due to incorrect dosing of patient-controlled analgesia, implementation
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intra-operative-monitoring-many-alarms-minor-impact
June 18, 2014 - In this study, one alarm occurred every 2.9 minutes during the surgical procedures observed, implying
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/barriers-adverse-event-and-error-reporting-anesthesia
April 19, 2017 - specified events, the influence of perceived barriers was dependent on whether an error actually occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-medication-errors-parenteral-cytotoxic-drugs
July 01, 2017 - This Swedish study found that chemotherapy medication errors occurred most frequently at the prescribing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-drug-events-us-hospitals-2010-versus-2014
October 03, 2018 - Information revealed by the data include impacts on length of stay, average costs, and whether the ADE occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/please-dont-sleep-through-wake-call
May 07, 2018 - from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices informing readers of a fatal medication error that occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/multiple-levels-involved-prescribing-wrong-medication
December 23, 2020 - Although no major complications occurred in this case, it is an example of how mistakes are made, despite … Model of accident causation is useful in understanding the multiple breakdowns in patient safety that occurred … SLICE 1: The Nurse Pending the Wrong Medication The first failure in this case occurred when the nurse … The provider approving topiramate rather than trimethobenzamide is an individual level error, which occurred … In analyzing how this error occurred, there were three missed opportunities for intervention: 1) critical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60977/psn-pdf
January 08, 2020 - Although no major complications occurred in this case, it is an example of
how mistakes are made, despite … Model of accident causation is useful in understanding the multiple breakdowns in
patient safety that occurred … SLICE 1: The Nurse Pending the Wrong Medication
The first failure in this case occurred when the nurse … The provider
approving topiramate rather than trimethobenzamide is an individual level error, which occurred … In analyzing how this error occurred, there
were three missed opportunities for intervention: 1) critical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/eliminating-vincristine-administration-events
February 15, 2023 - June 17, 2014
External Inquiry into the adverse incident that occurred at Queen's Medical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/patient-safety-101
March 26, 2025 - variety of established and emerging methods to prospectively identify safety hazards before errors have occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49845/psn-pdf
October 01, 2018 - Further
investigation revealed that this error had occurred on five other occasions, each committed … The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
reported in 2008 that at least 17 heparin errors occurred … a young child in Ohio died due to an improperly compounded normal saline
solution.(6) The incident occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49824/psn-pdf
March 01, 2018 - results were notable for an elevated troponin
level, suggesting that significant myocardial damage had occurred … the artery in under 90
minutes.(5)
In the case described above, a critical communication breakdown occurred … regarding the
results of the initial ECG tracing and the failure of transmission of the initial tracing occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73999/psn-pdf
October 27, 2021 - about 4% of claims against anesthesia providers are
due to medication errors.6 Most of these errors occurred … when the wrong dose (31%) or wrong drug (24%)
was administered.6 In this case, the error occurred when … the desired concentration of 50
mcg/ml, but this product was not available on the day when the error occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/not-what-doctor-ordered
November 23, 2016 - May 3, 2006
External Inquiry into the adverse incident that occurred at Queen's Medical
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45113/psn-pdf
May 11, 2016 - experienced clinical reviewers achieve only moderate
interrater agreement on whether an adverse event occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46990/psn-pdf
July 25, 2018 - A WebM&M commentary discussed an adverse event that occurred due to a transcription
error in a radiology
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40707/psn-pdf
March 11, 2013 - This study conducted in-depth interviews with patients who believed an
error occurred in their cancer-related
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45293/psn-pdf
February 01, 2017 - analysis, researchers sought to identify the most common
and serious event types, reasons these events occurred
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42868/psn-pdf
October 31, 2014 - information to the patient and family and avoiding admissions of fault—or even admission
that an error occurred