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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49560/psn-pdf
April 01, 2008 - The Wrongful Resuscitation
April 1, 2008
Teno JM. The Wrongful Resuscitation. PSNet [internet]. 2008.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/wrongful-resuscitation
The Case
An 80-year-old man with diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, bilateral below-the-knee amputations, and
poor quality of life had previously been r…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49396/psn-pdf
April 01, 2003 - The 2-Week Itch
April 1, 2003
Cohen MR. The 2-Week Itch. PSNet [internet]. 2003.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/2-week-itch
The Case
A 40-year-old woman with bipolar disorder (on trazodone) came to her primary care physician with new
urticaria. She received a handwritten prescription for Zyrtec and Atarax.
The ha…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33658/psn-pdf
October 01, 2007 - In Conversation with...David Marx, JD
October 1, 2007
In Conversation with..David Marx, JD. PSNet [internet]. 2007.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withdavid-marx-jd
Editor's Note: An engineer and an attorney by training, David Marx, JD, is president of Outcome
Engineering, a risk management firm. …
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.338_slideshow.ppt
January 01, 2015 - PowerPoint Presentation
Spotlight
Monitoring Fetal Health
1
This presentation is based on the January 2015
AHRQ WebM&M Spotlight Case
See the full article at http://webmm.ahrq.gov
CME credit is available
Commentary by: Mark W. Scerbo, PhD, Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, and Alfred Z. Abuham…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49616/psn-pdf
December 01, 2010 - Milliliters vs. Milligrams
December 1, 2010
Poole RL, Dixon T. Milliliters vs. Milligrams. PSNet [internet]. 2010.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/milliliters-vs-milligrams
The Case
A 32-year-old man was admitted to the hospital after a vehicle collision and multiple traumatic injuries. His
evaluation showed acu…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49851/psn-pdf
January 01, 2019 - One Bronchoscopy, Two Errors
January 1, 2019
Leiten E, Nielsen R. One Bronchoscopy, Two Errors. PSNet [internet]. 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/one-bronchoscopy-two-errors
The Case
A 67-year-old man with a history of hypertension was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with hypoxic
respiratory failure…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.84_slideshow.ppt
December 01, 2004 - Adverse drug events occurring following hospital discharge [abstract]. … Adverse drug events occurring following hospital discharge [abstract].
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/root-cause-analysis-reports-help-identify-common-factors-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment
October 24, 2018 - April 12, 2019
Root cause analyses of reported adverse events occurring during gastrointestinal
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/root-cause-analysis-serious-adverse-events-among-older-patients-veterans-health
August 02, 2015 - April 12, 2019
Root cause analyses of reported adverse events occurring during gastrointestinal
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/supratherapeutic-dosing-acetaminophen-among-hospitalized-patients
February 14, 2017 - October 30, 2010
Medication errors occurring with the use of bar-code administration
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-health-care-quality-and-patient-safety-through-peer-peer-assessment-demonstration
March 14, 2018 - September 29, 2021
Systematic evaluation of errors occurring during the preparation of
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inadequacies-physical-examination-cause-medical-errors-and-adverse-events-collection
June 01, 1989 - April 22, 2015
Baccalaureate nursing students' accounts of medical mistakes occurring
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/can-asking-emergency-physicians-whether-or-not-they-would-have-done-something-differently
July 01, 2016 - January 26, 2022
Analysis of risk factors for patient safety events occurring in the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-serious-neurologic-conditions-emergency-department-patients-discharged-nonspecific
April 08, 2018 - March 19, 2019
Analysis of risk factors for patient safety events occurring in the emergency
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49527/psn-pdf
December 01, 2006 - The Commentary
Background Errors in laboratory services encompass a number of problems occurring outside … physicians often attribute to errors inside the laboratory, are actually the result
of preanalytic problems occurring … Specific Errors in This Case The particular error in this case is a mislabeling error occurring outside
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/safety-and-quality-long-term-care
January 01, 2016 - warrants close assessment and aggressive management by nursing staff to prevent serious breakdown from occurring … constitute nearly 10% of Medicare admissions to acute care, with nearly 40% of these hospitalizations occurring … taking high risk medications such as anticoagulants are monitored daily to assure no adverse events are occurring
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49650/psn-pdf
March 01, 2012 - The most recent analysis described 46
deaths and 263 procedure-related complications occurring from … references
https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references
Quality improvement strategies to prevent these events from occurring
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49830/psn-pdf
May 01, 2018 - In a recent study of adverse events occurring on
mental health units in the Veterans Health Administration … Adverse events occurring on VHA mental health units. Gen
Hosp Psychiatry. 2018;50:63-68.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33687/psn-pdf
August 01, 2009 - downside of first-order problem solving is lack of
communication, which hinders real improvement from occurring … Even this meager form of second-order problem solving was rare,
occurring in only 7% of the situations
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/right-patient-wrong-sample
June 01, 2004 - The Commentary
Background Errors in laboratory services encompass a number of problems occurring outside … often attribute to errors inside the laboratory, are actually the result of preanalytic problems occurring … Specific Errors in This Case The particular error in this case is a mislabeling error occurring outside