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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/world-patient-safety-day-2024.html
September 01, 2024 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
On World Patient Safety Day, AHRQ Highlights the Urgent Need to Address Diagnostic Safety
SEP
16
2024
By
Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A., and
Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S.
Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.
As the healthcar…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/implement/facility-action-plan.docx
January 01, 2018 - BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06
AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
Facility Action Plan Template
The purpose of this tool is to support quality improvement efforts by identifying opportunities for improvement, strategies, and steps to accomplis…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/curriculum/teamstepps-introduction-slides.pptx
April 27, 2025 - Introducing TeamSTEPPS Introduction
Introducing TeamSTEPPS
Introduction
1
Faculty and Participant Introductions
2
Teamwork Exercise:
Build the Tallest Tower
Introduction
Rules:
Each block must be the right color, length (based on rows of knobs), and direction (N-S or E-W).
Each team member should have …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module4/guide.html
March 01, 2017 - Module 4: Teamwork and Communication: Material Use Guide
AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Learning Objectives:
Describe effective communication and teamwork.
Describe why teamwork training and improved communication optimizes resident safety.
List barriers, tools, and str…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module4/guide.docx
March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Long-Term Care Safety Modules
Module 4: Teamwork and Communication
Material Use Guide
Learning Objectives:
· Describe effective communication and teamwork
· Describe why teamwork training and improved communication optimizes resident safety
· List barriers, tools…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-pediatric-trigger-tool-estimate-total-harm-burden-hospital-acquired-conditions
July 03, 2016 - Study
Using a pediatric trigger tool to estimate total harm burden hospital-acquired conditions represent.
Citation Text:
Stockwell DC, Landrigan CP, Schuster MA, et al. Using a Pediatric Trigger Tool to Estimate Total Harm Burden Hospital-acquired Conditions Represent. Pediatr Qual Saf.…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/error-disclosure-neonatal-intensive-care-multicentre-prospective-observational-study
November 29, 2023 - Study
Error disclosure in neonatal intensive care: a multicentre, prospective, observational study.
Citation Text:
Passini L, Le Bouedec S, Dassieu G, et al. Error disclosure in neonatal intensive care: a multicentre, prospective, observational study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2023;32(10):589-599. d…
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb193-Neonatal-Maternal-Hospitalizations-Substance-Use.jsp
July 01, 2015 - 15.5
14.0
Midwest
24.0
23.7
South
39.0
37.0
West
21.5
25.3
Co-occurring … 15.2
14.2
Midwest
26.6
23.3
South
35.5
37.4
West
22.7
25.2
Co-occurring … Over one-fourth of maternal stays related to substance use included mental disorders as a co-occurring … use were substantially more likely than all other maternal stays to include mental disorders as a co-occurring … alcohols
Alcohol
E8609
Accidental poisoning by unspecified alcohol
Alcohol
Co-occurring
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/quality-indicators-care-coordination-measures-project/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - health care community is struggling to determine how to measure when and if this vital activity is occurring
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/symptom-monitoring-and-reporting-system-pediatric-chronic-illness/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - computer or smartphone, or a regular telephone via interactive voice response technology to report fatigue occurring
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/cptn/nedsnote.jsp
May 01, 2015 - Anticipation of or lags in response to official coding changes are permitted for discharges occurring
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/poor-prognosis
March 15, 2016 - High frequency of cancer in cold thyroid nodules occurring at young age. … High frequency of cancer in cold thyroid nodules occurring at young age.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/diagnostic-failure-growing-deficit
June 01, 2005 - Chang, MD, and Scott Flanders, MD Despite being underreported, diagnostic error is common ( 1 ), occurring … Poor communication is an underlying cause in 65%–70% of safety events with three types of errors occurring
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/pocket-syringe-swap
July 01, 2006 - The present case involved the most frequently occurring drug error in anesthesia incident report analyses … We are not informed as to other possibly distracting events occurring at the time the error occurred.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/dressed-failure
September 01, 2011 - represent important missed opportunities to prevent this potentially life-threatening DRESS reaction from occurring … Take-Home Points Implementation of new EHR systems is occurring with increasing frequency across
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49568/psn-pdf
September 01, 2008 - The former, breast
milk jaundice, is an exaggerated physiologic response, occurring in approximately … • Referral to an IBCLC with a visit occurring within the first 24 hours.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49612/psn-pdf
November 01, 2010 - treatment-challenges-after-discharge
Case Objectives
Understand types and frequencies of adverse events occurring … As illustrated by this case, tests pending at discharge (TPADs) are common, occurring with approximately
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs017939-carroll-final-report-2013.pdf
January 01, 2013 - These charts could be any visit not occurring in the 9, 18, and 30 months visits. … of
7.7 months (p=0.02).
6
Surveillance
In order to determine if surveillance was occurring
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/ecoden/kidnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - Anticipation of or lags in response to official ICD-9-CM coding changes are permitted for discharges occurring
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cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cds/artifact/106/Guide%20to%20the%20Healthy%20Weight%20Care%20Assistant.docx
February 15, 2018 - offload some of the strain on the Care Assistant and decrease the likelihood of an unintended consequence occurring