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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ambulatory-medication-errors-and-adverse-events-involved-medicine-related-malpractice-cases
November 18, 2016 - Most medication safety research occurs in the inpatient setting, with less focus on ambulatory care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ten-years-later-alarm-fatigue-still-safety-concern
October 25, 2023 - Alarm (or alert) fatigue occurs when clinicians ignore alarms, usually due to the majority being invalid
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/standardized-assessment-medication-reconciliation-post-acute-care
December 16, 2020 - Medication reconciliation (MR) occurs during transitions of care and is the process of reviewing a patient
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-clinical-experience-error-rate-emergency-physicians
November 16, 2022 - often examined by conducting case reviews or root cause analyses when an undesired patient outcome occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/racial-and-ethnic-harm-patient-care-patient-safety-issue
October 21, 2020 - ethnically marginalized patients, such as antiracism education and addressing harm promptly when it occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/stakeholder-perceptions-and-attitudes-towards-problematic-polypharmacy-and-prescribing
July 10, 2019 - An unintentional prescribing cascade occurs when a medication side effect is misinterpreted as a new
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/organizational-learning-health-care-leaders-need-design-structures-and-processes-enhance
November 18, 2020 - The authors argue that true learning in health organizations occurs through a cyclical, dualistic, and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/team-cognition-handoffs-relating-system-factors-team-cognition-functions-and-outcomes-two
February 16, 2022 - This qualitative study explores how team cognition occurs during care transitions and interprofessional
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/creating-highly-reliable-health-care-how-reliability-enhancing-work-practices-affect-patient
January 12, 2022 - within high-risk industries that have adopted processes to detect and address failures before harm occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/inside-time-out
March 01, 2004 - procedure is not started if a member of the team has concerns.( 2 ) In some institutions, the time out occurs … If the time out occurs at the time of incision, the surgeon is already scrubbed in, leaving only the … time out is for the team to collectively discuss the case, but, given the requirements to ensure it occurs … With regard to timing, it seems that the closer to actual incision time the time out occurs, the less
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/doctors-were-alarmed-would-i-have-my-children-have-surgery-here
February 19, 2020 - November 9, 2022
Misdiagnosis of thoracic aortic emergencies occurs frequently among
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nurses-safety-motivation-examining-predictors-nurses-willingness-report-medication-errors
October 10, 2015 - that nurses are more willing to report medication errors if they perceive that feedback on errors occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-teratogenic-medications-united-states-ambulatory-practices
March 23, 2012 - prescribing patterns of potentially dangerous medications to nonpregnant young women, suggesting it occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-disease-three-communities
July 03, 2014 - data indicates that acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection now occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/when-doing-wrong-feels-so-right-normalization-deviance
September 03, 2011 - This commentary explains the concept of normalization of deviance, which occurs when poor processes are
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/those-found-responsible-have-been-sacked-some-observations-usefulness-error
September 28, 2010 - improvement, but the concept isn’t universally accepted as an approach to determine the foci of how failure occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ethics-pediatric-emergency-department-when-mistakes-happen-approach-process-evaluation-and
December 13, 2013 - The authors also explore the evidence on transparency in the ED when an error occurs and how to make
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-emergency-team-system-two-hospital-comparison
January 15, 2009 - further risk assess patients who may benefit from increased monitoring before a clinical deterioration occurs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/current-approaches-punitive-action-medication-errors-boards-pharmacy
May 26, 2011 - This occurs despite a consensus that such punitive measures are unlikely to improve patient safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reducing-risks-wrong-site-surgery-safety-practices-joint-commission-center-transforming
October 19, 2016 - Wrong-site surgery is a never event , but still occurs at alarming rates.