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September 01, 2006 - , thus increasing nurse efficiency while decreasing errors.( 3 ) Any time a patient experiences an … In addition, 6% of doses are not administered; if a patient is not responding to therapy, an omission … There have been cases where patients did not receive a complete dose due to insufficient shaking of antibiotics … In general, physicians should prescribe tablets or capsules (when patients can tolerate them) instead … The effect of extended work hours on patient care provided by medical interns.
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September 27, 2023 - Put an “NPO” or “Nothing by Mouth” wristband on the patient When patients are mobile, they often move … Test the patient for iron deficiency This patient should have been tested for iron deficiency. … Foreign-body ingestion in patients with personality disorders. … Battery ingestion in children, an ongoing challenge: recent experience of a tertiary center. … Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review.
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July 01, 2012 - The engagement
of patients has enormous potential. … One thing I've concluded from the
experience of who naturally and proactively adopted records and who … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/connecting-patients-and-clinicians-anticipated-effects-open-notes-patient-safety-and-quality … https://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants/ournotes-new-strategy-improve-care-complex-patients
https:// … It is filtered and shows him maybe 20 patients.
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January 15, 2014 - 2019
Examining causes and prevention strategies of adverse events in deceased hospital patients … : a retrospective patient record review study in the Netherlands. … June 16, 2021
Explaining the negative effects of patient participation in patient safety … August 21, 2019
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Learning from experience … June 26, 2019
The Second Victim Experience and Support Tool: validation of an organizational
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December 01, 2013 - reviews, the researchers estimated that 5% of adults in the US (i.e., more than 12 million individuals) experience … and colleagues used data from the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project to show that, among patients … with stroke, nearly 13% of patients had a visit to the emergency department (ED) within the prior 30 … Just over 1% of patients had a probable missed diagnosis of stroke. … Investigators reviewed the records of medical patients admitted to the pediatric ward or seen in the
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September 13, 2006 - September 13, 2006
The working hours of hospital staff nurses and patient safety. … February 19, 2010
To be sued less, doctors should consider talking to patients more. … who experience rapid response activation. … Analysis of incident reports from a patient safety organization. … July 17, 2019
Effects on resident work hours, sleep duration and work experience in a
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January 04, 2024 - Background A retained surgical item (RSI) is a surgical patient safety problem that occurs because of … The patient left the OR to recover in the intensive care unit (ICU), as usual. … many items to safely count under most OR conditions and no alternative management practice Variable experience … patient is included in the decision to remove the fragment or not. … June 12, 2024
Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety.
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November 17, 2010 - effect of a multi-faceted intervention on early recognition and intervention in deteriorating hospital patients … The introduction of a Neurosurgical Postoperative Checklist improved quality of care and patient … November 20, 2019
"Team time-out" and surgical safety—experiences in 12,390 neurosurgical patients … September 15, 2010
Eight-year experience with a neurosurgical checklist. … August 18, 2010
Spinal surgery and patient safety: a systems approach.
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January 23, 2019 - Effect of increased inpatient attending physician
supervision on medical errors, patient safety, and … Over the past decade, with the goal of improving both the educational experience and patient safety … safety and the educational experience for housestaff. … care discussions and encounters with newly admitted and existing patients) was compared to
standard … directly supervised residents only for new admissions, meeting later in the
day to discuss existing patients
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October 01, 2007 - be an accountability system that doesn't allow someone to stay in that system if they choose to put patients … to do it, even though I've read the literature and know it's putting my patients at risk. … Based on our experience over the past 6 years, let me give you examples of how you might do this. … If your organization's priority is reducing harm related to misidentification of patients, for example … A name band is applied, and the patient is told that all staff will be asking patients to spell their
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33838/psn-pdf
July 01, 2017 - Many studies have
profiled physicians who experience medicolegal events, typically by comparing them … Available evidence suggests that,
compared to physicians who experience no or few events, medicolegal … Alternatively, the may signal a much larger quality problem that afflicts many of the patients that … Physician–patient communication. … Medical malpractice experience of
physicians. Predictable or haphazard? JAMA. 1989;262:3291-3297.
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February 14, 2017 - alert overrides in electronic health
records: an observational retrospective study of a decade
of experience … alert overrides in electronic health records: an
observational retrospective study of a decade of experience … rising-drug-allergy-alert-overrides-electronic-health-records-observational-
retrospective
Alert fatigue is recognized as a barrier to patient … overuse of alerts in health care settings and the need to
improve their use to effectively support patient
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January 15, 2009 - electronic medical records in primary care:
lessons learned from health information systems
implementation experience … electronic medical records in primary care: lessons learned from health
information systems implementation experience … regarding adoption of health information systems in primary care and
assessed whether quality and patient
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December 06, 2013 - An AHRQ WebM&M perspective reveals a nurse's experience with MRSA. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/interpreting-patient-safety-literature
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective … /interpreting-patient-safety-literature
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/interrelationship-isolation-precautions-and-adverse-events-acute-care-facility … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unexpected-hypoglycemia-critically-ill-patient
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue … /health-care-associated-infections
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/connies-story-nurses-personal-experience-mrsa
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November 01, 2018 - Supervision and Entrustment in Clinical Training: Protecting Patients, Protecting Trainees. … by experienced clinicians;
(iii) but experience must emerge in trainees who start without experience … ; and (iv) experience requires the
active care of patients. … While they deserve adequate guidance, progression to unsupervised practice may require that they
experience … , experience with learners, propensity to trust).(5,6) Challenging learners to engage in
new clinical
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June 11, 2014 - cycle-redemption-medical-error-disclosure-and-apology-program
Clinicians who are involved in a medical error and experience … cycle-redemption-medical-error-disclosure-and-apology-program
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-error-second-victim
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-patient-family-and-clinician-experience-after-harmful-events-when-things-go-wrong
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December 19, 2007 - Patient Saf Qual Healthc. November/December 2012;9:24-27,30-32,34. … Patient Saf Qual Healthc. November/December 2012;9:24-27,30-32,34. … The Massachusetts experience. … June 13, 2011
Debriefing for patient safety. … July 30, 2014
Eight-year experience with a neurosurgical checklist.
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March 28, 2012 - Introduction of an obstetric-specific medical emergency
team for obstetric crises: implementation and experience … Introduction of an obstetric-specific medical emergency team
for obstetric crises: implementation and experience … introduction-obstetric-specific-medical-emergency-team-obstetric-crises-
implementation-and
Implementation of rapid response systems is designed to improve patient
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August 02, 2012 - found that children in hospitals with high reliance on Medicaid reimbursements are more likely to
experience … In addition, pediatric inpatients with Medicaid are more likely than privately
insured children to experience … medicaid-hospital-financial-stress-and-incidence-adverse-medical-events-children
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/does-patients-payer-matter-hospital-patient-safety-study-urban-hospitals
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August 17, 2018 - Association of opioid-related adverse drug events with
clinical and cost outcomes among surgical patients … Patients receiving higher dose and longer duration of
opioids were more likely to experience adverse … mortality risk, and a higher rate of
readmissions compared to those who did not experience problems … The authors
call for reducing opioid use in acute care, postoperative settings in order to improve patient … psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/readmissions-and-adverse-events-after-discharge
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-and-opioid-medications