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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/final_spotlight_miscommunication_possible_artifact_06.21.2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - & Patient
Safety Target
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Approach to Improving Safety & Patient Safety Target (1)
• The American … Available at: https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety-topics/sentinel-
event/. … & Patient Safety Target
Approach to Improving Safety & Patient Safety Target (1)
Approach to Improving … Safety & Patient Safety Target (2)
Approach to Improving Safety & Patient Safety Target (3)
Approach … to Improving Safety & Patient Safety Target (4)
Approach to Improving Safety & Patient Safety Target
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.362_slideshow.ppt
December 01, 2015 - physiologic monitor devices: a comprehensive observational study of consecutive intensive care unit patients … physiologic monitor devices: a comprehensive observational study of consecutive intensive care unit patients … as a National Patient Safety Goal in 2014
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A siren call to action: priority issues from the medical … Safety Goal. … to avoid excessive alarms and alarm fatigue
Alarm safety is a National Patient Safety Goal, highlighting
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33684/psn-pdf
May 01, 2009 - Patient Safety: A Perspective from Office Practice
May 1, 2009
Baron RJ. … Patient Safety: A Perspective from Office Practice. PSNet [internet]. 2009. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-perspective-office-practice
Perspective
Most patient … Many potential and
actual safety problems occur there as well.(1) Yet patient safety literature and … Patient Safety Issues in the Office-Based Setting.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33850/psn-pdf
January 01, 2018 - EHR Copy and Paste and Patient Safety
January 1, 2018
Dean SM. … EHR Copy and Paste and Patient Safety. PSNet [internet]. 2018. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/ehr-copy-and-paste-and-patient-safety
Perspective
Although the ability … review of published studies identified 13
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/ehr-copy-and-paste-and-patient-safety … Partnership for Health IT Patient
Safety. Plymouth Meeting, PA: ECRI; February 2016.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/under-pressure-tracheostomy-cuff-over-inflation-leading-tissue-necrosis-and-cuff-rupture
March 15, 2023 - use, tracheal infection, and tracheostomy below the third tracheal ring. 7,8 Approach to Improving Safety … Percutaneous tracheostomy in critically ill patients. … November 16, 2022
Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting. … June 21, 2023
Patient Safety Innovations
Remote Response … April 26, 2023
Implementing strategies to identify and mitigate adverse safety
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/initiative-reduce-insulin-related-adverse-drug-events-childrens-hospital
March 24, 2021 - Insulin is a high-risk medication and can contribute to adverse events in pediatric patients. … The burden of opioid-related adverse drug events on hospitalized previously opioid-free surgical patients … March 10, 2021
Predictors of serious opioid-related adverse drug events in hospitalized patients … with Type 1 Diabetes and Home Insulin Pump
October 28, 2020
Is one-pen, one-patient … More
See More About The Topic
Children's Hospitals
Nurse Managers
Quality and Safety
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December 01, 2012 - RW : Let's turn to delirium as a patient safety issue. … It seems to me it's entered the patient safety world over the last 3 or 4 years. … And that is not necessarily practical for these large-scale patient safety initiatives. … Now that it is on the patient safety radar screen, one would want to take advantage of that light and … passed safety criteria; (iii) Sedatives were not restarted for patients that passed the SAT and no longer
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January 01, 2024 - APPROACHES TO IMPROVING PATIENT
SAFETY
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Approaches to Improving Patient Safety (1)
• The tragedy … Safety (2)
• Failure to follow-up on abnormal laboratory results is not an uncommon system or
process … error and can lead to dire consequences for patients … Safety (3)
• In this case, the lack of apparent systemic symptoms and predominant
presentation of … Psychotic presentations in patients with strong family history or personal history of
SLE mandate
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/media-essential-if-sometimes-arbitrary-promoter-patient-safety
October 01, 2009 - The Media: An Essential, If Sometimes Arbitrary, Promoter of Patient Safety
Robert M. … Understanding Patient Safety. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Professional; 2007. … I'm most passionate about patient safety and medical errors. … An American View of the UK's Patient Safety Enterprise: Top Down vs. … The Role of the Patient in Improving Patient Safety
March 1, 2007
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/strongyloides-hidden-traveler-and-potentially-lethal-missed-diagnosis
August 25, 2021 - Schiff, MD
Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Patient Safety Research … Safety Research and Practice, and the State of Massachusetts Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, … Approach to patients with eosinophilia. … Safety in Primary Care
February 21, 2020
WebM&M Cases … August 10, 2022
Patient Safety Primers
Coronavirus Disease
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49709/psn-pdf
May 01, 2014 - perianesthesia nursing practice as it
relates to patient safety. … Dropping off and leaving patients unattended—and without fall precautions—is a safety risk and can disrupt … Jim Stotts, RN, MS, CNS Patient Safety Manager Patient Safety and Quality Services University of … Patient safety and office-based anesthesia. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol.
2012;25:648-653. … Interprofessional handover and patient safety in anaesthesia:
observational study of handovers in the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/improving-diagnostic-safety-and-quality
January 31, 2024 - Perspective authors reviewed articles related to clinical misdiagnosis and patient safety added to the … Reducing misdiagnosis in these situations may have broader, population-level effects on patient safety … In patient-centered work to categorize diagnostic error, patients emphasized that communication breakdowns … patients. … Organization (HRO) Principles and Patient Safety
February 26, 2025
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/spotlight_overdose_of_gabapentin_and_oxycodone_in_a_patient_with_end-stage_renal_disease.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Opioids in Renal Dysfunction13
Safety in Renal
Dysfunction
Opioid Starting Dose
(opioid naïve patients … pain, with monitoring of renal
function.23
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APPROACH TO IMPROVING PATIENT
SAFETY
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Approach … to Improving Patient Safety (1)
• Computerized clinical decision support (CDS) provides timely patient … leading to inappropriate alerts or failure to alert.
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Approach to Improving Patient Safety (4) … Safety (5)
• To reduce alert fatigue and provider dissatisfaction with the EHR, many
institutions
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December 23, 2020 - The patient also was not compliant with attempts to begin fetal surveillance. … Coordination of Disease Treatment and Palliative Care
November 30, 2021
Patients … 21, 2014
Moving toward improved teamwork in cancer care: the role of psychological safety … Related Resources
Annual Perspective
Improving Diagnostic Safety … Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy: Enhancing Perinatal Health Through Quality, Safety
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August 21, 2005 - Other safety mechanisms should include the addition of drug allergy status to all correspondence between … Penicillin allergy: a study of incidence as reported by patients. Br J Clin Pract. 1994;48:5-7. … safety reporting systems: sustained quality improvement using a multidisciplinary team and "Good Catch … safety situations in transplantation. … July 6, 2022
Allergy safety events in healthcare: development and application of a classification
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/systems-approach
June 15, 2024 - Three widely used tools for investigating and responding to patient safety events and near misses are … discussed in detail in the Strategies and Approaches for Investigating Patient Safety Events primer … Safety July 31, 2023
Related Resources
Patient Safety Innovations … and Quality
April 26, 2023
Patient Safety Primers … March 4, 2020
Patient Safety Curriculum.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74253/psn-pdf
January 12, 2022 - Patient Safety Events and the Role of Patient Safety
Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
January … Patient Safety Events and the Role of Patient Safety Organizations
During the COVID-19 Pandemic. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-events-and-role-patient-safety-organizations-during-covid … voluntarily submitted by federally listed Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to the Patient Safety … Patient Safety. 2020;2(2):16-27.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33719/psn-pdf
October 01, 2011 - Most health personnel untrained in patient safety theories often
assume avoidable patient injuries are … thinking related to
patient safety.(10) The aspects of context first to be studied are those that are … culture, there have been fewer studies of the contribution of the social context to patient safety, … Human factors engineering and patient safety. Qual Saf Health Care. 2002;11:352-354. … How does context affect interventions to improve patient
safety?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49565/psn-pdf
July 01, 2008 - Therefore, the patient did not receive this
supplemental nutrition for 24 hours. … viewed as a routine task, while in reality the
administration of medications to frail and elderly patients … Lucian Leape on patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Interview by Peter I. Buerhaus. … Is hospital patient care becoming safer? A conversation with Lucian Leape. Interview by Peter
I. … Technology to improve medication safety in nursing homes.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49522/psn-pdf
November 01, 2006 - Later that day, the patient complained of pain over her right upper arm. … For example, patient safety indicators derived from administrative data sources can be valuable
https … about where to seek care or direct patients. … First, the current
immunization measures apply only to patients with pneumonia, so while this patient … Safety of intramuscular influenza immunization among patients
receiving long-term warfarin anticoagulation