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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/factors-associated-malpractice-claim-payout-analysis-closed-emergency-department-claims
May 18, 2022 - 29, 2023
Preferences and perceptions of medical error disclosure among marginalized populations … Missed diagnosis of stroke in the emergency department: a cross-sectional analysis of a large population-based
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/expand-evidence-base-about-harms-tests-and-treatments
May 19, 2021 - Research is especially important in vulnerable patient populations. … Diagnostic discordance, health information exchange, and inter-hospital transfer outcomes: a population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/reducing-safety-hazards-monitor-alert-and-alarm-fatigue
May 01, 2016 - Artifacts in the waveform
Alarm settings, limits, and delays
Setting alarms based on clinical population … meet workflow expectations when the baseline of your patient does not match the normal healthy adult population … In other cases, the default settings may not be appropriate for a given patient population, such as in … These decisions should be based on the workflow and patient population for each individual unit. … Patient centered design of alarm limits in a complex patient population. Pediatrics.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/radiation-safety
September 15, 2024 - Radiation Risks Associated With Diagnostic Imaging Population-based studies show that the use of diagnostic … imaging has exploded over the past two decades, with one population-based study showing that the number … has led to a dramatic increase in ionizing radiation exposure to individual patients and the general population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/bloody-bp-cuff
June 21, 2016 - The reported prevalence of HIV infection in emergency department patient populations ranges from 0.15% … to 7.8%,( 3-5 ) with even higher values reported from centers with particularly high-risk patient populations … human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and rapid plasma reagin in a trauma population … Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus seroprevalence in an urban trauma population. … 17, 2011
A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867770/psn-pdf
March 01, 2022 - This toolkit can help
hospitals implement a successful decolonization protocol for adult general population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/perspectives-patient-and-family-engagement-reduction-harm-forgotten-voice
December 01, 2011 - prevalence and correlates of patient-perceived medical errors experienced in the U.S. ambulatory setting: a population-based … Exploring the concept of medication discrepancy within the context of patient safety to improve population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/development-just-culture-assessment-tool-measuring-perceptions-health-care-professionals
January 12, 2022 - This instrument now needs to be validated in other settings and among broader populations. … hematology patients: using medication triggers to identify patient harm in a specialized pediatric patient population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/checklists-reduce-diagnostic-error-systematic-review-literature-using-human-factors-framework
February 22, 2023 - risk factors associated with delayed and missed diagnostic opportunities related to tuberculosis: a population-based … Diagnostic Safety and Quality
April 26, 2023
Diagnostic error among vulnerable populations
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-contributes-diagnostic-error-or-delay-qualitative-exploration-across-diverse-acute-care
March 16, 2022 - October 12, 2022
Diagnostic error among vulnerable populations presenting to the emergency … limited English-language health literacy or disadvantaged socioeconomic position in a cross-sectional US population-based
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/world-health-organization-field-trial-assessing-proposed-icd-11-framework-classifying-patient
December 29, 2014 - administrative datasets could improve detection of errors, adverse events, and near misses on a population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quasi-experimental-evaluation-effectiveness-large-scale-readmission-reduction-program
January 07, 2015 - readmission rate dropped from 21.5% to 19.5% in the intervention group and from 21.1% to 21.0% in the control population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-drug-events-among-hospitalized-medicare-patients-epidemiology-and-national-estimates
April 05, 2016 - Medicare patients) to arrive at national estimates for the incidence of ADEs in the Medicare patient population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-prescribing-safety-alerts-elderly-persons-electronic-medical-record-interrupted-time
July 10, 2008 - This study is a first to evaluate a computerized alert system in a large population-based primary care
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/delayed-symptomatic-subdural-hematoma-following-initially-normal-ct-head
March 27, 2024 - largely been limited to case series of elderly patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulation therapy, a population … cerebrospinal fluid under the dura mater of the brain and are more likely to be seen in the elderly population … history of migraine, or pre-injury mood disorder or learning disability. 27 However, even in this population … initial head imaging is interpreted as negative for hemorrhage; this is especially true in the older population … 28, 2018
Opioid prescribing patterns and complications in the dermatology Medicare population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/handoffs-and-transitions
February 01, 2007 - delivery organizations have tried diverse approaches tailored to the culture, workforce, and patient population … and Dhalla studies highlight the need to customize certain interventions to a diverse set of patient populations … commentary that adjusting quality-performance scores based on the socioeconomic status of patient populations … substantial risk for penalizing healthcare organizations and providers who serve more disadvantaged populations … the importance of context in applying interventions in different settings and for different patient populations
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/improving-diagnostic-safety-and-quality
February 22, 2023 - identify underlying causes of diagnostic error and offer examples of how clinical settings and patient populations … making a diagnosis and choosing a treatment plan, clinicians may need to balance individual versus population … reflect clinician bias toward treatment, when faced with diagnostic uncertainty, because risks to the population … Reducing misdiagnosis in these situations may have broader, population-level effects on patient safety … Patient Safety Innovations
Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/burnout-and-medical-errors-among-american-surgeons
December 21, 2014 - Changes in burnout and satisfaction with work-life balance in physicians and the general US working population … Burnout and satisfaction with work-life balance among US physicians relative to the general US population
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60156/psn-pdf
March 25, 2020 - Opportunities to use cyber-social systems in public and population health (e.g.,
disease tracking) and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/primary-care-and-patient-safety-opportunities-interface
September 28, 2022 - or populations that just have significant barriers to care. … For example, one goal is that since hypertension is such a huge issue in these populations, everybody … FS: If you don't have a good infrastructure to do population health, you will not be able to address … Providers that get MPHs as part of their education have a good understanding usually of population health … You want to achieve 90% of a metric in a patient population, for instance, colorectal cancer screening