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141. Missed acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department-standardizing measurement of misdiagnosis-related harms using the SPADE method. | PSNet
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     May 12, 2021 - hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower in specialty care than general practice: a population-based … May 10, 2023 Diagnostic error among vulnerable populations presenting to the emergency

142. Antecedent treat-and-release diagnoses prior to sepsis hospitalization among adult emergency department patients: a look-back analysis employing insurance claims data using Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error (SPADE) methodology. | PSNet
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     May 12, 2021 - hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower in specialty care than general practice: a population-based … View More Related Resources Diagnostic error among vulnerable populations

143. Rapid response systems: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet
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     January 29, 2018 - This meta-analysis of rapid response systems concludes that despite the heterogeneity of included populations … varying study designs, rapid response teams do improve in-hospital mortality for pediatric and adult populations

144. The Role of Health Literacy in Patient Safety | PSNet
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     March 22, 2009 - of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations … Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: You work in a county hospital with underserved populations, which … What are some of the unique challenges of doing patient safety work in that population? Dr. … One unique challenge that I face in caring for that population in that setting is the degree to which … RW: You mentioned that half of the U.S. population has health literacy levels below adequate.

145. The Deadly Duo | PSNet
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     April 28, 2021 - epidemiologic survey, specialists in mental and addictive disorders provided treatment to 5.9% of the US population … , while 6.4% of the population sought mental health services from general medical physicians.( 5 ) … psychiatric illness and non-psychiatrists can safely dispense many psychoactive medications, both the patient population … Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2002 and 2005. Statistical Brief #206. … Association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and upper gastrointestinal bleeding: population

146. Language Barrier | PSNet
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     February 28, 2024 - and a 53% increase in the number of LEP Americans.( 2 , 3 ) Between 1980 and 2000, both of these populations … more than doubled, whereas the overall US population increased only 25%.( 2 ) Unfortunately, nearly … A recent study of all 161 pharmacies in the Bronx, NY (a borough with a large Spanish-speaking population … trained volunteers from local universities.( 16 ) For clinics and hospitals caring for larger LEP populations

147. Breakage of a PICC Line | PSNet
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     June 21, 2023 - several reasons, not only in the NICU setting but also in the general inpatient and outpatient pediatric population … , and dysfunction.( 5 ) Several retrospective studies have tracked these complications in pediatric populations … PICC-related complications in 53 pediatric patients with various types of malignancies.( 8 ) In this population … Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) fracture and embolization in the pediatric population.

148. The incidence and cost of unexpected hospital use after scheduled outpatient endoscopy. | PSNet
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     October 31, 2012 - January 22, 2020 Inpatient patient safety events in vulnerable populations: a retrospective … hematology patients: using medication triggers to identify patient harm in a specialized pediatric patient population

149. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2012 - nearly 16,000 nursing homes across the United States.(1) In 2008, 2.8 million Americans, or 7.2% of the population … a very complex set of challenges to providing safe and high-quality care for a vulnerable patient population … Transitions between the nursing home, the emergency room, and the hospital are very common in this patient population

150. Health Care Data Science for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety | PSNet
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     October 01, 2016 - After failing a few times to get valid datasets pertaining to a specific patient population from report … Platt is Professor and Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine. … RP : It's now possible to talk about the experience of large, well-defined populations, which is a great … RW : What are you seeing in terms of your ability to follow populations over time as people move from … And on the population medicine front, we've partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

151. Acute Care Admission of the Behavioral Health Patient | PSNet
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     July 19, 2023 - both mental and physical illness, and the risks associated with inadequate care coordination for this population … Analysis of population reduction in New York State mental hospitals during the first four years of large-scale … Antidopaminergic drugs and acute pancreatitis: a population-based study. BMJ Open. 2012;2:e000914.

152. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit. | PSNet
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     June 12, 2024 - Detection rates of mild cognitive impairment in primary care for the United States Medicare population

153. Failed Interpretation of Screening Tool: Delayed Treatment | PSNet
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     August 20, 2018 - increases with age, such that patients older than 65 years (who account for about 12% of the United States population … survival.( 8 ) Although the accuracy of these systems has not been studied specifically in the older population … sepsis in older patients, the test characteristics of sepsis alerts may well be even worse in this population … sepsis phenotypes in elderly patients as well as to improve diagnostic support tools across all relevant populations … There is a need to develop better tools to identify sepsis in different populations.

154. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes | PSNet
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     April 10, 2024 - , although the disparity decreased as COVID-19 cases increased in the general population. … This reflects the extreme vulnerability of this population of older adults to COVID-19. … infection control practices, and homes with higher numbers of residents from racial and ethnic minority populations … Prevalence of comorbidities and risks associated with COVID-19 among Black and Hispanic populations in … [Free full text] FDA authorizes booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for certain populations

155. Potential biases in machine learning algorithms using electronic health record data. | PSNet
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     June 12, 2019 - Disadvantaged populations are more likely to receive care in multiple health systems. … The authors raise concern that implicit bias in the care that disadvantaged populations receive may

156. Doctor, Don't Treat Thyself | PSNet
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     August 21, 2024 - Physicians use hypnotic and anxiolytic agents more often than comparable groups in the general population … In the United Kingdom, where the entire population is required to have a personal physician, up to 99% … Psychoactive drug use among medical doctors is higher than in the general population.

157. Detecting and treating suicide ideation in all settings. | PSNet
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     March 25, 2025 - Patient Safety Innovations Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population

158. Diagnostic Excellence. | PSNet
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     December 08, 2021 - January 8, 2020 Understanding preventable deaths in the geriatric trauma population:

159. PSNet Curated Library (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2021 - adopted as one approach to preventing medication errors, but less is known about their use in pediatric populations … Investigators studied a large population of Medicare enrollees in a single multispecialty group practice … Building on a previous study in the same patient population, investigators...

160. In Conversation With… Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH | PSNet
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     February 26, 2025 - , and following test results and referrals, it is going to actually provide better outcomes for the population-based … TG : The Affordable Care Act has drawn this focus on value and population health, especially with newer … If you suddenly have to invest in a large number of case managers to care for patients across the population … about safety more broadly in the ambulatory environment and think about safety and its relationship to population