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141. Adverse drug events in ambulatory care. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-drug-events-ambulatory-care
     February 24, 2011 - The rate of ADEs in this study approached 27 per 100 patients, a rate that quadruples those estimated

142. Misdiagnosis of heart failure: a systematic review of the literature. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/misdiagnosis-heart-failure-systematic-review-literature
     October 06, 2021 - Based on 10 included studies, the rate of heart failure misdiagnosis ranged from 16.1% (in an inpatient … October 6, 2021 Rate of sepsis hospitalizations after misdiagnosis in adult emergency

143. Impact of the unit-based patient safety officer. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-unit-based-patient-safety-officer
     September 19, 2012 - officer was implemented on a surgical unit at an academic medical center that had a persistently high rate … The fall rate among inpatients decreased markedly after the patient safety officer position was begun

144. Deaths Not Foretold: Are Unexpected Deaths Useful Patient Safety Signals? | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/deaths-not-foretold-are-unexpected-deaths-useful-patient-safety-signals
     March 01, 2004 - approximately 20% experienced an adverse event.( 7 ) Outside of research settings, even this event rate … "( 8 ) In absolute terms, however, the rate of quality problems was only 9.8% among patients who died … While the researcher (and purist) in me wants to emphasize this high false-positive rate associated … Admittedly, and notwithstanding its low sensitivity and high false-positive rate, it is still difficult … Low false-positive rate The majority of cases identified by the detection strategy turn out to

145. Opioid-related critical care resource use in US children's hospitals. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-related-critical-care-resource-use-us-childrens-hospitals
     June 10, 2020 - Although the mortality rate for pediatric opioid ingestion was 1.6%, more than one-third of cases required … May 25, 2011 The host hospital 24-hour underreferral rate: an automated measure of call-center

146. Do hospitals provide lower quality care on weekends? | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/do-hospitals-provide-lower-quality-care-weekends
     January 12, 2022 - higher risk of mortality from conditions requiring emergency treatment and may experience a higher rate … This finding corroborates another recent study , which also found a lower rate of invasive procedure

147. Perception of safety of surgical practice among operating room personnel from survey data is associated with all-cause 30-day postoperative death rate in South Carolina. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/perception-safety-surgical-practice-among-operating-room-personnel-survey-data-associated-all
     February 07, 2018 - among operating room personnel from survey data is associated with all-cause 30-day postoperative death rate … Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate … Among Operating Room Personnel From Survey Data Is Associated With All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate

148. A comparison of medication administration errors from original medication packaging and multi-compartment compliance aids in care homes: a prospective observational study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/comparison-medication-administration-errors-original-medication-packaging-and-multi
     July 24, 2024 - When medications were dispensed from original packaging, the medication administration error rate was … When multicompartment devices were used, the medication administration error rate was 3%.

149. Medication prescribing errors in a teaching hospital. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-prescribing-errors-teaching-hospital
     December 23, 2008 - Results indicated an overall error rate of 3.13 errors per 1000 orders written, with the greatest rate

150. The impact of electronic medical records data sources on an adverse drug event quality measure. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-electronic-medical-records-data-sources-adverse-drug-event-quality-measure
     July 31, 2013 - This study found that the rate of a trigger tool–based drug safety quality measure varied widely depending … on the specific data source used to calculate the rate.

151. Medical errors in US pediatric inpatients with chronic conditions. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-errors-us-pediatric-inpatients-chronic-conditions
     November 04, 2014 - sample had at least one chronic medical condition, and among these patients, the overall medical error rate … was almost four times higher than the rate among children without chronic medical conditions.

152. Errare humanum est: frequency of laterality errors in radiology reports. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/errare-humanum-est-frequency-laterality-errors-radiology-reports
     September 13, 2023 - Investigators reviewed more than 1 million reports at a single institution and discovered a very low rate … December 14, 2016 Increasing rate of detection of wrong-patient radiographs: use of photographs

153. The impact of drug shortages on children with cancer—the example of mechlorethamine. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-drug-shortages-children-cancer-example-mechlorethamine
     February 15, 2023 - This article demonstrates that children who received cyclophosphamide clearly had a higher rate of treatment … of error types and frequency and development of a quality improvement initiative to lower the error rate

154. Retrospective cohort study of wrong-patient imaging order errors: how many reach the patient? | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/retrospective-cohort-study-wrong-patient-imaging-order-errors-how-many-reach-patient
     February 22, 2023 - The researchers estimated an overall rate of 51.5 per 100,000 imaging orders involving wrong-patient … June 13, 2015 Increasing rate of detection of wrong-patient radiographs: use of photographs

155. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36692/psn-pdf
     January 18, 2011 - objective-medical-emergency-team-activation-criteria-case-control-study The authors found that respiratory rate … , heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and level of consciousness identified potential for cardiac arrest

156. Clinician-directed performance improvement: moving beyond externally mandated metrics. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinician-directed-performance-improvement-moving-beyond-externally-mandated-metrics
     July 10, 2008 - Examples of CDPI include projects that focused on reducing the rate of healthcare-associated infections …   and the rate of adverse drug events.  

157. Double gloves: a randomized trial to evaluate a simple strategy to reduce contamination in the operating room. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/double-gloves-randomized-trial-evaluate-simple-strategy-reduce-contamination-operating-room
     November 09, 2015 - gloves during intubations—with the outer pair removed immediately afterward—was associated with a lower rate … August 24, 2022 Decreased incidence of cesarean surgical site infection rate with hospital-wide

158. Minimizing electronic health record patient–note mismatches. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/minimizing-electronic-health-record-patient-note-mismatches
     December 27, 2014 - This study noted a 0.3% patient–note mismatch rate (i.e., finding a note in another patient’s record) … , and the authors suggest that the rate depends highly on the user interface design of the system.

159. The objective medical emergency team activation criteria: a case-control study. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/objective-medical-emergency-team-activation-criteria-case-control-study
     June 22, 2009 - The authors found that respiratory rate, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and level of consciousness

160. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41682/psn-pdf
     September 19, 2012 - officer was implemented on a surgical unit at an academic medical center that had a persistently high rate … The fall rate among inpatients decreased markedly after the patient safety officer position was begun