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December 04, 2016 - port closest to the patient, unless contraindicated or inaccessible for use, such as during a sterile procedure … Vasoplegia after cardiovascular procedures—pathophysiology and targeted therapy. … Errors in the administration of intravenous medications in hospital and the role of correct procedures … Errors and discrepancies in the administration of intravenous infusions: a mixed-methods multihospital … Furniss D, Back J, Blandford A.
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October 01, 2007 - She was brought back to the emergency department and ultimately admitted to an inpatient psychiatry unit … a supportive manner.( 8 ) Longer trainings, such as Mental Health First Aid, are also available and teach … Another best practice is counseling patients specifically on lethal means, methods for suicide with
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June 01, 2010 - During high-risk procedures, providers must be allowed to focus on the procedure without interruptions … (iv) ED systems for teamwork and handoffs as well as guidelines for procedures and checklists should … Risks of complications by attending physicians after performing nighttime procedures. … [go to PubMed]
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Table. Model of Patient Safety. … That's in contrast to a slower analytical, deductive method that's much more precise and often yields
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February 01, 2014 - Methods Inf Med. 2011;50:447-453. [go to PubMed]
2. Relihan E, O'Brien V, O'Hara S, Silke B. … You can get back into the task. … They teach us a lot about the sorts of systems we can eventually put in place to minimize distraction … that the person using your system might be distracted, turn away to do something else, and then come back … Of course the person answered the text message and went back and forgot to order the medicine and it
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March 01, 2007 - answer, although the mistake would most likely be attributed to an
unexplainable lapse in following procedures … To prevent unintentional unsafe acts—slips, lapses, mistakes, or procedure violations—the
contributory … Make it easy to report and provide several different reporting methods.
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August 31, 2020 - KH: Let’s go back to a couple of points you have made that I’d like to highlight. … KH: That idea really resonates - bringing together the culture and person and family engagement as
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May 29, 2024 - Elements include verification and resolution of incorrect counts; a brief summary of the
procedure and … Visual counter uses a white board that includes the patient identifiers and procedure details. … After they determined a simple plan for providers to follow in highly complex
procedures, they knew … To sustain
the gains from this campaign, Ascension is launching a “We Got Your Back” cultural campaign … Auditors review at least 20 operating room procedures per month.
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August 01, 2007 - learned that, rather than just fixing things for our practice or the guy down the hall, with the right methods … wonderful stuff we just did," they'd hear"A patient lost their hand in a farm accident and we put it back … If I, as CEO, can look them in the eye and say, the board is expecting us to come back in 3 months with … delays because you have to send it out to get all the data from whoever has to vet the stuff and get it back … targets are not met, they expect corrective action and carefully follow progress until the situation is back
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August 01, 2007 - targets are not met, they expect corrective action and carefully follow progress until the situation is back … learned that, rather than just fixing things for our practice or the guy down the hall, with the right methods … wonderful stuff we just did," they'd hear"A patient lost their hand in a farm accident and we put it back … If I, as CEO, can look them in the eye and say, the board is expecting us to come back in 3 months with … delays because you have to send it out to get all the data from whoever has to vet the stuff and get it back
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May 01, 2007 - Systematic data collection of the hazards of health care can be traced back at least to the time of Florence … Charles Vincent, PhD Professor of Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College London
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Back … 1950s and 1960s, it had all been about technical factors: the design of aircraft, the development of procedures … structure, and what seems to be invariable across national boundaries, organizational systems, and payment methods … That's where we can go back to the lessons of the airline industry.
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July 31, 2023 - number of handoffs, which has been associated with more medical errors. 10 As a result, a structured method … draw attention to the vegetation finding in this case earlier after patient discharge and transfer back … Another method that may improve effective communication incorporates elements of CLC whereby an alert
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February 26, 2025 - If that is not part of this organization, we could put that RCA back on the shelf and not look at it … Jessica Behrhorst: When we teach RCA 2 , we stress that it is a toolkit, not just one tool. … I often think back to my early career. … Several years back, RCA 2 got approval from The Joint Commission. … For these reasons, the RCA method is supported by leading accrediting and federal agencies as a way
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February 26, 2025 - For these reasons, the RCA method is supported by leading accrediting and federal agencies as a way … If that is not part of this organization, we could put that RCA back on the shelf and not look at it … Jessica Behrhorst: When we teach RCA 2 , we stress that it is a toolkit, not just one tool. … I often think back to my early career. … Several years back, RCA 2 got approval from The Joint Commission.
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January 31, 2024 - Recognition of the multifactorial contributors to diagnostic safety spans back almost 20 years with Dr … work on diagnostic error in 2005, which includes an identification of systemic problems with policy, procedures … Recently, researchers and clinicians have debated methods for calculating error rates. … Methods to Improve Diagnostic Safety
Because misdiagnosis arises from complex factors, reducing misdiagnosis
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April 26, 2023 - Recognition of the multifactorial contributors to diagnostic safety spans back almost 20 years with … work on diagnostic error in 2005, which includes an identification of
systemic problems with policy, procedures … Recently, researchers and clinicians have debated methods for calculating error rates. … Methods to Improve Diagnostic Safety
Because misdiagnosis arises from complex factors, reducing misdiagnosis
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July 01, 2008 - answer, although the mistake would most likely be attributed to an unexplainable lapse in following procedures … To prevent unintentional unsafe acts—slips, lapses, mistakes, or procedure violations—the contributory … Make it easy to report and provide several different reporting methods. … October 27, 2010
Procedures should promote patient safety.
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May 01, 2007 - 1950s and 1960s, it had all been about technical factors: the design of aircraft, the development of procedures … structure, and what seems to be invariable across national boundaries, organizational systems, and payment methods … That's where we can go back to the lessons of the airline industry. … Systematic data collection of the hazards of health care can be traced back at least to the time of Florence … Charles Vincent, PhD Professor of Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College London
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September 01, 2011 - For measuring the actual incidence of safety events, other detection methods are more sensitive, including … errors, are currently addressed through morbidity and mortality conferences and hospital credentialing procedures … The actions that hospital leaders take in response to reports teach providers whether the time and risks … The VA has done a very good job with getting back to the reporter. … about what makes a good incident reporting system, it sounds like obviously a very strong follow-up procedure
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September 01, 2011 - The VA has done a very good job with getting back to the reporter. … about what makes a good incident reporting system, it sounds like obviously a very strong follow-up procedure … For measuring the actual incidence of safety events, other detection methods are more sensitive, including … errors, are currently addressed through morbidity and mortality conferences and hospital credentialing procedures … The actions that hospital leaders take in response to reports teach providers whether the time and risks
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May 01, 2012 - Emerging Handoff Curricula
Although numerous curricula and instructional methods have been developed … references
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A common way to teach … to evaluate receivers on use
of active listening behaviors, such as interactive questioning, read-back