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341. Measuring the cost of hospital adverse patient safety events. | PSNet
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     November 16, 2022 - March 13, 2024 Dissemination of Lean methods to improve Pap testing quality and patient … October 13, 2010 Testing the association between Patient Safety Indicators and hospital

342. Confusion—specimen mix-up in dermatopathology and measures to prevent and detect it. | PSNet
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     February 12, 2020 - February 2, 2022 When diagnostic testing leads to harm: a new outcomes-based approach … September 18, 2013 Developing and pilot testing practical measures of preanalytic surgical

343. Diagnostic error in internal medicine. | PSNet
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     May 25, 2022 - Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Development and usability testing … April 3, 2018 When diagnostic testing leads to harm: a new outcomes-based approach for

344. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49490/psn-pdf
     September 01, 2005 - Ginsburg also applied heuristic evaluation and HFE usability testing to three infusion pumps.(9) In usability … testing, 17 typical infusion pump users attempted several realistic clinical scenarios on 3 infusion … to industry their commitment to HFE aspects of design.(13) Other hospitals are employing usability testing … in HFE principles, can detect and suggest fixes for many potential vulnerabilities.(14) Usability testing … Usability testing can also guide the focus and content of in-service training on infusion pumps.

345. Timely diagnosis of esophageal perforation | PSNet
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     September 27, 2023 - take many forms, many experts agree that effective diagnosticians are good at “iterative hypothesis testing … diagnoses. 5   Systematic pressures in modern inpatient care may detract from using iterative hypothesis testing … unexplained hydropneumothorax in a systemically ill patient should prompt urgent evaluation by a surgeon and testing … Gathering accurate information, forming thoughtful differential diagnoses, and iteratively testing hypothetical … Teaching clinical medicine by iterative hypothesis testing. Let's preach what we practice. 

346. Delayed workup of rectal bleeding in adult primary care: examining process-of-care failures. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2018 - history, incomplete physical examination performance or documentation, and lack of needed laboratory testing … Consistent with prior studies , failure to order laboratory testing and plan follow-up were associated

347. Evaluating shared decision making for lung cancer screening. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluating-shared-decision-making-lung-cancer-screening
     May 25, 2016 - poor understanding of SDM may be exposing patients to harm through limited understanding of diagnostic testing … March 29, 2010 Academic detailing to improve laboratory testing among outpatient medication

348. Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors. | PSNet
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     June 24, 2009 - pulmonary embolism and drug reactions or overdose, with the errors occurring most frequently in the testing … February 27, 2014 The landscape of inappropriate laboratory testing: a 15-year meta-analysis

349. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49812/psn-pdf
     November 01, 2017 - Preanalytic error, as occurred in this case, typically involves the steps of laboratory testing that … When easily retrievable specimens such as blood or a gastrointestinal mucosal biopsy are lost, repeat testing … well-meaning personnel.(4) Given the inherent complexity and risk associated with the laboratory ordering and testing … Additional, standard communication between the laboratory and the primary clinical team to clarify testing … Adverse Events Reported by Testing Phase (n, %), Out of a Sample of 1797 Adverse Events.

350. Spotlight-Slides-Wright-Schiff (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - providers don't have to enter them themselves Recommendations for Safe Prescribing (2) 18 • Improve testing … of CPOE to pharmacy system linkages, including end-to-end testing where orders are written in a … indication-based ordering (that would allow tailoring orders to different clinical indications) and better testing

351. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867004/psn-pdf
     October 30, 2024 - Innovation Snapshot When a patient presents to the emergency department (ED) and receives radiologic testing … , the testing can identify unrelated abnormal findings1 Unfortunately, this information is often not … of this innovation are as follows: A healthcare professional who assists patients with follow-up testing … needed as there are frequent needs to review the radiologist’s interpretation for recommended follow-up testing

352. Spotlight (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2019 - ED utilization of medical clearance testing for psychiatric admission: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical … should start with a history, review of systems, vital signs, and physical examination Routine laboratory testing … ED utilization of medical clearance testing for psychiatric admission: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical … www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28800798 * Key Principles in Medical Evaluation (2) Targeted laboratory testing … ED utilization of medical clearance testing for psychiatric admission: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical

353. Consequences of Medical Overuse | PSNet
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     May 05, 2021 - Another reason is that troponin is often included in routine workups or screening testing in the emergency … All of these indications for troponin testing are inappropriate and represent a form of medical overuse … or more of these tests would have detected an incidental abnormality, which would have led to more testing … Use of cardiac biomarker testing in the emergency department. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175:67-75. … Troponin testing in the emergency setting: how good are we?

354. A Fatal Twist in Pseudohyperkalemia | PSNet
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     February 10, 2021 - Clinicians should have a low threshold to repeat diagnostic testing such as routine bloodwork and 12- … lead ECG, particularly when the risks of testing are minimal relative to the risks of misdiagnosis and … If hemolysis is detected, clinical laboratory workflows should exist to automatically prompt repeat testing … Undetected In Vitro Hemolysis or Sample Contamination on Patient Care and Outcomes in Point-of-Care Testing … Educational case: hemolysis and lipemia interference with laboratory testing.

355. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49516/psn-pdf
     August 01, 2006 - The higher sensitivity and specificity offered by laboratory and radiologic testing makes it more likely … to lack the confidence to say that an examination of a certain body part is normal, and no further testing … the United States differ from our colleagues in Canada and England, who tend to be frugal with their testing … incidental findings has yet to be defined, but the costs of follow-up imaging, additional laboratory testing … Public expectations and attitudes for annual physical examinations and testing.

356. How health systems decide to use artificial intelligence for clinical decision support. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-health-systems-decide-use-artificial-intelligence-clinical-decision-support
     March 30, 2022 - September 4, 2019 Developing perioperative Covid-19 testing protocols to restore surgical … November 11, 2020 Conspicuous by its absence: diagnostic expert testing under uncertainty

357. Impact of digitally acquired peer diagnostic input on diagnostic confidence in outpatient cases: a pragmatic randomized trial. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-digitally-acquired-peer-diagnostic-input-diagnostic-confidence-outpatient-cases
     June 15, 2022 - May 18, 2022 Testing and improving the acceptability of a web-based platform for collective … August 28, 2019 Testing and improving the acceptability of a web-based platform for collective

358. Clinical and financial implications of second-opinion surgical pathology review. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-and-financial-implications-second-opinion-surgical-pathology-review
     August 04, 2021 - , 2022 Measuring the rate of manual transcription error in outpatient point-of-care testing … September 28, 2010 Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing.

359. Risk-adjusted cumulative sum for early detection of hospitals with excess perioperative mortality. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-adjusted-cumulative-sum-early-detection-hospitals-excess-perioperative-mortality
     August 14, 2019 - August 26, 2011 Testing an intervention to improve health care worker well-being during … July 31, 2013 Development and testing of tools to detect ambulatory surgical adverse

360. Variations in surgical safety according to affiliation status with a top-ranked cancer hospital. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2019 - April 21, 2015 Crisis checklists for the operating room: development and pilot testing … September 1, 2016 Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter