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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pediatric-drug-labeling-improving-safety-and-efficacy-pediatric-therapies
January 24, 2024 - Preventing diagnostic errors in ambulatory care: an electronic notification tool for incomplete radiology tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33812/psn-pdf
August 01, 2016 - Third, an excess number of radiological tests. … Studies have warned of a
possible association between excess dental X-ray tests and a greater probability … I also hope that we'll be able to determine the right indication for radiological
tests and to avoid
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/insert-omission
May 09, 2014 - These inexpensive tests are sensitive to 20 mIU/mL of HCG, a level typical of pregnancies at about the … To avoid IUC insertion during pregnancy, performing sensitive, rapid urine pregnancy tests and waiting … Testing women for chlamydia with rapid amplified DNA tests can reduce this risk, since current chlamydia
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.311_slideshow.ppt
December 01, 2013 - Errors With TSOAC Use (3)
Inappropriate monitoring
Clinicians may inappropriately order coagulation tests … that do not correlate with TSOAC effect
Clinicians may also fail to order TSOAC-specific tests when … such tests are indicated
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20
Institutional Responsibility
Institutions should consider implementing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/what-weve-learned-about-leveraging-leadership-and-culture-affect-change-and-improve
March 01, 2017 - May 9, 2018
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cascades-care-after-incidental-findings-us-national-survey-physicians
April 24, 2018 - Cascades of care (or follow up) on incidental findings from diagnostic tests are common but are not always
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/838222/psn-pdf
September 28, 2022 - complicating
people’s lives, sending them out to do things they don’t need to do, and avoid unnecessary tests … Then there’s testing: How do we make sure that our patients get the right tests and don’t get unnecessary … tests? … A lot of quality metrics have to do with tests: checking cholesterol, checking A1Cs for diabetes, and … There are other times when the tests were all normal, and the patient
didn’t get notified, and so maybe
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/translating-electronic-health-record-based-patient-safety-algorithms-research-clinical
October 27, 2021 - Preventing diagnostic errors in ambulatory care: an electronic notification tool for incomplete radiology tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/swift-new-tool-identifying-prospective-hazards
February 03, 2021 - Development of a conceptual map of negative consequences for patients of overuse of medical tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fda-public-health-notification-unretrieved-device-fragments
June 02, 2021 - December 16, 2020
Potential for false positive results with antigen tests for rapid detection
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/avoiding-medical-emergencies
April 07, 2021 - Preventing diagnostic errors in ambulatory care: an electronic notification tool for incomplete radiology tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/minimize-medication-errors-urgent-care-clinics
March 29, 2023 - and finances at a community hospital
August 25, 2021
Liquid-based Papanicolaou tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/response-failure-report-march-2007
June 01, 2007 - the Seed: The Real Problem with Root Cause Analysis
July 1, 2008
Cognitive tests … errors: the relationship between drug name confusion rates in laboratory-based memory and perception tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/critical-order-set-change-and-critical-limb-ischemia
July 02, 2019 - or simply making order entry more convenient (e.g., an order set for frequently utilized laboratory tests … designed for the convenience of the provider (such as an order set for frequently used morning laboratory tests … in the hospital) might lead to orders for inappropriate and unnecessary tests, a form of overuse known
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/not-all-headaches-are-due-migraine-red-flags-dont-miss-diagnoses-and-diagnostic-pitfalls
February 17, 2021 - In most cases, there are no definitive tests to determine a specific etiology for a patient’s headache … to pursue further diagnostic evaluation, including imaging, applicable laboratory testing, and other tests … However, pursuing such tests in most patients with headache is unnecessary, leading to excessive testing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/retracted-association-between-physician-burnout-and-patient-safety-professionalism-and
May 23, 2018 - 2017
Clinicians' expectations of the benefits and harms of treatments, screening, and tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/doctors-fear-work-caps-residents-may-be-bad-medicine
May 27, 2011 - May 27, 2011
How one medical checkup can snowball into a ‘cascade’ of tests, causing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/first-do-no-harm-0
September 05, 2007 - September 5, 2007
How one medical checkup can snowball into a ‘cascade’ of tests, causing
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49480/psn-pdf
May 01, 2005 - diagnosis of
dissecting aneurysm.(9) Second, the quality of the literature addressing various diagnostic tests … Reports of the accuracy of diagnostic tests are biased by retrospective reviews of charts of patients … empiric treatment of one may increase the chance of death in another; and (iii) the value
of diagnostic tests … Were the appropriate tests ordered for the differential diagnosis list?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/many-people-color-worry-good-health-care-tied-their-appearance
September 20, 2023 - January 24, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person