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61. How to reduce stigma and bias in clinical communication: a narrative review. | PSNet
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    July 27, 2022 - language used in progress notes in the electronic health record (EHR) can influence the attitudes of and treatment … July 27, 2022 Training in safe opioid prescribing and treatment of opioid use disorder … March 29, 2023 To expand the evidence base about harms from tests and treatments. … July 13, 2022 Health disparities: impact of health disparities and treatment decision-making

62. A blinded, prospective study of error detection during physician chart rounds in radiation oncology. | PSNet
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    November 16, 2022 - Peer review of radiation oncology patient treatment plans can help prevent harm and reduce errors. … In this prospective blinded study, researchers generated treatment plans with simulated errors and randomly … inserted these treatment plans into weekly chart rounds to assess the effectiveness of peer review on … March 4, 2020 Developing a cancer-specific trigger tool to identify treatment-related

63. Multilevel factors associated with time to biopsy after abnormal screening mammography results by race and ethnicity. | PSNet
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    March 24, 2021 - Delays in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment can threaten patient safety. … The woman who cried pain: do sex-based disparities still exist in the experience and treatment … December 21, 2022 Identifying patients whose symptoms are underrecognized during treatment … May 12, 2021 Breast cancer treatment delays by socioeconomic and health care access latent

64. Medical bias: from pain pills to COVID-19, racial discrimination in health care festers. | PSNet
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    June 24, 2020 - This story examines how racial bias  can affect diagnosis, research, and treatment, ultimately resulting … January 18, 2023 White patients’ physical responses to healthcare treatments are influenced … August 19, 2020 Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false

65. Modes of failure in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis. | PSNet
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    October 19, 2022 - with VTE and found that only 15% received correct risk stratification and appropriate management and treatment … review found that patients were commonly incorrectly stratified, received incorrect pharmaceutical treatment … January 19, 2014 Delivery of optimized inpatient anticoagulation therapy: consensus statement … September 24, 2010 Heparin: improving treatment and reducing risk of harm.

66. A tragic death shows how ERs fail patients who struggle with addiction. | PSNet
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    August 07, 2024 - with access and cost affect identification of these vulnerable patients and their ability to receive treatment … May 26, 2021 Addiction treatment providers in Pa. face little state scrutiny despite

67. Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care? | PSNet
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    March 20, 2019 - quality improvement initiative seeking to reduce the opportunity for mistakes may have resulted in treatment … TRIAD VII: do prehospital providers understand Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment … February 12, 2020 What do patients and their carers do to support the safety of cancer treatment

68. Root cause analysis of adverse events involving opioid overdoses in the Veterans Health Administration. | PSNet
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    November 17, 2021 - March 18, 2020 Delays in diagnosis, treatment, and surgery: root causes, actions taken … 16, 2022 Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment

69. Use of therapeutic outcomes monitoring method for performing of pharmaceutical care in oncology patients. | PSNet
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    April 21, 2021 - Study Use of therapeutic outcomes monitoring method for performing of pharmaceutical … Use of therapeutic outcomes monitoring method for performing of pharmaceutical care in oncology patients … independent double checks during cognitive order verification of outpatient parenteral anti-cancer therapy … impact of pharmacological/pharmaceutical care on medication safety and patient-reported outcomes during treatment … April 27, 2010 Minimising treatment-associated risks in systemic cancer therapy.

70. Hidden danger, obvious opportunity: error and risk in the management of cancer. | PSNet
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    June 07, 2018 - This commentary provides context on risks, errors, and safety in cancer treatment in light of a recent … analysis by the Chief Medical Officer for the United Kingdom regarding error in radiation therapy. … August 15, 2018 Modern palliative radiation treatment: do complexity and workload contribute … March 4, 2015 Radiation Therapy Safety: The Critical Role of the Radiation Therapist. … September 30, 2011 Unintended Exposure of Patient Lisa Norris During Radiotherapy Treatment

71. Association between treatment by locum tenens internal medicine physicians and 30-day mortality among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries. | PSNet
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    September 29, 2017 - Study Association between treatment by locum tenens internal medicine physicians … Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among … Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among

72. Teamwork is associated with reduced hospital staff burnout at military treatment facilities: findings from the 2019 Department of Defense Patient Safety Culture Survey. | PSNet
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    July 31, 2013 - Study Teamwork is associated with reduced hospital staff burnout at military treatment … Teamwork is associated with reduced hospital staff burnout at military treatment facilities: findings … Teamwork is associated with reduced hospital staff burnout at military treatment facilities: findings

73. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 15, 2024 - knowledge evolves, the balance of harms and benefits for specific medications evolves as well, and therapies … Fig3 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/opioid-overdose-patient-safety-problem pain, and nonopioid therapies … Both of these factors led to an increase in opioid prescribing (and relative underuse of nonopioid therapies … reduction in opioid use may lead to unrelieved pain in patients who would actually benefit from opioid therapy … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Effective Health Care Program completed three reports on Treatments

74. An appeal for evidence-based resident duty hours reform. | PSNet
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    August 09, 2023 - February 9, 2022 Association of differences in treatment intensification, missed visits … December 22, 2021 The reduction of race and gender bias in clinical treatment recommendations

75. Severe illness getting noticed sooner - SIGNS-for-Kids: developing an illness recognition tool to connect home and hospital. | PSNet
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    September 23, 2020 - pediatric populations, but their use in community settings to improve illness detection and time to treatment … blueish skin/tongue, (4) fluids, such as persistent vomiting or lack of urine, and (5) response to rescue treatments … , or deterioration despite use of usually effective treatment.

76. Is there evidence for a better health care for cancer patients after a second opinion? A systematic review. | PSNet
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    May 03, 2023 - Requesting a second opinion to advise about diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis has implications for … The prevalence of changes in diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and prognosis based on a second opinion … November 6, 2015 Navigating risks in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

77. Gender biases in estimation of others' pain. | PSNet
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    March 25, 2020 - article describes two experimental studies exploring the impact of gender biases on pain estimation and treatment … June 8, 2022 Health disparities: impact of health disparities and treatment decision-making … January 26, 2018 Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

78. People of color with long COVID face uphill battle to be heard. | PSNet
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    August 24, 2022 - This news article describes challenges met by a patient seeking diagnosis and treatment for long COVID … August 19, 2020 Fear of Covid-19 leads other patients to decline critical treatment.

79. Patient safety: what about the patient? | PSNet
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    January 22, 2025 - The authors outline the patient’s role in increasing diagnostic accuracy, determining appropriate treatment … , choosing experienced providers, ensuring effective treatment and disease management, and monitoring

80. Racial and ethnic differences in emergency department diagnostic imaging at US Children's Hospitals, 2016-2019. | PSNet
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    April 22, 2020 - Imaging is an important tool in the pediatric emergency department to guide diagnosis and treatment … January 12, 2022 Assessment of overuse of medical tests and treatments at US hospitals … March 16, 2022 Association of differences in treatment intensification, missed visits