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  1. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    August 21, 2016 - One study estimated that inefficient communication costs hospitals in the United States more than $12

  2. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 23, 2024 - This article discusses an effort in the United Kingdom to learn from preventable deaths reported to

  3. Emergency Error | PSNet

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    January 18, 2013 - A recent study by the United Kingdom emergency laparotomy network demonstrated large differences between … database (including more than 470,000 procedures at 198 hospitals over a 4-year period) suggests that in United … States hospitals there is little correlation between elective and emergency surgery outcomes; hospitals

  4. Incomplete Orders for Hypertonic Saline to Treat Hyponatremia | PSNet

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    February 23, 2022 - Incomplete Orders for Hypertonic Saline to Treat Hyponatremia Citation Text: Wiegley N, Morfín JA. Incomplete Orders for Hypertonic Saline to Treat Hyponatremia. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2020. Copy Citation …

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2016 - Second, some have warned that the United States faces a looming shortage of physicians.

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 15, 2024 - missed-and-delayed-diagnoses-ambulatory-setting-study-closed-malpractice-claims https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-diagnoses-commonly-associated-pediatric-malpractice-lawsuits-united-states

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 15, 2024 - organizations, until recently board, executive, and medical staff leadership at most hospitals in the United … States placed relatively little emphasis on identifying and addressing safety issues.

  8. Spotlight Case July 2008 (ppt file)

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    October 01, 2008 - Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.

  9. Perceptions of chief clinical information officers on the state of electronic health records systems interoperability in NHS England: a qualitative interview study. | PSNet

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    October 05, 2022 - Study Perceptions of chief clinical information officers on the state of electronic health records systems interoperability in NHS England: a qualitative interview study. Citation Text: Li E, Lounsbury O, Clarke J, et al. Perceptions of chief clinical information officers on the state of…

  10. Operationalizing Patient Safety at Academic Medical Centers | PSNet

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    August 01, 2010 - In 2004, the United Kingdom's Academy of Royal Medical Colleges presented a set of knowledge, skills, … 31, 2022 Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United … States teaching hospitals.

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 15, 2016 - The role of emotion in patient safety: are we brave enough to scratch beneath the surface? March 15, 2016 Heyhoe J, Birks Y, Harrison R, et al. The role of emotion in patient safety: Are we brave enough to scratch beneath the surface? J R Soc Med. 2016;109(2):52-8. doi:10.1177/0141076815620614. https://psnet.ahrq.…

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2017 - Our Maturing Understanding of Safety Culture: How to Change It and How It Changes Safety March 1, 2017 Singer SJ. Our Maturing Understanding of Safety Culture: How to Change It and How It Changes Safety. PSNet [internet]. 2017. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/our-maturing-understanding-safety-culture-how-change…

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 01, 2014 - adverse events, such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "100,000 Lives Campaign" in the United … States (21) and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute's "Safer Healthcare Now!" … In the United States, compatibility has been incentivized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment

  14. Failure to Latch | PSNet

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    November 27, 2012 - breastfeeding, only slight gains have been made.( 2 ) During the hospital stay, 75% of infants in the United … States are breastfeeding to some extent. … World Health Organization recommend exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, only 11% of infants in the United … States reach this target.

  15. Deaths Not Foretold: Are Unexpected Deaths Useful Patient Safety Signals? | PSNet

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    March 01, 2004 - traditionally review all maternal deaths precisely for this reason—with a maternal mortality rate in the United … States of approximately 1 in 10,000, any death is unexpected.( 3 ) Though less emotionally charged, … Pregnancy-related mortality in the United States, 1991-1997. Obstet Gynecol. 2003;101:289-296.

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    January 31, 2024 - Unfortunately, we don’t have a high-functioning integrated healthcare system in the United States. … Another element that makes primary care so challenging is that many individuals within the United States

  17. Nurse Wellbeing and Patient Safety | PSNet

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    August 30, 2023 - Conducted in 2021, this study involved 867 hospital nurses in the United States. … Survey responses from 3,429 labor and delivery nurses from 253 hospitals across the United States found

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 28, 2024 - The rates of hospitalization of patients presenting with choledocholithiasis has increased across the United … States over the past 20 years,2 which could possibly be due to the rise of metabolic syndrome and … Epidemiology and outcomes of choledocholithiasis and cholangitis in the United States: trends and urban-rural

  19. The Role of Graduate Medical Education (GME) in Improving Patient Safety | PSNet

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    February 01, 2010 - Task Force continues to collect information from a variety of perspectives within and outside of the United … States regarding the complexity of issues surrounding duty hours. … First of all, teaching hospitals are major providers of clinical care in the United States—patients need … As such, we accredit all of the allopathic graduate medical education programs in the United States, … States.

  20. In Conversation with…Thomas J. Nasca, MD | PSNet

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    February 01, 2010 - As such, we accredit all of the allopathic graduate medical education programs in the United States, … experiences in a resident questionnaire administered every year to every resident and fellow in the United … States. … States regarding the complexity of issues surrounding duty hours. … First of all, teaching hospitals are major providers of clinical care in the United States—patients need
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