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  1. Pediatric prehospital medication dosing errors: a mixed-methods study. | PSNet

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    August 25, 2021 - View More Related Resources The effect of documenting patient weight

  2. Effect of a mobile app on prehospital medication errors during simulated pediatric resuscitation: a randomized clinical trial. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-mobile-app-prehospital-medication-errors-during-simulated-pediatric-resuscitation
    October 06, 2021 - July 5, 2023 The effect of documenting patient weight in kilograms on pediatric medication

  3. Factors influencing medication errors in the prehospital paramedic environment: a mixed method systematic review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/factors-influencing-medication-errors-prehospital-paramedic-environment-mixed-method
    August 25, 2021 - August 9, 2023 The effect of documenting patient weight in kilograms on pediatric medication

  4. Vital signs: maternity care experiences — United States, April 2023. | PSNet

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    July 19, 2023 - reported experiencing at least one form of discrimination during their maternity care (i.e., age-, weight

  5. Bandemia as a Harbinger of Stercoral Colitis and Impending Perforation | PSNet

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    November 25, 2020 - She presented with vague complaints of weakness, anorexia, and weight loss. … Second, the combination of anorexia with substantial weight loss, severe constipation, and abdominal … Take-Home Points Non-specific symptoms such as weakness, weight loss, and anorexia may be warning signs

  6. Getting closer to the bull's eye: 2014–2015 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. | PSNet

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    July 08, 2015 - strategies to augment safety, such as utilizing metric units as the only scale of measure for patient weight

  7. Still outside the bull's eye: 2014–2015 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. | PSNet

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    March 26, 2014 - poor adoption of safe practices related to oral methotrexate administration and measuring patient weight

  8. Color coding to reduce errors. | PSNet

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    June 22, 2009 - The authors present a color-coding system that helps estimate the weight of a child in a critical situation

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 03, 2015 - Prior studies have largely been mixed, although a systematic review concluded that the weight of the

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 06, 2009 - contained at least one error, including frequent use of error-prone abbreviations and failure to use weight-based

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 03, 2015 - The findings also lend weight to the Institute of Medicine recommendations that errors related to health

  12. Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL Nov_Spotlight Case_Premature Closing-Snycope_11.20.2020-revised.pptx (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2020 - of an admission – ED physician consulted a cardiologist who recommended therapeutic low molecular weight … 1) • According to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, unfractionated and low molecular weight … patient history may have warranted re- examination of the plan to discharge on therapeutic low molecular weight

  13. Hurried Team Huddle and Poor Communication: Unsafe Practice During Anesthesia for Emergency Cesarean Delivery | PSNet

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    September 27, 2023 - woman received neuraxial anesthesia only four hours after her last dose of prophylactic low molecular weight … Safety and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) recommend use of low molecular weight … anesthesia in obstetric patients receiving thromboprophylaxis with unfractionated or low-molecular-weight … Epidural hematoma following low molecular weight heparin prophylaxis and spinal anesthesia for cesarean … Comparison of continuation of low-molecular-weight heparin versus switching to unfractionated heparin

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 28, 2023 - woman received neuraxial anesthesia only four hours after her last dose of prophylactic low molecular weight … Safety and the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) recommend use of low molecular weight … anesthesia in obstetric patients receiving thromboprophylaxis with unfractionated or low-molecular-weight … Epidural hematoma following low molecular weight heparin prophylaxis and spinal anesthesia for cesarean … Comparison of continuation of low-molecular-weight heparin versus switching to unfractionated heparin

  15. Are online patient reviews associated with health care outcomes? A systematic review of the literature. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-online-patient-reviews-associated-health-care-outcomes-systematic-review-literature
    September 16, 2020 - Due to the weight that patients give OPRs, future research should focus on associations between OPRs

  16. Electronic approaches to making sense of the text in the adverse event reporting system. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/electronic-approaches-making-sense-text-adverse-event-reporting-system
    August 03, 2022 - a machine learning approach to electronically analyze incident reports successfully detected both weight-based

  17. Medication reconciliation for patients after their discharge from intensive care unit to the hospital ward. | PSNet

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    March 09, 2022 - Of those errors, 19% were high-alert medications, most notably low-molecular-weight heparin .

  18. Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis in the chemotherapy preparation process. | PSNet

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    March 09, 2022 - include updating the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), implementing a bar code system, and using a weight-based

  19. Tenfold medication errors: 5 years' experience at a university-affiliated pediatric hospital. | PSNet

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    August 07, 2024 - to serious medication errors, as many pediatric medications must be dosed individually according to weight

  20. Latest heparin fatality speaks loudly—what have you done to stop the bleeding? | PSNet

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    May 03, 2023 - June 10, 2018 Electronic prescribing vulnerabilities: height and weight mix-up leads
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