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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-technology-promote-perinatal-patient-safety
January 27, 2021 - January 27, 2021
Prescribing errors with low-molecular-weight heparins.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/air-pressure-human-factors-are-key-safer-flight-environment
October 27, 2021 - July 19, 2023
The effect of documenting patient weight in kilograms on pediatric medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/characteristics-registered-clinical-trials-assessing-strategies-medication-errors-prevention
August 17, 2022 - The impact of an electronic alert to reduce the risk of co-prescription of low molecular weight
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/denied-abortion-doomed-pregnancy-she-tells-texas-court-there-was-no-mercy
April 01, 2020 - July 28, 2021
Some doctors are ditching the scale, saying focusing on weight drives misdiagnoses
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/information-distortion-physicians-diagnostic-judgments
April 07, 2021 - January 11, 2017
Comparative performance of pediatric weight estimation techniques: a
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pump-volume-tips-increasing-error-reporting-and-decreasing-patient-harm
January 27, 2021 - October 21, 2021
Electronic prescribing vulnerabilities: height and weight mix-up leads
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-errors-are-hard-doctors-admit-its-wise-apologize-patients
November 14, 2011 - December 30, 2014
WebM&M Cases
Weight and Height Juxtaposition
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/dtap-tdap-mix-ups-now-affecting-hundreds-patients
June 10, 2018 - September 22, 2010
Electronic prescribing vulnerabilities: height and weight mix-up leads
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/achieving-zero-inequity-lessons-learned-patient-safety
February 21, 2018 - Diagnostic Safety and Quality
April 26, 2023
Person-first treatment strategies: weight
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/focus-patient-safety
January 23, 2008 - January 28, 2015
Evidence-based Recommendations for Best Practices in Weight Loss Surgery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-issues-series
July 05, 2006 - August 14, 2019
Some doctors are ditching the scale, saying focusing on weight drives
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/global-patient-safety-law-policy-and-practice
August 01, 2012 - July 22, 2019
Some doctors are ditching the scale, saying focusing on weight drives misdiagnoses
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inattentional-blindness-what-captures-your-attention
May 07, 2018 - May 7, 2018
Electronic prescribing vulnerabilities: height and weight mix-up leads to
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-pediatric-emergency-medicine
December 09, 2014 - June 28, 2010
Comparative performance of pediatric weight estimation techniques: a human
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/clinical-features-and-preventability-delayed-diagnosis-pediatric-appendicitis
September 13, 2023 - January 9, 2019
Comparative performance of pediatric weight estimation techniques: a
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/influence-burnout-patient-safety-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
August 16, 2023 - March 9, 2022
Error in body weight estimation leads to inadequate parenteral anticoagulation
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hazards-distraction-ticking-all-ehr-boxes
April 09, 2014 - reviewing the death, the case review committee discovered the patient had been given low-molecular-weight … point and say that any competent care provider should have realized that prescribing low-molecular-weight … Even if the order set in this case contained a warning beside the order for low-molecular-weight heparin … View More
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WebM&M Cases
Weight
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/interventions-reduce-pediatric-medication-errors-systematic-review
December 04, 2016 - An AHRQ WebM&M commentary emphasizes the high potential for weight-based medication errors in pediatrics
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/culture-openness-associated-lower-mortality-rates-among-137-english-national-health-service
September 20, 2012 - The results lend weight to calls for increased transparency in health systems.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/emergency-lights-and-sirens-ambulances-may-do-more-harm-good
February 15, 2023 - September 6, 2023
The effect of documenting patient weight in kilograms on pediatric