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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867980/psn-pdf
March 25, 2025 - that clinicians and teams fall into during the diagnostic process,
leading to missed, delayed, or wrong … may help avoid diagnostic error
Proactively discussing the diagnostic process (as well as potential wrong
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/advancing-patient-safety-through-state-reporting-systems
June 01, 2007 - Analysis of wrong-patient/wrong-site surgical errors led to development of the New York preoperative … (Go to table citation in commentary)
Surgical Events
Surgery performed on the wrong body … part
Surgery performed on the wrong patient
Wrong surgical procedure performed on a patient
Unintended … Patient death or serious disability associated with a medication error (e.g., errors involving the wrong … drug, wrong dose, wrong patient, wrong time, wrong rate, wrong preparation, or wrong route of administration
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44140/psn-pdf
July 15, 2015 - Openness and Honesty When Things Go Wrong: the
Professional Duty of Candour. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/openness-and-honesty-when-things-go-wrong-professional-duty-candour
Open … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/openness-and-honesty-when-things-go-wrong-professional-duty-candour
https
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39073/psn-pdf
February 20, 2010 - my-five-moments-hand-hygiene-user-centred-design-approach-understand-train-monitor-and-report
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/universal-protocol-preventing-wrong-site-wrong-procedure-wrong-person-surgery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44520/psn-pdf
September 30, 2015 - issue/quantifying-and-characterizing-adverse-events-dermatologic-surgery
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/wrong-site-wrong-procedure-and-wrong-patient-surgery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45557/psn-pdf
October 27, 2016 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/checklists
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/universal-protocol-preventing-wrong-site-wrong-procedure-wrong-person-surgery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/misidentifying-unidentified-john-doe-and-ehr
September 27, 2017 - data to the wrong patient have been opened. … And while labs and diagnostics that are erroneously linked to the wrong patient can lead to secondary … or tertiary errors such as wrong treatments based on interpreting wrong information, blood banking errors—a … May 10, 2023
Adding automation and independent dual verification to reduce wrong blood … May 29, 2019
Wrong-patient blood transfusion error: leveraging technology to overcome
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/35786/psn-pdf
May 07, 2007 - When Things Go Wrong: Responding to Adverse Events. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/when-things-go-wrong-responding-adverse-events
This consensus paper of … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/when-things-go-wrong-responding-adverse-events
https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39710/psn-pdf
July 28, 2010 - found that 37% of medication errors were repeated one or more times in nursing home settings,
with wrong … dosage and wrong administration as the most frequent causes. … repeat-medication-errors-nursing-homes-contributing-factors-and-their-association-patient
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-involving-wrong-administration-technique
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43139/psn-pdf
April 23, 2014 - first-do-no-harm-part-1-case-study-systems-failure
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/universal-protocol-preventing-wrong-site-wrong-procedure-wrong-person-surgery
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/workplace-safety-health-care
January 01, 2017 - results, but after people get the rhythm of learning—ideally in real time, by identifying what went wrong … from what we were doing in workplace safety, namely to identify as quickly as possible anything gone wrong—including … But it's not true that you cannot systematically eliminate things gone wrong if you're constantly improving … what you do by learning from things gone wrong. … It's amazing if you look at the number of medication errors in the country—starting with the wrong meds
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withgeri-amori-phd
December 01, 2010 - If I admit to you that I don't know if I did wrong, or I did do wrong, or we don't know what's going … We wait for something to go wrong. … And if something goes wrong, then say, "Well, we're going to work on that, too." … (e.g., lack of clear lines of communication and responsibility; lack of a robust process to prevent wrong
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-paul-h-oneill-mpa
January 01, 2017 - results, but after people get the rhythm of learning—ideally in real time, by identifying what went wrong … from what we were doing in workplace safety, namely to identify as quickly as possible anything gone wrong—including … But it's not true that you cannot systematically eliminate things gone wrong if you're constantly improving … what you do by learning from things gone wrong. … It's amazing if you look at the number of medication errors in the country—starting with the wrong meds
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/diagnostic-errors-medicine-what-do-doctors-and-umpires-have-common
February 01, 2007 - Advice to Reduce "Fast and Frugal" Cognitive Errors in Diagnosis
Be aware of the odds of being wrong … residents were confident about a diagnosis in a significant number of patients in whom they were actually wrong … people have looked at physician autonomy and said, "Why should autonomy be preserved when we get it wrong … Remember with any system, if you put rubbish into itfor example, if you put the wrong numbers into a … calculatoryour answers are going to be wrong.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/getting-patient-safety-personal-story
August 01, 2006 - In fact, most of the discussions were about all of the other kinds of things that can go wrong. … March 29, 2023
Insurance claims for wrong-side, wrong-organ, wrong-procedure, or … wrong-person surgical errors: a retrospective study for 10 years.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/discrepant-advanced-directives-and-code-status-orders-preventable-medical-error
October 31, 2018 - Journal Article
Discrepant advanced directives and code status orders: a preventable medical error.
Citation Text:
Meisenberg B, Zaidi S, Franks L, et al. Discrepant Advanced Directives and Code Status Orders: A Preventable Medical Error. J Hosp Med. 2019;14(10):716-718. doi:10.12788/jhm…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/mistaken-identity
December 18, 2014 - After further investigation, the intern realized that the orthopedic team had evaluated the wrong patient—the … For example, the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Person Surgery … The wrong patient. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:826-833. [go to PubMed] 4. Seiden SC, Barach P. … Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: are they preventable? … Universal protocol for preventing wrong site, wrong procedure, wrong person surgery.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33858/psn-pdf
May 01, 2018 - Then to say, "Doctor, you
aren't sharing data, you are blocking," is just wrong. … How well did that work, where did they get it right, and where did they get it wrong? … Tell me why that's wrong. … They've tried it before in
some cases and gotten it wrong.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33866/psn-pdf
September 01, 2018 - I started thinking about how to
improve communication when things go wrong, cowrote the facilitator's … and honest
communication, and organizational culture to help patients and families when things go wrong … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-patient-family-and-clinician-experience-after-harmful-events-when-things-go-wrong … I started off in patient safety thinking about how we could do a better job when things
go wrong.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/retained-surgical-items-causation-and-prevention
January 04, 2024 - a post hoc conclusion that the counts documented in these cases (i.e., usually correct counts) were wrong … January 15, 2025
Patient Safety Primers
Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure … , and Wrong-Patient Surgery
December 15, 2024
Guidelines in Practice.