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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Ludwick.pdf
June 21, 2004 - Surgical Safety: Addressing the JCAHO Goals for Reducing Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure Events … 483
Surgical Safety: Addressing the
JCAHO Goals for Reducing Wrong-site,
Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure … National patient
safety goals and universal protocol for
preventing wrong-site, wrong-procedure,
and … wrong-person surgery. … Wrong-site surgery education tool
Figure 4b.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/patient-id-errors-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - , wrong-
procedure, and wrong-person surgery. … , Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery. … Site, Wrong
Procedure, Wrong
Person Surgery
Operating
room
The estimated rate of wrong-site … *" OR
"Wrong Site Surger*" OR
"Wrong-Site Surger*" OR
"Surger*, Wrong-Site" OR
"Surger*, Wrong Site … *" OR
"Wrong Site Surger*" OR
"Wrong-Site Surger*" OR
"Surger*, Wrong-Site" OR
"Surger*, Wrong Site
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Faltz_56.pdf
March 27, 2008 - Introduction
Wrong-patient, wrong-side, or wrong-site surgical and invasive procedures, while unusual … NYPORTS codes related to wrong-side, wrong-patient, and wrong-
procedure surgery and other invasive … Surgery on the
wrong side of the body, wrong site, or wrong patient led the list. … Universal protocol for preventing wrong site, wrong
procedure, wrong person surgery™. … Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-
procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they
preventable?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/higginson-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - drug, wrong dose, wrong resident, and omitted drug/dose. … Drug 5.9 7.0
Wrong Dose 2.8 2.8
Wrong Resident 1.0 0.7
Omission 70 70
Wrong Resident:
Figure 2. … dose, wrong drug, and wrong resident. … Wrong dose 15
Wrong
strength
8/4481 or .002
Wrong
quantity
9/4481 or .002
Wrong
Patient
1.9 0.4 … Dose
Overdose 4.8
Underdose 1.9
Wrong form .3 1.8 0.2 6.2
Wrong dose 7.542 32.042
Wrong
strength
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-terminology7.html
April 01, 2025 - Investigators attempted to create a meaningful taxonomy clarifying what was lacking or wrong. … Diagnostic Failure A failed process or a wrong or delayed diagnosis. … For example, a diagnosis of pneumothorax might be a wrong label (misdiagnosis) if the actual problem … Similar to the term wrong diagnosis or incorrect diagnosis . 30 Missed Diagnosis A condition that … . 3 In general, medical adverse events tend to be (but are not always) errors of commission (e.g., wrong
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship4.html
August 01, 2024 - Challenges Ahead
Conclusion
References
Diagnostic errors include missed, delayed, and wrong … ordering urine cultures in patients without urinary tract symptoms, which can increase the risk of wrong … specimen mishandling; for instance, contamination of specimens at the time of collection can result in wrong
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/adelman-summit2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - Wrong Patient Errors Leading to
Diagnostic Errors:
1) Order tests on wrong-patient
2) Read results of … wrong-patient
3) Communicate information to the
wrong patient. … Wrong Patient Errors Leading
to Diagnostic Errors
xxVoluntary
Reporting
Chart
Reviews
Trigger … JAMA. 2001;285:2114-2120
Wrong-Patient Error Measures
Retract-and-Reorder Tool Applied to
Complete … on the wrong patient
– 1 of 37 admitted patients had an order placed for them that was intended for
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hall2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - lab(s) ordered
Delay or failure to order
Wrong study ordered
Delay or failure to order
Wrong drug … ordered
Wrong dose ordered
Wrong route ordered
Ordered for wrong patient
Ordered for wrong time … study performed
Study performed on wrong patient
Technical errors
Wrong drug dispensed
Wrong dose … dispensed
Wrong route form dispensed
Dispensed for wrong patient
Delayed or dispensed at wrong time … drug administered
Wrong dose administered
Administered by wrong route
Administered to wrong patient
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/cohen-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - dose of warfarin or the wrong insulin analog. … Wrong Insulin Analog Dispensed Due to Selecting the Wrong Drug During Data Entry
Fault tree analysis. … for
wrong drug errors and 9.25 per 10 million prescriptions for wrong dose errors. … Community pharmacies in the study were vulnerable to wrong drug and wrong dose data entry errors, a finding … The wrong patient.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/03-new_sops_diagnostic_safety-schiff.pdf
January 01, 2020 - test, surgery, or treatment
38%
You were given wrong or unclear instructions about your follow-up … care
34%
You/they were given an incorrect medication, meaning the wrong dose or wrong drug
32% … care instructions 29
Administered the wrong medication dosage 28
Received unnecessary treatment … 27
Providers gave different instructions 24
Got an infection after treatment 24
Doctor gave wrong … diagnosis”
• How to even know whether diagnosis was right or wrong?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/bundy-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - • A/D errors were more likely to originate with pharmacy staff and involve wrong dosage
forms. … • Wrong-patient errors were also uncommon and often involved sibling-sibling confusion. … Wrong dosage form was the second most common error type in our study. … Similar-appearing packaging is another root cause of wrong vaccine errors. … In our study, wrong-time errors represented a commonly reported error type.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide4/apa.html
August 01, 2022 - Event Summary: The wrong concentration of potassium (K+) was used in the compounding of TPN. … In this case, the drug was entered as the wrong concentration.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/premortem-assessment.html
April 01, 2025 - Usually when this happens, a postmortem project analysis is conducted to review what went wrong. … What could have gone wrong?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/schiff-summit2016.pdf
January 01, 2013 - strategies at
each stage of clinical practice
Lucian Leape
DEER
Taxonomy
Localizing
What
Went Wrong … Frequency in 583 cases
DEER Taxonomy (continued)
Localizing What
Went Wrong
Frequency in … 583 cases
Schiff Arch Intern Med 2009
What went wrong: DEER Taxonomy Localization
8
Art Elstein … Clinical situations where
patterns of, or vulnerabilities
to errors leading to missed,
delayed or wrong … injury, but chronic subdural
hematoma later develops
GENERIC TYPES of PITFALLS
IOM (NAM) Estimate Wrong
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Comden.pdf
January 01, 2003 - , wrong-dose, omitted-dose or -drug, and wrong-patient medication
administration errors in nursing and … Four classes of patient events (wrong-
drug, wrong-dose, omitted-dose/drug, and wrong-patient medication … An ST–
PRA risk tree starts with a top-level event, which is the undesirable outcome (e.g.,
a wrong … Example of risk or fault tree—dose transcribing error
Gate80
Resident receives wrong dose due
to … telephone/verbal order error
Q:6.64335e-005
Event50
Facility hears correct dose and
writes wrong
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/weingart-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The most common medication errors involved wrong dose (38.8%), wrong drug (13.6%), wrong
number of days … The majority of errors resulted in a
near miss; however, 39.3% of reports involving the wrong number … or extra dose 117 (59.4) 26 (13.2 54 (27.4) 0 (0.0)
Wrong drug 14 (20.3) 2 (2.9) 53 (76.8) 0 (0.0)
Wrong … instructions 13 (76.5) 2 (100.0 ) 2 (11.8) 0 (0.0)
Wrong frequency 12 (92.3) 0 (0.0) 1 (7.7) 0 (0.0 … P X X X 3
Errors when transmitting Rx to pharmacy P X X X 3
Wrong tabs, wrong liquid, wrong
dose,
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving-slides.html
October 01, 2020 - sites
Wrong procedures
Incorrect implants
Missing equipment
Mislabeling of specimens
Delays … Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. … Reduced wrong-site surgeries and other adverse events.
Increased staff morale. … site
Wrong procedure
Wrong/missing implant
Wrong medications
Unidentified allergy
Wrong equipment … Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Schade_63.pdf
January 01, 2007 - For
example, the rate of reported wrong drug administration increased significantly among CAHs
and … Drug
Lab specimen-related
Observed Falls
Wrong Dose
Staff Injury/exposure
Elopement
6
Table 3. … medication
administered Medication error Wrong drug name 15 1.71 2.20 0 – 2.67 2.48
Wrong dose of … wrong patient
Surgery invasive
procedure Wrong patient
Treatment Wrong patient
Medication … Reported rates of wrong
drug administration increased
significantly in CAHs but declined
by about
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/scott-cawiezell-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Scope
Earlier research suggests that medication errors, excluding wrong-time errors, average 10%
or … dose, wrong route) by the opportunities for error (OE). … wrong-time error reflects
many specific system and timing issues that are often out of the control … Although the ICC was lower when considering medication
errors without wrong-time medication errors ( … dose, wrong route, wrong
preparation technique, wrong time, wrong monitoring technique, and omitted
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/improving/improving.pptx
May 01, 2017 - sites
Wrong procedures
Incorrect implants
Missing equipment
Mislabeling of specimens
Delays in surgery … Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. … Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. … site
Wrong procedure
Wrong/missing implant
Wrong medications
Unidentified allergy
Wrong equipment … Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery.