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Integrating Patient Safety Indicators into Patient Safety Programs
Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2006Patient safety indicators (PSIs) can be a valuable reporting tool to incorporate into patient safety plans to monitor performance and identify areas that warrant further investigation. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed PSIs as a low-cost tool to enable hospitals to monitor safety patterns within specific patient ...
Juliana, Hart, Geraldine, Sweeney
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Finding the patient in patient safety
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2013In the last decade, the field of patient safety has grappled with the complexity of health-care systems by attending to the activity of frontline clinicians. This article extends the field by highlighting the activity of patients and their carers in determining the safety of these systems. We draw on data from three studies exploring patients’ accounts
Su-yin, Hor +3 more
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Patient safety and patient error
The Lancet, 20071which reports that “patients make errors too”. Indeed, at fi rst glance it seems nonsensical to suggest otherwise, not least since the same observation has been made several times over the past half century. 2–4 Yet the contribution of patients (and their caregivers) to medical error has been discussed only rarely.
Buetow, S., Elwyn, G.
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The Laboratory and Patient Safety
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2007Laboratory data are used extensively in patient care; consequently, laboratory errors have a tremendous impact on patient safety. Clinical laboratories were early leaders in efforts to minimize medical errors and improve patient safety. These efforts continue in many areas, including patient and specimen identification, laboratory result notification ...
Elizabeth A, Wagar, Shan, Yuan
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Profiles in Patient Safety: Organizational Barriers to Patient Safety
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002A 46-year-old woman presented to the trauma unit with a history of being trapped in a house fire. The trauma team, composed of a trauma surgery (TS) attending, an emergency medicine (EM) attending, four EM and surgery residents, and two trauma nurses, met the patient at arrival.
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Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2006
This article outlines a plan called the Blueprint for Patient Safety, which one organization has used to implement a comprehensive patient safety program. The blueprint starts with a graphic that depicts the basic objectives of patient safety and clarifies the sometimes misunderstood relationship between patient safety and more traditional quality ...
Polly, Stevens +2 more
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This article outlines a plan called the Blueprint for Patient Safety, which one organization has used to implement a comprehensive patient safety program. The blueprint starts with a graphic that depicts the basic objectives of patient safety and clarifies the sometimes misunderstood relationship between patient safety and more traditional quality ...
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Patient Safety at the Crossroads
JAMA, 2016This Viewpoint discusses the National Patient Safety Foundation’s report Free From Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement 15 Years After “To Err Is Human” and whether the recommendations achieve total systems safety.
Tejal K, Gandhi +2 more
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Patient safety at the crossroads
British Journal of Nursing, 2017John Tingle, Associate Professor (Teaching and Scholarship), Nottingham Trent University, discusses some important clinical negligence and patient safety themes arising from a number of recent reports
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Collaborating for Patient Safety
AORN Journal, 2012C olleagues, as promised last month, I would like to continue with my discussion of the February 22, 2012, TODAY Show story on infections caused by unclean surgical instruments, what the subject means to us as perioperative nurses, and why we must do our part to address the issue of instrument care and handling. The story was prompted by the Center for
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The Neurologist and Patient Safety
The Neurologist, 2005The objective of this article is to acquaint neurologists with the current status of evidence and opinion on patient safety in neurology. Research data on errors and preventable adverse events (harm from medical management) in neurology are sparse, with little light being cast thus far on the vulnerabilities of individual neurologists and neurologic ...
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