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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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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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Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019
Patient safety is inseparable from quality and is a top priority for the United States health care system. This article explores factors that contribute to errors and patient harm in office practice, discusses key ways in which errors in the outpatient setting compare with those occurring in the inpatient setting, and describes strategies for ...
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Patient safety is inseparable from quality and is a top priority for the United States health care system. This article explores factors that contribute to errors and patient harm in office practice, discusses key ways in which errors in the outpatient setting compare with those occurring in the inpatient setting, and describes strategies for ...
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British Journal of Nursing, 2008
It cannot be said that in today’s NHS that we have an engrained patient safety culture where patient safety is at the forefront of every nurse’s and doctor’s mind – it is not. Many nurses will not know of the Seven Steps to Patient Safety from the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA, 2004), nor will many doctors.
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It cannot be said that in today’s NHS that we have an engrained patient safety culture where patient safety is at the forefront of every nurse’s and doctor’s mind – it is not. Many nurses will not know of the Seven Steps to Patient Safety from the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA, 2004), nor will many doctors.
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Veterinary Record, 2018
I am writing in response to the debate about the recruitment and retention crisis in the veterinary profession. I have recently completed a research project into the patient-safety culture in British small animal practice. The project demonstrated the significant gulf in standards between veterinary and human medicine.
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I am writing in response to the debate about the recruitment and retention crisis in the veterinary profession. I have recently completed a research project into the patient-safety culture in British small animal practice. The project demonstrated the significant gulf in standards between veterinary and human medicine.
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British Journal of Nursing
John Tingle, Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, reflects on some pressing patient safety issues
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John Tingle, Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, reflects on some pressing patient safety issues
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Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 2007
Healthcare providers typically think of patient safety in the context of preventing iatrogenic injury. Prevention of falls and medication or treatment errors is the typical focus of adverse event analyses. If healthcare providers are committed to honoring the wishes of patients, then perhaps failures to honor advanced directives should be viewed as ...
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Healthcare providers typically think of patient safety in the context of preventing iatrogenic injury. Prevention of falls and medication or treatment errors is the typical focus of adverse event analyses. If healthcare providers are committed to honoring the wishes of patients, then perhaps failures to honor advanced directives should be viewed as ...
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