AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (170)

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•Identification Errors (108)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (453)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (120)

•Medication Safety (1103)

•Medical Complications (503)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (801)

•Active Errors (508)

•Latent Errors (242)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (935)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (1091)

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•Human Factors Engineering (449)

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•Specialization of Care (269)

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Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (6)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (2387)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (2952)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (1505)

•Patients (325)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (2686)

•Psychiatric Facilities (12)

•Residential Facilities (65)

•Ambulatory Care (351)

•Outpatient Surgery (39)

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STUDY

Saving lives by studying deaths: using standardized mortality reviews to improve inpatient safety.

Lau H, Litman KC. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:400-408.

STUDY

Electronic alerts to prevent venous thromboembolism among hospitalized patients.

Kucher N, Koo S, Quiroz R, et al. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:969-977.

STUDY

Evaluating clinical decision support systems: monitoring CPOE order check override rates in the Department of Veterans Affairs' computerized patient record system.

Lin C-P, Payne TH, Nichol WP, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:620-626.

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National estimates of adverse events during nonpsychiatric hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia.

Khaykin E, Ford DE, Pronovost PJ, Dixon L, Daumit GL. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2010;32:419-425.

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Impact of date stamping on patient safety measurement in patients undergoing CABG: experience with the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators.

Glance LG, Li Y, Osler TM, Mukamel DB, Dick AW. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008;8:176.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2009.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

CPOE: it don't come easy.

Anderson HJ. Health Data Manag. January 1, 2009;17:18.

STUDY

The effect of hospital electronic health record adoption on nurse-assessed quality of care and patient safety.

Kutney-Lee A, Kelly D. J Nurs Adm. 2011;41:466-472.

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Relationship between medication event rates and the Leapfrog computerized physician order entry evaluation tool.

Leung AA, Keohane C, Lipsitz S, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013;20:e85-e90.

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Concept and development of a discharge alert filter for abnormal laboratory values coupled with computerized provider order entry: a tool for quality improvement and hospital risk management.

Mathew G, Kho A, Dexter P, et al. J Patient Saf. 2012;8:69-75.

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Association of a clinical knowledge support system with improved patient safety, reduced complications and shorter length of stay among Medicare beneficiaries in acute care hospitals in the United States.

Bonis PA, Pickens GT, Rind DM, Foster DA. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77:745-753.

STUDY

Comparison of computerized surveillance and manual chart review for adverse events.

Tinoco A, Evans RS, Staes CJ, Lloyd JF, Rothschild JM, Haug PJ. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:491-497.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Reducing alarm hazards: selection and implementation of alarm notification systems.

Gee T, Moorman BA. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. March/April 2011;8:14-17.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Effective use of medication-related decision support in CPOE.

Metzger JB, Welebob E, Turisco F, Classen DC. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. Sept/Oct 2008;5:16-24.

STUDY

Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "No Pay for Errors Rule"? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents.

Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:1097-1101.

STUDY

Physicians-in-training attitudes on patient safety: 2003 to 2008.

Sorokin R, Riggio JM, Moleski S, Sullivan J. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:132-137.

COMMENTARY

Time to sign off on signout.

Stein DM, Stetson PD. Acad Med. 2011;86:804-806.

REVIEW

Systematic review of medication safety assessment methods.

Meyer-Massetti C, Cheng CM, Schwappach DL, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68:227-240.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Piecing together medication administration.

Anderson HJ. Health Data Manage. May 1, 2009;17:22.

STUDY

'Global Trigger Tool' shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater than previously measured.

Classen DC, Resar R, Griffin F, et al. Health Aff (Millwood). 2011;30:581-589.

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