The effect of visitation restrictions on ED error.

Clifford Michael Marks; Richard Everard Wolfe; Shamai Aron Grossman

Study

The effect of visitation restrictions on ED error.

March 6, 2024

Marks CM, Wolfe RE, Grossman SA. Intern Emerg Med. 2024;Epub Feb 19.

View more articles from the same authors.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals restricted visitors to prevent the spread of the virus. This study analyzed five types of medical error that could have been prevented if the patient's support person had been present under pre- and post-COVID visitation policies. Unlike other research, this study did not find any statistically significant differences in errors between the pre- and post-COVID eras in emergency department patients.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Can medical record reviewers reliably identify errors and adverse events in the ED?

May 25, 2016

Assessing resident and attending error and adverse events in the emergency department.

March 2, 2022

Can asking emergency physicians whether or not they would have done something differently (WYHDSD) be a useful screening tool to identify emergency department error?

October 11, 2023

Analysis of risk factors for patient safety events occurring in the emergency department.

October 7, 2020

Impact of teamwork and communication training interventions on safety culture and patient safety in emergency departments: a systematic review.

January 26, 2022

Supporting second victims of patient safety events: shouldn't these communications be covered by legal privilege?

February 12, 2014

"That was a close call": endorsing a broad definition of near misses in health care.

October 2, 2013

Close calls in patient safety: should we be paying closer attention?

May 15, 2013

6-PACK programme to decrease fall injuries in acute hospitals: cluster randomised controlled trial.

June 22, 2016

A cluster randomized trial of interventions to improve work conditions and clinician burnout in primary care: results from the Healthy Work Place (HWP) study.

January 27, 2016

Do work condition interventions affect quality and errors in primary care? Results from the Healthy Work Place Study.

September 28, 2016

Potentially inappropriate medication use is associated with increased risk of incident disability in healthy older adults.

September 6, 2023

Interdisciplinary ICU cardiac arrest debriefing improves survival outcomes.

May 25, 2016

Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for colorectal surgery.

May 9, 2018

Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings.

July 23, 2014

Vital signs: improving antibiotic use among hospitalized patients.

March 26, 2014

Publicly available hospital comparison web sites: determination of useful, valid, and appropriate information for comparing surgical quality.

September 26, 2007

Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association with postoperative infections.

June 30, 2010

The DNA damage response and patient safety: engaging our molecular biology-oriented colleagues.

August 31, 2005

The outcomes card: development of a systems-based practice educational tool.

August 17, 2005

Engaging hospital patients in the medication reconciliation process using tablet computers.

September 26, 2018

Performance of a fail-safe system to follow up abnormal mammograms in primary care.

September 8, 2010

Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of physician practices and pharmacies.

December 7, 2011

Walking a tightrope: balancing the risk of diagnostic error in inpatient pediatrics.

November 30, 2016

How accurately do older adult emergency department patients recall their medications?

August 12, 2020

The effect of a system-level tiered huddle system on reporting patient safety events: an interrupted time series analysis.

October 12, 2022

Improving patient safety in clinical oncology: applying lessons from Normal Accident Theory.

October 21, 2015

Effect of patient-centred bedside rounds on hospitalised patients' decision control, activation and satisfaction with care.

January 6, 2016

Harnessing implementation science to improve care quality and patient safety: a systematic review of targeted literature.

May 21, 2014

Non-emergency patient transport: what are the quality and safety issues? A systematic review.

February 2, 2011

Quantitative assessment of workload and stressors in clinical radiation oncology.

June 13, 2012

Towards an understanding of the information dynamics of the handover process in aged care settings—a prerequisite for the safe and effective use of ICT.

April 25, 2012

Operational failures detected by frontline acute care nurses.

March 29, 2017

Patient safety: through the eyes of your peers.

July 5, 2006

Electronic prescribing reduced prescribing errors in a pediatric renal outpatient clinic.

February 13, 2008

Usability study of two common defibrillators reveals hazards.

January 2, 2008

Cold debriefings after in-hospital cardiac arrest in an international pediatric resuscitation quality improvement collaborative.

September 2, 2020

Implicit bias in stroke care: a recurring old problem in the rising incidence of young stroke.

January 27, 2021

Call to action: addressing pediatric fall safety in ambulatory environments.

December 1, 2021

Prevalence and characteristics of diagnostic error in pediatric critical care: a multicenter study.

June 14, 2023

Medication safety in the operating room: literature and expert-based recommendations.

February 22, 2017

ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.

December 14, 2016

Making care better in the pediatric intensive care unit.

January 30, 2019

Safety of clinical and non-clinical decision makers in telephone triage: a narrative review.

April 1, 2015

The effects of stress and coping on surgical performance during simulations.

January 13, 2010

Weekly variation in health-care quality by day and time of admission: a nationwide, registry-based, prospective cohort study of acute stroke care.

June 22, 2016

A comparison of medication administration errors from original medication packaging and multi-compartment compliance aids in care homes: a prospective observational study.

June 21, 2017

The human face of simulation: patient-focused simulation training.

October 18, 2006

Validity of unplanned admission to an intensive care unit as a measure of patient safety in surgical patients.

December 14, 2005

Creating a high-reliability health care system: improving performance on core processes of care at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

January 21, 2015

Creating an infrastructure for safety event reporting and analysis in a multicenter pediatric emergency department network.

April 3, 2013

Preventing home medication administration errors.

March 14, 2022

Evaluation of wound photography for remote postoperative assessment of surgical site infections.

November 7, 2018

Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

August 21, 2013

A handoff protocol from the cardiovascular operating room to cardiac ICU is associated with improvements in care beyond the immediate postoperative period.

July 17, 2013

Quality and safety implications of emergency department information systems.

July 17, 2013

When the misdiagnosis is child abuse.

September 2, 2020

Requirements for implementing a 'just culture' within healthcare organisations: an integrative review.

June 21, 2023

American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update.

February 1, 2017

The impacts of a pharmacist-managed outpatient clinic and chemotherapy-directed electronic order sets for monitoring oral chemotherapy.

November 9, 2016

Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reform with general surgery patient outcomes and with resident examination performance.

January 14, 2015

Factors that influence the recognition, reporting and resolution of incidents related to medical devices and other healthcare technologies: a systematic review.

May 6, 2015

Underlying reasons associated with hospital readmission following surgery in the United States.

February 18, 2015

National cluster-randomized trial of duty-hour flexibility in surgical training.

February 10, 2016

A case for improving measurement of intraoperative iatrogenic injuries.

July 23, 2014

Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reform with postoperative patient outcomes in surgical specialties.

August 12, 2015

How can we improve the recognition, reporting and resolution of medical device-related incidents in hospitals? A qualitative study of physicians and registered nurses.

July 8, 2015

Teamwork, communication and safety climate: a systematic review of interventions to improve surgical culture.

June 10, 2015

CDC central-line bloodstream infection prevention efforts produced net benefits of at least $640 million during 1990–2008.

June 18, 2014

'Between the flags': implementing a rapid response system at scale.

May 14, 2014

Review of medication errors that are new or likely to occur more frequently with electronic medication management systems.

July 17, 2019

The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.

January 30, 2005

Learning from disasters to improve patient safety: applying the generic disaster pathway to health system errors.

February 9, 2011

Medication errors with electronic prescribing (eP): two views of the same picture.

July 21, 2010

Cultural and associated enablers of, and barriers to, adverse incident reporting.

June 23, 2010

A case of transfusion error in a trauma patient with subsequent root cause analysis leading to institutional change.

June 15, 2016

Quality improvement through implementation of discharge order reconciliation.

June 12, 2013

Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a best practices guideline from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the American Geriatrics Society.

October 10, 2012

Evaluation of organizational culture among different levels of healthcare staff participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's 100,000 Lives Campaign.

February 29, 2012

How well do incident reporting systems work on inpatient psychiatric units?

September 5, 2018

Outcomes of concurrent operations: results from the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

October 11, 2017

Association of surgical resident wellness with medical errors and patient outcomes.

May 6, 2020

Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study.

August 19, 2020

Rate of sepsis hospitalizations after misdiagnosis in adult emergency department patients: a look-forward analysis with administrative claims data using Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error methodology in an integrated health system.

May 12, 2021

The Diagnostic Error Index: a quality improvement initiative to identify and measure diagnostic errors.

February 10, 2021

How communication "failed" or "saved the day": counterfactual accounts of medical errors.

February 3, 2021

A diagnostic time-out to improve differential diagnosis in pediatric abdominal pain.

July 14, 2021

Emergency departments are higher-risk locations for wrong blood in tube errors.

September 29, 2021

Development of rapid response capabilities in a large COVID-19 alternate care site using Failure Modes and Effect Analysis with in situ simulation.

November 18, 2020

Prospective validation of classification of intraoperative adverse events (ClassIntra): international, multicentre cohort study.

October 7, 2020

Honesty and transparency, indispensable to the clinical mission--Parts I-III.

December 15, 2021

Outcomes of missed diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis, new-onset diabetic ketoacidosis, and sepsis in five pediatric hospitals.

September 13, 2023

Prescribing errors in children: why they happen and how to prevent them.

June 14, 2023

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

June 3, 2020

Improving patient safety through the involvement of patients: development and evaluation of novel interventions to engage patients in preventing patient safety incidents and protecting them against unintended harm.

November 16, 2016

National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Venous Thromboembolism.

December 7, 2016

Electronic patient identification for sample labeling reduces wrong blood in tube errors.

March 20, 2019

Identifying hospital-wide harm: a set of ICD-9–CM-coded conditions associated with increased cost, length of stay, and risk of mortality.

December 17, 2014

Type 1 diabetes defined by severe insulin deficiency occurs after 30 years of age and is commonly treated as type 2 diabetes.

May 22, 2019

Challenges with implementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opioid guideline: a consensus panel report.

April 3, 2019

Related Resources

Patient safety indicators during the initial COVID-19 pandemic surge in the United States.

March 27, 2024

Factors influencing witnesses' perception of patient safety during pre-hospital health care from emergency medical services: a multi-center cross-sectional study.

February 14, 2024

WebM&M Cases

A Laceration that Needed a Proper Exam, Not an X-Ray.

January 31, 2024

Citing harms, momentum grows to remove race from clinical algorithms.

January 31, 2024

Characteristics and patient impact of boarding in the pediatric emergency department, 2018-2022.

January 24, 2024

Many people of color worry good health care is tied to their appearance.

December 13, 2023

WebM&M Cases

Delayed Evaluation of Abdominal Pain in an Elderly Patient.

September 27, 2023

Clinicians' insights on emergency department boarding: an explanatory mixed methods study evaluating patient care and clinician well-being.

August 23, 2023

Associations between self-reported healthcare disruption due to COVID-19 and avoidable hospital admission: evidence from seven linked longitudinal studies for England.

August 9, 2023

Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: 'There was no mercy'.

August 2, 2023

WebM&M Cases

Failure to adhere to dietary restrictions leading to complications and poor follow-up.

July 31, 2023

A national analysis of ED presentations for early pregnancy and complications: implications for post-Roe America.

July 19, 2023

In situ simulation as a quality improvement tool to identify and mitigate latent safety threats for emergency department SARS-CoV-2 airway management: a multi-institutional initiative.

June 28, 2023

Approaches to improving patient safety in integrated care: a scoping review.

June 14, 2023

Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 31, 2023

Death Inside Lemuel Shattuck Hospital: A Case Study on Medical Treatment for Persons with Mental Health Disabilities.

May 24, 2023

Adverse patient safety events during the COVID epidemic.

May 17, 2023

Delays in care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Veterans Health Administration.

May 3, 2023

Annual Perspective

Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality

April 26, 2023

Doctors must stop tuning out Black women. It happened to me, as a pregnant OB-GYN.

April 26, 2023

Defining avoidable healthcare-associated harm in prisons: a mixed-method development study.

April 19, 2023

Prevalence and causes of diagnostic errors in hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID-19.

April 12, 2023

WebM&M Cases

Sepsis Resulting from Delays in Treatment and Miscommunication among Specialists

March 15, 2023

Crowding in the Emergency Department: Challenges for the Care of Children.

March 15, 2023

Diagnostic delays among COVID-19 patients with a second concurrent diagnosis.

February 22, 2023

In situ simulation as a tool to longitudinally identify and track latent safety threats in a structured quality improvement initiative for SARS-CoV-2 airway management: a single-center study.

February 22, 2023

Gender biases and diagnostic delay in inflammatory bowel disease: multicenter observational study.

February 15, 2023

Patient and hospital characteristics associated with delayed diagnosis of appendicitis.

February 1, 2023

Balancing safety, comfort, and fall risk: an intervention to limit opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions for geriatric patients.

January 11, 2023

Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review.

December 21, 2022

See More About The Topic

Emergency Departments

Emergency Medicine

Public Health

Clinical Misdiagnosis

Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events

The effect of visitation restrictions on ED error.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The effect of visitation restrictions on ED error.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site