NHTSA Fatigue in EMS Project.

Special or Theme Issue

NHTSA Fatigue in EMS Project.

March 14, 2018

Patterson PD, ed. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018;22(suppl 1):1-118.

Health care worker fatigue is a persistent threat to patient safety. Articles in this special issue cover the results of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration program to explore fatigue among emergency medical service (EMS) providers. The research and guidelines inform efforts to mitigate fatigue in shift workers, with a focus on EMS providers.

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Table of contents

Introduction

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Safety in EMS.

December 21, 2011

Identification of adverse events in ground transport emergency medical services.

September 14, 2011

Diagnostic Error in Medicine.

September 25, 2013

Improving Diagnosis.

November 28, 2018

Shame and guilt in EMS: a qualitative analysis of culture and attitudes in prehospital emergency care.

July 13, 2022

Designing for Safety in the ICU.

March 28, 2018

Patient safety in emergency medical services: a systematic review of the literature.

December 21, 2011

The safety of emergency care systems: results of a survey of clinicians in 65 US emergency departments.

March 4, 2009

Magnet in Support of Patient Safety.

November 26, 2014

The patient died: what about involvement in the investigation process?

June 24, 2020

How Does Hospital Quality Management Drive Quality? Results From the "Deepening Our Understanding of Quality Improvement (DUQuE)" Project.

May 21, 2014

Safety.

June 30, 2010

Human Factors and Technology in the ICU.

July 11, 2018

Choosing wisely in clinical practice: embracing critical thinking, striving for safer care.

April 6, 2022

Salzburg Global Seminar Session 565—Better Health Care: How Do We Learn About Improvement?

May 16, 2018

Methods used to obtain pediatric patient weights, their accuracy and associated drug dosing errors in 142 simulated prehospital pediatric patient encounters.

August 25, 2021

Assessing the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies in Europe: the MARQuIS project.

March 11, 2009

Contributions from Ergonomics and Human Factors.

November 17, 2010

The National Emergency Department Safety Study: study rationale and design.

January 9, 2008

Antimicrobial Stewardship.

September 19, 2018

A standardized formulary to reduce pediatric medication dosing errors: a mixed methods study.

October 6, 2021

Implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program in long-term care facilities across the US.

March 9, 2022

Association of a Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use with antibiotic use and hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates among US hospitals

March 10, 2021

Quality, Value, and Patient Safety in Orthopedic Surgery.

October 24, 2018

Factors influencing medication errors in the prehospital paramedic environment: a mixed method systematic review.

July 27, 2022

Safety by Design.

December 20, 2006

A review of adverse event reports from emergency departments in the Veterans Health Administration.

March 18, 2020

Addressing systemic racism in nursing homes: a time for action.

April 14, 2021

Diagnostic challenges in primary care: identifying and avoiding cognitive bias.

June 29, 2022

An analysis of prehospital pediatric medication dosing errors after implementation of a state-wide EMS pediatric drug dosing reference.

March 1, 2023

The Report of the Short Life Working Group on Reducing Medication-related Harm.

March 28, 2018

Complications.

January 24, 2018

Paramedic self-reported medication errors.

October 18, 2006

Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The Report of a Rapid Policy Review.

July 25, 2018

The Second Society for Simulation in Healthcare Research Summit: Beyond Our Boundaries.

August 1, 2018

Safety-I, Safety-II and resilience engineering.

November 6, 2015

Identification and Prevention of Common Adverse Drug Events in the Intensive Care Unit.

June 16, 2010

Quality and Safety.

July 29, 2015

Suicide and suicide attempts on hospital grounds and clinic areas.

August 11, 2021

Safety with nebulized medications requires an interdisciplinary team approach.

March 7, 2018

Quality and Safety Education.

August 12, 2009

Veterans Health Administration response to the COVID-19 crisis: surveillance to action.

October 26, 2022

Understanding the Role of Facility Design in the Acquisition and Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections.

February 5, 2014

Patient Safety in Surgery.

February 14, 2018

2011 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in Emergency Medicine.

September 26, 2012

Patient Safety Papers 3.

April 23, 2008

Iatrogenic Disease.

March 5, 2008

Patient Safety Papers 6.

May 2, 2012

2014 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks in the Diagnostic Process.

January 14, 2015

Adverse drug event-related admissions to a pediatric emergency unit.

April 14, 2021

Diagnostic Error: Is Overconfidence the Problem.

May 14, 2008

Effects of tall man lettering on the visual behaviour of critical care nurses while identifying syringe drug labels: a randomised in situ simulation.

April 20, 2022

Pediatric prehospital medication dosing errors: a national survey of paramedics.

March 29, 2017

Medication dosing safety for pediatric patients: recognizing gaps, safety threats, and best practices in the emergency medical services setting. A position statement and resource document from NAEMSP.

August 26, 2020

Supplemental Issue: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) program.

September 6, 2017

Delays in diagnosis, treatment, and surgery: root causes, actions taken, and recommendations for healthcare improvement.

June 1, 2022

Emerging Concepts in Patient Safety.

September 18, 2019

Patient Safety

January 13, 2021

Management of Operating Room Critical Events.

November 18, 2020

Special Focus Issue: Patient Safety.

October 15, 2014

Infection Prevention.

May 27, 2015

Safety in Numbers: Evidence-based Development of a Medicine Management Learning Tool.

May 22, 2013

Front-Line Ownership: Generating a Cure Mindset for Patient Safety.

May 8, 2013

Simulation in Maternal Fetal Medicine.

June 26, 2013

Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Improving Outcomes, Reducing Risks.

March 19, 2008

Large-scale Coordination: Health Care.

August 8, 2007

Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.

June 13, 2007

Errors in Laboratory Medicine and Patient Safety.

June 3, 2009

Adverse Events: Expecting too Much of Nurses and too Little of Nursing Research.

May 11, 2011

Patient Safety Culture: Theory, Methods and Application.

January 21, 2015

Medication Errors. 2nd ed.

November 1, 2006

Focusing on Medical Errors.

March 6, 2005

Use of e-triggers to identify diagnostic errors in the paediatric ED.

April 6, 2022

Simulation in health care: setting realistic expectations.

September 19, 2007

Retrospective analysis of reported suicide deaths and attempts on veterans health administration campuses and inpatient units.

September 23, 2020

Proceedings from the European Handover Research Collaborative.

December 5, 2012

Knowledge for Improvement.

April 27, 2011

Technology, Education and Safety.

December 7, 2022

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.

January 23, 2019

Technology, Education and Safety.

December 15, 2021

Impact of Medical Errors and Malpractice on Health Economics, Quality, and Patient Safety.

April 26, 2017

Polypharmacy.

May 10, 2017

Iatrogenesis in Pediatrics.

September 20, 2017

Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer.

June 4, 2014

Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety.

November 7, 2012

Engaging Patients as Safety Partners: a Guide for Reducing Errors and Improving Satisfaction.

June 18, 2008

Improving Healthcare Team Communication: Building on Lessons from Aviation and Aerospace.

June 25, 2008

Medical Errors and Safety Systems.

September 1, 2010

Improving Pediatric Surgery Quality and Outcomes in the 21st Century.

January 13, 2016

Positive Working Relationships Matter for Better Nurse and Patient Outcomes.

December 1, 2010

Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety.

March 9, 2011

Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy: Enhancing Perinatal Health Through Quality, Safety and Performance Initiatives (TIOP III).

December 22, 2010

Cognitive Factors in Health Care.

October 12, 2011

The Medical Apology: Making It Right When Things Go Wrong.

April 18, 2012

Pearls, Pitfalls, and Errors in Musculoskeletal Diagnosis.

November 19, 2014

Patient Safety Papers.

November 30, 2005

Patient Safety Handbook, Second Edition.

August 17, 2013

Clinical Risk Management. Enhancing Patient Safety. 2nd ed.

March 27, 2005

Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2023.

May 10, 2023

Review of reported adverse events occurring among the homeless veteran population in the Veterans Health Administration.

November 17, 2021

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TQIP Mortality Reporting System Case Reports.

May 10, 2023

Factors associated with diagnostic error: an analysis of closed medical malpractice claims.

April 19, 2023

What can we learn from in-depth analysis of human errors resulting in diagnostic errors in the emergency department: an analysis of serious adverse event reports.

May 18, 2022

Identifying trigger concepts to screen emergency department visits for diagnostic errors.

December 16, 2020

The emergency department trigger tool: a novel approach to screening for quality and safety events.

September 30, 2020

Testing alertness of emergency physicians: a novel quantitative measure of alertness and implications for worker and patient care.

January 15, 2020

Perspective

Safety in the Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Setting

May 1, 2019

Cognitive error in an academic emergency department.

October 10, 2018

Influence of shift duration on cognitive performance of emergency physicians: a prospective cross-sectional study.

August 29, 2018

A method to identify pediatric high-risk diagnoses missed in the emergency department.

August 8, 2018

Understanding diagnostic safety in emergency medicine: a case‐by‐case review of closed ED malpractice claims.

June 6, 2018

Registered nurses' perceptions of safe care in overcrowded emergency departments.

May 16, 2018

Opioid prescribing and adverse events in opioid-naive patients treated by emergency physicians versus family physicians: a population-based cohort study.

May 2, 2018

Opioids and Dentistry.

April 11, 2018

Do EPs change their clinical behaviour in the hallway or when a companion is present? A cross-sectional survey.

March 21, 2018

Vital signs: trends in emergency department visits for suspected opioid overdoses- United States, July 2016- September 2017.

March 21, 2018

Unrecognized cardiovascular emergencies among Medicare patients.

March 14, 2018

Evidence-based guidelines for fatigue risk management in emergency medical services.

March 14, 2018

Ten ERs in Colorado tried to curtail opioids and did better than expected.

March 7, 2018

WebM&M Cases

Shortcuts to Acetaminophen-induced Liver Failure

March 1, 2018

Emergency department contribution to the prescription opioid epidemic.

February 21, 2018

Near-miss medication errors provide a wake-up call.

February 7, 2018

Task errors by emergency physicians are associated with interruptions, multitasking, fatigue and working memory capacity: a prospective, direct observation study.

January 31, 2018

Pediatric weight errors and resultant medication dosing errors in the emergency department.

November 22, 2017

Lost Mothers: Maternal Care and Preventable Deaths.

November 8, 2017

Opioid abuse and poisoning: trends in inpatient and emergency department discharges.

November 1, 2017

Opioid prescribing for opioid-naive patients in emergency departments and other settings: characteristics of prescriptions and association with long-term use.

October 25, 2017

Impact of out-of-hours admission on patient mortality: longitudinal analysis in a tertiary acute hospital.

October 25, 2017

Medication errors in injured patients.

September 27, 2017

Iatrogenesis in Pediatrics.

September 20, 2017

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