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Our Perspectives on Safety section features expert viewpoints on current themes in patient safety, including interviews and written essays published monthly. Annual Perspectives highlight vital and emerging patient safety topics.
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Joan Stanley, PhD, NP, FAAN, FAANP |
Joan Stanley, PhD, NP, FAAN, FAANP; Bryan M. Gale, MA; Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD |
This piece discusses how undergraduate professional nursing education integrates the topic of patient safety into classroom and clinical instruction, and how this affects patient safety as a whole.
Cheryl B. Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN |
Editor’s note: Cheryl B. Jones is a professor, director of the Hillman Scholars Program, and interim associate dean of the School of Nursing’s PhD program at the University of North Carolina at... Read More
Cheryl B. Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN; Zoe Sousane, BS; Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD
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This piece focuses on workplace violence trends in healthcare settings and strategies for creating a safer healthcare environment.
Patricia McGaffigan, MS, RN, CPPS; Cindy Manaoat Van, MHSA, CPPS; Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD
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This piece focuses on the importance of patient safety following the end of the public health emergency and how organizations can move beyond the pandemic.
Patricia McGaffigan, MS, RN, CPPS; Cindy Manaoat Van, MHSA, CPPS; Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD
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This piece focuses on the importance of patient safety following the end of the public health emergency and how organizations can move beyond the pandemic.
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This piece discusses the role of the Food and Drug Administration in ensuring the safety of medical devices.
Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD is the Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration. We spoke with him about the role of the Food and Drug Administration in ensuring the safety of medical devices.
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This PSNet Perspective discusses how telehealth, regardless of payer (Medicare, private insurance, etc.), is supporting both patient and provider safety during the COVID-19 crisis. Precautions that institutions can take to alleviate safety risks resulting from a rapid expansion of capabilities and use are also discussed.
Joel Willis, DO, PA, MA, MPhiL is a Health Policy Fellow affiliated with the American Board of Family Medicine and the George Washington Medical Faculty Associates. Neal Sikka, MD is an Associate Professor and Attending Physician at George Washington Medical Faculty Associates and the Chief of the Innovative Practice and Telehealth Section of the Department of Emergency Medicine. We discussed with them how telehealth at GW is helping to protect patients and providers during the COVID-19 crisis.
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This perspective discusses the Making Healthcare Safer Report, what is new in the recently released third edition, and how the report can be used.
Ann D. Gaffey, RN, MSN, CPHRM, DFASHRM is the President of Healthcare Risk and Safety Strategies, LLC. Bruce Spurlock, MD is the President and CEO of Cynosure Health. We spoke with them about their role in the development of the Making Healthcare Safer III Report and what new information they think audiences will find particularly useful and interesting.
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This piece describes key themes reflected in AHRQ PSNet resources released in 2019 related to how medical, nursing, and other clinical education can better incorporate patient safety concepts.
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This perspective describes key themes reflected in AHRQ PSNet resources released in 2019 related to the role of the pharmacist in enhancing patient safety.
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This perspective describes key themes reflected in AHRQ PSNet resources released in 2019 related to how the use of HIT can improve patient safety.
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This perspective describes key themes reflected in AHRQ PSNet resources released in 2019 related to patient safety in primary care.
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This piece discusses the current use of artificial intelligence in diagnostic imaging and key patient safety considerations.
David R. Gruen, MD, MBA, FACR is the Chief Medical Officer, Imaging at IBM Watson Health and is a thought leader and content expert for artificial intelligence in medical imaging. We spoke with him about the role artificial intelligence can play in healthcare diagnostics and the potential for reducing diagnostic errors.
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This piece describes cultural competence in the context of patient safety and highlights several approaches and projects that may help to improve cultural competence.
Cindy Brach, MPP is a Senior Healthcare Researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is the Co-Chair of the HHS Health Literacy Workgroup. We spoke with her about the role of cultural competence in patient safety.
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This piece describes patient safety risks when caring for frail older patients and summarizes potential approaches for clinicians to minimize this risk.
Dr. Wald, MD, MSPH, is the Chief Quality and Safety Officer at SCL Health in Denver, CO. She has previously served as a physician advisor for the Colorado Hospital Association and as a Quality Committee Chair for the American Geriatrics Society. We spoke with her about patient safety concerns when caring for frail older patients.
Jochen Profit, MD, MPH; Annette Scheid, MD; and Erick Ridout, MD |
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This piece describes a collaborative, interdisciplinary team approach with a flat hierarchy used at Intermountain Healthcare's Dixie Regional Medical Center that led to substantial reduction of key neonatal morbidities and costs of care.
Dr. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Harvard's Ariadne Labs. He is also the founder of the organization Costs of Care. We spoke with him about patient safety in obstetrics, maternal mortality, the importance of dignity, and the overuse of cesarean deliveries.
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This piece explores the evolution of PSNet and WebM&M since their inception (WebM&M in 2003 and PSNet in 2005) and summarizes changes in the patient safety landscape over time.
Deborah Woodcock, MS, MBA; Robby Bergstrom |
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This piece explores the role medical scribes play in health care, how to implement and evaluate a scribe program, and recommendations to reduce variations in scribe practice.
Dr. Smith is Chief Faculty Practices Officer for UCSF Health and a family medicine physician. Over the past 3–4 years, the health system has implemented a robust program using medical scribes in the outpatient setting. We spoke with her about her experience implementing this program, including the benefits and some of the potential patient safety ramifications.
Robert Challen, MA, MBBS |
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This piece explores various practical and philosophical issues that could shape the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems in medicine.
Sudeep Hegde, PhD; Ann M. Bisantz, PhD; and Rollin J. Fairbanks, MD, MS |
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This piece explores the key role of emergency medical services in providing care to patients at their moment of greatest need, safety hazards in this field, and opportunities for improvement.
P. Daniel Patterson, PhD, NRP, and Donald M. Yealy, MD |
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This piece explores the key role of emergency medical services in providing care to patients at their moment of greatest need, safety hazards in this field, and opportunities for improvement.
Dr. Brice is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina. She also serves as the Program Director for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship and was past-president of the National Association of EMS Physicians. We spoke with her about her experience working in emergency medical systems and safety concerns particular to this field.
Paul E. Phrampus, MD |
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This piece outlines how large integrated health care systems can implement effective patient safety programs and spotlights the importance of leadership engagement and a just culture.
Dr. Haas is an obstetrician–gynecologist and co-Principal Investigator for Ariadne Labs' work focused on health care system expansion. We spoke with her about the trend of health systems getting larger and more integrated, the risks to patient safety, and ways to mitigate these risks.
Jed D. Gonzalo, MD, MSc, and Mamta K. Singh, MD, MSc |
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This piece spotlights the need for educational and cultural transformation to achieve sustainable progress in patient outcomes and health.
Dr. Skochelak is the Group Vice President for Medical Education at the American Medical Association (AMA). She leads the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, which aims to align physician training with the changing needs of our health care system. We spoke with her about her experience in medical education.
Audrey Lyndon, RN, PhD |
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This perspective examines the troubling decline in maternal health outcomes in the United States and summarizes recent national initiatives to improve safety in maternity care.
Robert Wachter, MD |
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This piece, written by the physician who coined the term "hospitalist," provides an overview of the hospitalist model and reflects on key advantages of and challenges faced by the Comprehensive Care Physician Model.
Dr. Meltzer is the Fanny L. Pritzker Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, and Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. His research aims to improve the quality and lower the cost of hospital care. We spoke with him about the Comprehensive Care Physician Model, which he pioneered and was recently featured in an article in The New York Times Magazine.
