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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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Jawad Al-Khafaji, MD, MHSA, Merton Lee, PhD, PharmD, Sarah Mossburg, RN, PhD
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Throughout 2022, AHRQ PSNet has shared research that elucidates the complex nature of misdiagnosis and diagnostic safety. This Year in Review explores recent work in diagnostic safety and ways that greater safety may be promoted using tools developed to... Read More
Drs. Susan McGrath and George Blike discuss surveillance monitoring and its challenges and opportunities.
Susan McGrath, PhD,George Blike, MD, MHCDS,Bryan M. Gale, MA,Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD
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This piece discusses surveillance monitoring of patients in low-acuity units of the hospital to prevent failure to rescue events, its difference from high-acuity continuous monitoring, and its potential applications in... Read More
Bryan Gale, Sarah Mossburg, A Jay Holmgren, and Susan McBride
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In the past several decades, technological advances have opened new possibilities for improving patient safety. Using technology to digitize healthcare processes has the potential to increase standardization and efficiency of clinical workflows and... Read More
Christie Allen, MSN, RNC-NIC, CPHQ, C-ONQS, Cindy Manaoat Van, MHSA, Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD
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This piece focuses on perinatal mental health and efforts to improve maternal safety.
Christie Allen is the Senior Director of Quality Improvement at the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). We spoke to her about her experience in maternal safety and improving perinatal mental... Read More
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Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH |
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This piece describes the history around efforts to address preventable health care–associated infections, including federal initiatives and further research avenues to consider.
Dr. Holmes is Director of Infection Prevention and Control and a professor at Imperial College London. We spoke with her about infection prevention and patient safety.
Suzanne Beyea, RN, PhD |
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This piece describes the research around the effect of interruptions and distractions on health care safety and advocates for promoting and teaching mindfulness to address risks.
Dr. Coiera, a professor at the University of New South Wales, has extensively researched and written about clinical communication processes and information systems. We spoke with him about how interruptions and distractions in the clinical environment influence patient safety.
Dr. Kronick has served as director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality since August 2013, and will be stepping down from the role this month. We spoke with him about AHRQ's efforts to develop measurements and implement improvements in patient safety.
Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH |
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Sumant Ranji, MD |
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Dr. Singh has conducted extensive multidisciplinary research supported by the VA, AHRQ, and NIH and is now a nationally recognized expert in electronic health record–related patient safety issues and diagnostic errors. We spoke with him about becoming a patient safety researcher.
Urmimala Sarkar, MD; Kaveh Shojania, MD |
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Dr. Singh has conducted extensive multidisciplinary research supported by the VA, AHRQ, and NIH and is now a nationally recognized expert in electronic health record–related patient safety issues and diagnostic errors. We spoke with him about becoming a patient safety researcher.
Antonio Pinto, MD, PhD |
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This piece explores how to mitigate risks associated with radiology procedures.
Dr. Smith-Bindman is a national leader in the impact of radiologic testing on patient outcomes, and in the safety of radiographic imaging.
Sara J. Singer, MBA, PhD |
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This piece explores how leaders can promote cultural changes to improve patient safety.
Allan Frankel, MD, and Michael Leonard, MD |
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This piece explores how safety culture work has evolved over the past decade.
Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc |
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This piece discusses efforts to promote the business case for safety and quality in health care.
Harvard internist Dr. Jha is a national leader in policy issues related to safety and quality.
Kathlyn E. Fletcher, MD, MA; Darcy A. Reed, MD, MPH |
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This article discusses evidence surrounding the impact of resident duty hour limits on safety in health care.
Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital has performed key studies on how sleep deprivation affects clinicians and strategies to mitigate such fatigue to improve patient safety, including seminal articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2004 and 2010.
David A. Cook, MD, MHPE |
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This piece discusses the value of simulation-based education in health care.
Stanford anesthesiologist David M. Gaba, MD, helped introduce the modern full-body patient simulator and the concept of crew resource management training to health care.
Saul N. Weingart, MD, PhD |
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This piece highlights the advantages to and limitations of engaging patients in patient safety.
Beverley Johnson is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care.
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, MD; E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH; Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH |
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This piece details a number of evidenced-based practices to help detect, prevent, and treat delirium, which is now seen as a patient safety hazard.
A leading expert in geriatrics research and innovation, Dr. Inouye developed and validated a widely used tool, the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM), to identify delirium.
Steven McGee, MD |
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This piece details the benefits of an evidenced-based approach to physical examination and diagnosis.
A passionate advocate for the importance of the physical exam, Dr. Verghese is a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and a bestselling author.
Anjali Joseph, PhD, EDAC; Eileen B. Malone, RN, MSN, MS, EDAC |
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This piece discusses how environmental factors contribute to adverse events in health care and describes how evidence-based design principles can improve safety.
Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN |
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This piece describes federal initiatives aimed at preparing the nursing workforce needed to match future demand and to navigate changes vital to improving health care.
Prof. Needleman has performed some of the key studies on how the nursing workforce influences health outcomes, including seminal articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 and 2011.
Jerry Gurwitz, MD |
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This piece, written by a national leader in safe use of medications in elderly patients, discusses strategies for improving the quality and safety of medication use in the nursing home setting.
An expert on patient safety in nursing homes, Dr. Castle is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
Ross Koppel, PhD |
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This piece examines the promised benefits of health information technology alongside the challenges of implementation and idiosyncrasies of available systems.
Dr. Blumenthal recently returned to Harvard after a 2-year stint as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, where he was responsible for implementing the “Meaningful Use” health care IT incentive system in American hospitals and clinics.
Robert M. Wachter, MD |
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This piece examines differences in the patient safety movements in the UK and US, as seen through the eyes of an American safety expert who spent 6 months in England last year.
Paul J. Sharek, MD, MPH |
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This piece explains how the trigger tool approach identifies adverse events more efficiently than other detection methods such as voluntary incident reporting and patient safety indicators drawn from administrative data.
One of the pioneers of the trigger tool methodology for detecting adverse events, Dr. Classen is Chief Medical information Officer at Pascal Metrics and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah.
