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The AHRQ PSNet Collection comprises an extensive selection of resources relevant to the patient safety community. These resources come in a variety of formats, including literature, research, tools, and Web sites. Resources are identified using the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database, various news and content aggregators, and the expertise of the AHRQ PSNet editorial and technical teams.
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September 13, 2021
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Patient Safety Primer
September 7, 2019
Clinical decision support systems provide information or recommendations to help clinicians make safe and evidence-based decisions. The use and sophistication of these systems have grown markedly over the past decade, due to widespread implementation of electronic health records and advances in clinical informatics.
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Patient Safety Primer
September 7, 2019
The widespread implementation of electronic health records has caused a sea change in health care and in medical practice. The digitization of health care data has had some positive effects on patient safety, but it has also created new patient safety concerns.
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Patient Safety Primer
September 7, 2019
This Primer provides an overview of the history and current status of the patient safety field and key definitions and concepts. It links to other Patient Safety Primers that discuss the concepts in more detail.
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Perspective on Safety
August 1, 2019
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.
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.
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Perspective on Safety
July 1, 2019
This piece explores various practical and philosophical issues that could shape the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems in medicine.
This piece explores various practical and philosophical issues that could shape the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems in medicine.
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Perspective on Safety
May 1, 2018
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Perspective on Safety
January 1, 2018
Patient engagement is widely acknowledged as a cornerstone of patient safety. Research in 2018 demonstrates that patient engagement, when done correctly, can help health care systems identify safety hazards, regain trust after they occur, and codesign sustainable solutions.
Patient engagement is widely acknowledged as a cornerstone of patient safety. Research in 2018 demonstrates that patient engagement, when done correctly, can help health care systems identify safety hazards, regain trust after they occur, and codesign sustainable solutions.
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Perspective on Safety
January 1, 2018
This piece explores concerns regarding the use of copy and paste in electronic health records and offers potential strategies to improve clinical documentation accuracy.
This piece explores concerns regarding the use of copy and paste in electronic health records and offers potential strategies to improve clinical documentation accuracy.
Dr. Hirschtick is Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, and the author of a number of prominent articles—many quite amusing—about the changes in medical practice wrought by information technology. We spoke with him about what it means to be a clinician in the modern era, particularly how digitization of health records has affected clinicians' notes.
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Perspective on Safety
November 1, 2017
This piece explores how patient-facing technologies can enable patients to be more responsible for their care and improve the way clinicians practice.
This piece explores how patient-facing technologies can enable patients to be more responsible for their care and improve the way clinicians practice.
Wanda Pratt is a professor in the Information School and an adjunct in Biomedical and Health Informatics in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. We spoke with her about patient-facing technologies, including the opportunities and challenges for patient safety.
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Perspective on Safety
September 1, 2017
This piece highlights four key lessons that the authors believe are useful for clinicians and health care organizations that seek to identify, prevent, and mitigate electronic health record–related safety issues.
This piece highlights four key lessons that the authors believe are useful for clinicians and health care organizations that seek to identify, prevent, and mitigate electronic health record–related safety issues.
Dr. Gettinger is the Chief Medical Information Officer and the Executive Director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety for the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). He led the development of an electronic health record (EHR) system at Dartmouth and was the senior physician leader during their transition to a vendor-based EHR. We spoke with him about safety and health information technology.
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Perspective on Safety
January 1, 2017
Patient engagement in safety has evolved from obscurity to maturity over the past two decades. This Annual Perspective highlights emerging approaches to engaging patients and caregivers in safety efforts, including novel technological innovations, and summarizes the existing evidence on the efficacy of such approaches.
Patient engagement in safety has evolved from obscurity to maturity over the past two decades. This Annual Perspective highlights emerging approaches to engaging patients and caregivers in safety efforts, including novel technological innovations, and summarizes the existing evidence on the efficacy of such approaches.
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Perspective on Safety
January 1, 2017
A considerable body of evidence demonstrates worsened clinical outcomes for patients admitted to the hospital on weekends compared to those admitted on weekdays. This Annual Perspective summarizes innovative studies published in 2017 that helped clarify the magnitude of this effect and identify possible mechanisms by which it occurs.
A considerable body of evidence demonstrates worsened clinical outcomes for patients admitted to the hospital on weekends compared to those admitted on weekdays. This Annual Perspective summarizes innovative studies published in 2017 that helped clarify the magnitude of this effect and identify possible mechanisms by which it occurs.
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Perspective on Safety
October 1, 2016
This piece explores the role for a clinician data scientist in utilizing clinical datasets to improve health care quality and safety.
This piece explores the role for a clinician data scientist in utilizing clinical datasets to improve health care quality and safety.
Dr. Platt is Professor and Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine. We spoke with him about big data and patient safety.
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Perspective on Safety
September 1, 2016
This piece explores benefits and safety concerns associated with the increased adoption of telemedicine services.
This piece explores benefits and safety concerns associated with the increased adoption of telemedicine services.
Dr. Tuckson is President of the American Telemedicine Association. We spoke with him about telemedicine and patient safety.
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Perspective on Safety
November 1, 2015
This editorial provides an overview of how PSNet and WebM&M have evolved in the past decade.
This editorial provides an overview of how PSNet and WebM&M have evolved in the past decade.
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Perspective on Safety
August 1, 2015
This piece provides an overview of health IT usability design, including persisting challenges and progress in the field.
This piece provides an overview of health IT usability design, including persisting challenges and progress in the field.
Dr. Wachter is Professor and the Interim Chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF. We talked with him about his new book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age.
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Perspective on Safety
January 1, 2015
Computerized provider order entry is a cornerstone of patient safety efforts, and the increasingly widespread implementation of electronic health records has made it a standard practice in health care. This Annual Perspective summarizes novel findings and research directions in computerized provider order entry in 2015.
Computerized provider order entry is a cornerstone of patient safety efforts, and the increasingly widespread implementation of electronic health records has made it a standard practice in health care. This Annual Perspective summarizes novel findings and research directions in computerized provider order entry in 2015.
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Perspective on Safety
July 1, 2012
This piece examines the promised benefits of health information technology alongside the challenges of implementation and idiosyncrasies of available systems.
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.
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Perspective on Safety
June 1, 2011
This piece discusses how adopting new technology can have unintended effects.
This piece discusses how adopting new technology can have unintended effects.
His seminal work in patient safety is generally credited with introducing the concept of unintended consequences.
