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AHRQ Challenge on Innovative Solutions To Update or Re-Create TeamSTEPPS Videos.

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Rockville, MD; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: April 2022.

TeamSTEPPS promotes effective teamwork, collaboration, and communication in health care while focusing on strategies known to improve patient safety. This challenge competition seeks submissions to revise existing TeamSTEPPS videos to improve health literacy, equity, and cultural sensitivity. Written proposals are due June 20, 2022.

Hospital Safety Grade.

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Leapfrog Group

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), this website provides grades for hospitals in the United States based on their safety. The Spring 2022 hospital safety grade results are available. A 2019 report from the Armstrong Institute examines avoidable death associated with grading hospitals.

Use duodenoscopes with innovative designs to enhance safety: FDA Safety Communication.

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Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; April 5, 2022.

The challenge of medical device sterilization has shifted the design of some products with disposable elements in order to reduce opportunities for human error that increase infection potential during reuse. The publication supports the complete adoption of disposable duodenoscopes or scope components as a safety measure.

Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2022.

Healthcare-associated infections can result in significant morbidity and mortality. Developed by AHRQ, this customizable, educational toolkit uses the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices to provide clinical and cultural guidance to support practice changes to prevent and reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in intensive care units (ICUs). Sections of the kit include items such an action plan template, implementation playbook, and team interaction aids.

Final Report of the Ockenden Review.

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London UK: Crown Copyright; March 30, 2022. ISBN: 9781528632294.

Maternal and baby harm in healthcare is a sentinel event manifested by systemic failure. This report serves as the final conclusions of an investigation into 250 cases at a National Health System (NHS) trust. The authors share overarching system improvement suggestions and high-priority recommendations to initiate NHS maternity care improvement.

Healthcare Simulation Week.

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Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

Simulation provides a safe space to observe behaviors and generate constructive feedback to enhance individual and team performance. This website provides promotional materials for an annual campaign to raise awareness of professionals that use simulation to develop teamwork, communication, and crisis management skills in health care. The 2022 observance will be held September 12-16.

Diagnostic Centers of Excellence: Partnerships to Improve Diagnostic Safety and Quality (R18).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 7, 2022. RFA-HS-22-008.

Improving diagnosis and reducing diagnostic errors are patient safety priorities. This announcement supports the development of Diagnostic Centers of Excellence focused on improving frontline diagnostician support and improving diagnostic systems (i.e., improving diagnostic precision through consensus, improving “truth” or diagnostic reference standards). Applications are due by June 9, 2022.

Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Medical Office Survey: 2022 User Database Report.

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Famolaro T, Hare R, Tapia A, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2022. AHRQ Publication No. 22-0017.

The AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture is designed to assess safety culture in outpatient clinics. The 2022 comparative data report includes data from 1,100 US medical offices and over 13,000 providers and staff. The highest-scoring composite measures are patient care tracking/follow-up and teamwork. Like the 2020 report, the lowest-scoring measure was work pressure and pace.

HEAR Her Concerns.

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Maternal harm during and after pregnancy is a sentinel event. This campaign encourages women, families, and health providers to identify and speak up with concerns about maternal care and act on them. The program seeks to inform the design of support systems and tool development that enhance maternal safety.

Leadership Response to a Sentinel Event: Respectful, Effective Crisis Management.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Crisis management skills are valuable at both the organizational and clinical levels. This curated set of materials supports leadership engagement in the proactive development and implementation of crisis management plans as a part of larger culture of safety efforts. Key elements covered support respectful communication with patients, families and clinicians after medical errors occur.

Improving Education—A Key to Better Diagnostic Outcomes.

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Olson APJ, Danielson J, Stanley J, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2022. AHRQ Publication No. 22-0026-1-EF

Diagnostic skill development begins early in the education of health professionals. Advocates suggest that adjustments be made in curricula, instruction, and student assessment to address gaps in current educational methods and to enhance the team-focused diagnosis. This issue brief is part of a series on diagnostic safety.

Deficiencies after the New Electronic Health Record Go-Live at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA.

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Washington, DC: VA Office of Inspector General; March 17, 2022.

Electronic health record (EHR) implementation failures cause major disruptions to care delivery that can result in inefficiencies, misinformation, and unsafe care. This three-part investigation examines the impact of the new United States Veterans Affairs EHR system problems on medication management, care coordination, and problem reporting and resolution at one facility.

World Hand Hygiene Day.

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World Health Organization

This global initiative raises awareness about hand hygiene as a strategy to reduce health care–associated infections. The initiative includes an annual promotional campaign that takes place on May 5. The theme for 2022 is "Unite for Safety".

COVID-19 Focused Inspection Initiative in Healthcare.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration. March 2, 2022.

The impact of nursing home inspections to ensure the quality and safety of the service environment is lacking. Weaknesses in the process became more explicit as poor long-term care infection control was determined to be a contributor to the early spread of COVID amongst nursing home residents. This announcement outlines a targeted inspection initiative to assess whether organizations previously sited have made progress toward improving workforce safety.

TeamSTEPPS® for Diagnosis Improvement.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2022.

The recognition of diagnosis as a team activity is energizing new diagnostic process initiatives. Building on the established TeamSTEPPS® principles, this new TeamSTEPPS course includes seven training modules, team and knowledge assessment tools, and implementation guidance to develop or enhance communication across the care team to improve the accuracy and timeliness of diagnosis.

Diagnostic Safety Issue Briefs.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2020-2022.

Diagnostic safety has increased its footprint in research, publication, and awareness efforts worldwide. This series of occasional publications introduces diagnostic process concerns and efforts to address them. Topics covered include clinical reasoning, decision making, and patient engagement.

Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Summary Report: Evaluation of Mental Health in Veterans Health Administration Facilities, Fiscal Year 2020.

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Washington, DC: VA Office of the Inspector General; February 17, 2022. Report No. 21-01506-76.

Patient suicide is a reoccurring sentinel event that is a challenge for the veteran’s health care community. This report shares the results of 36 unplanned inspections at United States Veterans Affairs facilities. While the inspections found general guidance compliance to be in place, weaknesses in required patient follow-up, staff training and outreach activities were flagged as areas in need of targeted improvement to enhance patient safety.

World Patient Safety Day.

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World Health Organization. September 17, 2022.

Patients, families, and providers around the world are affected by medical error. This annual event and associated materials seek to raise awareness, motivate collaboration, and stimulate innovative work targeting a distinct patient safety theme. The 2022 theme is “Medication safety” with the slogan “Medication without Harm".

Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for a Data Management and Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Centers of Excellence.

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Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. February 10, 2022. Publication No. NOT-NS-22-071.

Approaching diagnosis as a team activity is seen as a key approach to diagnostic effectiveness. This notice highlights the pending funding opportunity to launch Diagnostic Centers of Excellence to improve diagnosis of undiagnosed and unknown disease and research to inform improvement. In addition, a pending data coordination and management call for proposals to support the centers has been released.

Proposed 2022 CDC clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids. A notice by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Fed Register. February 10, 2022;87: 7838-7840.

The 2016 Centers for Disease Control opioid guidelines have raised concerns as to their potential to contribute to patient harm. This announcement calls for comments from the field to inform and update current policy in response to safety issues that emerged as unintended consequences of the 2016 recommendation. Comments are due to be submitted by April 11, 2022.

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