A 2-year study of patient safety competency assessment in 29 clinical laboratories.

Robyn C Reed; Sara Kim; Kara Farquharson; Michael L. Astion

Study

A 2-year study of patient safety competency assessment in 29 clinical laboratories.

June 18, 2008

Reed RC, Kim S, Farquharson K, et al. Am J Clin Pathol. 2008;129(6).

View more articles from the same authors.

A web-based questionnaire was used to assess patient safety knowledge among clinical laboratory staff. The test identified gaps in knowledge regarding effective patient safety interventions.

Available at

PubMed citation

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Clinical impact associated with corrected results in clinical microbiology testing.

June 22, 2005

Telehealth.

October 25, 2017

The FIRST curriculum: cultivating speaking up behaviors in the Clinical Learning Environment.

September 25, 2019

Communicating pathology and laboratory errors: anatomic pathologists' and laboratory medical directors' attitudes and experiences.

May 18, 2011

Effect of a pharmacist-led educational intervention on inappropriate medication prescriptions in older adults: the D-PRESCRIBE randomized clinical trial.

November 21, 2018

Examining the diagnostic justification abilities of fourth-year medical students.

November 7, 2012

Interprofessional model on speaking up behaviour in healthcare professionals: a qualitative study.

May 25, 2022

Family perceptions of medication administration at school: errors, risk factors, and consequences.

April 16, 2008

Applying human factors engineering to address the telemetry alarm problem in a large medical center.

August 11, 2021

Risk of adverse drug events in neonates treated with opioids and the effect of a bar-code–assisted medication administration system.

January 26, 2011

Sensemaking, safety, and cooperative work in the intensive care unit.

August 8, 2007

The evolving literature on safety WalkRounds: emerging themes and practical messages.

October 1, 2014

The effectiveness of management-by-walking-around: a randomized field study.

April 23, 2014

Liquid medication dosing errors by Hispanic parents: role of health literacy and English proficiency.

May 31, 2017

Systematic review of the application of the plan-do-study-act method to improve quality in healthcare.

October 16, 2013

Implementing an obstetric emergency team response system: overcoming barriers and sustaining response dose.

November 4, 2015

Posttraumatic growth and second victim distress resulting from medical mishaps among physicians and nurses.

January 11, 2023

Hospital testing of the effectiveness of co-designed educational materials to improve patient and visitor knowledge and confidence in reporting patient deterioration.

February 14, 2024

Changes in default alarm settings and standard in-service are insufficient to improve alarm fatigue in an intensive care unit: a pilot project.

February 17, 2016

Care transitions in the outpatient surgery preoperative process: facilitators and obstacles to information flow and their consequences.

November 14, 2007

Patient safety over power hierarchy: a scoping review of healthcare professionals' speaking-up skills training.

June 10, 2020

Detection of missed fractures of hand and forearm in whole-body CT in a blinded reassessment.

September 29, 2021

Peer support and second victim programs for anesthesia professionals involved in stressful or traumatic clinical events.

February 21, 2024

Pictograms, units and dosing tools, and parent medication errors: a randomized study.

July 19, 2017

Assessing biases in medical decisions via clinician and AI chatbot responses to patient vignettes.

November 1, 2023

Usage and accuracy of medication data from nationwide health information exchange in Quebec, Canada.

June 13, 2018

Implementation of a "second victim" program in a pediatric hospital.

April 8, 2015

Liquid medication errors and dosing tools: a randomized controlled experiment.

October 5, 2016

Failure to follow medication changes made at hospital discharge is associated with adverse events in 30 days.

June 17, 2020

The problem with Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.

February 3, 2016

Determination of health-care teamwork training competencies: a Delphi study.

December 2, 2009

Back to basics: checklists in aviation and healthcare.

June 17, 2015

Effectiveness of a barcode medication administration system in reducing preventable adverse drug events in a neonatal intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study.

November 12, 2008

Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond?

June 21, 2006

Front-line staff perspectives on opportunities for improving the safety and efficiency of hospital work systems.

June 18, 2008

Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

June 7, 2006

Personal health records: a randomized trial of effects on elder medication safety.

January 8, 2014

The impact of a closed-loop electronic prescribing and administration system on prescribing errors, administration errors and staff time: a before-and-after study.

August 22, 2007

Impact of short-notice accreditation assessments on hospitals' patient safety and quality culture--a scoping review.

April 24, 2024

National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Venous Thromboembolism.

December 7, 2016

Moving from knowledge to action: improving safety and quality of care for patients with limited English proficiency.

February 26, 2020

Association of off-label drug use and adverse drug events in an adult population.

November 11, 2015

Do work condition interventions affect quality and errors in primary care? Results from the Healthy Work Place Study.

September 28, 2016

A cluster randomized trial of interventions to improve work conditions and clinician burnout in primary care: results from the Healthy Work Place (HWP) study.

January 27, 2016

Risk of unintentional overdose with non-prescription acetaminophen products.

June 20, 2012

Application of human factors methods to ensure appropriate infant identification and abduction prevention within the hospital setting.

August 18, 2021

Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review.

December 7, 2022

Systematic review: association of shift length, protected sleep time, and night float with patient care, residents' health, and education.

January 19, 2011

Patient safety, resident education and resident well-being following implementation of the 2003 ACGME duty hour rules.

March 23, 2011

Viewing prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection as a system: using systems engineering and human factors engineering in a quality improvement project in an academic medical center.

October 12, 2016

A nursing home’s 64-day Covid siege: ‘They’re all going to die’.

June 24, 2020

Practice indicators of suboptimal care and avoidable adverse events: a content analysis of a national qualifying examination.

October 16, 2013

Changes in cancer detection and false-positive recall in mammography using artificial intelligence: a retrospective, multireader study.

March 4, 2020

Barriers to self-reporting patient safety incidents by paramedics: a mixed methods study.

January 23, 2019

Decreasing errors in pediatric continuous intravenous infusions.

May 24, 2006

Potentially inappropriate medication use is associated with increased risk of incident disability in healthy older adults.

September 6, 2023

Joy in medical practice: clinician satisfaction in the Healthy Work Place trial.

November 1, 2017

Differences in hospitals' workplace violence incident reporting practices: a mixed methods study.

May 18, 2022

Multiple-institution comparison of resident and faculty perceptions of burnout and depression during surgical training.

May 16, 2018

Medication errors: immunisation.

September 27, 2006

A systems approach to morbidity and mortality conference.

July 28, 2010

Transcription errors of blood glucose values and insulin errors in an intensive care unit: secondary data analysis toward electronic medical record–glucometer interoperability.

May 29, 2019

Consumers' perspectives on their involvement in recognizing and responding to patient deterioration—developing a model for consumer reporting.

July 24, 2019

Association of opioid consumption profiles after hospitalization with risk of adverse health care events.

June 2, 2021

Incidence and variables associated with inconsistencies in opioid prescribing at hospital discharge and its associated adverse drug outcomes.

May 5, 2021

Exploring the impact of employee engagement and patient safety.

September 14, 2022

Making the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 work.

September 26, 2007

The impact of electronic health records on time efficiency of physicians and nurses: a systematic review.

November 9, 2005

Opinions of nurses and physicians on a patient, family and visitor activated rapid response system in use across two hospital settings.

February 28, 2024

Toward understanding errors in inpatient psychiatry: a qualitative inquiry.

April 14, 2010

The dangers of ignoring the Beers criteria—the prescribing cascade.

May 22, 2019

Nurses' perception of error reporting and patient safety culture in Korea.

August 8, 2007

What does it take? A case study of radical change toward patient safety.

March 6, 2005

Functional health literacy and understanding of medications at discharge.

July 16, 2008

Improving patient safety in public hospitals: developing standard measures to track medical errors and process breakdowns.

April 4, 2018

Using voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency medicine.

November 18, 2015

The impact of drug shortages on patients with cardiovascular disease: causes, consequences, and a call to action.

April 20, 2016

Balancing patient-centered and safe pain care for nonsurgical inpatients: clinical and managerial perspectives.

January 16, 2019

Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

December 5, 2007

ACGME duty-hour recommendations—a national survey of residency program directors.

August 11, 2010

The effects of leadership for self-worth, inclusion, trust, and psychological safety on medical error reporting.

March 8, 2023

Implementing electronic health record default settings to reduce opioid overprescribing: a pilot study.

February 28, 2018

Information handoff and outcomes of critically ill patients transferred between hospitals.

November 2, 2016

Patient-as-observer approach: an alternative method for hand hygiene auditing in an ambulatory care setting.

April 30, 2014

Medication safety in the neonatal intensive care unit: big measures for our smallest patients.

March 8, 2017

Usability of a computerised drug monitoring programme to detect adverse drug events and non-compliance in outpatient ambulatory care.

March 27, 2013

Positive deviance: a different approach to achieving patient safety.

August 20, 2014

Journal Article

Study

Implicit bias and patient care: mitigating bias, preventing harm.

April 10, 2024

Factors associated with the use of cognitive aids in operating room crises: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

May 9, 2018

Increased catheter-related bloodstream infection rates after the introduction of a new mechanical valve intravenous access port.

January 25, 2006

Cognitive error in an academic emergency department.

October 10, 2018

The prevalence of wrong level surgery among spine surgeons.

January 30, 2008

Factors influencing in-hospital prescribing errors: a systematic review.

July 19, 2023

ISMP medication error report analysis.

April 21, 2010

ISMP medication error report analysis.

March 10, 2010

ISMP medication error report analysis.

May 12, 2010

Better off not knowing: improving clinical care by limiting physician access to unsolicited diagnostic information.

April 13, 2011

Rapid response systems: identification and management of the "prearrest state."

February 1, 2012

Influence of state laws mandating reporting of healthcare-associated infections: the case of central line–associated bloodstream infections.

July 31, 2013

Assessing the impact of an educational program on decreasing prescribing errors at a university hospital.

April 1, 2009

Related Resources

Racial inequality in receipt of medications for opioid use disorder.

May 31, 2023

Blood and blood products transfusion errors: what can we do to improve patient safety.

May 10, 2023

Perceived discrimination in the community pharmacy: a cross-sectional, national survey of adults.

May 10, 2023

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

March 1, 2023

Implicit racial bias, health care provider attitudes, and perceptions of health care quality among African American college students in Georgia, USA.

January 18, 2023

Using the Assessment of Reasoning Tool to facilitate feedback about diagnostic reasoning.

January 11, 2023

Medication adverse events in the ambulatory setting: a mixed-methods analysis.

October 26, 2022

‘I am not the doctor for you’: physicians’ attitudes about caring for people with disabilities.

October 26, 2022

Improving communication and response to clinical deterioration to increase patient safety in the intensive care unit.

October 19, 2022

Interdisciplinary clinicians' attitudes, challenges, and success strategies in providing care to transgender people: a qualitative descriptive study.

October 19, 2022

Safety competency: exploring the impact of environmental and personal factors on the nurse's ability to deliver safe care.

October 19, 2022

A novel study of situational awareness among out-of-hospital providers during an online clinical simulation.

October 5, 2022

Exploring nurses' attitudes, skills, and beliefs of medication safety practices.

August 24, 2022

Neuroradiology diagnostic errors at a tertiary academic centre: effect of participation in tumour boards and physician experience.

August 17, 2022

Development of a multicomponent intervention to decrease racial bias among healthcare staff.

July 27, 2022

Reducing pediatric emergency department prescription errors.

June 22, 2022

Analysis of the interprofessional clinical learning environment for quality improvement and patient safety from perspectives of interprofessional teams.

March 16, 2022

An initiative to reduce insulin-related adverse drug events in a children's hospital.

February 16, 2022

Characteristics of disease-specific and generic diagnostic pitfalls: a qualitative study.

February 9, 2022

Early prescribing outcomes after exporting the EQUIPPED medication safety improvement programme.

January 19, 2022

Enhancing high alert medication knowledge among pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff.

June 2, 2021

Association between primary care physician diagnostic knowledge and death, hospitalisation and emergency department visits following an outpatient visit at risk for diagnostic error: a retrospective cohort study using medicare claims.

April 14, 2021

Pharmacist counseling when dispensing naloxone by standing order: a secret shopper study of 4 chain pharmacies.

December 9, 2020

A program to provide clinicians with feedback on their diagnostic performance in a learning health system.

October 28, 2020

Association of current opioid use with serious adverse events among older adult survivors of breast cancer.

October 14, 2020

More than an apple a day: factors associated with avoidance of doctor visits among transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people in the USA.

September 23, 2020

Using the ecological systems theory to understand black/white disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States.

August 26, 2020

Prevalence of Errors in Anaphylaxis in Kids (PEAK): a multicenter simulation-based study.

July 22, 2020

What do emergency department physicians and nurses feel? A qualitative study of emotions, triggers, regulation strategies, and effects on patient care.

April 1, 2020

Overprescribing of opioids to adults by dentists in the U.S., 2011-2015.

March 18, 2020

See More About The Topic

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Benchmarking

Continuing Education

A 2-year study of patient safety competency assessment in 29 clinical laboratories.

Implicit bias and patient care: mitigating bias, preventing harm.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

A 2-year study of patient safety competency assessment in 29 clinical laboratories.

Implicit bias and patient care: mitigating bias, preventing harm.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site