Ahqr And Medical Errors

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes--and can have serious consequences. Errors can involve medicines, surgery, …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Diagnostic Safety and Quality - Agency for Healthcare …

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AHRQ has funded several recent studies on diagnostic error: Outpatient diagnostic errors affect 1 in 20 U.S. adults. This study used data from three previous …

Medical Errors and Patient Safety | Agency for …

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Medical errors and patient safety fact sheets Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety: Responding to Ebola and Other Threats This issue brief underscores the helpful role …

Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare …

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In early 2000, just 60 days after the IOM report was published, the Federal Government, through an AHRQ-led task force, released Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal …

Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events | PSNet

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A medication error is an error (of commission or omission) at any step along the pathway that begins when a clinician prescribes a medication and ends when the …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

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Errors are defined as "an act of commission (doing something wrong) or omission (failing to do the right thing) leading to an undesirable outcome or …

The Impact of Communication on Medication Errors | PSNet

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Medication errors are most common at the ordering or prescribing stage. Typical errors include prescribing the wrong medication, route, dose, or frequency. These errors …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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A lack of standardized nomenclature and overlapping definitions of medical errors has hindered data analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. There are two major …

Medication Administration Errors | PSNet

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Medication administration errors are typically thought of as a failure in one of the five “rights” of medication administration (right patient, medication, time, dose, and route). These five …