Ahrq Medical Errors And Patient Safety

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, diagnosis, equipment, or …

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 …

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement - Agency for …

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AHRQ has developed a wealth of materials focused on a wide range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, long-term, ambulatory, and more. Hospital …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Quality and Patient Safety Resources

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As part of its goal to support a culture of patient safety and quality improvement in the Nation's health care system, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) …

Advances in Patient Safety - Agency for Healthcare …

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Development of a Multipurpose Dataset to Evaluate Potential Medication Errors in Ambulatory Settings ( PDF, 237 KB) K. Arnold Chan for the HMO Research Network …

Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events | PSNet

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The Joint Commission has named improving medication safety as a National Patient Safety Goal for both hospitals and ambulatory clinics, and the Partnership for …

Primers | PSNet - Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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Strategies and Approaches for Tracking Improvements in Patient Safety Ulfat Shaikh, MD, MPH, MS | April 1, 2021 Save to Library An essential aspect of …

Adverse Events, Near Misses, and Errors | PSNet

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement uses a similar definition: unintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care that requires additional …

Patient Safety 101 | PSNet

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The AHRQ Making Health Care Safer II report, published in 2013, added to the evidence base behind patient safety interventions, and data from AHRQ indicates …