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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, …

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 …

20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

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Medication Administration Errors | PSNet

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Despite error reduction efforts through implementing new technologies and streamlining processes, medication administration errors remain prevalent. In a review of 91 direct …

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 Emergency Department Long Term Care …

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 …

Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events | PSNet

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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices maintains a list of high-alert medications—medications that can cause significant patient harm if used in error. These …

Quality and Patient Safety Resources

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Quality improvement measurement, tools, and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and …

Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare …

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First, AHRQ formulated a research agenda focused on identifying available evidence-based patient safety practices, gaining information on the requirements and effective use of …

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. …