Fatigue Medical Errors

Fatigue, Sleep Deprivation, and Patient Safety | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/fatigue-sleep-deprivation-and-patient-safety

In 2006, AHRQ funded the National Academy of Medicine to synthesize evidence on medical resident schedules and health care safety as well as to recommend strategies to enable optimization of work schedules and patient safety. In this report, …

The Effects of Fatigue and Sleepiness on Nurse …

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Although the words “fatigue” and “sleepiness” are often used interchangeably, they are distinct phenomena. Sleepiness refers to a tendency to fall asleep, whereas fatigue …

Fatigue - Mayo Clinic

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Fatigue: Nearly everyone is overtired or overworked from time to time. Such instances of temporary fatigue usually have an identifiable cause and a likely remedy.

Fatigue: Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment & More - Healthline

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Fatigue: Definition, Causes, Symptoms, and …

https://www.verywellhealth.com/fatigue-symptoms-causes-diagnosis-and-treatment-4768481

Fatigue is often described as a lack of energy and motivation—both physical and emotional. It is …

Medical errors may stem more from …

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/07/medical-errors-may-stem-more-from-physician-burnout.html

The epidemic of physician burnout may be the source of even more medical errors than unsafe medical workplace conditions, a new study led by Stanford …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. It is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of errors and, …

Healthcare Worker Fatigue: Current …

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Medication errors (62.1%, n = 995) and errors related to a procedure, treatment, or test (26.4%, n = 422) comprised 88.5% of all events reported with healthcare worker …

Fatigue in nurses and medication administration errors: …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36707921/

Background: Medication administration errors (MAEs) cause preventable patient harm and cost billions of dollars from already-strained healthcare budgets. An emerging factor …

Alert Fatigue | PSNet

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The term alert fatigue describes how busy workers (in the case of health care, clinicians) become desensitized to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond …