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Technology as a Tool for Improving Patient Safety PSNet

WEBIn the past several decades, technological advances have opened new possibilities for improving patient safety. Using technology to digitize healthcare …

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The Role of Patient-facing Technologies to Empower Patients and …

WEBEditor's note: Wanda Pratt is a Professor in the Information School with an adjunct appointment in the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics in the Medical …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Primary Care and Patient Safety: Opportunities at the Interface

WEBEditor’s Note: Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH, is the Founder and CEO of Urgent Wellness LLC, a social enterprise dedicated to improving the health of …

Category:  Health Go Health

Emergence of Application-based Healthcare PSNet

WEBAugust 5, 2022. Editor’s note: Francoise A. Marvel, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine within the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, codirector of the …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

AHRQ PSNet Annual Perspective: Impact of the COVID-19 …

WEBIn this PSNet Annual Perspective, we worked with co-authors Dr. Jacqueline C. Stocking, a quality improvement and critical care specialist, and Dr. Christian …

Category:  Health Go Health

Dissecting communication barriers in healthcare: a path to

WEBCommunication errors in health care are a persistent challenge to patient safety. This commentary advocates for studying behavioral, cognitive, linguistic, …

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Ensuring Patient and Workforce Safety Culture in Healthcare

WEBIntroduction. In 2020, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) unveiled the National Action Plan …

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Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Care Setting PSNet

WEBThe focus on patient safety in the ambulatory setting was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and appropriately shifting priorities to responding to the pandemic. …

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Strategies and Approaches for Investigating Patient Safety Events

WEBThis primer provides a broad overview of three widely used tools for investigating and responding to patient safety events and near misses. Tools covered in this primer are …

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Why hospitals still make serious medical errors—and how they

WEBPatient harm from health care is persistent despite decades of effort to address problems that degrade care. This article discusses the potential that improved …

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Patient Safety 101 PSNet

WEBEnsure that leaders establish and sustain a safety culture. Create centralized and coordinated oversight of patient safety. Create a common set of safety metrics that …

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Two decades since To Err Is Human: an assessment of progress

WEBThe release of the Institute of Medicine's To Err Is Human in 1999 represented a seminal moment in patient safety and is considered by many to have …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

Virtual Nursing: Improving Patient Care and Meeting Workforce

WEBVirtual Nursing and the Nursing Workforce. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) forecasted the future of nursing, and …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

National Patient Safety Goals PSNet

WEBThe National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) were developed in response to the high prevalence of preventable medical errors in the United States. This primer …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Impact of System Failures on Healthcare Workers PSNet

WEBThe impact that system failures may have on the healthcare workforce was a major theme of articles featured on PSNet in 2022, as the patient safety community …

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Recognizing the importance of whistleblowers in healthcare.

WEBIndividuals who express concerns can identify latent conditions that degrade safety in health care. This article examines this behavior in the context of the COVID pandemic …

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Strategies to Improve Organizational Health Literacy. PSNet

WEBBackground. Health literacy is important at both the personal and organizational levels. According to Healthy People 2030, personal health literacy defined as an individual's …

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Pay-for-performance and patient safety in acute care: a

WEBPay-for-performance (P4P) policies and programs (such as the Hospital-Acquired Condition [HAC] Reduction Program) intend to incentivize high-quality care …

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Patient Safety Amid Nursing Workforce Challenges PSNet

WEBSince the 1980s, agency nurses who are hired through local contracts have accounted for about 3.8% of the nursing workforce. In addition, travel nurses represent, …

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Digital Health Literacy PSNet

WEBDigital literacy4 is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical …

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Patient Safety During Hospital Discharge PSNet

WEBPerspective. Patients are admitted to the hospital in the United States 35 million times per year.() The discharge period—when patients are transitioned from one …

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Global Medical Supply Chain Security. PSNet

WEBDrug shortages are a known problem that gained patient safety prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue covers a range of systemic …

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Diagnostic error in mental health: a review. PSNet

WEBDiagnostic errors in mental health disorders have not yet received the same attention as diagnostic errors in other care settings. This article describes diagnostic …

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Nursing Workforce Challenges and Patient Safety

WEBKatie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, CCT, is the Director of Nursing Programs at the American Nurses Association and Adjunct Professor at the …

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Addressing Workplace Violence and Creating a Safer Workplace

WEBThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as violent acts, including physical assaults and verbal threats, …

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