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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Patient harm"”.
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Establishing A Peer Supported Second Victim Program For Healthcare Providers: Team Heal
… events in healthcare resulting in serious patient harm have a substantial impact on patients, families, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations (Coughlan, Powell and Higgins 2017, Dukhanin et al., 2018). When adverse events occur, the patient and often family members are the …
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Differences Between Licensed Healthcare Professionals with Substance Use-Related Licensure Discipline
… (SUD) affects thousands of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare providers across the country. Healthcare providers who suffer from SUD are different from those in the general population who suffer from SUD, because the healthcare provider must be able to think and act …
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EDUCATION THROUGH SIMULATION
… a safe learning environment without the risk of patient harm.</p> <p><em>Key words: Simulation, education, training, learning methods, learning outcomes, student perceptions, patient safety</em></p>
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How to enhance communication among healthcare providers and improve patient safety
… Healthcare System (AHS)[1], which has made patient safety its organizational strategic priority (AHS, 2018). This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) seeks to improve communication and positive change among healthcare providers by maximizing the use of error prevention tools to improve …
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Organisational and systems factors impacting on patient safety in acute care organisations: lessons from four multi-site research studies
Background Patient safety is concerned with preventable harm in healthcare, a subject that became a focus for study in the UK in the late 1990s. How to improve patient safety, presented both a practical and a research challenge in the early 2000s, leading to the eleven publications presented in …
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Overuse of 3 Common Tests in the Elderly: Primary Care Physician (PCP) Variation, Associated Physician Characteristics, and Correlation of Overuse of Tests Within Physicians
… elderly is a nationwide problem that leads to patient harm. Some of the most commonly ordered tests are overused even though specific guidelines have been published and appropriately disseminated. Previous work has evaluated national, regional, state, levels of overuse but little research has …
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Interprofessional Education between Medical and Pharmacy Students: A Study of What and How Pre-registration Medical and Pharmacy Students Learn With, From and About Each Other in a Classroom Based Interprofessional Environment
Patient harm through use of medicines remains a worldwide problem. Studies suggest that developing interprofessional education (IPE) for physicians and pharmacists in pre-registration training may improve medication safety and patient care. However, the evidence concerning IPE for these groups is …
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Reduce Inappropriate Cardiac Stress Testing by Improving Adherence to Educational Guidelines
… promote appropriate test selection and improve patient outcomes. Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with coronary artery disease responsible for more than half of all cardiovascular events in adults under 75 (Chou, 2015). Although cardiac …
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Implementation Of Teamstepps® In A Peri-Operative Environment In An Urban Medical Center
<p>Problem and Context: Preventable Patient Harm (PPH) continues to occur frequently in healthcare. Failures in communication, poorly functioning teams, and a lack of shared mental models (SMMs) continue to challenge healthcare organizations. The purpose of this PI project was to improve …
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HAP Prevention: One Tracheostomy at a Time
… and respiratory therapist staff, along with the patient and their families on the importance of discarding used suction catheters. The intention of this project is to provide awareness and education on the negative implications of re-using a saved one-time use tracheal suction catheters. As a …
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Optimising medicine reconciliation at the healthcare interface
… medication reconciliation, care transition, pharmacist service, discharge communication, medication discrepancies, health interface Background: Medicine reconciliation (MR) is the process of obtaining and maintaining an accurate, detailed list of all medicines taken by a patient and using this …
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The Relationship Between Barcode Medication Administration Satisfaction and the Use of Workarounds Among Registered Nurses
Adverse drug events, resulting in preventable patient harm or death, are of great concern. To keep patients safe, hospitals have implemented barcode medication administration (BCMA) technology for RNs who have accepted this technology with varying levels of satisfaction. When nurses are …
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A Human Factors Approach for Identifying Latent Failures in Healthcare Settings
… of human factors issues associated with patient harm represents the next step in the evolution of patient safety. Predictably, hospital administrators could put in place targeted interventions to help mitigate human factors issues before they manifest and become harmful events in the …
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Patient safety and Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia
… in which medical errors can lead to significant patient harm. The aim of this thesis was to identify factors contributing to errors in veterinary anesthesia, evaluate the effectiveness of a pre-induction checklist in reducing omission errors, and develop a quality improvement initiative. Four …
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Improving Healthcare Professionals’ Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Vascular Access Ability Utilizing Homemade Ultrasound Phantoms
… improving the success rate and satisfaction in patients with difficult IV access. Education and simulation is an effective tool for improving the skills and knowledge related to ultrasound-guided peripheral IV access. Ultrasound phantom models allow for skill development without the risk of …
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The Relationship between Race and Ethnicity and Serious Safety Events in Hospitalized Patients
… This study explored the association between patient sociodemographic characteristics and the occurrence of serious safety events (SSE) in hospitalized patients. Specific aims were to describe among patients who have experienced an SSE: 1) patient sociodemographic variables (age, gender, race, …
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A descriptive, correlational study of medication administration timing error prevalence in acute care, underreporting among acute care nurses, and the correlation to patient safety culture
… administration timing errors are associated with patient harm. Complicated by underreporting, accurate rates have been elusive. Correlation with patient safety culture is unknown. Purpose. Guided by high reliability organization theory, this study aimed to describe individual and unit prevalence …
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To err is human : an exploration of the implementation of the Duty of Candour
… and complaints raised by a persistent group of patients and families, linked with increased mortality rates led to the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry (Francis Report, 2013). This inquiry found a catalogue of failings that included preventable deaths, incidents that had led to patient harm, and a …
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An Exploration of Motivation, Relevance and Realism in Simulation Based Medical Education: "I don't want to look like an idiot"
… simulation which result in improved training and patient outcomes are becoming clearer. It is known that attitudes and motivation influence learner behaviour and outcomes, yet there is a paucity of evidence for the effectiveness of simulation which takes this into account. This work offers an …
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Impact of Interruption Frequency on Nurses' Performance, Satisfaction, and Cognition During Patient-Controlled Analgesia Use in the Simulated Setting
… medication administration is a significant patient safety concern within health care, especially during the administration of high risk medications in nursing. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) devices are frequently associated with adverse events and have a four-fold increased risk of …
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