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National Patient Safety Goals PSNet

The National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) were developed in response to the high prevalence of preventable medical errors in the United States. This primer describes the NPSGs, how they relate to other goals and priorities established by national organizations, and how health care systems can use these goals to drive patient safety improvement efforts.

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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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Describing the evidence linking interprofessional education

WebInterprofessional education (IPE) emphasizes collaborative care to improve health outcomes. In this scoping review, 94 articles that linked IPE to at least one of ten …

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The Top Five: A Review of Post-Pandemic Patient Safety Priorities

WebThe COVID pandemic posed wide-ranging challenges to both society at large as well as to the health care system, revealing weaknesses and degrading safety …

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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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Communication During Transitions of Care PSNet

WebThroughout 2023, the importance of communication during transitions of care was a recurrent theme among articles on AHRQ PSNet. This Year in Review Perspective …

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Approach to Improving Patient Safety: Communication PSNet

WebCommunication with Patients. When engaging and caring for patients, effective communication is an essential duty of a provider and paramount for shared …

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Innovations PSNet

WebThe PSNet Innovations page highlights pioneering advances that can improve patient safety. PSNet innovations are defined as “new or updated interventions, …

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Annual Perspective: Psychological Safety of Healthcare Staff

WebA psychologically safe environment for healthcare teams is desirable for optimal team performance, team member well-being, and favorable patient safety …

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Remote Patient Monitoring PSNet

WebThe implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and expanded access to the internet and medical devices have enabled healthcare to move outside of …

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The Relationship Between Climate Change and Healthcare Quality …

WebClimate change–related weather events are straining healthcare workers, disrupting physical infrastructure, and interrupting supply chains, making it more difficult …

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Challenges and opportunities of patient safety event reporting.

WebReporting incidents and errors is a cornerstone of patient safety improvement efforts, but challenges remain, including low quality of reports and low rates of reporting. …

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Communication Between Clinicians PSNet

WebThe Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) approach is widely used to facilitate communication between nurses and physicians by offering a standardized …

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Addressing Workplace Violence and Creating a Safer Workplace

WebWorkplace violence is a leading cause of job dissatisfaction among providers, particularly nurses. Annual nurse turnover rates due to workplace violence are estimated …

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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 and staff …

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Emergence of Application-based Healthcare PSNet

WebDevelopment of Safe, Efficacious, and Equitable App-based Healthcare Products. The design of safe and effective healthcare apps involves several key …

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Hospital at Home℠ Care Reduces Costs, Readmissions, and

WebThe Hospital at Homesm program provides hospital-level care (including daily physician and nurse visits, diagnostic testing, treatment, and other support) in a patient's …

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Organisational conditions for safety management practice in

WebRates of transmission of COVID-19 were high in nursing homes for both residents and staff with wide variation in implementing infection control measures. This …

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Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care …

WebThe Support and Services at Home (SASH®) program provides onsite assistance to help senior citizens (and other Medicare beneficiaries) remain in their …

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