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Patient ID Risks & the Intersection of Electronic Health Records
Aug 23, 2017
Patient Safety Alert 28: Patient Identification Risks and the Intersection of Electronic Health Records (PDF)
The AMC PSO recently convened a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders across its membership to review and discuss strategies for safer patient identification.
Causes of Patient Identification Error
- Checking patient’s wristband is considered the domain of nurses
- Patient answers to wrong name
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Publications such as whitepapers and guidelines derived from the AMC PSO convenings.
No Surgical Items Left Behind
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Periprocedural Management of Anticoagulation Therapy
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Patient Falls
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Failure to Rescue
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Patient Safety Alert Issue 22: The AMC PSO has recently assembled a panel of subject matter experts to review data, literature, and their own experiences with insufficient patient monitoring and failure to rescue.
Utilization of Electronic Health Record Sex and Gender Demographic Fields: A Metadata and Mixed Methods Analysis
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This CRICO co-funded retroactive study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association analyzed the records of patients 18 years of age or older in the Mass General Brigham health system with a first Legal Sex entry (registration requirement) between 2018 and 2022. The study was important because “Sex and gender demographic data are widely viewed as essential to providing culturally responsive gender affirming care and facilitating research and public health interventions.”
The Safety of Outpatient Health Care
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Although most care occurs in the outpatient setting, knowledge of outpatient adverse events (AEs) remains limited. This study looks at adverse events in outpatient settings.
Report Underscores the Importance of Documentation. Can AI Reduce the Burden on Clinicians?
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Candello’s new benchmarking report on documentation is featured in an article on the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety website. The article highlights the critical role of accurate and timely documentation in patient care.
Characterizing Malpractice Cases Involving Emergency Department Advanced Practice Providers, Physicians in Training, and Attending Physicians
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s emergency department experts collaborated with CRICO patient safety experts to co-author this study that was published in the Academic Emergency Medicine journal.