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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.
Programmable Medical Equipment Risks and Interventions
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Patient Safety Alert Issue 3: The AMC PSO has identified a series of practices employed to address the factors that can contribute to risk associated with programmable medical devices.
Cybersecurity and Recovery
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Patient Safety Alert Issue 32: Cybersecurity attacks topped the ECRI list of the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2022.
Wrong Site Surgery Report
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Patient Safety Alert Issue 1: The AMC PSO has identified the a series of practices employed to address the factors that can contribute to a wrong-site surgery.
Test Result Notification
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Patient Safety Alert Issue 15: The AMC PSO recently held a collaborative convening session of its Ambulatory Patient Safety Leaders in order to both discuss current issues and possible solutions and propagate the natural progression of CRICO's established mission of helping health care providers turn credible data into effective action.
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."
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.
The Patient Safety Adoption Framework: A Practical Framework to Bridge the Know-Do Gap
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CRICO Grants
Many patient safety initiatives fail to be adopted and implemented, even when proven effective. This creates the well-recognized know-do gap—which occurs when health care workers know what should be done based on evidence vs. what takes place in practice. To address this issue, CRICO funded the development of a patient safety adoption framework and had it evaluated by leaders in quality and safety. The framework and its findings were published online in the Journal of Patient Safety in April 2023.
How Does Work Environment Relate to Diagnostic Quality? A Prospective, Mixed Methods Study in Primary Care
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CRICO Grants
The aim of this CRICO-funded study was to develop a tool assessing key elements of the diagnostic assessment process and apply it to a series of diagnostic encounters examining clinical notes and encounters' recorded transcripts.