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SWMC reaffirms commitment to Zero Preventable Harm and Patient Safety
Southwest Medical Center (SWMC) is proud to reaffirm its commitment to achieving Zero Preventable Harm through a strong culture of safety, daily collaboration, and continuous improvement. As a Joint ...
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WellSpan | York, Pennsylvania: WellSpan Raises the Bar for Innovation, Collaboration on Patient Safety
WellSpan is a multispecialty medical group of 23,000 team members providing nationally recognized, advanced specialty care ...
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Measuring and improving patient safety through health information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework | BMJ Quality & Safety
Health information technology (health IT) has potential to improve patient safety but its implementation and use has led to unintended consequences and new safety concerns. A key challenge to ...
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Patient Engagement In Health Care Safety: An Overview Of Mixed-Quality Evidence
Search Strategy We adapted the search concepts used in the review by Hall and coauthors 13 to create two content areas for our search strategy: patient engagement and safety. We examined search ...
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Learning From Patients’ Experiences Related To Diagnostic Errors Is Essential For Progress In Patient Safety - Health Affairs
Diagnostic errors pose a significant risk to patient safety, affecting an estimated twelve million US adult outpatients annually 1 and leading to an estimated 6–17 percent of all adverse events ...
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Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis | BMJ Quality & Safety
Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them. Setting and sample UK primary care.