COVID-19 and Open Notes: A New Method to Enhance Patient Safety and Trust (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED From April 5, 2021, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, all providers in the US must offer patients access to the medical information housed in their electronic records. Via secure health portals, patients can login to access lab and test results, lists of prescribed medications, referral appointments, and the narrative reports written by clinicians (so-called ‘open notes’). As US providers implement this practice innovation, we describe six promising ways in which patient access to their notes might help address problems that either emerged with, or were exacerbated, by the COVID-19 pandemic

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JCAHO Sentinel Event Alerts: A Chance to Enhance Patient Safety

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology ◽

10.2345/0899-8205(2007)41[71:jseaac]2.0.co;2 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 71-72

Author(s):

Andrea Hall

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Enhance Patient Safety ◽

Sentinel Event

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Do patient engagement interventions work for all patients? A systematic review and realist synthesis of interventions to enhance patient safety

Health Expectations ◽

10.1111/hex.13343 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bronwyn Newman ◽

Kathryn Joseph ◽

Ashfaq Chauhan ◽

Holly Seale ◽

Jiadai Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Patient Engagement ◽

Realist Synthesis ◽

Enhance Patient Safety ◽

Engagement Interventions

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O15 Pop-up simulation- using hybrid techniques and hard work to enhance patient safety and help staff leave on time

10.1136/bmjstel-2017-aspihconf.38 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Colette Laws-Chapman ◽

M Lavelle

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Hard Work ◽

Hybrid Techniques ◽

Enhance Patient Safety

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Critical Values in Anatomic Pathology

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine ◽

10.5858/2006-130-638-cviap ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 130 (5) ◽

pp. 638-640 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jan F. Silverman ◽

Telma C. Pereira

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Improve Patient Safety ◽

Clinical Pathology ◽

Critical Values ◽

Surgical Pathology ◽

Anatomic Pathology ◽

Wide Range ◽

Enhance Patient Safety ◽

Pathology Reports ◽

Improve Patient

Abstract Similar to critical values (CVs) in clinical pathology, occasional diagnoses in surgical pathology and cytology could require immediate notification of the physician to rapidly initiate treatment. However, there are no established CV guidelines in anatomic pathology. A retrospective review of surgical pathology reports was recently conducted to study the incidence of CVs in surgical pathology and to survey the perceptions of pathologists and clinicians about CVs in surgical pathology, with a similar analysis of CVs performed in cytology. The results indicated that CVs in surgical pathology and cytology are uncommon but not rare and that there is a wide range of opinion among pathologists and between pathologists and clinicians about the need for an immediate telephone call and about the degree of urgency. It was obvious from the study that there is a lack of consensus in identifying what constitutes surgical pathology and cytology CV cases. Since the Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors, there has been an increasing number of initiatives to improve patient safety. Having guidelines for anatomic pathology CVs could enhance patient safety, in contrast to the current practice in which CV cases are managed based on common sense and on personal experience. Therefore, a discussion involving the pathology community might prove useful in an attempt to establish anatomic pathology CV guidelines that could represent a practice improvement.

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