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Reporting Flashcards

1
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Number one contributing factor for sentinel events

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Communication failure

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2
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Signal of safety culture that is a proactive opportunity to improve before significant event occurs

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Near miss reporting

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3
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What was designed to improve patient safety through analysis of reporter events and reduction or elimination of the risks and hazards associated with the delivery of patient care

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The patient safety and quality improvement act of 2005

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4
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What are the roles of learning boards?

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  1. Provide space to share defects
  2. Promote visibility of threats and missteps
  3. Show resolution of defects
  4. Promote threat awareness and reporting behaviors to enhance a culture of safety
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5
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Proactive vs reactive risk assessment

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Proactive - failure modes and effects analysis (fmea)

Reactive - root cause analysis (rca)

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What are the two characteristics of a good rca?

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Thorough and Credible

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7
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Describe pitfalls of bundles vs check lists

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Bundles- not check lists and are all or nothing

Checklist- done out of order, no buy in, lack of ownership

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What percentage of medication errors have an HIT component

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25%

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9
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What are the components of a risk priority number (rpn)

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Severity 1-5 5 is bad (worst possible outcome)

Detect ability 1-5 5 is bad(detection not possible before reaching patient)

Frequency 1-5 increasing frequency

Controls 1 3 5 (does the control work? 5 =no)

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What represents science at the intersection of psychology and engineering looking at all aspects of a work system to support human performance and safety.

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Human Factors Analysis

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What are the components of systems that determine safety?

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People
Tasks
Tools/technology
Environment
Organization
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What are the 3 steps in the design strategy?

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  1. Standardize and simplify
  2. Application of controls
  3. Catch errors and mitigate harm
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What are the five principles of high reliability organizations with examples

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  1. Sensitivity to operations - heightened awareness of the state of relevant systems and processes
  2. Reluctance to simplify- the work is complex and there is potential to fail
  3. Preoccupation with failure - view near misses as opportunities to improve rather than proof of success
  4. Deference to expertise- value expertise over seniority
  5. Practicing resilience- prioritize emergency training for many unlikely but possible failures
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What are the components of crew resource management?

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Leadership
Co-operation
Situation awareness
Decision making
Communication
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15
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Link the diagrams/charts to what they illustrate:

Fishbone diagram
Control chart
Spaghetti chart
Pareto diagram

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Fishbone = root cause analysis/ cause and effect

Control chart = similar to run chart. Shows trends over time in relation to quality improvement

Spaghetti chart = part or lean to show workflows and redundancies

Pareto = shows frequency of defects and their cumulative impact.

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16
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What best demonstrates non random process variation over time?

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Control chart—- step up from run chart as it had upper and lower control limits to measure usual and unusual variation.

17
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What bias accepts a diagnosis before it has been fully verified accounting for high proportion of missed diagnosis

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Premature closure

18
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What is anchoring bias?

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Over reliant on the first piece of information they hear.

19
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What is the availability heuristic?

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Overestimate the importance of information that is available to them.

20
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Name the four tests to determine culpability

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  1. Deliberate?
  2. Incapacity?
  3. Foresight? Related to short cuts
  4. Substitution test? Could someone else placed in same position have made same error. If so error is blameless
21
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Describe the following errors:

Active vs latent
Omission vs comission

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Active- errors and violations having immediate neg results. Caused by indiv

Latent- caused by circumstances of the system. Caused by org

Omission - not doing something you should have done

Commission- doing something you should not have done

22
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What does a balance measure do?

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Fixes one issue and causes another

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