Patient Safety

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Across
  1. 2. the bending of rules to circumvent or temporarily fix a real or perceived barrier or system flaw
  2. 5. systematic, retrospective analysis of an error to determine the underlying causes
  3. 6. type of culture that holds organizations accountable for the systems they design and for how they respond to staff behaviors fairly and justly
  4. 8. an adverse event that is unambiguous, serious, and usually preventable
  5. 9. a technique, which provides a framework for communication between members of the health care team about a patient's condition
  6. 13. tool that enhances decision-making in the clinical workflow
  7. 16. abbreviation for blood pressure
  8. 17. treatment guideline specifying appropriate treatment based on scientific evidence
  9. 21. when administering medications, providers must make sure they have the correct patient, correct medication, correct dose, correct time and correct route before giving a medication; this is also known as ____________
  10. 22. an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and trial-and-error methods
  11. 23. design feature that prevents the user from taking an action without consciously considering information relevant to that action
  12. 27. type of vaccine
  13. 28. regulations regarding the control and privacy of protected health information in medical records
  14. 30. an unintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care, that requires additional monitoring, treatment, or hospitalization, or that results in death
  15. 31. prescribed data model and value set, constraining users to only be able to enter or choose pre-determined values
Down
  1. 1. lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system
  2. 3. the process of comparing a patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking
  3. 4. discipline concerned with understanding human characteristics and applying that knowledge to the design
  4. 7. a logical sequence of operations which are carried out in order to obtain a pre-defined result
  5. 10. organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations for the purpose of improving health care
  6. 11. a unique 10-digit, 3-segment number, identifying the labeler, product, and trade package size of drugs
  7. 12. who introduced the 'Swiss Cheese' model regarding system errors
  8. 14. what orgainzation promotes the research, creation, awareness, and adoption of safe medication practices
  9. 15. the prevention of harm to patients
  10. 18. an unexpected event involving death or serious physiological or psychological injury, or the risk thereof
  11. 19. systems that are reliable, safe, efficient, and comfortable to use
  12. 20. the desensitization to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings
  13. 24. systematic, proactive method for identifying potential risks and their impact
  14. 25. the process of providers entering and sending treatment instructions via a computer application rather than paper, fax, or telephone
  15. 26. resource that identifies recommended practices to optimize the safety and safe use of EHRs
  16. 29. errors or accidents waiting to happen - failures of an organization or design that allows the inevitable active errors to cause harm