Highlights of 2024 - Print Issue
Authors:   Patient Safety Authority
Published: February 2025

The 2024 highlights issue of Patient Safety is available to read online and download at no charge.

This issue highlights the Patient Safety Authority’s most-read articles from 2024, including original research, data analyses, safety recommendations, and more. Among this curated selection are a look at how informed consent and schedule errors may contribute to wrong-site surgery (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/117084-risk-factors-for-wrong-site-surgery-a-study-of-1-166-reports-of-informed-consent-and-schedule-errors), the most common causes of oxygen disruption events (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/117580-unmasking-the-contributing-factors-to-oxygen-disruption-events-in-the-inpatient-environment-and-emergency-department), and the risks of broken and retained drill bits during surgical procedures (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/124086-broken-drill-bits-during-surgical-procedures-a-review-of-156-patient-safety-events).

Additional features include

• Data analyses from the largest event reporting database of its kind in the United States, including patient safety trends in serious events and incidents (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/116529-patient-safety-trends-in-2023-an-analysis-of-287-997-serious-events-and-incidents-from-the-nation-s-largest-event-reporting-database), and healthcare-associated infections in nursing homes (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/116555-long-term-care-healthcare-associated-infections-in-2023-an-analysis-of-23-970-reports)

• Important notices about the danger of using glacial acetic acid (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/116280-what-to-know-about-glacial-acetic-acid-stop-using-it), the mpox public health emergency (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/124257-mpox-an-update-on-the-new-public-health-emergency), overdose errors associated with multidose nitroglycerin bottles (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/125483-multidose-nitroglycerin-bottles-associated-with-25-fold-overdose-errors), technology failures in healthcare (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/120538-technology-failures), errors involving intravenous administration of haloperidol (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/125740-wrong-route-errors-involving-haloperidol-beware-of-its-unintended-intravenous-administration), and more

• Strategies to risk harm related to transfusion-associated circulatory overload (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/118615-transfusion-associated-circulatory-overload-taco-strategies-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-harm), pica behavior in acute care hospitals (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/126759-pica-behavior-in-acute-care-hospitals-strategies-for-screening-and-mitigating-risk-of-harm), the use of the “clot buster” drugs alteplase and tenecteplase (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/117322-alteplase-and-tenecteplase-related-errors-and-risk-mitigation-strategies-in-the-treatment-of-acute-ischemic-stroke-a-study-of-event-reports-from-52), and special instructions entered in electronic health records (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/118587-free-text-as-part-of-electronic-health-record-orders-context-or-concern)

• The inspiring stories behind last year’s I AM Patient Safety award winners (https://patientsafetyj.com/article/121631-2024-i-am-patient-safety-annual-achievement-awards)

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