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  1. Antibiotic-Targets-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/antibiotic-targets-facilitator-guide.docx
    June 01, 2021 - fluoroquinolone class are often in the long-term care setting, but can have significant side effects in older adults … to let them know that the physician at the emergency department may not understand that many older adults … Although well intentioned, clinicians sometimes misinterpret urine tests in older adults.

  2. The Culture of Culturing: The Importance of Knowing When to Order Urine Cultures

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/urine-culturing/whento-order/urine-cultures.pptx
    March 01, 2017 - In older adults, the presence of bacteria in the urine is usually asymptomatic, or asymptomatic bacteriuria … or functional decline (without alternative diagnosis AND increased WBC count in the blood)—in older adults … Diseases Society of America guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in adults

  3. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK2_T4-Common_Suspected_Infections_Tools_to_Improve_Communication_and_Decision_Making.ppt
    May 01, 2014 - unnecessary prescriptions for children with respiratory infections and ear infections and sinusitis in adults … * Additional Information About Infections and Symptom Management * Fever and Older Adults … Fever may be absent in 30-50% of older adults with serious infections Factors such as chronic diseases

  4. Screening for Skin Cancer (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/cLuJZx55Z6ApzYv836rkSp
    The table above applies to adults who are not taking NSAIDs and who do not have upper GI pain or a history

  5. Patient safety records: silent witness. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-records-silent-witness
    September 01, 2017 - 2010 Experience with a trigger tool for identifying adverse drug events among older adults

  6. Strategically Advancing Patient and Family Advisory Councils in New York State Hospitals. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/strategically-advancing-patient-and-family-advisory-councils-new-york-state-hospitals
    February 22, 2017 - September 7, 2022 Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review.

  7. Complexity and the Adoption of Innovation in Health Care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/complexity-and-adoption-innovation-health-care
    June 16, 2012 - May 18, 2022 Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review.

  8. AHRQ announces interest in research on digital healthcare safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-announces-interest-research-digital-healthcare-safety
    November 12, 2008 - April 3, 2019 Malnutrition in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review.

  9. ERs are swamped with seriously ill patients, although many don’t have Covid. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ers-are-swamped-seriously-ill-patients-although-many-dont-have-covid
    November 01, 2023 - July 10, 2024 Older adults are often misdiagnosed.

  10. Person-Centered Guidelines for Preserving Family Presence in Challenging Times. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/person-centered-guidelines-preserving-family-presence-challenging-times
    October 14, 2015 - Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults

  11. Advancing Diagnostic Excellence in Maternal Health Care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/advancing-diagnostic-excellence-maternal-health-care
    October 19, 2022 - strategies to decrease maternal disparities, cancer misdiagnoses and problems in the care of older adults

  12. Follow-up of markedly elevated serum potassium results in the ambulatory setting: implications for patient safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/follow-markedly-elevated-serum-potassium-results-ambulatory-setting-implications-patient
    September 29, 2021 - November 4, 2014 How useful are medication patient information leaflets to older adults

  13. ‘They can’t ignore us any more’: five women on long Covid and medical misogyny. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/they-cant-ignore-us-any-more-five-women-long-covid-and-medical-misogyny
    September 14, 2022 - The MedSafer study-electronic decision support for deprescribing in hospitalized older adults

  14. Nursing homes fined for COVID infection control lapses. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nursing-homes-fined-covid-infection-control-lapses
    November 24, 2021 - Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults

  15. How Veterans Affairs failed to stop a pathologist who misdiagnosed 3,000 cases. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-veterans-affairs-failed-stop-pathologist-who-misdiagnosed-3000-cases
    October 23, 2019 - October 14, 2020 New problems and iatrogenic events among older adults in the first 30

  16. "Managing up" can improve teamwork in the OR. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/managing-can-improve-teamwork-or
    September 23, 2020 - The MedSafer study-electronic decision support for deprescribing in hospitalized older adults

  17. Efforts to improve the safety culture of the elderly in nursing homes: a qualitative study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/efforts-improve-safety-culture-elderly-nursing-homes-qualitative-study
    April 18, 2018 - Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults

  18. Achieving Excellence in Cancer Diagnosis: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/achieving-excellence-cancer-diagnosis
    May 11, 2022 - April 20, 2022 Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Older Adults: Proceedings of a Workshop

  19. Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Diagnosis. Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/lessons-learned-covid-19-pandemic-improve-diagnosis-proceedings-workshop-brief
    April 20, 2022 - October 5, 2021 - October 6, 2021 Advancing Diagnostic Excellence for Older Adults

  20. These patients had to lobby for correct diabetes diagnoses. Was their race a reason? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/these-patients-had-lobby-correct-diabetes-diagnoses-was-their-race-reason
    July 10, 2024 - article describes three black women’s experiences with delayed diagnosis of latent autoimmune diabetes of adults
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