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December 14, 2022 - Michelle Schreiber: I am the Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) … Michelle Schreiber: CCSQ is the clinical and quality center, to a large degree, of CMS. … Last year, we introduced two new electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for glycemic control. … Electronically is important for a number of
reasons; one is the robust clinical information from an … guidelines and to clinical
decisions and support and to ongoing and iterative quality improvement.
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December 01, 2012 - The newer atypical antipsychotic agents, the only ones that have really been tested in clinical trials … Are delirium guidelines in place at the hospital? Are there delirium pathways? … We're going to have national guidelines for delirium within 2 years. … As with these other important end-organ injuries, delirium is a clinical event for which prevention and … Valley Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC).
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March 01, 2011 - The handover provides information about the patients' clinical course and condition, as well as what … This practice, however, fails to provide an adequate opportunity for verbal interaction, conveying goals … Clinical context is also very important. … Institute of Medicine] that helped inform the duty hours task force development of the current 2010 guidelines … residents and students to do handoffs, as well as how we monitor that such education is turning into better practice
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March 01, 2009 - We are very well trained to think about clinical practice guidelines. … When you talk to the average person in public health or clinical care, they're thinking of a much larger … Building a Safe, Patient-Centered Health Practice
Addressing health literacy concerns as part of a … Hernandez LM; for Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice … Medication safety in older adults: home-based practice patterns. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005;53:976-982.
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June 01, 2007 - participant.(3,4)
An ongoing debate also exists around researchers' obligation to offer individual clinical … participants' expressed interest.(9-12) Moreover, few institutional review boards maintain specific
guidelines … Informing clinical trial participants about study results. JAMA. 2002;288:363-
365. … Disclosing individual results of clinical research: implications of respect for
participants. … Offering participants results of a clinical trial: sharing results
of a negative study.
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January 01, 2024 - Furthermore, it is common practice to administer fluids to hospitalized patients with evidence for improved … evaluation, the treating clinicians changed course, administering IV loop diuretics in accord with usual practice … Proper use of checklists, treatment algorithms, or clinical decision support tools might prevent similar … Were all ICU beds full at the time of admission, with administrative or clinical barriers to transferring … The Role of the Clinical Examination in Patients With Heart Failure.
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August 21, 2013 - subsequent postop visits, in part because the surgeon never explained specifically how
the rehabilitation guidelines … To meet the literacy needs of diverse populations, health care systems and providers should practice … opportunities to review, such as a teach-
back, which have been shown to improve patient adherence and clinical … inpatient projects can serve as meaningful models for the
enhancement of discharge processes in other clinical
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March 01, 2018 - )
All surgeons who perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures should be aware of these guidelines … AORN. 2004 Standards, recommended practices, and guidelines. Denver, Co: AORN; 2004:248,270.
9. … October 21, 2020
Clinical predictors for unsafe direct discharge home patients from intensive
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February 10, 2021 - These findings suggest inadequate adherence to guidelines intended to help identify patients with high … Study
Renal medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) alerts and overrides in … Early warning systems (EWS) can aid in early detection of clinical deterioration and assist rapid response … integration of health information systems supports decision making and treatment coordination across practice … Given a recent history of mobility limitations and continued clinical decompensation, a computed tomography
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March 01, 2013 - for an indwelling urethral catheter and antibiotics that may cause side effects.( 10 )
However the clinical … keystroke is now possible.( 11 ) For patients with history of BPH and difficulty voiding, "pop up" clinical … Since there are no guidelines to assist health care providers with decision making in regard to BPH patients … of the patient's ability to void, as well as documentation of that ability, should be part of best practice … Joseph, RN, MSN, CURN Clinical Nurse Specialist VA San Diego Heathcare System
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February 01, 2004 - , however, when the ball is dropped in the final step: the patient presents in a timely manner, the clinical … Proposed federal regulations would require clinical laboratories to release test results directly to … —should not matter per se, only the clinical implications. … Here too there are no specific rules or guidelines: the determination is made case by case. … by the available contact information, try other means including online sources as warranted by the clinical
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December 06, 2007 - Patients who are able to make determinations about their own care should be given guidelines upon
admission … Notification of security with a description of the missing patient and pertinent clinical information … midnight as the indicator.(10,12) Providers should consult with organization policies for specific guidelines … Pleading and practice forms, hospitals. In: American Jurisprudence. 2nd ed.
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February 26, 2025 - Avoid premature diagnostic closure when the clinical history and the results of imaging studies are … “High-risk” abdominal pain is
characterized by clinical features including age greater than 65 years … American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria
(AC) are annually updated “evidence-based guidelines … ACR guidelines are available to guide physician choice of
appropriate imaging. … Don’t ignore abnormal clinical findings.
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August 20, 2018 - In the current clinical scenario, an older man with a long history of opioid analgesic dependence sought … programs do not have embedded primary care so that substance abuse treatment must be received in one clinical … Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Guilford Press; 2011. … Clinical guidelines for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid addiction: A treatment improvement … Clinical pharmacology of buprenorphine: ceiling effects at high doses.
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July 01, 2017 - acquaintance with physicians and understanding their narratives of how legal pressures affected their clinical … practice. … process by which experienced and skilled adjudicators are assisted by precedent, written opinions, guidelines … would be recorded in a database as a guidepost, or we can get together and have some commission develop guidelines … One set of questions relates to their clinical practice trajectory.
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April 07, 2022 - than six
hours from arriving at the ED to transfer to the ICU have longer hospital stays and worse clinical … In addition to providing clinical care, EC3 serves as a training site for medical students,
residents … to all ED patients with UGIB before EC3 opened.4
EC3 leaders report that there are other promising clinical … education
Dedicated care team members on each shift (i.e., doctors, nurses, house staff, advanced practice … Managing ICU surge during the COVID-19 crisis: rapid
guidelines.
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January 01, 2018 - Do you struggle with that at all in terms of the actual clinical value of the exercise? … paste, just two studies were identified that demonstrated a relationship between copy and paste and clinical … But even as the research base expands, we already have published guidelines and toolkits for the safe … Ultimately, physicians need to reestablish ownership of the accuracy of clinical documentation. … Duly noted: lessons from a two-site intervention to assess and improve the quality of clinical documentation
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April 26, 2023 - Center for Transforming Healthcare, a center he began to promote high reliability and transformative practice … That's because the interventions recommended by available practice guidelines, best practices, stories … Today, because our clinical care processes are so fraught with weaknesses and failure points, most of … You can do it on clinical quality where the incentives align, and that might be different from somebody
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May 01, 2021 - (1)
Computerized Decision Support
(27)
Quality Improvement Strategies
(27)
Practice … Guidelines
(107)
Critical Pathways
(20)
Reminders
(12)
Audit and Feedback
(11) … )
Technologic Approaches
(27)
Bar Coding and Radiofrequency ID Tagging
(20)
Clinical … Missed or Critical Lab Results
(17)
Missed Care
(3)
Diagnostic Errors
(59)
Clinical … The patient was discharged in stable clinical condition but was advised to quarantine for 14 days.