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1. Complications During Labor and Delivery (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/complications_during_labor_and_delivery.pdf
   June 02, 2025 - Complications During Labor and Delivery Blood transfusion Disseminated intravascular coagulation … Factors Associated With Maternal Morbidity Complications During Labor and Delivery The rate of severe

2. Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   Surgery Surgical complications take an immeasurable toll on patients and their … Yet a substantial proportion of those complications are preventable. … Recovery This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications … methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications … ambulatory surgery with inpatient surgery can be useful in the evaluation of use patterns, post-surgical complications

3. Surgical Complication Prevention Guide (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/guide-surgcomp.pdf
   December 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery Surgical Complication Prevention Guide Introduction Surgical complications … Often, we hear that these complications are inevitable—our patients are old, our patients are sick. … (CUSP) To Promote Safe Surgery, your team will become part of a national effort to reduce surgical complications … Your team can apply this model to other surgical complications and service lines. Phase 1. … Through innovation and dedication, you can protect your patients from surgical complications.

4. Epidemiology of Invasive Devices and Complications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/phys-championsgd/section2.html
   October 01, 2015 - PVCs are associated with mechanical, chemical, and infectious complications. … Mechanical complications include hematoma and infiltration. … CVCs are associated with mechanical and infectious complications. … UCs may have mechanical and infectious complications. … Mechanical complications include urethral trauma, hematuria, immobility, and fall risk.

5. Complications During Labor and Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/complications-in-labor-and-delivery.html
   September 01, 2018 - Complications During Labor and Delivery Complications During Labor and Delivery (PDF, 1.28

6. Infectious Complications Related to the Catheter Other Than CAUTI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2017 - Infectious Complications Related to the Catheter Other Than CAUTI Slide Presentation Slide … 1 Infectious Complications Related to the Catheter Other than CAUTI Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH Medical … Bacteremia related to urinary tract: <4% of patients with bacteriuria Slide 5 Infectious Complications … + Catheter Image: Flowchart showing possible complications from inserting a catheter.

7. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2017 - staff in intensive care units use Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) principles to reduce complications … Background Complications related to ventilator use in intensive care unit (ICU) patients are not uncommon … Complications such as VAP increase the likelihood of hospital readmission, long-term health problems … Many complications related to ventilator use, including VAP, are largely preventable. … address this problem, AHRQ funded a 3-year project to help staff in ICUs use CUSP principles to reduce complications

8. Appendix E | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2018 - Content Area Taxonomy ID Content Area Frequency 403 Device-related Complications … 18 443  -- Wrong Patient 7 444  -- Wrong-Site Surgery 12 426 Medical Complications … 0 445 Psychological and Social Complications 21 446  -- Privacy Violations 2 … 437 Surgical Complications 25 439  -- Intraoperative Complications 12 440   … 9 453  ---- Surgical Site Infections 9 438  -- Preoperative Complications 0

9. Examples of Patient Harm Related to Invasive Devices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2015 - The following case studies illustrate the opportunities to reduce the risk and prevent complications … Summarizing this case, we found that the patient developed multiple complications related to his PVC … What led to these complications? … Summarizing this case, we found that the patient developed complications related to urinary catheter … What led to all these complications?

10. New Healthcare Quality Indicator from AHRQ Aimed at Addressing Maternal Morbidities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2024 - among wealthy nations, with an estimated 35,000 women affected each year by serious pregnancy-related complications … Native women, and women in rural communities who experience the highest rates of deaths and illness from complications … departments, health insurance companies, policymakers, and others need reliable information about which complications … all-payer billing data from HCUP, AHRQ assessed several refinements to definitions of maternal health complications … AHRQ include an HCUP statistical brief and chartbook examining trends in severe maternal morbidity complications

11. Final Progress Report: Developing a patient-centered model of the risk of perioperative complications in spine surgery (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Developing a patient-centered model of the risk of perioperative complications … in spine surgery Developing a patient-centered model of the risk of perioperative complications in … Purpose This project sought to develop a relative risk model predicting incidence of complications in … The elderly are more prone than are many other groups to perioperative complications. … to focus on complications for which they have the highest suspicion or concern.

12. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/about.html
    December 01, 2017 - Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections and other complications … Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including … These complications place an enormous burden on patients, their families, employers, and society. … improvement, and evidence-based surgical care processes that other facilities can use to reduce surgical complications

13. Exhibit 3. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for literature review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - References Criteria Examples Inclusion Criteria ASC specific studies on complications … Studies on complications from surgery in different contexts (e.g., academic medical centers) Specific … the patients, providers, structures, or teams Exclusion Criteria Studies on surgery complications

14. Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2017 - the proven principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce complications … Such complications include ventilator-associated pneumonia, which affects as many as 20 percent of patients … This project was developed to help staff in intensive care units use CUSP principles to reduce complications

15. Final Progress Report: Weekend Effects and the July Phenomenon in Patient Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/weissman-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Table 3 shows the distribution of complications by type and state. … complications, 5.7% were newborn complications, and 66% were related to obstetric trauma. 7 The … out of dozens of known complications that occur daily in US hospitals. … as well as for complications specific to C-sections. … Characteristics of the Population Surgical complications Newborn and Obstetric Complications Aim

16. Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - -Mexico Border (continued) Complications of Inpatient Hospital Stays With Diabetes … Prevalence of Complications Among Inpatient Hospital Stays for Diabetes Type of Complication … All ratios are of the percentage of diabetes stays with complications, except for the severity index, … Compared with non-Hispanics, Hispanics generally had higher rates of complications associated with diabetes … Among Hispanics, those in border counties had higher rates of complications associated with diabetes

17. New Dashboard Tracks Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2024 - December 10, 2024 AHRQ Stats: Trends in Severe Maternal Morbidity Complications Between 2016 and 2021 … , the rate of delivery stays with respiratory-related severe maternal morbidity (SMM) complications increased … 137 percent, the rate of stays with renal-related SMM complications increased 119 percent and the rate … of stays with sepsis-related SMM complications increased 54 percent. … Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #312,  Trends in Severe Maternal Morbidity Complications

18. Neonatal Intensive Care: All Condition Readmissions Without Gestational Age Reported: Technical Specifications (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - Adjusted Metric: Rates are adjusted for race, gender, and complications. … adjusted results of readmissions using all of these variables are described as Adjusted Model with complications … care of the NICU; some variation in readmission rates may occur because of differential rates of complications … The variables used to impute were length of stay, days per NICU CPT code, complications, and whether … Supplement: Codes to identify NICU stay and complications and Tables 1-5 (see Supporting Documents)

19. Table 15A: Outcome Indicators by County Demographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Age 85+ >Median ≤Median >Median ≤Median National HCBS Population Short-Term Complications … Injurious Falls 429 263 406 260 Dually Eligible HCBS Participants Short-Term Complications … Injurious Falls 520 339 493 336 Medicaid-Only HCBS Participants Short-Term Complications … 2,110 2,330 Injurious Falls 113 54 110 52 I/DD Subpopulation Short-Term Complications … 1,154 1,549 Injurious Falls 102 63 102 59 SMI Subpopulation Short-Term Complications

20. Table A.4.1. Verisk condition classifications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Rheumatic Heart Disease and Chorea Vascular Gangrene / Pulmonary Embolism / Other Vascular Complications … Detachment Retinal Disorders Without Detachment Renal Urinary System Intervention and Complications … Heart Transplant Status Heart Valve Replacement / Transplant   Bone Marrow Transplant Complications …   Bone Marrow Transplant Status   Other Organ Transplant Complications   liver … transplant complications   liver transplant status   Other Organ Transplant/Replacement