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61. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/index.html
    December 01, 2017 - specific tools focused on the surgical setting to help hospitals reduce surgical site infections and other complications … Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections and other complications … was refined during the project and is made available for other facilities to use to reduce surgical complications

62. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/guides/resphys-champions.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - Mechanical complications include hematoma and infiltration. … CVCs are associated with mechanical and infectious complications. … UCs may have mechanical and infectious complications. … What led to these complications? … What led to all these complications?

63. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - Mechanical complications include hematoma and infiltration. … CVCs are associated with mechanical and infectious complications. … UCs may have mechanical and infectious complications. … What led to these complications? … What led to all these complications?

64. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions_2.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - Mechanical complications include hematoma and infiltration. … CVCs are associated with mechanical and infectious complications. … UCs may have mechanical and infectious complications. … What led to these complications? … What led to all these complications?

65. Long-term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/index.html
    September 01, 2021 - safety problem, and they can be a signal that the resident is at increased risk for falling and other complications

66. Final Progress Report: Physician Organization and the Efficiency of Surgical Specialty Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/miller-birkmeyer-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - To ensure complete postoperative mortality, complications, readmission, and payment data, we did not … Consistent with our prior work, complications were ascertained using a subset of serious complications … For modeling purposes, we specified operative mortality, complications, and readmissions as binary ( … a) Operative Mortality b) Postoperative complications c) Readmissions For each panel, the y-axis … Technical quality, as measured by operative mortality, postoperative complications, and readmissions

67. CHIPRA 233 Section 2 Table 1: Identification of Deliveries of Interest (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-233-section-2-table-1.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - (illegal abortion) 637 (unspecified abortion) 638 (failed attempted abortion complication) 639 (complications

68. CHIPRA 194: Section 1, Tables 6-10 (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-194-section-1-tables-6-10.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - 054.3 Herpes simplex meningitis 054.72 Postmeasles encephalitis 055.0 Rubella with neurological complications … 996.2 Infection and inflammatory reaction due to CNS device, implant, and graft 996.63 Other complications … Other conditions of the brain Cerebral cysts 348.0 Idiopathic intracranial hypertension 348.2 CNS complications

69. Appendix C. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/measure_retirement/measure_retirementapc.html
    February 01, 2014 - , and separately for diabetes without complications with Medicaid as payer (HCUPNet, 2011) Number of … diagnosis diabetes without complications for people enrolled in Medicaid, all ages.  … , and separately for diabetes mellitus without complications all payers (HCUPNet, 2011) Medicaid as … percentage of total (all-payer) discharges and aggregate costs for diabetes with complications, and … separately for diabetes without complications (HCUPNet, 2011) Number of ED visits with first-listed

70. Anticipatory guidance for prevention and management of splenic complications in children with sickle cell disease | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/measures/scd-guidance-splenic-complications.html
    August 01, 2021 - Anticipatory guidance for prevention and management of splenic complications in children with sickle

71. Appendix C: VTE Measurement and Tracking | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/appc.html
    May 01, 2016 - by embolism, complete 638.6 Failed attempted abortion complicated by embolism 639.6 Complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, unspecified 671.51 Venous complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, delivered 671.52 Venous complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, antepartum 671.54 Venous complications … Strategy To Monitor for Bleeding Complications With Administrative Codes Exclude those <18 years

72. Appendix C: VTE Measurement and Tracking | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/vtguide/appc.html
    May 01, 2016 - by embolism, complete 638.6 Failed attempted abortion complicated by embolism 639.6 Complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, unspecified 671.51 Venous complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, delivered 671.52 Venous complications … in pregnancy and the puerperium, Other phlebitis and thrombosis, antepartum 671.54 Venous complications … Strategy To Monitor for Bleeding Complications With Administrative Codes Exclude those <18 years

73. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_to_Use_Guide_Ldr_Slide_508.pptx
    July 23, 2010 - as allies in safe medication use, infection control initiatives, observing care processes, reporting complications … post-discharge are adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications … Many complications can be attributed to problems with discharge planning Changes in medicines before … include adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications. … Many of these complications can be attributed to discharge planning problems, including medication changes

74. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4h_combo_psi11-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
    May 20, 2016 - and patients with higher residual block were 3 times more likely to develop postoperative pulmonary complications … Development and validation of a score for prediction of postoperative respiratory complications. … Postoperative pulmonary complications: an update on risk assessment and reduction. … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

75. Validation of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicator for Accidental Puncture or Laceration (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Gallagher1.pdf
    January 01, 2004 - Using computers to identify complications after surgery. … Using physician claims to identify postoperative complications of carotid endarterectomy. … Does the Complications Screening Program flag cases with process of care problems? … Identification of in-hospital complications from claims data: is it valid? … Does clinical evidence support ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding of complications?

76. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/respiratory-one-pager.pdf
    September 01, 2022 - Followup • Complications are rare and include bacterial sinusitis, bronchiolitis or pneumonia, acute … • Antibiotic treatment does not prevent complications.9 • Symptoms usually last about 1 week and up … Protective effect of antibiotics against serious complications of common respiratory tract infections

77. 097-Ss-Normothermia-One-Pager (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/097-ss-normothermia-one-pager.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Complications and treatment of mild hypothermia. Anesthesiology. 2001 Aug;95(2):531-43. … Active body surface warming systems for preventing complications caused by inadvertent perioperative

78. 4-Overview-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/4-overview-facilitator-guide.docx
    January 01, 2019 - evidence supporting ISCR within the proven principles and methods of CUSP to improve outcomes and reduce complications … The preoperative interventions resulted in decreased complications (wound, cardiovascular, and reoperation … Ambulation by postoperative day 1 may decrease complications and hospital length of stay. … The protective ventilation strategy decreased pulmonary complications. … The preoperative interventions resulted in decreased infectious complications and decreased postoperative

79. Financial and Demographic Influences on Medicare Patient Safety Events (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Bernard.pdf
    January 01, 2004 - Among the patients with potentially preventable complications (N = 25,392; 6.8 percent of all surgeries … These 14 patient safety indicators are used to identify complications that are highly preventable. … For failure to rescue, we considered a total of 22 complications. … , was 11.3 percent (25,392 major surgery patients had potentially preventable complications). … Identifying complications using administrative data. Medical Care 1994;32(7):700–15. 9.

80. Preamble and Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/phys-championsgd/section1.html
    October 01, 2015 - Preventing Device-Associated Infections Preamble and Summary Epidemiology of Invasive Devices and Complications … Learning Objectives By the end of this learning activity, participants will be able to— Summarize complications … infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), and ventilator-associated complications