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  1. AHRQ National Web Conference on Applying Advanced Analytics in Clinical Care - Q&As (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/clinical-care-qas-10142020.pdf
    October 14, 2020 - Using machine learning techniques to develop forecasting algorithms for postoperative complications: … Using machine learning techniques to develop forecasting algorithms for postoperative complications:

  2. Final Progress Report: A Memory-Based Approach to Reducing Medication Errors (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/kazi-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - warfarin) that may manifest as international normalized ratio (INR) levels greater than 3.5 and result in complications … Forgetting these tasks may manifest as INR levels greater than 3.5 and result in complications from

  3. App-E-Surv-Report-3-Acute-Pain (xls file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/app-e-surv-report-3-acute-pain.xlsx
    May 29, 2025 - Consumed opioids postoperatively: 70% (28/40) vs. 78% (31/40), p=0.45 NR None reported No postoperative complications … hours, p<0.001; 6% (3/50) vs. 38% (19/50) at 24 hours, p<0.001 NR NR NR None reported No postoperative complications

  4. App-E-Surv-Report-2-Acute-Pain (xls file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/app-e-surv-report-2-acute-pain.xlsx
    May 29, 2025 - Consumed opioids postoperatively: 70% (28/40) vs. 78% (31/40), p=0.45 NR None reported No postoperative complications … hours, p<0.001; 6% (3/50) vs. 38% (19/50) at 24 hours, p<0.001 NR NR NR None reported No postoperative complications

  5. In Conversation with…William B. Weeks, MD, MBA | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withwilliam-b-weeks-md-mba
    May 01, 2009 - Justin Dimick and I wrote a paper that looked at complications in surgery, and we found that when there … were complications at the hospital, the profit margin for the hospital was reduced but not eliminated

  6. Recommendation: Oral Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/oral-cancer-screening
    November 15, 2013 - oral cancer and its potentially malignant precursors (leukoplakia and erythroplakia) may result from complications … screen-detected oral cancer and its potential precursors (leukoplakia and erythroplakia) may result from complications

  7. Archived: Drug Use, Illicit: Primary Care Interventions for Children and Adolescents | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/drug-use-illicit-primary-care-interventions-for-children-and-adolescents-march-2014
    March 11, 2014 - In 2011, more than 150,000 adolescents were treated in emergency departments for complications of illicit … In 2011, more than 150,000 adolescents were treated in emergency departments for complications of illicit

  8. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Prehospital Airway Management (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prehospital-airway-management-protocol.pdf
    December 20, 2019 - Tracheal intubation related complications in the prehospital setting. … Management of anesthetic emergencies and complications outside the operating room.

  9. Final Progress Report: Mining complex clinical data for patient safety research (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/hripcsak-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Diagnoses indicative of complications after a procedure. … Extension of MedLEE We extended MedLEE to improve its ability to distinguish comorbidities from complications

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74120/psn-pdf
    November 30, 2021 - When a patient is not on hospice, safety concerns focus on keeping the patient alive and free from complications … While preventing complications remains part of patient safety, preventing death is no longer a safety

  11. Spotlight (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/spotlight_integration_and_coordination_of_disesase_treatment_and_palliative_care_final.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - When a patient is not on hospice, safety concerns focus on keeping the patient alive and free from complications … – While preventing complications remains an important patient safety goal, preventing death is no

  12. Improving the Safety of Heparin Administration by Implementing a Human Factors Process Analysis (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Harder.pdf
    May 19, 2003 - Brennan et al.5 reported that among these patients, drug complications were the most common type of … adverse event (19 percent), followed by wound infections (14 percent) and technical complications (13

  13. Improving the Value of Patient Safety Reporting Systems (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Pronovost_95.pdf
    June 12, 2008 - Also, many in health care debate the issue of preventable harm vs. inevitable complications. … Identification of in-hospital complications from claims data. Is it valid?

  14. Spotlight (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2021-05/final_psnet_spotlight_inadvertent_bolus_of_norepinephrine_pp.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - vasopressors and inotropic agents have the potential (at high doses and with prolonged use) to cause serious complications … Postoperative complications among patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

  15. Beyond Rapid Response Teams: Instituting a “Rover Team” Improves the Management of At-Risk Patients, Facilitates Proactive Interventions, and Improves Outcomes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Hueckel_27.pdf
    April 01, 2008 - the urge to keep the patient in the ICU for a prolonged stay with the attendant risk of ICU-related complications … PICU readmissions often occur due to progression of the patient’s disease process or development of complications

  16. CHIPRA 207: Section 2, Tables 1-5 (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-207-section-2-tables-1-5.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - 757.1 Codes to Identify NICU Complications … Table 5a-e: NICU Readmissions (Adjusted- Adjusted Model with complications

  17. Potentially Preventable Pediatric Hospital Inpatient Stays for Asthma and Diabetes, 2003-2012 #192

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb192-Pediatric-Preventable-Hospitalizations-Asthma-Diabetes.jsp
    June 01, 2015 - data on potentially preventable inpatient hospitalizations for asthma and diabetes with short-term complications … potentially preventable hospitalizations for children with asthma, gastroenteritis, diabetes short-term complications … stays for diabetes were defined as stays for which the principal diagnosis was diabetes, and short-term complications

  18. White Paper_Supplementing Systematic Review Findings With Healthcare System Data: Pilot Projects From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center Program (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/pilot-projects-supplementing-white-paper.pdf
    December 01, 2024 - The analysis was aimed at characterizing clinical characteristics, surgical complications, effectiveness … certainty of evidence for safety with regards to post-surgical mortality and rare post operative complications … surgical treatment of epilepsy by finding no post-surgical mortality and only rare post-operative complications

  19. Labor-Nitrous-Oxide Executive (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/labor-nitrous-oxide_executive.pdf
    August 01, 2012 - adverse effects, such as nausea and vomiting, dreams, dizziness, unconsciousness, and postpartum complications … • Childhood adverse effects, such as drug dependency and developmental complications. … in exchange for increased mobility, less intervention and monitoring, and avoidance of potential complications

  20. Archived: Abnormal Blood Glucose and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/screening-for-abnormal-blood-glucose-and-type-2-diabetes-october-2015
    October 26, 2015 - diabetes is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity and may also result in other complications … 2 diabetes in asymptomatic, nonpregnant adults who are at average or high risk for diabetes and its complications … Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes
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