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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50769/psn-pdf
February 15, 2017 - affiliations can affect where and how they seek care, how they describe symptoms, how
they select treatment … include diagnostics errors, missed screenings, unexpected negative responses to medication, harmful
treatment … Culture brokerage strategies in diabetes
education. Public Health Nurs. 2008;25(5):461-70.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866217/psn-pdf
July 10, 2024 - coverage, especially as it relates to new technologies, new drugs, any other types of interventions and
treatments … Data
and Information Set (HEDIS) measures that we use, including chronic care prevention measures, diabetes
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/personal-health-literacy
October 31, 2023 - linking health literacy to the quality domains of patient safety, patient-centered care, and equitable treatment … such as being able to understand spoken information, describe symptoms and side effects, negotiate treatment … For example, ask patients how they will take their medication tomorrow or how they will explain their treatment … WebM&M Cases
Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease Treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/lack-sepsis-recognition-leads-delay-care-following-cesarean-delivery
November 30, 2021 - Her son required antibiotic treatment for neonatal sepsis in the NICU. … soft tissue injuries, and even routine obstetric or gynecologic surgeries. 1,2 Risk factors include diabetes … April 1, 2008
WebM&M Cases
Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-georgia-galanou-luchen-pharm-d
October 24, 2021 - You then have the therapeutic considerations of safety—that is, ensuring that the medication prescribed … So there’s a whole therapeutic profile review that occurs in every medication that's dispensed in the … formulations, 1 and specialty pharmacies where patients receive outpatient care for complex medication therapies … process, the community pharmacist provides a clinical review of prescribed medications to ensure the therapies … immunizations, opioid management, smoking cessation efforts, and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/double-dose-transfer
November 01, 2012 - The Case A 74-year-old man with history of diabetes and hypertension was admitted to the emergency … Sight
August 1, 2009
WebM&M Cases
Not-So-Therapeutic … June 1, 2012
WebM&M Cases
Treatment Challenges
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49656/psn-pdf
June 01, 2012 - assumed that the hospitalist was keeping
up-to-date on developments and would initiate the appropriate treatment … The hospitalist has primary responsibility for managing chronic medical issues, such
as diabetes, and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/tough-call-addressing-errors-previous-providers
July 17, 2024 - The Case A 55-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes on metformin presented to the emergency … consistent with acute lactic acidosis secondary to metformin (a well-recognized complication of metformin treatment … Wrong
September 25, 2019
WebM&M Cases
Correct Treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49636/psn-pdf
October 01, 2011 - Compare the risks from immobility with the benefits gained from a program of therapeutic exercise. … The Case
A 56-year-old man with insulin-dependent diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease … require close monitoring of
patient responses, and adjustment of the intensity if necessary, so that treatment … many
departments will result in tension between participation in rounds and the capacity to provide treatment … Early intensive care unit mobility in the treatment of acute
respiratory failure.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/artificial-intelligence-and-patient-safety-promise-and-challenges
March 27, 2024 - options or caution against potential treatment-related complications, thus reducing diagnostic errors … If the patient does develop sepsis eight or 12 hours later, and then we start treatment, then the AI … I’m going to initiate treatment right away.” … types of patients entering into the system, but drift can also result from changes to diagnostics, treatments … There are pharmacy and therapeutics committees at hospitals continually looking at this information,
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withpatrick-tighe-about-artificial-intelligence
March 27, 2024 - If the patient does develop sepsis eight or 12 hours later, and then we start treatment, then the AI … I’m going to initiate treatment right away.” … types of patients entering into the system, but drift can also result from changes to diagnostics, treatments … There are pharmacy and therapeutics committees at hospitals continually looking at this information, … options or caution against potential treatment-related complications, thus reducing diagnostic errors
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/spotlight-overdiagnosis-and-delay-challenges-sepsis-diagnosis
October 28, 2020 - predictive value and may contribute to alert fatigue and the administration of inappropriate sepsis therapies … Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant … Time to treatment and mortality during mandated emergency care for sepsis. … Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis … Using procalcitonin to guide antibiotic therapy. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017;4:ofw249.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49700/psn-pdf
February 01, 2014 - nonsustained-ventricular-tachycardia-after-acute-coronary-syndromes-
recognizing-high-risk
The Case
A 51-year-old woman with coronary artery disease, diabetes … In the absence of prior sustained ventricular arrhythmias, antiarrhythmic therapy is not
indicated for … the treatment of NSVT. … In fact, prophylactic antiarrhythmic therapy following ACS has been
associated with harm.(6)
Revisiting
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/computerized-provider-order-entry-and-patient-safety
January 01, 2014 - Another study offered evidence that CPOE can reduce prescribing errors for complex treatments such as … interactive, telephone-based self-management support program to identify adverse events among ambulatory diabetes
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/role-community-pharmacists-patient-safety
October 24, 2021 - formulations, 1 and specialty pharmacies where patients receive outpatient care for complex medication therapies … process, the community pharmacist provides a clinical review of prescribed medications to ensure the therapies … immunizations, opioid management, smoking cessation efforts, and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes … So there’s a whole therapeutic profile review that occurs in every medication that's dispensed in the … This means that the time the pharmacist spends conducting the therapeutic review, clarifying questions
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49545/psn-pdf
September 01, 2007 - introduction of percutaneous coronary intervention
(PCI), including balloon angioplasty and stenting, as a therapeutic … adjunct to catheterization has
revolutionized the contemporary treatment of cardiovascular disease. … 1,471,000, and the number of inpatient PCI procedures was
1,285,000.(1) Adding outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic … concentration of more than 1.0 mg/dL in at least 5% of patients
undergoing catheterization.(9) Patients with diabetes … The risk-to-benefit ratio usually favors performance of this procedure as part of the evaluation
and treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.383_slideshow.ppt
September 01, 2016 - Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment … Recommendations for pharmacy's role in Choosing Wisely
Choosing Wisely is designed to reduce overuse of treatments … Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/comanagement-whos-charge
July 01, 2011 - assumed that the hospitalist was keeping up-to-date on developments and would initiate the appropriate treatment … The hospitalist has primary responsibility for managing chronic medical issues, such as diabetes, and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus
June 24, 2010 - These include health care workers, dialysis patients, patients with diabetes, injection drug users, patients … This may be due to initial antibiotic therapy that is not active against the infecting organism, resulting … in inappropriate treatment, serious underlying illness in the patient, or a combination of both. … January 19, 2011
WebM&M Cases
Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49843/psn-pdf
October 01, 2018 - predictive value and may contribute to alert fatigue
and the administration of inappropriate sepsis therapies … Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial
therapy is the critical determinant … Time to treatment and mortality during mandated
emergency care for sepsis. … Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of
innovative therapies in sepsis … Using procalcitonin to guide antibiotic therapy. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017;4:ofw249.