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461. AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI: Final Report. | PSNet
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     April 06, 2022 - What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections during the coronavirus disease … April 27, 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated … Care Units Quality and Safety Professionals Critical Care Critical Care Nursing Infectious Diseases

462. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2014 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the National Healthcare Safety Network … more than 12% of infections, highlighting the importance of efforts to mitigate this life-threatening disease

463. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2014 - Late Anemia Following Rh Disease in a Newborn March 1, 2014 Newman TB, Maisels JM. … Late Anemia Following Rh Disease in a Newborn. PSNet [internet]. 2014. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/late-anemia-following-rh-disease-newborn The Case A full-term neonate … The clinicians now recognized that the infant had active Rh hemolytic disease, and he was admitted to … While many communication concerns were identified, the key issue was the management of an uncommon disease

464. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2004 - After undergoing radiation therapy and chemotherapy, she still has persistent disease. … Cervical neoplasia is a slow growing disease, taking 10-30 years to progress from Human Papilloma Virus … a regional and then distantly metastatic cancer.(14) While some cases of more rapidly progressive disease … appears that this woman's advanced stage cervical cancer represented a systematic failure to detect disease … fiscal constraints of the medical care system also contributed to the failure to detect this woman's disease

465. Is the Admission Drug Dose Too Low? | PSNet
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     September 01, 2011 - The Case A 72-year-old man with a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was … nonadherence, incorrect administration (such as crushing the Theo-Dur tablet), and drug–drug or drug–disease … A position paper published in 2001 by a Joint Expert Panel on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease stated … Snow V, Lascher S, Mottur-Pilson, C; Joint Expert Panel on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease of the … Evidence base for management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

466. Beeline to Spine | PSNet
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     March 01, 2014 - of repaired abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA), and prior lumbar disk disease (status post L5-S1 fusion … Gallstone disease or intrahepatic cholestasis would each be less likely. … Do you have kidney disease? Moderate 3. … Do you have thyroid disease? Excellent 11. Do you suffer from angina? Good 12. … Do you have liver disease? Yes 13. Have you ever been diagnosed with heart failure?

467. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 09, 2022 - Findings indicate that most diagnostic errors involved overlooking another disease in the same organ … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cognitive-bias-clinical-medicine https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-delays-infectious-diseases

468. A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. | PSNet
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     September 01, 2014 - This practice guideline, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for … infections in Veterans Affairs acute-care and long-term healthcare facilities during the coronavirus disease … December 16, 2020 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated … February 7, 2022 The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on healthcare-associated

469. Community-, healthcare-, and hospital-acquired severe sepsis hospitalizations in the University HealthSystem Consortium. | PSNet
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     October 10, 2012 - community January 22, 2020 The impact of drug shortages on patients with cardiovascular disease … 1, 2018 View More Related Resources The impact of coronavirus disease … September 22, 2021 Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Providers Infectious Diseases

470. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     April 21, 2021 - drug-drug-interactions-and-prescription-appropriateness-hospital-discharge-experience-covid https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/coronavirus-disease … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/use-electronic-decision-support-tool-reduce-polypharmacy-elderly-people-chronic-diseases

471. Hospital errors jeopardize Angola virus battle. | PSNet
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     October 17, 2012 - 31, 2013 View More Related Resources The impact of coronavirus disease … September 22, 2021 Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: … See More About The Topic Hospitals Physicians Patients Public Health Infectious Diseases

472. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - The hospitalist looks the patient over: There are the expected signs of liver disease—spidery blood … Today, there are countless ways to categorize disease—telemetry printouts, laboratory tests, electrocardiograms … standards, e.g., shingles, drug rashes, seronegative rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, Parkinson disease … For a surprising number of diseases, diagnosis still rests entirely on empiric observation at the bedside … Until this culture changes, constrictive pericarditis will continue to be misdiagnosed as liver disease

473. The preventable proportion of healthcare-associated infections 2005-2016: systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet
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     April 26, 2017 - April 29, 2018 Challenges with implementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … September 11, 2023 Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease … support the re-opening of Canadian nursing homes to family caregivers and visitors during the coronavirus disease

474. Diagnosing Diagnostic Mistakes | PSNet
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     April 30, 2014 - First, clinical presentations of a particular disease vary. … is the failure to consider the consequences of competing diseases as the cause of a patient’s complaints … The dissecting aneurysm case is one in which (i) several serious diseases may explain the patient’s complaint … These diseases take varying times to diagnose and have markedly different probabilities of occurrence … The International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD): new insights into an old disease.

475. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     June 01, 2003 - Division of Health Care Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Diagnosing Appendicitis Diagnosis uncommon; clinicians accustomed to ruling out rather than ruling in disease … Challenge of Diagnosing Appendicitis Classic signs of appendicitis increase likelihood of disease Epigastric … radiating to RLQ, rebound, fever Classic presentation not typical WBC count normal in 10%-30% Early disease … Abdominal Pain in the ED Maintain suspicion for early disease Consider CT in appropriate population

476. Exploring leadership within a systems approach to reduce health care–associated infections: a scoping review of one work system model. | PSNet
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     October 29, 2017 - Quality April 26, 2023 Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease … symptoms to determine if a patient presenting in primary care or hospital outpatient settings has COVID-19 disease … July 29, 2020 Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases … Hospitals Health Care Executives and Administrators Organizational Behaviorists Infectious Diseases

477. Spotlight Case July 2008 (ppt file)
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     March 01, 2011 - He had a complex past medical history including congenital heart disease, poor feeding requiring a gastric … then depend on medical staff for protection from errors or adverse events * * Congenital Heart Disease … This child also had congenital heart disease which is associated with specific risks Many children … should have been more vigilant about fluid intake and output given the underlying congenital heart disease … * * Take-Home Points (2) Children with congenital heart disease are at risk of dehydration and

478. Poor Prognosis | PSNet
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     March 15, 2016 - Since the science of prognosis is anchored in disease diagnosis and extent, this patient's diagnostic … Is the expected survival from the new disease shorter than the baseline life expectancy? … Will treatment improve expected survival from the new disease? … Will treatment for the new disease be tolerated? Prognostication is a difficult task. … Prognostication in advanced disease. In: Berger A, Portenoy RK, Weissman DE, eds.

479. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2017 - in a growing elderly population with comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, renal disease … , and cardiovascular disease, all of which predispose to renal impairment. … ) and the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes classification.(1) A systematic review found that … 75 years, anemia, and volume/type of contrast media.(6) The risk in the setting of chronic kidney disease … genuinely at risk of CIAKI if they have an eGFR less than 45 mL/min/1.73 m2 (i.e., chronic kidney disease

480. Infection prevention and control in pediatric ambulatory settings. | PSNet
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     April 11, 2011 - Rathore MH, Jackson MA, AAP Committee on Infections Diseases. … Copy URL November 1, 2017 Rathore MH, Jackson MA, AAP Committee on Infections Diseases … Rathore MH, Jackson MA, AAP Committee on Infections Diseases.