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141. Connected Emergency Care Patient Safety Learning Lab (CEC PSLL) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/connected-emergency-care-long-desc.html
     January 01, 2025 - Connected Emergency Care Patient Safety Learning Lab (CEC PSLL) Principal Investigator: Jeremiah … was used to examine the association between patient demographics (race, ethnicity, area deprivation index … Racial and socioeconomic disparities evident in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in the emergency … Open science in emergency medicine research . Ann Emerg Med 2020 Aug;76(2):247-248. … Final Report: Connected Emergency Care (CEC) Patient Safety Learning Lab .

142. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2015 - year-old man with a history of benign prostatic hyperplasia and obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency … He had never experienced abdominal pain of this severity. … This fact is disheartening, given that intestinal obstruction is one of the most common surgical emergencies … unlikely that the patient progressed to perforation in 48 hours without subtle warning signs on the index … CT of small-bowel ischemia associated with obstruction in emergency department patients: diagnostic

143. Improving hospital systems for the care of women with major obstetric hemorrhage. | PSNet
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     July 06, 2022 - April 20, 2022 A new index for obstetrics safety and quality of care: integrating cesarean … September 1, 2018 Implementing an obstetric emergency team response system: overcoming … February 5, 2014 Introduction of an obstetric-specific medical emergency team for obstetric … March 28, 2012 Obstetric medical emergency teams are a step forward in maternal safety

144. User Guide: Cost To Charge Ratio (CCR) For Emergency Department Files (pdf file)
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ed-ccr/ED_CCR_User_Guide_External_2012-2020.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - Department Sample; SEDD, State Emergency Department Databases … The Emergency Services Group is used to calculate the emergency department CCR. … All CCR Files also include data year (YEAR) and area wage index (WAGEINDEX or WI_X), which is an index … Wage index is WI_X in all years of the CCR for CD-SEDD and WAGEINDEX in all years of the CCR-NEDS. … All rural areas in each State are combined for a single wage index.

145. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49429/psn-pdf
     January 01, 2004 - documented transient loss of consciousness and difficulty recording blood pressures en route to the emergency … the early identification of a heterotopic pregnancy, even with the best ultrasound skills and a high index … If emergency department physicians are to be the first line of defense in recognizing ectopic pregnancies … The initial level of ß-hCG and its early pattern of rise may further raise the index of suspicion and … Emergency physicians should have added training in early pregnancy ultrasound.

146. Preparing for Ambulatory Computerized Prescriber Order Entry by Evaluating Preimplementation Medication Errors (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2003 - The NCC MERP severity levels range from “A” (circumstances that have the capacity to cause error), … – Severity Levels A through I NCC MERP = National Coordinating Council on Medical Error Reporting … It did not include those for whom a hospital admission or emergency room visit was necessary. … levels “B” and “C” on the NCC MERP Risk Assessment Index (Table 2). … NCC MERP Definition of a medication error and Risk Assessment Index Figure 1.

147. Ruptured Heterotopic Pregnancy | PSNet
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     August 16, 2023 - documented transient loss of consciousness and difficulty recording blood pressures en route to the emergency … If emergency department physicians are to be the first line of defense in recognizing ectopic pregnancies … The initial level of ß-hCG and its early pattern of rise may further raise the index of suspicion and … Emergency physicians should have added training in early pregnancy ultrasound. … Operating Room Health Care Providers Emergency Medicine Obstetrics View More

148. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     August 21, 2014 - The Case A 49-year-old previously healthy man presented to the emergency department (ED) after falling … An expert panel (1) has classified skin infections into four classes of severity to help guide treatment … SSTIs, some have recommended empiric antibiotics that treat MRSA.(22) Challenges in Diagnosis A high index … This stresses the importance of updating the frontline staff and having a high index of suspicion if … Necrotizing fasciitis: a surgical emergency. Updates Surg. 2010;62:83-87. [go to PubMed] 14.

149. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index. … This study reports on a modification to the SENIC risk index. … classification is a relatively standardized, numerical determination that is used routinely to stratify severity … of contaminated and dirty surgeries had positive cultures vs 14% of clean and clean-contaminated); emergency … Prior chemotherapy and emergency surgery were not associated with increased risk for SSI.

150. Pediatric Quality Measures Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2016 - of Imaging Management of Chronic Conditions CAPQUAM COE4CCN PMCOE—ADHD Care CAPQUAM—Emergency … Room Use by Children with Asthma CAPQuaM PQMP Asthma I: Rate of emergency department visit use … department visits for asthma     CAPQuaM PQMP Asthma V: Appropriateness of emergency department … LEGEND: ADHD = attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; BMI = body mass index; CAPQuaM = Mount Sinai … lower respiratory infection; M-CHIP = Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program; MS/DRG = measure of severity

151. Handoffs and Transitions | PSNet
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     February 01, 2007 - Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) and ANTICipate (Administrative data, New clinical information, Tasks, Illness severity … The tool was known as I-PASS, which stands for Illness severity, Patient summary, Action list, Situational … in readmission rates between the support program and usual care groups, and a trend toward increased emergency … Schoonover and colleagues found that complex regimens (as identified with the Medication Regimen Complexity Index … Use of the NSQIP complication risk index may allow prospective identification of patients at high risk

152. 2012 04 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - that are risk-adjusted often use age, sex, and clinical characteristics such as comorbidities and/or severity … DEFINING INDEX ADMISSIONS (DENOMINATORS) Index Admissions The index admission is the starting point … Other Criteria for Index Admissions Most readmission measures define an index admission as excluding … The expected number of readmissions is based on the 3M All Patient Refined DRGs (APR-DRGs) and severity … Determining Benchmarks for State Performance for the Quality Indicators Comparison of Inpatient and Emergency

153. Final Progress Report: ED Staffing and Patient Outcomes (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Conclusion: The swiftness of initial ED exams is most affected by physician perceived illness severity … appendicitis patients move from the ED is affected by level of physician staffing, perceived illness severity … Our findings show that a patient’s perceived illness severity is a determining factor in how quickly … Perhaps the nursing acuity level does not accurately reflect a patient’s physiologic illness severity … Development and validation of a new index to measure emergency department crowding.

154. NLP to identify and rank clinically relevant information from EHRs in the Emergency Department - Final Report (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2018 - NLP to identify and rank clinically relevant information from EHRs in the Emergency Department - Final … Our initial step was building a Solr/Lucene index and search function t hat would allow us to query … Solr/Lucene Index Function For document indexing, we used the Apache Solr, an open source enterprise … form and balance between search expressivity and index size (Table 1). … Information element Elements number Average score (0-4 Likert scale) Jaccard index Chest pain Back pain

155. The Impact of Standardized Order Sets on Quality and Financial Outcomes (pdf file)
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     February 02, 2008 - Methods: We conducted an observational study to examine order set use by hospital, discharge month, severity … comfort measures only” was recorded in their admitting physician orders or note, consultation notes, emergency … the Joint Commission Core Measures for pneumonia, as indicated by the pneumonia composite compliance index … The core compliance index was based on eight of the national quality measures for pneumonia: 1. … PN-7 influenza vaccination. 5 The core compliance index was calculated as the proportion of

156. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
     effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/depression-treatment-ssri_research-protocol.pdf
     June 15, 2010 - not consistently operationalized, but it is generally accepted that a 50 percent decrease in symptom severity … these therapies compare in different populations (for example, different depressive diagnoses, disease severity … Conference Papers Index, Scopus), and the New York Academy of Medicine’s Grey Literature Index. … any potential differences in participants amongst the trials (e.g., age, gender, diagnoses, disease severity … with sensitivity analyses (if meta-analyses can be undertaken) including the following: 1) disease severity

157. Prehospital EMS Blood Transfusion and Fluid Interventions for Hemorrhagic Shock (pdf file)
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     September 24, 2024 - Distinguishing factors may include emergency medical services agency costs, emergency medical services … department; EMS = emergency medical services; GCS = Glasgow Coma Scale; HDI = Human Development Index … Human Development Index. … /human-development-index#/indicies/HDI 10 Contacting Author. … air transport, urban/rural), hemorrhagic shock characteristics (e.g., mechanism of injury/condition, severity

158. Archived: Final Research Plan: Healthy Diet: Behavioral Counseling in Primary Care, January 2003 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     February 03, 2014 - Abbreviations: BMI = body mass index; CVD = cardiovascular disease. … intermediate outcomes associated with CVD (e.g., blood pressure, lipid levels, fasting glucose, body mass index … Kingdom, United States Settings not generalizable to primary care (e.g., inpatient hospital units, emergency … cholesterol, serum fasting glucose or glucose tolerance, hemoglobin A1c, diabetes, weight, body mass index … study settings were clarified to include trials conducted in countries with a “high” Human Development Index

159. An Obstructed View | PSNet
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     August 07, 2019 - year-old man with a history of benign prostatic hyperplasia and obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency … He had never experienced abdominal pain of this severity. … This fact is disheartening, given that intestinal obstruction is one of the most common surgical emergencies … the radiologist can clue the treatment team into subtle signs of strangulation, which in turn raises index … unlikely that the patient progressed to perforation in 48 hours without subtle warning signs on the index

160. Screening Women and Elderly Adults for Family and Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of the Evidence (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2004 - was compared with the 30-item Index of Spouse Abuse (ISA) (sensitivity 64.5%; specificity 80.3%) and … of Spouse Abuse; NR, not reported; SVAWS, Severity of Violence Against Women Scale. 11 Screening … Severity and frequency of injuries and associated entry into prenatal care. … physicians.mp. 6 exp Primary Health Care/ or primary care.mp. 7 Family Practice/ or family practice.mp. 8 EMERGENCIES … physicians.mp. 10 exp Primary Health Care/ or primary care.mp. 11 Family Practice/ or family practice.mp. 12 EMERGENCIES