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141. Critical Radiology Alert Process | PSNet
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     November 16, 2022 - A dedicated cancer nurse navigator commits 25% to 50% of their time to ensure timely follow-up with patients … the patient. 3 The weekly report is reviewed by the ED case managers and cancer center navigator to ensure … that every patient is contacted by one of the teams to ensure innovation sustainability. 3   According … The ED case manager and cancer care navigator cross-check this report to ensure nothing is missed. … The innovators state that it is beneficial to conduct periodic data reviews to ensure the goals of the

142. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 02, 2017 - Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals advocate for hospitals to ensure

143. Improved Policies and Oversight Needed for Reviewing and Reporting Providers for Quality and Safety Concerns. | PSNet
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     November 22, 2017 - Affairs medical centers and offers recommendations to improve the quality and timeliness of reporting to ensure … May 16, 2018 Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability

144. Safety considerations in learning new procedures: a survey of surgeons. | PSNet
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     January 23, 2017 - believe that credentialing and privileging requirements for new procedures are not rigorous enough to ensure … suggest that practicing surgeons would welcome examination of current credentialing and privileging to ensure

145. Activating knowledge for patient safety practices: a Canadian academic-policy partnership. | PSNet
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     January 08, 2015 - This commentary describes an initiative to ensure that relevant patient safety information is accessible … October 4, 2017 Scoping review of patients' attitudes about their role and behaviours to ensure

146. Safe work-hour standards for parents of children with medical complexity. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2018 - This commentary discusses the need for safe work-hour standards for home caregivers to ensure the well-being … February 9, 2022 Hospital at Home: setting a regulatory course to ensure safe, high-quality

147. Drug Shortages: Certain Factors Are Strongly Associated With This Persistent Public Health Challenge. | PSNet
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     May 04, 2016 - March 9, 2016 Actions Needed to Help Ensure Appropriate Medication Continuation and Prescribing … April 27, 2016 Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability … December 6, 2017 Drug Shortages: Public Health Threat Continues, Despite Efforts to Help Ensure

148. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     February 26, 2020 - Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the University of California, Davis, Health must ensure … By utilizing discharge planners as “gate keepers”, hospitals can ensure that patients do not leave the … Once a patient is deemed appropriate for OPAT, the team must ensure that intravenous access is obtained … pharmacist, advanced practice provider, or physician) must take responsibility to actively review and ensure … Discharge planners are excellent gatekeepers to ensure patients are not discharged on IV antibiotics

149. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 23, 2020 - Additionally, the principles of behavioral science behind nudge projects can help to ensure that interventions … types of existing data from various sources, including patient behaviors and characteristics, and ensure … Ensure the nudge project has a clear hypothesis. … Frontline staff should be included and consulted in the project planning process to ensure the intervention … project team should engage representatives from all clinical areas related to the project workflow to ensure

150. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44799/psn-pdf
     July 11, 2017 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/rising-frequency-it-blackouts-indicates-increasing-relevance-it-emergency-concepts-ensure … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/rising-frequency-it-blackouts-indicates-increasing-relevance-it-emergency-concepts-ensure

151. Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Harm. | PSNet
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     December 06, 2017 - May 16, 2018 Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability … Health Care: VA Uses Medical Injury Tort Claims Data to Assess Veterans’ Care, but Should Take Action to Ensure … July 1, 2019 Actions Needed to Address Employee Misconduct Process and Ensure Accountability

152. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 24, 2014 - This pamphlet informs consumers on steps both patients and clinicians should take prior to surgery to ensure

153. In Conversation With... Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD | PSNet
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     May 28, 2020 - As we are asked to evaluate new science and new technologies, we are always trying ensure that we are … For this perspective, we will discuss the FDA’s ability to ensure the safety of medical devices. … Not only does the agency have to ensure they are applying efficient and effective methods for evaluating … For the FDA, these modifications raise the question of how to ensure the long-term safety and effectiveness … approved is that some FDA questions regarding the safety of a device require post-approval studies to ensure

154. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 29, 2020 - Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the University of California, Davis, Health must ensure … Case Objectives Identify the key aspects of the closed-loop blood delivery pathway and how they ensure … Identify areas to focus on for continuous quality improvement to ensure safe transfusion practices. … For every process in the transfusion services laboratory, control measures should be in place to ensure … “Process control” encompasses the defined activities that ensure a process is predictable, stable and

155. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 31, 2024 - as healthcare team huddles to discuss patient issues and family concerns, observations of rounds to ensure … conversation and written information, use of structured communication techniques, and teaching) to ensure … /psnet.ahrq.gov//#4 https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#4 the use of interpretation services is necessary to ensure … Ensure that the family’s voice is heard first and last, and in their own words [editorial]. … https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/12/06/in-clinical-practice-i-ensure-that-the-familys-voice-is-heard-first-and-last-and-in-their-own-words

156. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2022 - model and lessons learned from the initiative were transferred to NewPath Health Solutions, LLC, to ensure … five days per week.2 However, experts recommend nursing homes go beyond these minimum standards to ensure … encouraged to enact advance directives,4 and these advance directive documents are reviewed periodically to ensure … This will inform a plan to ensure that all nursing home staff understand any workflow adjustments. … Getting Started with This Innovation When getting started with this innovation, organizations should ensure

157. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     May 31, 2023 - The team noted that they are grappling with how to ensure continuity in program implementation during … across three main processes: assessment, individualized preventative interventions, and auditing to ensure … conduct a readiness assessment and falls prevention gaps analysis.8 Additionally, organizations should ensure … nurses Nursing workflows that allow for patient and family engagement to conduct the falls assessment, ensure … Getting Started with This Innovation To begin, organizations should ensure completion of training modules

158. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60745/psn-pdf
     October 01, 2020 - Organizations should ensure that staff are provided with proper education on wasting of medications. … Accountability The goal of controlled substance drug diversion programs is to prevent diversion and ensure … All controlled substances require additional monitoring to ensure compliance with applicable state and … If immediate waste of a controlled substance is not possible, processes should be developed to ensure … comply with organizational policies, and collaboration with departmental leadership is essential to ensure

159. Project BOOST Increases Patient Understanding of Treatment and Follow-up Care | PSNet
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     February 26, 2025 - BOOST encourages the use of Teach Back, which is a patient-centered communication style designed to ensure … explain in their own words their understanding of what they have learned (or demonstrate a new skill to ensure … BOOST also recommends engaging families and family caregivers in the Teach Back process to ensure that … care transition process functions and where it fails : Formally mapping the discharge process will ensure … Interventions should align with the strategic objectives and concerns of the hospital to ensure adequate

160. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     July 31, 2023 - lead to delays in the recognition of abnormal test results and the absence of a tracking system to ensure … to the patient.1 After a test result was flagged, an outreach worker would contact the patient to ensure … developed and is now available in the public domain, whether follow-up happened and if not, how to ensure … Establish a just culture framework and ensure buy-in from all partners. … Identify drivers of change to ensure patient safety and to minimize patient harm.