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www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/blood-pressure.html
March 01, 2021 - Control Evidence and Resources
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, heart failure
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/cchs-east-huron-hospital-cpoe-project
January 01, 2023 - Medical Condition
Asthma
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Congestive Heart Failure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/risks-malpositioned-gastrostomy-tube-and-poor-communication
August 01, 2012 - underreported due to the lack of specific symptoms and the need for imaging for diagnosis. 10 In this case, failure … with radiology being one of the specialties most susceptible to claims of medical negligence due to “failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/patient-id-errors-1.pdf
March 01, 2020 - factors to wrong-site surgery include
incorrectly documented patient consent or lack of patient consent, failure … operative
site, patient or family providing incorrect information,
incorrect or lack of patient consent, failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Mitchell.pdf
March 31, 2004 - care teams has also led to better patient outcomes in the management of stroke
and congestive heart failure … These include processes such as root-cause analysis
(RCA); failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/research-gap-primary-care-summary-table.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Key Messages
• For three chronic conditions (coronary artery
disease [CAD], heart failure, and asthma … important
differences in rates of the most important
outcomes to patients (e.g., death, treatment failure … Key Messages
• Antibiotic therapy increases the clinical cure rate
and reduces the clinical failure … • Oral and intravenous corticosteroids improve
dyspnea and reduce the clinical failure rate. … antibiotics, 5-
lipoxygenase inhibitor, and statins on mortality,
dyspnea, need for intubation, clinical failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0129-fullreport.pdf
December 31, 2015 - Single-component interventions effective in reducing readmissions
for patients with heart failure include … include use of a primary care medical home model (Gilfillan, et al, 2010), multidisciplinary heart
failure … peri-discharge management include comprehensive discharge
planning plus post-discharge support for heart failure … hospitals with excess readmissions following hospitalizations for acute
myocardial infarction, heart failure … hospitals
with excess readmissions following hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/searching.ppt
January 01, 2011 - “adj” — cuts down on miscellaneous citations
“Heart adj failure” would find only instances in which … “heart” is next to “failure.”
“$” — truncates a word with different endings
“Analy$” would find words … For example, searching for “heart adj failure” would find citations only where the term “heart” appears … next to “failure” and would eliminate citations where “heart” appears in the first sentence and “failure
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/new-insights-safety-and-health-it
August 01, 2015 - think of policy and government intervention where it is the only possible solution to fix a market failure … September 19, 2018
Our current approach to root cause analysis: is it contributing to our failure
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/NRD_Introduction_2010-2014.jsp
January 01, 2014 - Consider the following example:
A patient with congestive heart failure has a 3-day hospital admission … Same State as the Index Event
Readmissions Considered from Any State
108: Congestive heart failure … Acute cerebrovascular disease
232,510
14.73
15.23
3.4
157: Acute and unspecified renal failure … Pleurisy; pneumothorax; pulmonary collapse
37,794
25.02
25.81
3.1
131: Respiratory failure … ; nephrosis; renal sclerosis
1,488
25.00
25.54
2.2
157: Acute and unspecified renal failure
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/Introduction_NRD_2013.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Consider the
following example:
A patient with congestive heart failure has a 3-day hospital admission … comorbidity present, (0)
comorbidity not present
CM_RENLFAIL
AHRQ comorbidity measure - Renal failure … Acute cerebrovascular
disease
232,510 14.73 15.23 3.4
157: Acute and unspecified renal
failure … 107: Cardiac arrest and
ventricular fibrillation 3,236 18.88 19.96 5.7
108: Congestive heart failure … 1.4
130: Pleurisy; pneumothorax;
pulmonary collapse 37,794 25.02 25.81 3.1
131: Respiratory failure
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/AppendixCMultiDX.txt
April 18, 2016 - -
42741 42742 4275
7.2.11 Congestive heart failure … 42830 42831 42832 42833 42840 42841
42842 42843
7.2.11.1 Congestive heart failure … -
4280
7.2.11.2 Heart failure … 5830
5831 5832 5834 5836 5837 58381 58389 5839 587
10.1.2 Acute and unspecified renal failure … -
5845 5846 5847 5848 5849
10.1.2.2 Unspecified renal failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/pace-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - We discussed the range of possibilities from missed immunizations or failure to
follow up for a chronic … The office administration and
clinicians were not willing to confront the staff with this failure … Failure to engage key office members, particularly key
administrative staff and senior clinicians,
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49753/psn-pdf
February 01, 2016 - there potential for human error in operating the robotic technology, but an
added risk of mechanical failure
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/waever.html
August 01, 2017 - Strategies for learning from failure. Harvard Bus Rev 2011; 89:48–55.
31. Dekker S.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49681/psn-pdf
April 01, 2013 - Several reported PN-specific cases resulted
from failure to incorporate built-in dosing limits in the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/managing-complexity-diagnosis-life-threatening-complications-after-gastric-bypass-surgery
September 25, 2019 - was readmitted for worsening confusion and profound motor weakness, which progressed to respiratory failure
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/monitoring-programs-protocol.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The downstream effects of the COVID-19
pandemic: The supply chain failure, a wicked
problem Global
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/nurse-staffing-ratios-crucible-money-policy-research-and-patient-care
June 01, 2003 - Take-Home Points
Best practices in dealing with nurse staffing ratios include:
Conduct failure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/resources/diagnostic-toolkit/09-diagnostic-safety-practice-orientation.pptx
November 24, 2020 - We define diagnostic error as “the failure to (a) establish and accurate and timely explanation of the