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February 01, 2024 - Patient Safety Research Summaries
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Fall … What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use?
4. … How do we sustain the redesigned prevention practices?
7. … What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we want to use?
… How do we sustain the redesigned prevention practices?
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August 01, 2022 - Data & Measures
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Fall … Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
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Prevention … A serious fall or bump on the head.
Dizziness or weakness. … For example, if you fall and hit your head, bleeding can occur inside your skull. … Or, if you hurt your arm during a fall and then notice a large purple bruise, this means you are bleeding
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Prevention … on behalf of HHS, a Federal planning committee (including AHRQ, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Overview
The 16-member subcommittee met four times in fall 2023 to discuss the following topics:
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July 01, 2015 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … AHRQ's PCORTF projects fall within one of the following categories:
Training and Career Development
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August 28, 2012 - For example, for a falls prevention program, quantitative measures to evaluate can include the falls … rate and the number of patients with fall risk assessments. … Slide 15
SAY:
Even with the best intentions, organizations can fall victim to what the Institute for
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January 01, 2018 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Prevention of approximately 87,000 deaths in the 2011 to 2014 period as a result of the decline in HACs … The earlier estimates had been wrongly based on the full cost of a hospital stay that included a fall
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June 04, 2018 - Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions
Declines in Hospital-
Acquired Conditions
National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such
as adverse drug events and injuries from falls helped prevent
8,000 deaths and saved $2.9 billion between 2014 and 2016.
Adverse
Drug
Events CAUTI*
*CAUTI - Catheter-…
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January 29, 2013 - However, consider checking orthostatic vital signs:
After a fall. … Use this tool in conjunction with clinical assessment and a standard assessment of fall risk factors … (e.g., Tool 3H, “Morse Fall Scale for Identifying Fall Risk Factors, or Tool 3G, ‘STRATIFY Scale for … Identifying Fall Risk Factors”) to determine a patient’s risk factors for falls, and then plan care accordingly
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January 01, 2019 - Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Declines in Hospital-
Acquired Conditions
National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such
as adverse drug events and injuries from falls helped prevent
20,700 deaths and saved $7.7 billion between 2014 and 2017.
Adverse
Drug
Events
-28%
CAUTI*
-5%
CLAB…
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August 01, 2022 - Data & Measures
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November 01, 2017 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention is designed to improve long-term … AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention provides a strategy for preventing adverse … Adverse Events
Pressure Ulcer Prevention .
Pressure Ulcer Healing . … Related Content
Slide Presentation: On-Time Prevention Program for Long Term Care: Clinical Decision
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Prevention … Management of fall risk among older adults in diverse primary care settings.
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March 01, 2021 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Publications Clearinghouse
The AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse closed in Fall 2018 and we no longer
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August 01, 2022 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Patient Safety Research Summaries
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Fall … Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
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December 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention … Background
In early Fall 2020, nearly one-quarter of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States were
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January 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … The Health Literate Care Curriculum
Representatives from AHRQ, the Office of Disease Prevention and … Model and anchored by the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Toolkit , was implemented by ZSOM in the fall
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December 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention … As of Fall 2020, nearly one-quarter of the known COVID-19 deaths in the United States have been nursing
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April 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Professor, Infectious Diseases, School of … With AHRQ funding, I’ve been able to provide hospitals and primary care practices with falls prevention
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November 01, 2021 - No other patient
safety event was identified in the record (e.g., fall, pressure injury, medication … o Assisted or unassisted fall
o Type of injury as a result of fall
o Risk assessment prior to fall … o At risk of fall
• Healthcare-associated infection
o None
• Medication and other substance
o … stage of pressure ulcer
o Stage on admission
o Admission skin inspection documented
o Pressure ulcer prevention … Some of these explanatory statements were
related to fall and pressure ulcer events, while others were