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  1. Project BOOST Increases Patient Understanding of Treatment and Follow-up Care | PSNet

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    February 26, 2025 - reconciliation : For sites seeking to improve the medication reconciliation as part of readmission prevention … Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  2. Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) Shows Promise for Targeting Prevention Interventions to Reduce Mortality in Patients Who Are Prescribed Opioids | PSNet

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    October 30, 2024 - Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) Shows Promise for Targeting Prevention … STORM is one of several VHA overdose prevention initiatives that include the distribution of naloxone … Targeted Prevention Program Implementation: The implementation of the STORM targeted prevention program … Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, US Dept of Veterans Affairs; 2021. … Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, US Dept of Veterans Affairs; 2021.

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 18, 2024 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. July 31, 2024. [Free full text] 3. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. June 11, 2024. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. June 28, 2024. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. December 13, 2023. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Medical Error Reduction and Prevention. [Updated 2024 Feb 12]. In: StatPearls [Internet].

  4. In Conversation with Carole Stockmeier about Zero Harm: Striving to Reduce Preventable Harms – Point, Counterpoint, and Areas of Agreement | PSNet

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    September 24, 2024 - Combine this prevention strategy with a spirit of continuous learning from successes and failures, and … Ideally, an industry would mobilize itself to take a stand on safety and harm prevention issues.

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 30, 2019 - Misidentifying the Unidentified – John Doe and the EHR October 30, 2019 Janowak CF, Janowak LM. Misidentifying the Unidentified – John Doe and the EHR. PSNet [internet]. 2019. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/misidentifying-unidentified-john-doe-and-ehr The Case  Two male patients of similar age arrived at the same …

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2012 - Many of the steps and techniques described above fall under the field of medication safety engineering

  7. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    February 01, 2017 - PowerPoint Presentation Spotlight The Hazards of Distraction: Ticking All the EHR Boxes * Source and Credits This presentation is based on the February 2017 AHRQ WebM&M Spotlight Case See the full article at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm CME credit is available Commentary by: Anthony C. Easty, PhD, Adjunct Pr…

  8. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    June 01, 2014 - PowerPoint Presentation Spotlight Wandering Off the Floors: Safety and Security Risks of Patient Wandering 1 This presentation is based on the June 2014 AHRQ WebM&M Spotlight Case See the full article at http://webmm.ahrq.gov CME credit is available Commentary by: Thomas A. Smith, CHPA, CPP, President, Healthc…

  9. Be Picky about your PICCs—Fragmented Care and Poor Communication at Discharge Leads to a PICC without a Plan. | PSNet

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    July 19, 2023 - Liem et al. determined to be about 37%. 12 Risk of Infection   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … need for vigilance by hospital staff in appropriate line selection and adherence to sound infection prevention … , CNL, NEA-BC, FACHE Executive Director Patient Care Services, Quality & Safety, Hospital Infection Prevention … Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. … Consensus conference on prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections: 2009. 

  10. Code Status vs. Care Status | PSNet

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    September 30, 2020 - With the development of EHR, more clerical and administrative tasks fall on all healthcare providers,

  11. Recurrent Hypoglycemia: A Care Transition Failure? | PSNet

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    December 23, 2020 - Take-Home Points An EHR facilitates error prevention at the point of care, as a first layer of protection … Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  12. Innovations in Promoting Hand Hygiene Compliance | PSNet

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    May 01, 2014 - setting, hospitals continue to struggle with suboptimal rates of compliance with this basic infection prevention … remarkable given widespread agreement that hand hygiene is the most important intervention for infection prevention … include insufficient time, work overload, inadequate knowledge, skepticism about hand hygiene as a prevention … Infection prevention promotion program based on the PRECEDE model: improving hand hygiene behaviors among … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Positive deviance: a new tool for infection prevention

  13. Elopement | PSNet

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    July 14, 2010 - These protocols should include assessment and prevention procedures to reduce the risk of harm for patients … Miscarriage June 1, 2003 WebM&M Cases Another Fall

  14. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)

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    October 01, 2007 - Professional Health Take-Home Points Professionalism is a core competency for all physicians Prevention

  15. Residual Anesthesia: Tepid Burn | PSNet

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    February 10, 2010 - Ambulatory Surgery Anesthesia for ambulatory surgery focuses on (i) rapid emergence and awakening, (ii) prevention

  16. A Pill Organizing Plight | PSNet

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    June 19, 2018 - SPOTLIGHT CASE A Pill Organizing Plight Citation Text: McGalliard B, Shane R, Rosen S. A Pill Organizing Plight. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2016. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar BibTe…

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2014 - providers who all noted that the hemoglobin remained stable at 12 g/dL, and the bilirubin continued to fall

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2016 - Lane-Fall MB, Beidas RS, Pascual JL, et al.

  19. Improving Patient Safety and Team Communication through Daily Huddles | PSNet

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    December 15, 2024 - Improving Patient Safety and Team Communication through Daily Huddles Citation Text: Shaikh U. Improving Patient Safety and Team Communication through Daily Huddles. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2020. Copy Citatio…

  20. The NSTEMI Curbside Consultation | PSNet

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    August 04, 2021 - patients with MI, 21 and additional monitoring of cTn might have led to the recognition of a “rise and fall … case exemplifies many of the following known major disparities in CVD between men and women: Under-prevention … Blumenthal RS, Albert MA, Buroker AB, Goldberger ZD, Hahn EJ, et al. 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention … Summary of Updated Recommendations for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women. … Effectiveness-based guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women--2011 update: a
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