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2261. Final Progress Report: National Trends in Outpatient Quality Indicators (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/stafford-fortmann-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - We examine the quality of outpatient care using 23 quality indicators we have measured, which fall into … The 23 quality indicators fall into five categories: medical management of common diseases (10 indicators … Are evidence-based cardiovascular prevention therapies being used? … Prevention and Control 2005;1:285-295. Ma J, Lee K-V, Stafford RS. … Are evidence-based cardiovascular prevention therapies being used?

2262. Tool: Check-Back (or Repeat-Back) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/tools/checkback.html
      July 01, 2023 - Tool: Check-Back (or Repeat-Back) A check-back, which is sometimes called a repeat-back, is a closed-loop communication strategy used to verify and validate exchanged information. When a team member calls out information, they typically anticipate a check-back in response to verify that the information was rece…

2263. 4 skin conditions doctors often misdiagnose. | PSNet
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      September 30, 2020 - Related Resources ‘I felt like I was dying’: how women with postpartum depression fall

2264. Weak oversight allows lab failures to put patients at risk. | PSNet
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      June 12, 2019 - March 11, 2020 Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities.

2265. Refused Medication Error | PSNet
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      November 01, 2005 - Throughout his admission, he was assessed as a very high fall risk on a standard risk scale. … l, the staff's level of concern was heightened, in that a fall could be associated with dangerous bleeding … alerted the primary care team of the patient's declining mental status and their concern about increased fall

2266. Prevalence of triggers and patient harm identified by Global Trigger Tool in specialized palliative care. | PSNet
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      June 14, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2267. Making patients safer: nurses' responses to patient safety alerts. | PSNet
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      April 13, 2011 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2268. Ergonomic and human factors affecting anesthetic vigilance and monitoring performance in the operating room environment. | PSNet
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      May 31, 2011 - December 8, 2010 Ounce of prevention: to reduce errors, hospitals prescribe innovative

2269. Why are patients not more involved in their own safety? A questionnaire-based survey in a multi-ethnic North London hospital population. | PSNet
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      September 22, 2021 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2270. Handoffs causing patient harm: a survey of medical and surgical house staff. | PSNet
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      July 10, 2008 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2271. A visual medication schedule to improve anticoagulation control: a randomized, controlled trial. | PSNet
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      October 21, 2010 - Prevention of medication errors remains a focus of patient safety efforts, with warfarin use posing

2272. Has improved hand hygiene compliance reduced the risk of hospital-acquired infections among hospitalized patients in Ontario? Analysis of publicly reported patient safety data from 2008 to 2011. | PSNet
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      July 10, 2024 - January 9, 2014 Health economic evaluation of an infection prevention and control program

2273. Impact of pharmacist-led admission medication reconciliation on patient outcomes in a large health system. | PSNet
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      March 17, 2010 - April 24, 2018 Universal protection: operationalizing infection prevention guidance in … Impact of pharmacist-led discharge medication reconciliation on error and patient harm prevention

2274. New AHRQ SOPS® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes - Naomi Yount, PhD (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/nh-workplace-safety-yount.pdf
      January 01, 2023 - tested draft items Obtained input from WPS SMEs & SOPS TEP Conducted pilot study Summer/Fall … CDC's Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings … 2Fhicpac%2Frecommen dations%2Fcore-practices.html Th is document describes a core set of infection prevention … The pract ices were selected from exist ing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations

2275. Handshake antimicrobial stewardship as a model to recognize and prevent diagnostic errors | PSNet
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      September 08, 2021 - February 10, 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention … Article Study The Stoplight Mobility Alert System for safety and prevention

2276. Systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies to encourage patients to remind healthcare professionals about their hand hygiene. | PSNet
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      February 01, 2011 - Hand hygiene is critical to prevention of health care–associated infections . … Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2277. Engaging patients and informal caregivers to improve safety and facilitate person- and family-centered care during transitions from hospital to home: a qualitative descriptive study. | PSNet
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      March 08, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention … September 30, 2010 Oncology nurses' perceptions about involving patients in the prevention

2278. Targeted communication intervention using nursing crew resource management principles. | PSNet
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      August 12, 2015 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2279. Reengineering hospital discharge: a protocol to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and boost patient satisfaction. | PSNet
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      May 20, 2009 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

2280. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33722/psn-pdf
      December 01, 2011 - Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: What have we learned about assessment of fall risk? Ann L. … RW: What does the best fall assessment program look like? … But whenever the patient's condition changes, they should be reassessed for fall risk. … Let's shift a little bit to other proposed prevention strategies, particularly in environmental ones … But they should not receive an injury as a result of a fall.