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  1. Safety Culture in EMS | PSNet

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    May 26, 2021 - There are organizations where I’ve had a patient fall in my care and the first thing I had to do was … How do we shift the thinking to the idea that these are harms that may happen to the patient, be it a fall … stretcher, if we're trying to move them from bed to from stretcher to bed in the hospital and they fall … I've had a patient fall.

  2. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Fourth Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/annlrpt2014%20(6).pdf
    November 01, 2014 - Cancer Prevention 6. Injury and Child Maltreatment 7. … In 2013, the report focused on prevention in older adults. … Cancer Prevention 1. … Prevention of abuse in older children. Vision Disorders 1. … There is a lack of research on the prevention of abuse of older children.

  3. High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services Fourth Annual Report to Congress (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/annlrpt2014%20(9).pdf
    November 01, 2014 - Cancer Prevention 6. Injury and Child Maltreatment 7. … In 2013, the report focused on prevention in older adults. … Cancer Prevention 1. … Prevention of abuse in older children. Vision Disorders 1. … There is a lack of research on the prevention of abuse of older children.

  4. Slide 1

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    February 07, 2014 - Workload, Participation, Resources, Foley Alternatives Learning from Defects Prevention … event Cites NHSN criteria for event labeled as a CAUTI Raises awareness of incident for use for further prevention … on the UMC intranet for staff Lab time also arranged for a “test out” on care and insertion CAUTI Prevention … Getting the students involved Students are educated about On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI Students created CAUTI prevention … Participation in CDC sponsored “Reverse the Trend” Webinar Interview appearing in edition of APIC’s Prevention

  5. Screening for Osteoporosis: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2012 - Other Approaches to Prevention The USPSTF has updated its evidence review on fall prevention in older … have addi- tional risk factors for fractures, such as poor bone quality and an increased tendency to fall … Drug therapies for osteoporosis can be for primary prevention (prevention of an osteoporotic fracture … in pa- tients with low BMD who have no previous fractures) or secondary prevention (prevention of an … There are no primary prevention trials of bisphosphonates in men and only 2 secondary prevention trials

  6. Improving patient safety culture in primary care: a systematic review. | PSNet

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    June 17, 2015 - January 8, 2014 Examining causes and prevention strategies of adverse events in deceased

  7. Wrong-side thoracentesis: lessons learned from root cause analysis. | PSNet

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    July 16, 2015 - November 21, 2011 Wrong-site craniotomy: analysis of 35 cases and systems for prevention

  8. A taxonomy for advancing systematic error analysis in multi-site electronic health record-based clinical concept extraction. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/taxonomy-advancing-systematic-error-analysis-multi-site-electronic-health-record-based
    March 24, 2019 - June 15, 2022 Effect of an emergency department process improvement package on suicide prevention

  9. When the Indications for Drug Administration Blur | PSNet

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    May 26, 2021 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  10. Strategies for a safe interhospital transfer with an intubated patient or where readiness for intubation is needed: a critical incidents study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/strategies-safe-interhospital-transfer-intubated-patient-or-where-readiness-intubation-needed
    July 31, 2013 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  11. Empowerment failure: how shortcomings in physician communication unwittingly undermine patient autonomy. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/empowerment-failure-how-shortcomings-physician-communication-unwittingly-undermine-patient
    January 17, 2019 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 01, 2013 - available and should be utilized to manage high-risk conditions such as delirium, polypharmacy, and fall … quality improvement programs to manage high risk conditions such as delirium, polypharmacy, and fall

  13. Patient Safety and Adverse Events, 2011 and 2014 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb237-Patient-Safety-Adverse-Events-2011-2014.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - with Hip Fracture Rate Hip fractures most likely resulting from a fall during the hospital stay … blood stream infection rate (PSI 07) 6,200 2,200 15,394,500 15,150,700 –64.2 –1.6 In hospital fall … Central venous catheter-related blood stream infection rate (PSI 07) 0.31 0.10 –67.7 In hospital fall … These problems are likely amenable to prevention by changes at the system or provider levels. … The AHRQ QI modules include Prevention Quality Indicators, Inpatient Quality Indicators, Patient Safety

  14. Healthcare Delivery of Clinical Preventive Services for People with Disabilities (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/people-with-disabilities-protocol.pdf
    January 16, 2024 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disability and Health Data System (DHDS). … Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office … * or speech disorder* or dyslexia or aphasia or "learning disabilit*").tw. 51 or/1-50 52 Primary Prevention … breastfeed* or breastfed or "breast feed*" or "breast fed" or lactation).mp. 77 "accidental falls".sh. or (fall … and Behavioral Counselling Breastfeeding Pregnant women, new mothers, and their children Falls Prevention

  15. Sharing lessons learned to prevent incorrect surgery. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/sharing-lessons-learned-prevent-incorrect-surgery
    July 16, 2015 - Study Sharing lessons learned to prevent incorrect surgery. Citation Text: Neily J, Mills PD, Paull DE, et al. Sharing lessons learned to prevent incorrect surgery. Am Surg. 2012;78(11):1276-1280. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7…

  16. 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.

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33592/psn-pdf
    December 15, 2024 - event as preventable requires some judgment about the degree to which the evidence supports specific prevention … Preventable adverse events: those that occurred due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention

  18. Medication Reconciliation Victory After an Avoidable Error | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/medication-reconciliation-victory-after-avoidable-error
    April 01, 2015 - Medication Reconciliation Victory After an Avoidable Error Citation Text: Cutler TW. Medication Reconciliation Victory After an Avoidable Error. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2009. Copy Citation Format: …

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/48067/psn-pdf
    June 12, 2019 - maternal-sleepiness-and-risk-infant-drops-postpartum-period This report of a quality improvement study of infant drop risk found that mothers who fall

  20. Transfer of accountability: transforming shift handover to enhance patient safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/transfer-accountability-transforming-shift-handover-enhance-patient-safety
    April 24, 2018 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention
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