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  1. Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions. | PSNet

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    March 27, 2019 - Toolkit Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions. Citation Text: Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions. Boutwell A, Bourgoin A , Maxwell J, et al. Rockvill…

  2. Medication bar coding: to scan or not to scan? | PSNet

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    October 19, 2022 - September 24, 2016 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  3. Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past. | PSNet

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    April 27, 2022 - September 23, 2020 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  4. Government and industry fail to protect the public when they suggest "carefully following instructions" is enough to prevent vaccine errors. | PSNet

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    February 24, 2016 - Same Author(s) Selected medication safety risks to manage in 2016 that might otherwise fall

  5. Unique Challenges in Approaching Diagnostic Safety in Older Adults | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2024 - Recent research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that about 10 percent of

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 05, 2013 - Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. March 5, 2013 Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, et al, eds. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2001. AHRQ Publication No. 01-E058. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/making-health-care-safer-critical-analysis-patie…

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 25, 2016 - Root cause analysis of serious adverse events among older patients in the Veterans Health Administration. April 25, 2016 Lee A, Mills PD, Neily J, et al. Root cause analysis of serious adverse events among older patients in the Veterans Health Administration. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014;40(6):253-62. https://…

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

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    November 01, 2006 - Surgical Infection Prevention • Prophylactic antibiotic received within 1 hour prior to surgical incision … publicly reporting hospital specific mortality following coronary bypass surgery, rates were observed to fall … with reported measures may entail unintended consequences Systems should be in place for monitoring, prevention

  9. Info FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    July 10, 2025 - All four modules rely solely on hospital inpatient administrative data: Prevention Quality Indictors … The Technical Specifications for each QI module—Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI), Inpatient Quality … ICD-9-CM v6.0 software, when available in the fall of 2016, or prior software can be used with the ICD

  10. Info FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    All four modules rely solely on hospital inpatient administrative data: Prevention Quality Indictors … The Technical Specifications for each QI module—Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI), Inpatient Quality … ICD-9-CM v6.0 software, when available in the fall of 2016, or prior software can be used with the ICD

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    July 23, 2020 - or Medicaid have in place an Infection Prevention and Control Program and an Infection Preventionist … Rural LTC facilities in particular may suffer from a dearth of infection prevention expertise. … Weaknesses in infection prevention and control expertise, coupled with the unprecedented nature of a … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk- factors/? … Changes in US nursing home infection prevention and control programs from 2014 to 2018.

  12. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results 2014-2017 (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2019 - Comparing these data with other sources of information, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … measured with MPSMS, the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  13. Patient safety in the ED. | PSNet

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    August 11, 2010 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Patient safety in the ED. Citation Text: Patient safety in the ED. Hospitals & health networks. 2006;80(5):6 p. following 48, 2. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote tagged PubMedId RIS …

  14. Root Cause Analysis Playbook. | PSNet

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    July 05, 2017 - Book/Report Root Cause Analysis Playbook. Citation Text: Root Cause Analysis Playbook. Chicago, IL: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; 2015. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter…

  15. Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. | PSNet

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    November 16, 2022 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. Citation Text: Alarm fatigue hazards: the sirens are calling. Welch J. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Lin…

  16. Examples of Physician Quality Measures for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2019 - Examples of Physician Quality Measures for Consumers Following are a few examples of physician quality measures that research evidence and practical experience suggest are appropriate for reporting to consumers. The list is categorized by the Institute of Medicine’s domains for a quality health care system; for…

  17. Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals. | PSNet

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    March 22, 2017 - Book/Report Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals. Citation Text: Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals. McHugh M, Garman A, McAlearney A, Song P, Harrison M. Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Tr…

  18. Radiology Missed an Intracranial Bleed in a Lethargic Infant. | PSNet

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    August 21, 2016 - s Bureau Learning and Coordination Center (CBLCC) , Prevent Child Abuse America , The Child Abuse Prevention … Lesson from the VA's Team Training Program November 1, 2011 Detection and prevention

  19. A strategic solution to preventing the harm associated with ambulance handover delays. | PSNet

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    July 22, 2020 - Journal Article Study Catching those who fall

  20. Psi90 Factsheet Faq (pdf file)

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    August 31, 2016 - following:  PSI 03 Pressure Ulcer Rate  PSI 06 Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Rate  PSI 08 In-Hospital Fall …  PSI 08 (In-Hospital Fall with Hip Fracture Rate) now targets all hip fractures from inpatient … specification, the name of the indicator was changed from “Postoperative Hip Fracture Rate” to “In-Hospital Fall … Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection Rate 0.037684 -- N/A PSI 08 In-Hospital Fall
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