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  1. 139-Nv-Hap-Prevention-Essential-One-Pager (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/139-nv-hap-prevention-essential-one-pager.docx
    October 01, 2024 - NV-HAP Prevention Essential Practices1-4 Practice routine oral care.4,5-8 Staphylococcus aureus is a … early mobilization.5,7,9 Conduct early mobilization, when possible, but it is important to consider fall … Healthcare- Associated Pneumonia (NV-HAP) Prevention: Essential Practices | 2 AHRQ Safety Program for … MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU Non-Ventilator Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia (NV-HAP) Prevention: … Non-ventilator health care-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP): Best practices for prevention of NV-HAP.

  2. Disparities in patient safety voluntary event reporting: a scoping review. | PSNet

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    November 16, 2022 - Voluntary error reporting systems (VERS) are an indispensable tool for identification, analysis, and prevention … Assessing the effectiveness of engaging patients and their families in the three-step fall … prevention process across modalities of an evidence-based fall prevention toolkit: an implementation

  3. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety: Health Systems Reporting, Analysis and Safety Improvement Research Demonstrations (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/fraser-dunagan-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Prevention Conference in Florida in April 2003. … Fall rates and characteristics of inpatients who fall in an urban hospital. … Fourth Annual Evidence-Based Fall Prevention and Management Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, April … Differences in Fall Prevention Policies Across Hospital Settings. … An Inservice to Involve Hospital Support Staff in Patient Fall Prevention.

  4. Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments. | PSNet

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    September 15, 2021 - Clinical department, rates, and trends should be considered when implementing fall prevention strategies … November 2, 2022 Artificial intelligence for identifying the prevention of medication

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41682/psn-pdf
    September 19, 2012 - The fall rate among inpatients decreased markedly after the patient safety officer position was begun … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-unit-based-patient-safety-officer https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial

  6. Task Force Issues Final Recommendation Statement on Interventions to Prevent Falls in Older Adults Exercise can reduce the likelihood of falls in adults 65 and older; additional interventions might be helpful for some older adults (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/falls-prevention-older-adults-final-rec-bulletin.pdf
    June 04, 2024 - When determining who is more likely to fall, clinicians should consider age and history of falling, as … Other risk factors include sensory problems, medications that may increase fall risk, hazards at home … The Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based … He is also co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Population Health program at the UVA Comprehensive … www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-update-summary/vitamin-d-calcium-combined-supplementation-primary-prevention-falls-fractures-communitydwelling-adults

  7. Reconsidering the Approach to Prevention Recommendations for Older Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/about-uspstf/methods-and-processes/reconsidering-approach-prevention-recommendations-older-adults
    February 01, 2014 - This analytic framework for fall prevention also explicitly acknowledged that older adults at risk for … limitations (as opposed to falls) would probably target similar patients and could complement the effect of fall … In the recent review for fall prevention, the USPSTF encountered several challenges that will be important … The variation in approaches to risk assessment and the lack of validated risk instruments for fall prevention … The USPSTF also found in its review on fall prevention that researchers incorporated a greater diversity

  8. Nursing practice with hospitalised older people: safety and harm. | PSNet

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    April 24, 2018 - March 6, 2013 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … June 19, 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention … August 7, 2019 Fall prevention in hospitals: an integrative review.

  9. Organizational, cultural, and psychological determinants of smart infusion pump work arounds: a study of 3 U.S. health systems. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/organizational-cultural-and-psychological-determinants-smart-infusion-pump-work-arounds-study
    May 18, 2022 - May 18, 2022 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication of patients' fall … risks in hospitals and implications for multifactorial approaches to fall prevention.

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43499/psn-pdf
    September 03, 2014 - Older folks in hospitals: the contributing factors and recommendations for incident prevention. … Older folks in hospitals: the contributing factors and recommendations for incident prevention. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/older-folks-hospitals-contributing-factors-and-recommendations-incident- prevention … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/older-folks-hospitals-contributing-factors-and-recommendations-incident-prevention … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/reporting-patient-safety-events https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/inpatient-fall-prevention-programs-patient-safety-strategy-systematic-review

  11. Patient safety and telephone medicine: some lessons from closed claim case review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-and-telephone-medicine-some-lessons-closed-claim-case-review
    May 18, 2022 - January 21, 2019 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication of patients' fall … risks in hospitals and implications for multifactorial approaches to fall prevention.

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41241/psn-pdf
    June 15, 2012 - bed or chair was the most common activity, whereas environmental hazards and poor communication of fall … using-root-cause-analysis-reduce-falls-injury-psychiatric-unit https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/root-cause-analysis https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial

  13. Why psychiatry is different--challenges and difficulties in managing a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospital care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/why-psychiatry-different-challenges-and-difficulties-managing-nosocomial-outbreak-coronavirus
    February 14, 2024 - susceptible to hospital-acquired COVID-19 due to treating high-risk populations, lower adherence to infection prevention … January 23, 2019 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … August 20, 2018 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … September 23, 2020 Design and implementation of the infection prevention program into

  14. Implementation, evaluation, and recommendations for extension of AHRQ Common Formats to capture patient- and carepartner-generated safety data. | PSNet

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    June 13, 2018 - December 6, 2017 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … July 29, 2020 Evaluation of a patient-centered fall-prevention tool kit to reduce falls … Cost of inpatient falls and cost-benefit analysis of implementation of an evidence-based fall … prevention program.

  15. At risk care plans: a way to reduce readmissions and adverse events. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-care-plans-way-reduce-readmissions-and-adverse-events
    October 27, 2010 - September 24, 2016 Practice advisory for the prevention and management of operating room … November 2, 2012 Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial. … September 20, 2011 An inpatient fall prevention initiative in a tertiary care hospital

  16. Perceptions of risk to patient safety in the pediatric ICU, a study of American pediatric intensivists. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/perceptions-risk-patient-safety-pediatric-icu-study-american-pediatric-intensivists
    August 28, 2017 - August 28, 2017 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication of patients' fall … risks in hospitals and implications for multifactorial approaches to fall prevention.

  17. A quality initiative to decrease pathology specimen-labeling errors using radiofrequency identification in a high-volume endoscopy center. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quality-initiative-decrease-pathology-specimen-labeling-errors-using-radiofrequency
    August 28, 2017 - May 18, 2022 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … Talking about falls: a qualitative exploration of spoken communication of patients' fall … risks in hospitals and implications for multifactorial approaches to fall prevention.

  18. Using smart IV infusion pumps outside of patient rooms. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-smart-iv-infusion-pumps-outside-patient-rooms
    September 23, 2020 - 2022 Human-based errors involving smart infusion pumps: a catalog of error types and prevention … interoperability on patient safety and finances at a community hospital August 25, 2021 Fall … prevention with the Smart Socks System reduces hospital fall rates. … , and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): the urgent need to refocus on hardwiring prevention

  19. Learning from error: identifying contributory causes of medication errors in an Australian hospital. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/learning-error-identifying-contributory-causes-medication-errors-australian-hospital
    October 19, 2022 - April 19, 2013 Guidelines for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated … December 4, 2016 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … January 12, 2022 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  20. Smart pumps: implications for nurse leaders. | PSNet

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    February 02, 2022 - 2022 Human-based errors involving smart infusion pumps: a catalog of error types and prevention … September 11, 2009 Fall prevention with the Smart Socks System reduces hospital fall
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