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3101. Evidence Summary: Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Community-Dwelling Adults: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/vitamin-d-calcium-or-combined-supplementation-for-the-primary-prevention-of-fractures-in-adults-preventive-medication
      April 17, 2018 - Evidence Summary Vitamin D, Calcium, or Combined Supplementation for the Primary Prevention … evidence for benefits and harms of vitamin D, calcium, or combined supplementation for the primary prevention … Vitamin D with or without calcium supplementation for prevention of cancer and fractures: an updated … HRT and vit D in prevention of non-vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women; a 5 year randomized trial … Prevention of femoral and lumbar bone loss with hormone replacement therapy and vitamin D 3 in early

3102. PowerPoint Presentation
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      December 01, 2014 - PowerPoint Presentation AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention … Facilitator Training Overview of On-Time On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention Facilitator Training 2-day … Overview 5 5 On-Time Reports Being Developed for Four Adverse Events Four Reports Pressure Ulcer Prevention … Pressure Ulcer Healing Falls Prevention Prevention of Avoidable Hospitalizations December 2014 On-Time … Programs: Reviews information on existing prevention programs Communication: Reviews existing team

3103. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2013 - cause serious adverse effects including death.(1,19) In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Patients with concurrent substance abuse and high risk for abusing the prescription opiates fall under … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC grand rounds: prescription drug overdoses—a U.S. … Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

3104. Receipt and Referral Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2019 - Applications are examined to determine if they fall broadly within the scope of the AHRQ mission and

3105. Beeline to Spine | PSNet
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      March 01, 2014 - responsibility in this case for ensuring that the patient receives SSI and VTE prophylaxis would normally fall … So we fall back to the history: did the patient mention the mass or abdominal pain? … Prevention of venous thromboembolism: the Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic … The surgical infection prevention and surgical care improvement projects: national initiatives to improve

3106. Archived: Final Research Plan: Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan17/healthy-diet-and-physical-activity-counseling-adults-with-high-risk-of-cvd-august-2014
      May 15, 2013 - archived Final Research Plan Healthful Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention … controlled diets Counseling interventions aimed at weight loss or weight maintenance, falls prevention … , depression, cognitive functioning, or disease prevention other than CVD/diabetes mellitus … Behavioral Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

3107. Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: What's Wrong and How to Fix It | PSNet
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      August 01, 2012 - October 11, 2023 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

3108. Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events | PSNet
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      December 15, 2024 - Prevention of Adverse Drug Events The pathway connecting a clinician's decision to prescribe a medication … Safety Goal  for both hospitals and ambulatory clinics, and the  Partnership for Patients  included ADE prevention … The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion issued the  National Action Plan for Adverse Drug … Event Prevention  in 2014, which identified ways to align the efforts of federal health agencies to … April 17, 2024 Prevention of adverse drug events in hospitals.

3109. Microsoft PowerPoint - Spotlight Case_Agitated Delirium_FINAL.pptx (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2023 - • Due to the high incidence of delirium among hospitalized patients, strategies for surveillance, prevention … , and management should be implemented for older adults.16,17 • Delirium prevention and care bundles … Delirium in the Acute Care Setting (4) • Currently, there are no recommended pharmacologic treatments for prevention

3110. Cancer Older Adults (pdf file)
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      September 28, 2012 - than either alone.10 Appropriate Patient-Important Benefits and Harms It is a common assumption that prevention … Reconsidering the approach to prevention recommendations for older adults. … Screening in frail older people: an ounce of prevention or a pound of trouble?

3111. Final Progress Report: Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors promotes medication reconciliation … Illinois Council of Health-System Pharmacists Fall Meeting. Oakbrook, IL. September 2006. … University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Quality and Safety Fall Forum. Baltimore, MD. … Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events: implications for prevention. … Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors (MCPME).

3112. Strategies to Improve Patient Safety: Draft Report to Congress for Public Comment and Review by the National Academy of Medicine (pdf file)
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      December 21, 2021 - Falls Dashboard The Falls Dashboard details the extent of harm due to falls, the presence of fall … assistance, the presence of fall assistance by patient harm, the type of fall injury, and fall location … Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs. … The contract was expanded in fall 2009 to offer participation to all 50 States, the District of Columbia … Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs.

3113. Final Research Plan: Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 12, 2025 - foods or fluids or nutrition therapy (e.g., meal replacement therapy) Interventions aimed at primary prevention … treatment of cognitive impairment and have indications for their primary usage (CVD treatment or primary prevention

3114. Mark My Limb | PSNet
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      February 10, 2015 - The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol for the Prevention of Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, and Wrong … Most systems, even simple ones, operating in health care organizations today fall short of this characterization

3115. EvidenceNOW: Oklahoma Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2021 - practices have the evidence they need to help their patients adopt  the ABCS of cardiovascular disease prevention … Center, 2016] Quality Improvement through Collaboration [Breakout Workshop CPC Face-to-Face, OCHI Fall

3116. Final progress Report: Anticholinergics and Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with Depression (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - To evaluate whether excluding those with a fall history would change the risk estimate, an additional … A fall is a major event in the life of an older person.

3117. ICU Assessment Response Guide (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2022 - Resources: • CLABSI Prevention Modules o The CLABSI Prevention modules provide information on how … • CAUTI Prevention Modules o The CAUTI Prevention modules provide information on how to disrupt the … Rationale: Communicating information about patient safety is an important responsibility that should not fall … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Prevention Strategist. Spring 2018:64-9.

3118. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospitalscanform.doc
      June 02, 2025 - · “Patient safety” is defined as the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse events … Things “fall between the cracks” when transferring patients from one unit to another (1 (2 (3 (4

3119. Leveraging Cultural Change to Reduce Urinary Catheter Use | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Leveraging Cultural Change to Reduce Urinary Catheter Use Linda Greene, RN,MPS,CIC Manager Infection Prevention … She’s going to fall trying to get up.”

3120. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2021 - Had not complained of any urinary symptoms the day before her fall Still reports no urinary symptoms … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public Health Image Library (PHIL).