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  1. Prevention of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)

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    Prevention of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation … PREVENTION OF FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS CLINICAL SUMMARY OF U.S.

  2. 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.

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

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    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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

  6. Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum Fall Policy Conference 2008 (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: The National Quality Forum Fall Policy Conference 2008 The National Quality … Forum Fall Policy Conference 2008 Principal Investigator: Dwight McNeil Team Members: S. … Innovation in Patient Safety - National: National Coordination Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention … The Council was formed to actively promote the reporting, understanding, and prevention of medication … Division, US Pharmacopeia and Secretary, National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention

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

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    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

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

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    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

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

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    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

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

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    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

  11. A new approach of assessing patient safety aspects in routine practice using the example of "doctors handwritten prescriptions." | PSNet

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    April 24, 2019 - 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 … July 1, 2009 Prioritising the prevention of medication handling errors.

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-safety-program-mrsa-prevention Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus … This project supports the implementation of targeted healthcare-acquired infection prevention initiatives … The first of three planned toolkits, Toolkit for MRSA Prevention in ICU & Non-ICU Settings, is now available … planned for spring 2025, and a third toolkit focused on long- term care settings is anticipated in fall

  13. 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

  14. Standardizing hand-off processes. | PSNet

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    June 03, 2020 - July 20, 2022 Adopting the Fall Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety (TIPS) program … to engage older adults in fall prevention in a nursing home. … Laboratory session to improve first-year pharmacy students' knowledge and confidence concerning the prevention

  15. Patient safety: moving the bar in prison health care standards. | PSNet

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    August 28, 2024 - September 21, 2005 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall … July 29, 2020 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … January 12, 2022 Are evidence-based practices associated with effective prevention of

  16. The relationship between registered nurses and nursing home quality: an integrative review (2008–2014). | PSNet

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    June 03, 2020 - 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

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 09, 2016 - Students demonstrated a wide range of accuracy in identifying hazards, with fall risk most likely and … patient-safety-room-horrors-novel-method-assess-medical-students-and-entering-residents https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/simulation-training https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial

  18. 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.

  19. Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of pharmacist independent prescribers in care homes: cluster randomised controlled trial. | PSNet

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    December 15, 2021 - management in long-term care residents is associated with improved hospital readmission rates and reduced fall … or monitor medications, and this cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of PIPs on fall … After six months of PIP involvement, fall rates (the primary outcome ) were not statistically different … November 16, 2022 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management

  20. Medical errors recovered by critical care nurses. | PSNet

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    June 04, 2008 - January 27, 2021 Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial. … Cost of inpatient falls and cost-benefit analysis of implementation of an evidence-based fall … prevention program. … August 4, 2010 Role of registered nurses in error prevention, discovery and correction
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