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  1. Double Trouble | PSNet

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    August 01, 2012 - October 11, 2023 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall

  2. Guide To Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/implementing-guide.pdf
    March 01, 2017 - E and A Unit Guide to Infection Prevention for Long-Term Care Staff. … SHEA/APIC Guideline: Infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility. … High-Performance Work Practices in CLABSI Prevention Interventions: Executive Summary. … Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; January 2016.

  3. Final Progress Report: Quality Care and Error Reduction in Rural Hospitals (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - conditions influence behavior was showcased by a nurse in our study who had attended a seminar on prevention

  4. When the Lytes Go Out: A Case of Inpatient Cardiac Arrest | PSNet

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    February 01, 2023 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  5. Management of CSF Leaks After Elective Spine Surgery: Routine Laminectomy Leads to Fatal Discitis and Sepsis | PSNet

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    March 09, 2022 - minimize CSF leak, mimic the compliance of dura, and be biologically inert. 48 Currently, the options fall … Commercially available sealants fall into two categories as either synthetic, consisting of polyethylene … Closed continuous drainage of cerebrospinal fluid via a lumbar subarachnoid catheter for treatment or prevention … May 20, 2019 Infection prevention in the operating room anesthesia work area.

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 26, 2025 - High Reliability Organization (HRO) Principles and Patient Safety February 26, 2025 Vogus T, Lee M, Mossburg SE. High Reliability Organization (HRO) Principles and Patient Safety. PSNet [internet]. 2025. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/high-reliability-organization-hro-principles-and-patient-safety In To Err I…

  7. Evaluating the Impact of an ACPOE/CDS System on Outcomes | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - In addition, the clinic plans to add a clinical decision support component next fall, following a switch … The EPIC implementation this fall will bring another wave of change.

  8. C97Uqjxbuhjnuondkvchzu (pdf file)

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    August 01, 2013 - Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage Drinking. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). … The more you drink, the harder you fall: a systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption … Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment.

  9. Project BOOST Increases Patient Understanding of Treatment and Follow-up Care | PSNet

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    February 26, 2025 - reconciliation : For sites seeking to improve the medication reconciliation as part of readmission prevention … Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  10. Routine Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy: Review Article (pdf file)

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    August 03, 2020 - Reprint requests to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Public Health Service, … The normal pattern is for hemo¬ globin concentrations to fall by about 20 g/L, reaching a nadir in the … prepreg- nancy levels by term.2 Pregnant women are considered to be anemic when hé¬ matologie indexes fall … et al20 found that physical symptoms of anemia are gen¬ erally unapparent unless hemoglobin val¬ ues fall

  11. Health and economic outcomes of newborn screening for infantile-onset Pompe disease (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2020 - Ambulatory Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA. 4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … New Jersey, New York, Michigan, and Missouri newborn screening programs. eSee Table S3b for details. fAll … a threshold range of $150,000 to $450,000/QALY), screening for infantile-onset Pompe disease would fall … were reduced by 80%, the cost- effectiveness ratio for NBS for infantile-onset Pompe disease would fall … authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  12. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2020 - Prevention of VTE in orthopedic surgery patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis … Prevention methods include both mechanical and pharmacologic prophylaxis. … Prevention of VTE in orthopedic surgery patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis … Aspirin and the prevention of venous thromboembolism following total join arthroplasty. … join line tenderness, incidental finding of a Baker’s cyst, arthrofibrosis, instability after a fall

  13. Outcomes and Objectives Workgroup: Integration of Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Into Shared Decision Making (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2023 - For example, a fall prevention toolkit that incorporated clinician talking points resulted in a 15% … IDeA) designed to increase patient knowledge and lessen decision making uncertainty around stroke prevention … Personalized, Electronic Health Record- Integrated Decision Aid for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation … Calculator Adults Web-based Facilitate discussions about statin use for primary cardiovascular disease prevention … Evaluation of a Patient-Centered Fall-Prevention Tool Kit to Reduce Falls and Injuries: A Nonrandomized

  14. Feasibility of a Touch Screen Computer Based Breastfeeding Educational Support - Final Report (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2014 - Current breast-feeding rates fall short of these goals. … Currently, 75% of babies born in the U.S. are initially breastfed, but rates fall to 43% at 6 months … Current breast-feeding rates fall short of these goals. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Breastfeeding report card: United States 2010.

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 18, 2024 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. July 31, 2024. [Free full text] 3. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. June 11, 2024. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. June 28, 2024. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. December 13, 2023. Accessed December 6, 2024. … Medical Error Reduction and Prevention. [Updated 2024 Feb 12]. In: StatPearls [Internet].

  16. Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) Shows Promise for Targeting Prevention Interventions to Reduce Mortality in Patients Who Are Prescribed Opioids | PSNet

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    October 30, 2024 - Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) Shows Promise for Targeting Prevention … STORM is one of several VHA overdose prevention initiatives that include the distribution of naloxone … Targeted Prevention Program Implementation: The implementation of the STORM targeted prevention program … Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, US Dept of Veterans Affairs; 2021. … Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, US Dept of Veterans Affairs; 2021.

  17. Behavioral Interventions to Promote Breastfeeding - Recommendations and Rationale (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2010 - Lieu, MD, MPH (Associate Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health

  18. Organizational Behavior Management in Health Care: Applications for Large-Scale Improvements in Patient Safety (pdf file)

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    January 29, 2008 - This latter prevention-focused definition best fits the application of OBM. … Although this is a useful classification system, prevention requires a specification of actions leading … compensation was discontinued, though, CPOE use declined to 42 percent after several months but did not fall … The impact of computerized physician order entry on medication error prevention. … AIDS prevention: Improving nurses’ compliance with glove wearing through performance feedback.

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2012 - Many of the steps and techniques described above fall under the field of medication safety engineering

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 30, 2019 - Misidentifying the Unidentified – John Doe and the EHR October 30, 2019 Janowak CF, Janowak LM. Misidentifying the Unidentified – John Doe and the EHR. PSNet [internet]. 2019. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/misidentifying-unidentified-john-doe-and-ehr The Case  Two male patients of similar age arrived at the same …
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