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  1. Improving Patient Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture. (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/asc/resources/asc-resource_list.pdf
    March 01, 2016 - Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care Infection Prevention Training … Infection Prevention Training for Ambulatory Surgical Centers https://cne.memberclicks.net/index.php? … Because the Center’s Culture of Safety is based on prevention, not punishment, RCA teams investigate … Also used to systematically assess personnel adherence to correct infection prevention practices. … Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Infection Prevention & Control Toolkit http://oregonpatientsafety.org

  2. Engaging Seriously Ill Older Patients in Advance Care Planning | PSNet

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    December 22, 2018 - Innovations Preventing Falls Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention

  3. Discharged with IV antibiotics: When issues arise, who manages the complications? | PSNet

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    October 10, 2017 - April 27, 2016 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management

  4. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2005 - Patient Financial and Linkage Reporting: • Patient characteristics (mean age and proportion female) fall … National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. … Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.1997. … by completeness we mean that the rate of missing values is not unreasonably high and data values fall … National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 18, 2024 - 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

  6. Final Progress Report: Systems Approach for Improving Region-Wide Patient Safety (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - Based on this shared analysis of regional outcomes data, prevention strategies and interventions were … PRHI formalized a close working partnership with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … definition of medication error of the National Coordinating Council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention … Based on shared analysis of regional outcomes data, prevention strategies and interventions were developed

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2018 - dL) postingestion than at 4 hours (150 mg/dL).(11) This is because the measured concentration will fall

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2014 - Wandering Off the Floors: Safety and Security Risks of Patient Wandering June 1, 2014 Smith TA. Wandering Off the Floors: Safety and Security Risks of Patient Wandering. PSNet [internet]. 2014. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/wandering-floors-safety-and-security-risks-patient-wandering Case Objectives Define patie…

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 01, 2009 - In Conversation with…William B. Weeks, MD, MBA May 1, 2009 In Conversation with…William B. Weeks, MD, MBA. PSNet [internet]. 2009. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withwilliam-b-weeks-md-mba Editor's note: William B. Weeks, MD, MBA, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family M…

  10. Environmental Scan of Patient Safety Education and Training Programs (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2013 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ, via https://psnet.ahrq.gov/glossary) The prevention … The prevention of harm to patients. … This criterion was intended to eliminate programs that did not fall within the patient safety spectrum … Specific patient care issues—programs that focus on one specific area of patient safety, such as fall … prevention, medication safety, or surgical infection

  11. Taxonomic Guidance for Remedial Actions (pdf file)

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    December 23, 2004 - Medication error prevention “toolbox.” Medication Safety Alert, June 2, 1999.

  12. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    March 04, 2021 - obstetrician-gynecologists, internists, and family physicians for the priority behaviors discussed above still fall … Health promotion and disease prevention in clinical practice. … Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice . … Partnership for Prevention.  Why Invest in Disease Prevention?   … What have HMOs learned about clinical prevention services?

  13. The Safety of Medical Devices | PSNet

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    June 01, 2011 - The back of a patient chair on a tomography system bent and broke off, allowing a patient to fall. … Or are there ways to prospectively anticipate that something is likely to fall off the back of the truck

  14. Final Recommendation Statement: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    August 21, 2018 - Additional Approaches to Prevention The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Council … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine … Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC … https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/4/adult-and-adolescent-oi-prevention-and-treatment-guidelines … Practice Bulletin No. 168: cervical cancer screening and prevention.

  15. EvidenceNOW Southwest Practice Survey (pdf file)

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    April 03, 2017 - how your practice uses clinical guidelines and clinical quality measures for cardiovascular disease prevention … Please identify how your practice uses clinical guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention (for … Reporting measurements of practice performance on cardiovascular disease prevention measures (such as … Setting goals and benchmarking rates of performance quality on cardiovascular disease prevention measures … Customizing the implementation of cardiovascular disease prevention care changes to the practice £ £

  16. Recommendation: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    July 26, 2022 - Final Recommendation Statement Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Leading Causes of Death. Accessed June 7, 2022. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Million Hearts. Updated March 2022. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Community Guide: physical activity.

  17. AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center Program Research Gaps Summary: Primary Care (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2022 - .............................................................................................. 10 Prevention … • As a prevention strategy to prevent progression to diabetes, studies exploring the use a glucose … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/ptsd-repository-expanded/research 11 Prevention … https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/copd/research 24 Antipsychotics for the Prevention … Interventions • Studies evaluating pharmacologic prevention and treatment strategies in patient groups

  18. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

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    June 01, 2012 - term=20340527 Medical test evaluation studies fall along a continuum related to the study objectives … cost-effectiveness Using Medical Tests The second theme is that medical test evaluation studies tend to fall

  19. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/medical-test-reviews-intro.ppt
    June 01, 2012 - term=20340527 Medical test evaluation studies fall along a continuum related to the study objectives … cost-effectiveness Using Medical Tests The second theme is that medical test evaluation studies tend to fall

  20. Advancing Patient Safety Through State Reporting Systems | PSNet

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    June 01, 2007 - while being cared for in a health care facility Patient death or serious disability associated with a fall … February 25, 2015 Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention
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