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monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/hcbs-webcast-051623-intro.pdf
May 18, 2023 - Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), Baltimore, MD
• Kathleen Woodward, M.S.P.H., The Lewin Group, Falls
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September 01, 2023 - Date Published: June 2016
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in Hospitals … Date Published: January 2013
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in
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September 01, 2023 - Date Published: June 2016
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in Hospitals … Date Published: January 2013
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/hacrate2013_0.pdf
October 01, 2015 - Reduction of falls-related injuries using a hospital inpatient falls
prevention program. … Evidence-based practice: a falls prevention program that continues to work. … Medicare nonpayment, hospital falls, and unintended consequences. … Preventing falls and eliminating injury at Ascension Health. … VHA’s national falls collaborative and prevention programs.
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/Updated-hacreportFInal2017data.pdf
July 01, 2020 - adverse drug events, and injuries due to procedures,
as well as pressure ulcers/pressure injuries and falls … Line-Associated Bloodstream
Infections
8,500 0.3
Clostridioides difficile Infections 86,000 2.9
Falls … -9,000 -433,000,000 -1,350
Clostridioides
Infections
difficile -54,000 -932,000,000 -2,380
Falls … MPSMS In-Hospital Patient Falls
Obstetric
Adverse
Events
PSI OB Trauma in Vaginal Delivery
(PSI … MPSMS In-Hospital
Patient Falls
239,286 8.04 225,199 7.57 223,106 7.50 226,642 7.62
Obstetric
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September 01, 2021 - Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities is an interdisciplinary … facilities to help them detect and communicate changes in a resident's condition and prevent and manage falls
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/safety-assess.html
October 01, 2020 - health care facilities can minimize such safety problems as health care-associated infections, patient falls … The toolkit:
Targets six areas of safety—infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of
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June 01, 2014 - 32,750,000
Discharges—
Based on 2010
Baseline)
2012 PFP
Measured
HACs per
1,000
Discharge
s
Falls … MPSMS In-Hospital Patient
Falls
260,000 7.80 230,000 7.16
Obstetric
Adverse
Events
PSI OB Trauma
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/2015-interim.html
December 01, 2016 - resources to help hospitals and other providers prevent HACs, such as infections, pressure ulcers, and falls … MPSMS (2015)
Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
1,700
0.05
Falls … MPSMS (2015)
In-Hospital Patient Falls
220,000
6.7
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI (2014) … Bloodstream Infections
40,000
50%
50%
25%
10,000
$17,000
.185
$170,000,000
1,850
Falls … [7] The AHRQ-developed pressure ulcer toolkit and falls toolkit are online.
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April 01, 2024 - More >>
Reducing Patient Falls with Evidence-based Tools
Patricia Dykes, Ph.D., R.N. … Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “Patient falls can result in traumatic and costly outcomes. … With AHRQ funding, I’ve been able to provide hospitals and primary care practices with falls prevention
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/makinghcsafer.html
June 01, 2022 - Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. … Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care focuses on overcoming the challenges … The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities presents an interdisciplinary … represent a patient safety problem, and they can be a signal that the resident is at increased risk for falling … condition, Module Two addresses communicating changes in a resident's condition, and Module Three Addresses Falls
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/hacreport-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - adverse drug events, and injuries due to
procedures, as well as pressure ulcers/pressure injuries and falls … Line-Associated Bloodstream
Infections
8500 0.3
Clostridioides difficile Infections 86,000 2.9
Falls … 9,000 -$420,000,000 -1,300
Clostridioides difficile
Infections
-54,000 -$920,000,000 -2,400
Falls … MPSMS In-Hospital Patient Falls
Obstetric
Adverse
Events
PSI OB Trauma in Vaginal Delivery
(PSI … MPSMS In-Hospital
Patient Falls
239,286 8.04 225,199 7.57 223,106 7.50 226,642 7.62
Obstetric
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/sops/about/patient-safety-culture.html
March 01, 2022 - Hospital units with more positive SOPS scores had:
Fewer hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and patient falls … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5
Lower risks of resident falls
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/2014-final.html
January 01, 2018 - CLABSIs
MPSMS (2014)
Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
5,000
0.2
Falls … MPSMS (2014)
In-Hospital Patient Falls
260,000
7.9
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI (2014) … Bloodstream Infections
18,000
5,000
13,000
72%
$221,000,000
2,405
Falls … 50%
50%
25%
10,000
$17,000
.185
$170,000,000
1,850
Falls … 1,040,500
NA
NA
$9,141,150,000
35,647
* Additional costs per HAC for Falls
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2011-12.html
January 01, 2018 - Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
17,000
0.52
17,000
0.51
Falls … MPSMS
In-Hospital Patient Falls
260,000
7.80
230,000
7.16
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI
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March 30, 2024 - Information in Spanish
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Fact Sheets Falls
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August 28, 2012 - For example, if a hospital is engaged in an organization-wide improvement initiative to decrease falls … Having the Newborn Critical Care Center complete a falls risk assessment for each patient for each shift … For example, for a falls prevention program, quantitative measures to evaluate can include the falls
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February 01, 2022 - catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), central-line bloodstream infections, (CLABSI) falls … change dropped by 11 percent for CAUTI and 10 percent for CLABSI but remained essentially the same for falls
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monahrq.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017.html
November 01, 2017 - Falls.
Obstetric Adverse Events.
Pressure Ulcers.
Surgical Site Infections. … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
Falls … )
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
Falls … Beginning in 2008, CMS identified the HACs (e.g., CAUTI, falls and trauma, surgical site infection) for … Falls
Fall during an inpatient admission, with or without injury, whether or not fall was assisted.
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December 01, 2012 - For example, if a hospital is engaged in an organization-wide improvement initiative to decrease falls … Having the Newborn Critical Care Center complete a falls risk assessment for each patient for each shift … For example, for a falls prevention program, quantitative measures to evaluate can include the falls