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61. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Hospitals Training Program to support the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Falls … Preventing Falls in Hospitals Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United … Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented.

62. Four New York Providers Use AHRQ Medication Reconciliation Toolkit to Improve Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls, New York, entered the collaborative with a "One Source of Truth … Nancy Huntington, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy, reported, "It is Glens Falls' intent to actively use

63. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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    August 24, 2017 - ASK: Do you currently assess staff knowledge related to falls? What tools do you currently use? … current policies and practices, you have an understanding of what your hospital currently does to prevent falls … You may already have a sense of what needs to change to decrease falls.

64. Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2019 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - Falls were divided into two groups: Falls known to have been Assisted, and Falls considered Unassisted … , which includes both Falls known to be Unassisted and Falls where it is Unknown whether assistance … The frequency of Falls considered Unassisted (19,460 / 23,904; 81.4%) was higher than that of Falls … Falls were divided into two groups: Falls known to have been Assisted, and Falls considered Unassisted … , which includes both Falls known to be Unassisted and Falls where it is Unknown whether assistance

65. 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 (pdf file)
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    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.

66. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

67. Health Care Facility Design Safety Risk Assessment Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

68. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

69. National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Health Care Safer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

70. Tennessee Hospital Association Uses AHRQ Tools To Boost Patient Safety, Saving $17 Million | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Injuries from falls and immobility. Obstetrical adverse events. Pressure ulcers. … Improvements in 2014 resulted in an estimated 45 percent reduction in pressure ulcers, 24 percent reduction in falls

71. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

72. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

73. What Is Patient Safety Culture? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

74. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

75. Assessing the Impact of Value-Based Purchasing Programs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

76. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Teamwork and Leadership (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - : Collaboration and Proactive Teamwork Used To Reduce Falls 2012-2014 $599,990 Purpose: To implement … ensure accountability, and communicated with staff regarding actions taken as a result of reported falls … • The repeat fall rate within a hospital was negatively associated with the percentage of falls that … • Over a 2-year period, 353 falls were reported; 32 percent of the falls were injurious and 75 percent … Identifying a gait belt as an intervention decreases the odds of patients falling unassisted.

77. Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

78. F | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Information in Spanish Topics Browse A - Z F Fact Sheets Falls

79. Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2023 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - Six types of safety events (i.e., Blood or Blood Products, Falls, Device or Medical/Surgical Supply … Over one half of Falls occurred in Inpatient care areas (51.5%; 92,861 / 180,345). … 6.6%; 11,955 / 180,345), and Outpatient care areas (6.4%; 11,592 / 180,345) were also a source of falls … Other was the second most common reported location for falls (23.6%; 42,514 / 180,345). … Environmental factors were minor contributors for events, except for Falls (11.2%; 1,274 / 11,399)

80. Overview of Emergency Department Visits Related to Injuries, by Cause of Injury, 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - to Injuries, by Cause of Injury, 2017 Injuries are common and can have many causes, such as falls