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

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mcneil-report.pdf
    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. Callahan, L. Gorban, D. McNeill, and B. Yelin 9/30/08-9/29/09 Federal Project Official: Karen Ho Supported by: Agen…

  2. An exploration of the association between inpatient access to tablets and patient satisfaction with hospital care. | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/portals-inpatient-care-evaluating-usability-use-and-patient-experience/citation/exploration
    January 01, 2023 - An exploration of the association between inpatient access to tablets and patient satisfaction with hospital care. Citation Vink S, Fareed N, MacEwan SR, McAlearney AS. An exploration of the association between inpatient access to tablets and patient satisfaction with hospital care. Perspect Health In…

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38832/psn-pdf
    August 12, 2009 - effects-rounding-patient-satisfaction-and-patient-safety-medical-surgical-unit Implementing an hourly rounding protocol by nurses resulted in a reduction in falls … effects-rounding-patient-satisfaction-and-patient-safety-medical-surgical-unit https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medicare-nonpayment-hospital-falls-and-unintended-consequences

  4. In Conversation with...Richard Ricciardi about Office-Based Patient Safety | PSNet

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    January 31, 2024 - But challenges in office-based care settings, such as falls, diagnostic issues, and complications related … events in ambulatory care fall into four main categories: diagnostic testing errors, medication events, falls … and may be approached in similar ways in both acute and office-based settings, for example patient falls … strategy of incorporating individualized fall risk screening to identify patients most at risk for falling

  5. Ectopic or Not? | PSNet

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    March 27, 2024 - A rapidly falling hCG level could indicate a failed intrauterine pregnancy, a completed abortion, or … At our institution, a third level is obtained 48 hours after the second to confirm continued falling

  6. Drug errors are dangerous but preventable. | PSNet

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    March 27, 2024 - January 27, 2010 How to avoid falling victim to a hospital mistake.

  7. Statistical Brief #96: Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations among Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles, 2008 (pdf file)

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    September 01, 2010 - However, elderly patients ages 85 and over accounted for one-third of stays for injurious falls and … eligibles was nearly 2 to 4 times the rate of stays for non-dual eligibles, except for injurious falls … For other Medicare beneficiaries, it was injurious falls (1,109 stays per 100,000 enrollees). … Only the rate of stays for injurious falls was higher among non-dual eligible beneficiaries compared … However, women comprised more than three-quarters of stays for injurious falls (78 percent), asthma

  8. Deaths Not Foretold: Are Unexpected Deaths Useful Patient Safety Signals? | PSNet

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    March 01, 2004 - my judgment, based on the information presented, I would characterize the case presented here as falling … Reviewing deaths in low-mortality DRGs falls within the norm of clinical practice insofar as it is a … per 100 medical and surgical discharges Postoperative hip fracture Fractured hip from falls

  9. Training Catalog | PSNet

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    June 01, 2025 - No Weblink: https://esaic.org/patient-safety/safer-care-to-save-lives/ CAPTURE Falls … (Collaboration And Proactive Teamwork Used to Reduce Falls) Program Save to Library

  10. In Conversation With... Dr. Michelle Schreiber on Measuring Patient Safety | PSNet

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    December 14, 2022 - gains made in the past 10 years—improvements in healthcare-acquired infections, decreases in patient falls … Falls and pressure ulcers also went up – in skilled nursing facilities, we saw rates of falls causing … including healthcare-acquired infections, complications, medication safety, safety of the EMR, patient falls … publication and the introduction of PSIs, such as reducing healthcare-acquired infections, decreasing patient falls … adverse events increased with a 40% rise in healthcare-acquired infections and an increase in inpatient falls

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38048/psn-pdf
    October 03, 2017 - when the last report was published -- were advanced pressure ulcers, retained foreign objects, and falls … psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/wrong-site-wrong-procedure-and-wrong-patient-surgery https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls

  12. Statistical Brief #156

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    May 01, 2013 - ED visits for injury are described based on the external cause of injury (e.g., falls, transport related … For example, over 70 percent of ED visits among persons aged 65 years and older were related to falls … The most common cause was falls (35.7 percent), followed by being struck by an object (18.3 percent) … Although falls were the most common type of injury that resulted in an ED visit for all age groups, falls … The NEDS includes 11 data elements that identify the cause of the injury: cutting, drowning, falling,

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45289/psn-pdf
    May 03, 2017 - physicians, nurses, and pharmacists to rate the severity of harm for specific adverse events including falls … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-harm-health-care-optimizing-adverse-event-review https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45011/psn-pdf
    May 25, 2016 - organizations and how to apply them in health care settings to address various concerns such as patient falls … becoming-high-reliability-organization-operational-advice-hospital-leaders https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-falls-and-fall-related-injuries-health-care-facilities

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46451/psn-pdf
    September 27, 2017 - The toolkit focuses on six areas of safety: infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries … prevention-design-construction-and-renovation-health-care-facilities-patient-safety-and https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41985/psn-pdf
    October 26, 2016 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/serious-reportable-events-healthcare-2011-update https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-falls-and-fall-related-injuries-health-care-facilities … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-falls-and-fall-related-injuries-health-care-facilities

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46460/psn-pdf
    January 17, 2018 - randomized trials, there is a consistent association between safety culture and patient outcomes such as falls … association-between-organisational-and-workplace-cultures-and-patient-outcomes-systematic https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/culture-safety https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47574/psn-pdf
    November 21, 2018 - This narrative review examines how care facility design can reduce health care–associated infections, falls … understanding-role-facility-design-acquisition-and-prevention-healthcare-associated https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44872/psn-pdf
    February 12, 2016 - and explores specific areas of focus to reduce harm such as hospital-acquired infections, patient falls … partnership-patients https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/partnership-patients https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-falls-and-fall-related-injuries-health-care-facilities

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46270/psn-pdf
    April 16, 2018 - impact-restraint-management-bundle-restraint-use-intensive-care-unit Although physical restraints may be used to protect patients in intensive care units from falls … patient-safety-culture-and-association-safe-resident-care-nursing-homes https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/falls
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