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1. Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - include falls, pressure ulcers, infection, including hospital acquired infection (HAI) and urinary tract … Hospital Safety Interventions Potentially Relevant to NH Hospitals serve many patients who are at risk … Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals. … Balance training reduces fear of falling and improves dynamic balance and isometric strength in institutionalised … Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitals.

2. Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings (pdf file)
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   July 22, 2015 - , include falls, pressure ulcers, infection, including hospital acquired infection (HAI) and urinary … Home Compare Quality Indicators.10 These include: falls, pressure ulcers, infection, including hospital … Hospital Safety Interventions Potentially Relevant to NH Hospitals serve many patients who are at risk … Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals. … Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitals.

3. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Patient and Family Engagement (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2023 - injury and 11,000 in deaths.27 Falls are the most common adverse event in hospital settings28, 29 … its Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit.41 Readmission rates and hospital length of stay are both … in more than 100 hospitals and continues to spread.56 Interested hospitals have free access to the … Preventing Falls in Hospitals. … Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

4. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response_Deprescribing To Reduce Medication Harms in Older Adults (pdf file)
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   February 01, 2024 - In last year of life • decreased number of medications and PIMs • no difference in falls … clinical trial Acute care hospital and post- acute care Age ≥50 years with ≥5 pre- hospital … Following Hospital Discharge. … The effects of in-hospital deprescribing on potential prescribing omission in hospitalized elderly patients … Rates of Inappropriate Dosing in Older Adults at an Urban, Academic Hospital.

5. CER 215 Executive Summary: Adverse Effects of Pharmacologic Treatments of Major Depression in Older Adults (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2019 - • Duloxetine most likely increases the risk of falls over longer treatment (<24 weeks) • Adverse events … (SSRIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in older adults with a history of falls or fractures.3 … citalopram (++)20 Inconclusive: falls, fractures, mortality No data SSRI vs. … Comparison of treatment persistence, hospital utilization and costs among major depressive disorder … Assessment of falls in older patients treated with duloxetine: a secondary analysis of a 24-week randomized

6. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Patient and Family Engagement | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   June 01, 2024 - : patient and family engagement as a part of multicomponent interventions targeting patient falls, and … : Fall Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety program, Partnering with the Patient falls program, … reduction in falls. … The patient and family engagement PSP was associated with decreased hospital length of stay in two of … usual care in one study.

7. Resident Safety Practices in Nursing Home Settings | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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   December 01, 2019 - the nursing home setting, applicability of hospital-based safety interventions to the nursing home, … defined by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Common Format criteria are adverse events such as falls … Little evidence suggests that hospitals have significantly improved safety in many domains that are important … of nursing home residents, whose vulnerability and complexity make them markedly different from most hospital … from that of hospitals.

8. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2009 - topic, including populations, interventions, comparators, and outcomes, will be further developed in … The nominator is interested in children, adolescents, and adults with sustained cognitive, physical … The most common causes of TBI include motor vehicle accidents, falls, assaults, gunshot wounds, and … function to produce catastrophic changes in a person’s social system. … dependence, social isolation, divorce, and various forms of incarceration such as prisons or state hospitals

9. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 27 Patient Safety (pdf file)
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   October 19, 2016 - APhA members provide care in all practice settings, including community pharmacies, hospitals, long-term … the in hospital safety practices to primary care in ways that made sense The need for a safety outcome … Excluding in facility falls could easily become preventing in home falls but this does not seem to … Falls were explicitly considered and were not included in the list of PSPs to be covered in this technical … Cluttered environments, torn carpets, uneven flooring, exam table injuries (e.g., patients falling off

10. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Nursing Staff Shortages | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2024 - adverse events like medication errors, falls, and increased mortality. … , hospital-acquired pressure injuries, readmissions, and an increase in critical incidents. 6 Adequate … departments Not in acute care hospital setting Intervention Strategies/protocols to manage patient care … a panel of hospitals. … Temporary Staffing and Patient Death in Acute Care Hospitals: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study.

11. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 24 Resident Safety Practices (pdf file)
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    May 27, 2016 - increase the risk of falling, for example. … hospitals. … Peer reviewer #5 Findings GQ1c—The discussion of falls is limited to the hospital and does not relate … We did not find evidence of falls interventions that were developed in the hospital being translated … in longterm care facilities than hospitals.

12. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2024 - , hospital-acquired pressure injuries, readmissions, and an increase in critical incidents.6 Adequate … acute care hospital settings, including hospital wards, intensive care units, operating rooms, and … emergency departments Not in acute care hospital setting Intervention Strategies/protocols to manage … a panel of hospitals. … Temporary Staffing and Patient Death in Acute Care Hospitals: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study.

13. #14 SUBSTANCE ABUSE (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 - The organization collaborates closely with CCNC, the North Carolina Hospital Association, local hospitals … Moravian Falls (NC): Project Lazarus [accessed 2013 Jul 2]. [1 p]. … Moravian Falls (NC): Project Lazarus [accessed 2013 Jul 2]. [1 p]. … Moravian Falls (NC): Project Lazarus [accessed 2013 Nov 13]. [1 p]. … Moravian Falls (NC): Project Lazarus [accessed 2013 Jul 2]. [1 p].

14. Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    October 01, 2024 - hospitals and nursing homes and that included clinical outcomes of infection or colonization with MDROs … The protocol for the review has been registered in PROSPERO (CRD42023444973). Findings. … Universal gloving showed a small benefit in the intensive care unit. … and may be associated with mental health and noninfectious (e.g., falls and pressure ulcers) adverse … Protocol Nov 25, 2024 Making Healthcare Safer IV: Interventions to Prevent Nonventilator Hospital-acquired

15. Hip-Fracture-Pain Consumer (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2011 - Yes, if: � You or the person you care for is an older adult (more than 50 years old) who is in a hospital … No, if: � You or the person you care for is in the hospital for anything other than a broken hip … Where does the information in this guide come from? … In older adults, a broken hip can occur from falling or from daily use if the femur is weak. … different before and after an operation, during rehabilitation, and after you come home from the hospital

16. Standardized Library of Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Measures (pdf file)
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    November 15, 2018 - It is also not feasible in most cases to determine if a specific complication prolonged a hospital stay … criteria for a major bleed but prompts a clinical response such that it leads to one of the following: hospital … Development of pathological Q waves in the ECG. … percentile URL) or a rise of cTn values >20% if the baseline values are elevated and are stable or falling … Definition of major bleeding in clinical investigations of antihemostatic medicinal products in non

17. In patients with dementia, what is the effectiveness of psychological treatment (i.e., non-pharmacological; e.g., cognitive or behavioral therapy for individuals with dementia; environmental and behavioral interventions to address… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2017 - Describe the health-related benefits you are interested in. … /or improvement in function; Reduction in adverse events, falls, hospitalizations, infection; Improved … Falls, hospitalizations and excess disability related to absence of behavioral and environmental supports … (For example, variations in clinical care, controversy in what constitutes appropriate clinical care, … Describe the timeframe in which an answer to your question is needed.

18. Managing Pain From a Broken Hip | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    November 01, 2020 - Yes, if: You or the person you care for is an older adult (more than 50 years old) who is in a hospital … No, if: You or the person you care for is in the hospital for anything other than a broken hip or … Where does the information in this guide come from? … In older adults, a broken hip can occur from falling or from daily use if the femur is weak. … be different before and after an operation, during rehabilitation, and after you come home from the hospital

19. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings on Patient Safety Practices and Ratings by a Technical Expert Panel, 2023-2024 | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2024 - pre-hospital, ED, ICU, and hospital ward settings. … adults in pre-hospital, ED, or hospital-wide settings. … Most studies found no reduction in falls, but a systematic review reported that half of the included … studies reduced falls. … Adverse Events in Hospitals: A Quarter of Medicare Patients Experienced Harm in October 2018. U.S.

20. Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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    December 01, 2019 - type and quantity Mental status Health-related quality of life Quality of sleep in the hospital … either sex who are diagnosed as having an acute hip fracture resulting from low energy trauma (e.g., slip … and fall) will be included. … use, the ability to participate in rehabilitation, the quality of sleep in hospital, and length of stay … The prognosis of falls in elderly people living at home. Age Ageing 1999 Mar;28(2):121-5.