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181. Fall Prevention Program Phases | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/implementation-guide/phases.html
     September 01, 2017 - Prepare for the In-Person Training To ensure a successful in-person training, hospital leadership, … Assign all staff roles and responsibilities to prevent falls. … Collect and analyze data to learn about fall rates, fall-related injuries, and causes of falls. … The hospitals involved in the AHRQ pilot initiative experienced a variety of barriers and worked to overcome … other hospitals in your system?  

182. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/factraining.html
     November 01, 2017 - , and preventable hospital and ED visits. … happened when that resident fell or how that pressure ulcer developed, or what event triggered the hospital … In the packet are the following Falls Prevention documents: Falls High-Risk Report Quarterly Summary … , preventable hospital or emergency department visit) and to provide clinical information that clinical … that have occurred for residents with each risk factor included in the Falls High-Risk Report.

183. AHRQ’s Measure Dx Tool: Discover and Learn From Diagnostic Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/831.html
     September 01, 2022 - 5 percent of healthcare spenders in 2019, 36.7 percent of their expenses were for inpatient hospital … AHRQ Grantee Helps Prevent Patient Falls in Hospital and Community Care Settings . … AHRQ Grantee Helps Prevent Patient Falls in Hospital and Community Care Settings It’s Falls Prevention … Dykes evaluated the benefits of a falls prevention toolkit for hospitals and created software that helps … Analysis of hospital-level readmission rates and variation in adverse events among patients with pneumonia

184. What Is Patient Safety Culture? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/sops/about/patient-safety-culture.html
     June 01, 2024 - SOPS surveys have been developed for the following settings of care: Hospitals. Medical Offices. … In addition, survey items are customized for each setting of care. … with more positive SOPS scores had:  Fewer hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and patient falls. 1 Lower … surgical site infection rates. 2 Hospitals with more positive SOPS scores had: Lower rates of in-hospital … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5 Lower risks of resident falls

185. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits - Functional Specifications (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/ontimefallspxspecs.pdf
     February 01, 2018 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits … - Functional Specifications AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital … AHRQ On-Time Falls Prevention The AHRQ On-Time Falls Prevention Reports are listed in the table below … Report Description The Falls High-Risk Report provides a weekly snapshot of residents in a nursing home … Facility, ER, Hospital Admit Facility Facility ER ER Facility Facility PCP Notified?

186. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/resources/resources/PS-tools-2024.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals … Web: ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/ fall-tips Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement … and communicate changes in a resident’s condition and prevent and manage falls. … Hospitals assists hospital staff in implementing effective pressure ulcer prevention practices through … the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals

187. On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/packet.html
     November 01, 2017 - On-Time Falls High-Risk Report Sample Falls High-Risk Report Unit: ______________________________ … Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk Factors by Unit or Facility Sample Quarterly Summary of Falls Risk … Resident Activity at Time of Fall Activity prior to fall: walking; transferring; toileting; in … bed; in chair; other Toileting Toileting Walking Walking Toileting Toileting Potential …       Free text             Where Resident Was Treated Facility, ER, hospital

188. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/pstools/patient-safety-tools-flyer.pdf
     March 01, 2019 - Like similar programs in place in other organizations, CANDOR gives hospitals and health systems the … Web: ahrq.gov/marquis Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care focuses … of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit. … the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals … and communicate changes in a resident’s condition and prevent and manage falls.

189. Final Progress Report: Developing biomechanical models from initiated fall actions and reactions in frail elderly patients (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/morse-merryweather-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - hospital rooms” (R18 HS025606-01). … a hospital room (AHRQ #1R01HS018953). … the low bed had higher risk of falling. … “Decreasing the Frequency of Frail Elderly Patient Falls by Limiting Exposure Risks in Hospital Patient … Robinovitch, S.N., et al., Video capture of the circumstances of falls in elderly people residing in

190. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/pfp/haccost2017-ref.html
     November 01, 2017 - Serious falls in hospitalized patients: correlates and resource utilization. … The economics of preventing hospital falls: demonstrating ROI through a simple model. … In-hospital patient falls after total joint arthroplasty: incidence, demographics, and risk factors in … The direct medical costs of healthcare-associated infections in U.S. hospitals and the benefits of prevention … Toolkit for reducing CAUTI in hospitals.

191. Final Progress Report: Safety in the Home Healthcare Sector: A Pilot Study (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/gershon-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - some ways, much more complicated in HHC compared to hospitals. … healthcare workers in hospitals and have far less co-worker support. … and the rate of falls and fatalities due to falls, in the community and in institutions, is greatest … the home and the rate of falls and fatalities due to falls, in the community and in institutions, is … A National Profile of Patient Safety In U.S. Hospitals. Health Affairs. 2003;22(2):154-166. 22.

192. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014FinalHACreport4Web-13Dec2016.pdf
     December 01, 2016 - hospitals in 2014 as a result of the decline in HACs compared with the number of deaths that would … estimated 17 percent reduction in HACs from 2010 to 2014 indicates that hospitals have made substantial … less frequent at hospitals that have implemented a full EHR. … expanded its efforts in order to extend the success that hospitals have achieved to all health care … MPSMS (2014) In-Hospital Patient Falls 260,000 7.9 Obstetric Adverse Events PSI (2014) OB

193. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results 2014-2017 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/hacreport-2019.pdf
     January 01, 2019 - hospitals. … 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 … 4, 2015, hospitals began using ICD-10 coded data in place of ICD-9 coded data. … Conditions 25 The MPSMS-abstracted sample is representative of hospitals submitting cases to the Hospital

194. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/pstools/patient-safety-tools-flyer-2021update.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals … Hospital Quality and Safety helps hospitals work as partners with patients and families to improve … of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit. … the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit … and communicate changes in a resident’s condition and prevent and manage falls.

195. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Association of hospital-level intensive care unit use and outcomes in older patients with isolated rib … falls. … kit was associated with a significant reduction in falls and related injuries. … hospitals. … Primary outcome after NCS was major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs), defined as in-hospital or

196. Module 2: How To Manage Change—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-2/guide.html
     September 01, 2017 - to other quality improvement efforts in a hospital, such as preventing: Hospital-acquired pressure … Ask: Do you currently assess staff knowledge related to falls? What tools do you currently use? … currently does to prevent falls. … These completed assessments will help you determine what should be changed in your hospital. … You may already have a sense of what needs to change to decrease falls.

197. Table 4. FMP Progression (Text Description) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man4-tabtxt4.html
     December 01, 2017 - "Fall in facility" and the other reads "History of fall at home, hospital, ALF [assisted living facility … Beside Box 1 is another grey box that reads "Falls RAP trigger but no fall in past 180 days." … Falls Intervention Plan" to Box 4, which contains the text, "4. Falls Intervention Monitor." … Update Falls Intervention Plan as needed." An arrow points down from "3. … to revise Falls Intervention Plan and monitor weekly."

198. Module 4: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-4/slides.html
     September 01, 2017 - Slide 1: How To Implement the Fall Prevention Program in Your Organization ADD Hospital Name Here … falls. … Slide 13: Staff Turnover All hospitals experience the challenges of staff turnover. … Tracking care processes to prevent falls is a measure of implementation success, and it should translate … Announcements on the hospital home page. Discussions during staff meetings.

199. First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/893.html
     December 01, 2023 - AHRQ has developed numerous resources to help staff in hospitals, emergency departments, long-term … Chesapeake Regional Healthcare used AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality … decrease in acute care falls from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023, with sustained … The new Compendium data includes a system-level file as well as a hospital file that provides information … on system ownership of hospitals.

200. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention - Facilitator Training: Overview of On-Time (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/ontimefallpxoverview-ig.pdf
     November 06, 2017 - , and preventable hospital and ED visits. … happened when that resident fell or how that pressure ulcer developed, or what event triggered the hospital … In the packet are the following Falls Prevention documents:  Falls High-Risk Report  Quarterly … , preventable hospital or emergency department visit) and to provide clinical information that clinical … o Falls Risk Report provides clinicians with a weekly snapshot of residents in the nursing home at