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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/index.html
September 01, 2021 - Featured
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Emergency Department
Long Term Care
Resources … represent a patient safety problem, and they can be a signal that the resident is at increased risk for falling … employ to improve patient safety, create a more resident-centered environment, and reduce the number of falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sops/about/patient-safety-culture.html
March 01, 2022 - SOPS surveys have been developed for the following settings of care:
Hospitals. … 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 … rates of in-hospital complications or adverse events as measured by AHRQ’s patient safety indicators … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5
Lower risks of resident falls
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www.cahps.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.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/putoolkit_module5_tools.docx
August 02, 2017 - Completion Date for Plan
Fall Rates (e.g., falls per 1,000 occupied bed days) are calculated … Determine whether each abnormally scored dimension of the standardized risk assessment is addressed in … the percentage of abnormally scored dimensions of the standardized risk assessment that are addressed in
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/index.html
April 01, 2024 - Featured
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Hospitals … 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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallpxreports.pptx
October 01, 2017 - of facility residents at highest risk of falling
Enables staff to be more proactive, consistent, and … Report
How many residents triggered for highest risk of falling? … information about activities of daily living
Included in the Falls High-Risk Report but not used in … and percentage of falls that have occurred for residents with each risk factor included in the Falls … None None None
Other
Free text
Where Resident Was Treated Facility, ER, hospital
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/ontimefallpxreports-ig.pdf
November 09, 2017 - to Falls Prevention
Reports
SAY:
In this session we will introduce you to the On-Time Falls … The Falls High-Risk Report provides a weekly snapshot of
residents in a nursing home at highest risk … In addition, it can be run for just
injurious falls if desired rather than including all falls. … The system computes the number
of residents who had at least two falls in the report period. … Treated
Facility, ER, hospital admit Facility Facility ER ER Facility Facility
PCP
Notified?
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/updatedhacrateinfo.pdf
June 01, 2014 - methods used to compute
this data are identical to those used to compute the 2010 baseline, as described in … The data for 2011 and 2012 are shown in Table 1 below. … 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 … in
Vaginal Delivery With
(PSI 18) and Without
Instrument (PSI 19)
82,000 2.51 77,000 2.36
Pressure
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=484
January 01, 2024 - Discharge
(220)
Hospitalization
(534)
Hospital Readmissions
(323)
Hospitals
(757)
Human … can successfully prevent falls. … Keywords: Adverse Events, Falls, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Prevention
Braithwaite S , Friedman … Microsimulation was used to assess the financial impact on hospitals of a surge in influenza admissions … The analysis revealed that in the matched cohort, in-hospital and 30-day postdischarge mortality rates
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/qualityindicators.html
July 01, 2018 - Mission
The Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that use readily available hospital … Currently, the AHRQ Quality Indicators are only for use with administrative data in acute care hospitals … diagnostic centers) or populations (e.g., mental health or substance abuse, emergency preparedness, patient falls … The AHRQ QIs are used in free software distributed by AHRQ. … The software programs can be applied to any hospital inpatient administrative data.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/spread/spreadnotes.docx
August 28, 2012 - Once hospital leaders are on board, they should appoint a senior executive to the CUSP team to ensure … 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, if a hospital wants to spread a new process for patient identification, it can test the … For example, for a falls prevention program, quantitative measures to evaluate can include the falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/liability/pichert.html
August 01, 2017 - CPPA currently partners with more than 140 hospitals nationally to implement PARS, resulting in a national … 100+ year histories centered in Sioux Falls, SD (hereafter "SHS South") and Fargo, ND (hereafter "SHS … SHS is one of the largest health systems in the Nation with 43 hospitals and nearly 250 clinics in nine … Sanford Health Medical Center Sites in the North (Fargo, Bismarck) and South (Sioux Falls, Bemidji) Regions … Region, Sioux Falls, SD.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/qsrs/index.html
September 01, 2022 - U.S. hospitals. … the magnitude of adverse events among hospital patients covered by Medicare and to create a baseline … Transferred to AHRQ in 2009, MPSMS is now in its 15th year. … frequently occurring events, e.g., not just fall rates over a given time, but also the percentage of falls … hospitals.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2013.html
January 01, 2018 - Some HACs have declined dramatically in the Nation's hospitals. … these hospitals engaged in achieving the aims throughout 2012, 2013, and 2014. … software tool, to determine whether any of 21 types of adverse events—such as adverse drug events, falls … abstracts from 994 acute care hospitals across 28 States in 2000. … patients died in hospitals as a result of the decline in HACs compared to the number of deaths that
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_PFE_Benefits_Hosp_508.docx
January 01, 2012 - Information to Help Hospitals Get Started
How Patient and Family Engagement
Benefits Your Hospital
Information … In a pilot implementation project, hospitals that implemented the strategies in the Guide observed improved … medication errors, a 40 percent reduction in falls, and a 50 percent decrease in length of stay.4
Improved … care processes.9 When patients and families remain disengaged, hospitals waste resources in the form … of preventable readmissions.18
Enhanced hospital market share and competitiveness
For many hospitals
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
July 01, 2023 - Featured
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Hospitals … government agencies about practices that can improve patient safety across the healthcare system—from hospitals … Harms such as adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and obstetric adverse events … safety practices in selected harm areas.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/index.html
November 01, 2021 - Featured
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Patient Safety Research Summaries
Patient Safety Resources by Setting
Hospital … Hospital Labor and Delivery Units
Emergency Department
Long Term Care
Resources … Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention
End of Life Care
Home and Community-based Services
Falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/in-action/index.html
March 01, 2021 - Featured
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Hospitals … Advancing Heart Health
Origin
Cooperatives
EvidenceNOW Stories
EvidenceNOW in … (Asheville, NC)
New Ideas Lead to Big Changes in Care
"The practice is constantly developing … Steven Brantley (Klamath Falls, OR)
Using Data To Tackle Undiagnosed Hypertension and Improve
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/multiple/index.html
August 01, 2023 - SHARE:
More topics in … /hospital
Hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery centers
Web: ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance … /oas
In-center hemodialysis facilities
Web: ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/ich
Nursing homes … the hospital and other healthcare environments. … The toolkit addresses approaches to desgin tat target six areas of safety: infections, falls, medication
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/index.html
November 01, 2017 - Featured
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Hospitals … Hospital Labor and Delivery Units
Emergency Department
Long Term Care
Resources … Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits . … Falls Prevention
For each topic, the Web site provides a description of the reports and suggested meetings