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4721. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 29, 2021 - In the previous 365 days, she had spent 199 days hospitalized (54% of the year) at one hospital. … patient between settings, services, practitioners or levels of care.7 Settings of care may include hospitals … The data in PDMPs are state-specific and various settings/organizations in addition to hospitals, such … 1.5:1 to 2:1 based on a recent literature review.11-13 MD Anderson and University of North Carolina Hospitals … National Patient Safety Goals® Effective January 2021 for the Hospital Program.

4722. Delayed Recognition of a Positive Blood Culture | PSNet
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      January 29, 2020 - A later review revealed that the hospital microbiology laboratory was aware of the microbiology result … Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood cultures within the hospital setting. … Empirical antimicrobial prescriptions in patients with Clostridium difficile infection at hospital … Patient safety concerns arising from test results that return after hospital discharge. … Stopped Here June 1, 2004 View More See More About The Topic Hospitals

4723. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/IAWG-October2024-mtg.pdf
      January 17, 2025 - This video will also be used in CDC infection control and prevention training programs for rural hospitals … on the successful models of Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship and Hospital Sepsis Program Core … /index.html 4 Agency Updates Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence (DxEx). … https://www.cdc.gov/patient-safety/hcp/hospital-dx-excellence/index.html https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov … • Recent JAMA paper on examples across Hospital Corp. of America(HCA)/Inspire stories about using

4724. Advancing Patient Safety Through State Reporting Systems | PSNet
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      June 01, 2007 - and extract lessons that may have broader applicability for release in a hospital alert. … Hospitals were expected to develop and implement procedures based on the report. … relation to length of stay and total charges; compare indicator trends for a hospital with hospitals … in its peer group, a hospital corporate system, and aggregate state data; and stratify results by sociodemographic … February 25, 2015 Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention

4725. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 22, 2009 - Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: You work in a county hospital with underserved populations, which … at public hospitals. … The reality in public hospitals is that our systems are not terribly well designed to consistently give … Most of the initial work in patient safety was in hospitals. … In the pursuit of maximizing quality, though, particularly in the public hospital context, we may be

4726. Nursingnotes (doc file)
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      June 02, 2025 - The hospital unit has numerous customers, and each has its unique needs and care delivery requirements … Local governments Local governments take an active interest in the quality of care their local hospital … Regulating agencies and insurance companies mandate that hospitals provide evidence-based clinical practices … Slide 15 SAY: Hospitals, as businesses, employ frameworks to increase efficiency and quality of care … Having an integral role in unit-based activities at their hospital, · Serving as leaders and managers

4727. Microsoft Word - CaseforPOAIndicator_final_060806 _2_.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2006 - Generally, a QI as a measure of an event that occurs in a hospital requires a numerator count of the … AHA as “non-Federal, short-term, general, and other specialty hospitals, excluding hospital units of … in the hospital had no information on the race of the patient, all of the discharges in the hospital … had race coded as white, other, or missing, or 100% of the discharges in the hospital had race coded … fracture for adults per 1000 surgical patients age 18 years and older who were not susceptible to falling

4728. Disposition of Comments_Technical Brief No. 40: Interventions To Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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      September 20, 2021 - One key point is that raw/actual LOS is decreasingly the focus of hospitals. … Our Key Informants agreed that LOS metrics that provide a standardized comparison amongst hospitals … identify and synthesize current knowledge and emerging concepts regarding systematic strategies that hospitals … Presumably the patient level factors that drive prolonged length of hospital stay in patients with multi … LOS is a hospital-centric measure and may not have as large of a role in a total cost of care/population

4729. Introduction to the NEDS (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2024 - • For hospital confidentiality purposes, if there are less than two hospitals in a stratum, trauma … in the United States reported by hospitals via survey. … in the universe of the State’s hospitals. … by drowning or submersion I10_INJURY_FALL External cause of morbidity codes indicating injury by falling … : (0) no injury by falling, (1) injury by falling I10_INJURY_FIRE External cause of morbidity codes

4730. Knowledge Engineering for Decision Support in Osteoporosis - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2015 - malabsorption, and symptoms concerning nutrition, metabolism, and development c Fall risk includes history of falls … the US,33 as well as Ettinger’s updates to Melton’s numbers, based on 2006 hospital discharge data … in 11 studies, non-­‐vertebral fractures in 27 studies, and hip fractures in 10 studies. … 27 primary care and specialty clinicians at Salt Lake City VA, Richmond VA, and University of Utah Hospitals … We analyzed data in the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics to determine whether this type of

4731. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SAMPLE (NEDS), 2019
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      January 01, 2019 - For hospital confidentiality purposes, trauma hospitals were grouped together in the HCUP data element … in the United States reported by hospitals via survey. … in the universe of the State's hospitals.   … drowning or submersion I10_INJURY_FALL External cause of morbidity codes indicating injury by falling … : (0) no injury by falling, (1) injury by falling I10_INJURY_FIRE External cause of morbidity

4732. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2005 - in the 2002 SID because the completeness of reporting for rehabilitation hospitals was inconsistent … in the hospital had no information on the race of the patient, all of the discharges in the hospital … hospitals. … fracture for adults per 1000 surgical patients age 18 years and older who were not susceptible to falling … AHRQ Quality Indicators—Guide to Inpatient Quality Indicators: Quality of Care in Hospitals—Volume,

4733. Patient Safety: A Perspective from Office Practice | PSNet
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      May 01, 2009 - Hospital Transport?) … were complications at the hospital, the profit margin for the hospital was reduced but not eliminated … WW : That will provide a nice incentive for hospitals to address the issue. … So think of yourself managing a hospital, and people from Dartmouth come in and say, "You need to reduce … Where do you see the translation falling short?

4734. Section 4: Selecting Care Management Interventions (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Interventions vary across diseases in overall efficacy and in their ability to impact particular outcomes … In-person care management . … Intervention Costs Interventions vary in cost as well as in efficacy and speed. … Station care managers in safety-net hospitals during peak Medicaid use times. … Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much. Feeling tired or having little energy.

4735. Building Systems Citizenship in Health Professions Education: The Continued Call for Health Systems Science Curricula | PSNet
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      February 01, 2019 - some areas such as hospital-acquired infections.( 3,4 ) However, the magnitude of improvement has not … of these patient safety concerns, many studies have suggested the United States health care system falls … in the curriculum. … Things do have to be removed in order to put new material in. … RW : Our main academic hospital becomes more tertiary and quaternary every day, and we're partnering

4736. STATISTICAL BRIEF #229: National Health Care Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2006
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      December 01, 2008 - In 2006, hospital inpatient expenses and office-based/hospital outpatient ambulatory care services each … expenses for ambulatory care in office and hospital outpatient settings comprised the largest share … Health care expenses, as reported in this brief, represent payments to hospitals, physicians, and other … Findings In 2006, there was an estimated total of $1.03 trillion paid for hospital inpatient and … Definitions Expenditures Expenditures included the total direct payments from all sources to hospitals

4737. In Conversation With….Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc and Kristin Tully, PhD | PSNet
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      October 06, 2021 - what’s normal and who to ask if she's not sure, and that she feels like she’d want to come back to the hospital … go home and have a headache and have high blood pressure and say, “Well I’m not going back to that hospital … Right as you’re preparing to the leave the hospital, there is so much new information to be aware of, … The hospital is not the place for new things, it’s for tailoring and for going in-depth and for processing … For example, systematically examining the process of care from the patient’s entry point into the hospital

4738. Safety in the Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Setting | PSNet
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      May 01, 2019 - the US.( 2 ) Because of these features, EMS serves as the gateway into hospitals for millions with acute … A comparative assessment of adverse event classification in the out-of-hospital setting. … only have 12 minutes between the time you pick them up and get to the hospital to make a difference. … If they walk in the home, just start applying electricity to the chest, take the patient to the hospital … the hospital so that there is a two-way dataflow.

4739. Health Equity and Maternal Health | PSNet
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      October 06, 2021 - provision of equitable care from the outset and offers new insights into traditional outcomes such as hospital … go home and have a headache and have high blood pressure and say, “Well I’m not going back to that hospital … Right as you’re preparing to the leave the hospital, there is so much new information to be aware of, … The hospital is not the place for new things, it’s for tailoring and for going in-depth and for processing … For example, systematically examining the process of care from the patient’s entry point into the hospital

4740. Minding the Gaps: Creating Resilience in Health Care (pdf file)
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      April 27, 2008 - EDs are well-defined physical units in hospitals. … the hospital. … when they perform even the simplest tasks.46 Most infusions in U.S. hospitals are now provided by infusion … Critical access hospital and hospital national patient safety goals: 2E. … Hazards in hospital care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1987. p. 3-4. 28. Wreathall J.