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5161. Challenges to Real-Time Decision Support in Health Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2007 - (TR & R) Project at The Alfred Hospital and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia … the field and in hospitals during resuscitation and during the intensive care management of trauma … Author Affiliations Emergency & Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (Dr. … Address correspondence to: Mark Fitzgerald, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004 … Hypotensive resuscitation during active hemorrhage: Impact on in- hospital mortality.

5162. Common Cause Analysis: Focus on Institutional Change (pdf file)
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      January 20, 2008 - Teets, MSN, CRNP, RN; Annette Bollig, MSN, RN; James Steven, MD, SM Abstract The Children’s Hospital … or worse yet, the action produced unintended negative consequences. 1 At The Children’s Hospital … For example, if it is determined that the hospital formulary does not clearly specify dosing information … aggregate RCA findings to improve patient safety by focusing on one topic at a time, including patient falls … , Address correspondence to: Anne Marie Browne MSN, RN, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

5163. Final Progress report: Creating High Reliability Organizations (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - in the US News and World Report Honor Roll, a group of approximately 15 hospitals. … regional, national, and AHRQ communities by building collaborations with the University of Chicago Hospitals … the hospital/institution versus the broader outpatient community, and individual differences in communication … Presented, University of Chicago Hospitals First Annual Quality Fair (peer reviewed), October 2005 … clinical microsystems National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions Orlando

5164. Santa_ECCS2012 (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2013 - Context • Consumers choose/purchase services or products in a market setting. • Market  settings … of life  and found  a significant variation in use of multiple services. … • American Society of Echocardiography • Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography • Society of Hospital … Slide 34: Next • Professional societies will release more Top 5 lists in late 2012. … The next release  will be  in February  2013.

5165. Ch 9-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
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      September 21, 2012 - Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Introduction An important aspect … Study Size Planning These considerations in sample size and power in the context of RCTs are also relevant … Goodman and Berlin recommended a similar idea in 1994 (page 204 of their article):6 In our experience … , expressing the implications of sample size calculations in the same language as is used in a published … The reduction in precision is perhaps most clearly seen in studies that use propensity score matching

5166. A Mistaken Dose of Naloxone  | PSNet
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      March 21, 2009 - The responsibility to provide education falls on both the prescriber and the dispensing pharmacist. … an effort to decrease alert fatigue by suppressing low priority alerts in the EHR. 11  In this case, … could also be observed in high-risk patients on long-term prescription opioids in outpatient settings … Drug—drug interactions that should be non-interruptive  in order to  reduce alert fatigue in electronic … June 16, 2019 Analysis of prescribers' notes in electronic prescriptions in ambulatory

5167. Design Options for a Self-Management Support Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - in the design of current programs. … In what manner and how often coaches communicate with patients. … These factors are discussed in more detail below. … located within primary care practices, some are run by other health care organizations such as plans or hospitals … The nurses provided self-management support at the primary care clinic in one-on-one encounters or in

5168. Archived: How Did the USPSTF Arrive at This Recommendation?: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      May 11, 2012 - The number of prostate cancer deaths in recent years has declined. Why is this? … Were any urologists involved in the development of this recommendation? … The number of prostate cancer deaths in recent years has declined. Why is this? … A more likely explanation is the improvement in health care in general and in the treatment of prostate … Were any urologists involved in the development of this recommendation?

5169. Meaningful Measurement in Patient and Family Engagement | PSNet
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      March 10, 2021 - primary care , during care transitions , and in hospital settings . … Services (CMS), AIR, and small rural and critical access hospitals out here in California. … CMS mandated patient family engagement in the QIOs and in the Partnership for Patients (PfP) and Hospital … into the hospital that they would be active participants in care. … It looks different in end-stage renal disease programs, in primary care, it looks different in the hospital

5170. Screening for Gestational Diabetes: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation (pdf file)
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      October 05, 2021 - labor, cesarean delivery, or admission to the neo- natal intensive care unit [NICU]), and negative hospital … Three large studies examined hospital experiences related to breastfeeding out- comes in pregnant persons … hour after birth and exclusive breastfeeding in the hospital, and with fewer new- borns staying in the … mother’s room, although confounding factors (eg, breastfeeding intentions, varying hospital policies … • Studies on potential harms of screening and treatment (ie, anxi- ety, hospital experience, and cesarean

5171. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2019 - In these cases, bacteria are usually growing in more than one blood culture set. … For hospitals that do not readily have access to these agents, other regimens can be considered while … TEE is particularly important in patients at low risk for endocarditis in whom short-course therapy … E. faecium is more often seen in hospital- acquired infections, is often resistant to ampicillin, and … Consider endocarditis in settings of persistent bacteremia, prosthetic valves, or in patients with

5172. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2003 - detailed in Table 2. … simulated sedation exercise, videos demonstrating code reenactments are sent to all 300 providers over the hospital … If efficacy can be established, dissemination models like these should prove useful for hospitals and … Using simulation in the PICU at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth, we closely emulated this case in … Professor of Anesthesiology and OB/GYN, Dartmouth College of Medicine Staff Anesthesiologist, Children’s Hospital

5173. 019-Perioperative-Infection-Prevention-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
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      April 01, 2025 - Slide 12 Hypothermia In Surgery SAY: Mild hypothermia can be common in surgery. … This was a prospective observational study from 47 hospitals with patients undergoing bariatric and/or … The Cardiac Surgery CUSP team at a local hospital reviewed their recent SSI rates, which were higher … Long-standing hospital policy broadly recommended removing hair from the chest and legs of cardiac surgery … Leadership (both hospital and OR) helped by supporting real time feedback and encouraging staff to speak

5174. 019-Ss-Periop-Infection-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
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      April 01, 2025 - Slide 12 Hypothermia In Surgery SAY: Mild hypothermia can be common in surgery. … This was a prospective observational study from 47 hospitals with patients undergoing bariatric and/or … The Cardiac Surgery CUSP team at a local hospital reviewed their recent SSI rates, which were higher … Long-standing hospital policy broadly recommended removing hair from the chest and legs of cardiac surgery … Leadership (both hospital and OR) helped by supporting real time feedback and encouraging staff to speak

5175. Final Progress Report: Transforming the Medication Regimen Review Process of High-Risk Drugs Using a Patient-Centered, Telemedicine-Based Approach to Prevent ADEs in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - the intervention group would have fewer 30-day hospital readmissions and/or hospital readmissions during … symptoms or new clinical events, such as bleeding, falls, confusion, and gastrointestinal problems; … Readmissions to the Hospital. … readmissions within 30 days of the NH admission and throughout the study period to one of the 20 hospitals … H2: NH residents in the intervention group would have fewer 30-day hospital readmissions than residents

5176. Introducing the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey_Transcript (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2015 - ’s experiences of care in hospitals. … And then we did a pilot test in eight hospitals. We had over 2,000 surveys returned. … Schuster, Slide 18 So our national field test, it was in 69 hospitals in 34 states. … a hospital and 23 percent were general hospitals. … various sizes including hospitals that are not children’s hospital and hospitals that are not even a

5177. Research Spotlights - Archives
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      December 01, 2019 - emergency departments in the United States and the role trauma centers and teaching hospitals have in … Admissions for CABG Procedure in the Elderly: Was There a Change in Access to Teaching Hospitals After … medical-surgical beds compared to patients treated in psychiatric units in community hospitals. … Read more about this publication Variations in inpatient mortality among hospitals in different … hospitals with patients treated in ambulatory care centers.

5178. Webinar Transcript - National Quality Strategy Webinar: Using the Nine Levers to Achieve Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2016 - California Quality Collaborative is also really focused on collaborating with 27 participating hospitals … There were good measures for measuring hospital performance and good measures for measuring health plan … The first was in 2012, in March of that year.] … reporting—similar to work that Judy Hibbard did in the early days of hospital performance measurement … results for avoidable hospital ED visits.

5179. Disposition of Comments CER 194 Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
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      March 19, 2018 - The KQ in this report do not focus on SABA, thus SABA was not included in that table. … In regards to the addition of LAMA to ICS in patients 12 or greater the results have some promise in … However, there is heterogeneity in the patient populations enrolled in these trials, in relation to … Where it falls short is in the area of definitive conclusions based on this careful review of the literature … available in the literature in favor of certain strategies and not others.

5180. Neds 2014 Maskedstats Core Weighted (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - the ED (1), Died in the hospital (2), did not die (0) 30979978 46439 0 2 0.008728 0.000180 0.00838 … the ED 190,374 0.14 2: Died in the hospital 505,262 0.37 please refer to the section on Description … 19,435,011 14.10 20: Died in ED 190,374 0.14 98: Not admitted to this hospital, destination unknown … hospital 2,051,283 1.49 9: ED visit in which the patient died in the ED 190,374 0.14 98: ED visit … in which patient is not admitted to this same hospital, destination unknown 205,658 0.15 99: ED visit