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  1. Ensuring Correct Surgery. | PSNet

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    May 24, 2017 - May 24, 2017 National Center for Patient Safety Falls Toolkit 2004.

  2. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    October 01, 2014 - affecting the way a resident walks, urination and bowel patterns, skin changes, level of weakness, falls

  3. IHI Open School Patient Safety Curriculum | PSNet

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    July 12, 2017 - October 24, 2018 Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program. … October 18, 2017 Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program.

  4. A team performance measurement model for continuous improvement. | PSNet

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    February 26, 2025 - January 18, 2012 An inpatient fall prevention initiative in a tertiary care hospital.

  5. Root cause analysis. | PSNet

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    June 15, 2016 - June 1, 2015 Prevention of a wrong-location misadministration through the use of an intradepartmental … January 16, 2013 Accident prevention in day-to-day clinical radiation therapy practice

  6. Iatrogenic delirium and coma: a "near miss." | PSNet

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    September 23, 2020 - May 27, 2011 Effect of computer order entry on prevention of serious medication errors … May 26, 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention

  7. Spinal surgery and patient safety: a systems approach. | PSNet

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    January 12, 2022 - Resources From the Same Author(s) Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention … February 9, 2011 Wrong-site craniotomy: analysis of 35 cases and systems for prevention

  8. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2004 - unintentional injuries, we simplified the 17 different mechanisms into six collapsed categories (i.e., falls … For the HCUP NIS, unintentional injuries were classified in terms of the following causes: • Falls … Within unintentional injuries, the proportion of records by mechanism (e.g., falls, motor vehicle traffic … The unintentional injuries in the hospital-based ambulatory surgery facilities tend to be for falls, … Atlanta (GA): Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 17, 2024 - psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/inpatient-transitions-care-challenges-and-safety-practices https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/falling-between-cracks-software

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 18, 2015 - home could affect various quality and safety indicators (such as safety culture, pressure ulcers, and falls

  11. Patient Safety Initiative: Hospital Executive and Physician Leadership Strategies. | PSNet

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    November 27, 2018 - December 9, 2015 Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care

  12. Heed this warning! Don't miss important computer alerts. | PSNet

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    May 07, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Heed this warning! Don't miss important computer alerts. Citation Text: Heed this warning! Don't miss important computer alerts. ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 8, 2007;12:1-2. Copy Citation Save Save to your l…

  13. National Patient Safety Goals. | PSNet

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    May 30, 2012 - hospital-acquired infections , medication errors, inpatient suicide , and specific clinical harms such as falls

  14. Final Progress Report: Staff Nurse Fatigue and Patient Safety (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - Nurses reported struggling to stay awake once every five shifts worked (2285/11,329 shifts) and falling … Nurses who reported struggling to stay awake on duty and/or actually falling asleep on duty obtained … US workers.33 The high frequency of which nurses reported struggling to stay awake and/or actual falling … Participants in the AACN study who reported falling asleep on duty obtained on average 6.6 hours sleep … Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events: Implications for prevention.

  15. Methods for assessing the preventability of adverse drug events: a systematic review. | PSNet

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    July 24, 2013 - August 24, 2022 Patient falls in the operating room: why is this still a problem in 2024

  16. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care. | PSNet

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    February 03, 2011 - Study Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care. Citation Text: Kuzel AJ, Woolf SH, Gilchrist VJ, et al. Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care. Ann Fam Med. 2004;2(4):333-40. Copy Citation Format: Google Sc…

  17. Life of the Mother. How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths. | PSNet

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    October 02, 2024 - May 3, 2017 Fall risk and prevention agreement: engaging patients and families with a

  18. RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm. | PSNet

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    June 21, 2016 - May 21, 2019 Preventing Patient Falls: A Systematic Approach From the Joint Commission

  19. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

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    May 20, 2016 - Stroke Education • STK-10 Assessed for Rehabilitation IQI 19 Hip Fracture Mortality Rate • Fall prevention

  20. Privacy Gone Awry | PSNet

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    February 24, 2011 - monitoring device, we should have an alarm ( 19 ) for automatically indicating when that parameter falls … Planning August 1, 2018 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention
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