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  1. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 16, 2022 - cdc-clinical-practice-guideline-prescribing-opioids-pain-united-states-2022 In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  2. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 15, 2020 - 75% of the identified events resulted in a delay in care and 41% resulted in temporary harm (e.g., falls

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 16, 2022 - Triggers were related to diagnoses (e.g., falls, bleeding, thromboembolic events), laboratory values

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 03, 2011 - in patient safety programs, drug administration and safety procedures, error reporting processes, prevention

  5. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Clinical Summary (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/GC9cvM3tps6UBntyWrXNF4
    Recommendations The USPSTF has made recommendations on screening for glaucoma and interventions to prevent falls

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 23, 2022 - pandemic response dismantled strategies put in place to prevent healthcare-associated infections and falls

  7. Surveillance: a strategy for improving patient safety in acute and critical care units. | PSNet

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    September 27, 2016 - September 28, 2010 Negotiating safety when staffing falls short.

  8. Improving the Emergency Department Discharge Process. | PSNet

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    April 23, 2014 - December 24, 2008 Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care

  9. Adopt strategies to manage look-alike and/or sound-alike medication name mix-ups. | PSNet

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    June 24, 2020 - This story highlights a primary prevention tool that lists problematic drug names.

  10. Major congenital malformations after first-trimester exposure to ACE inhibitors. | PSNet

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    July 10, 2008 - RIS Download Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Prevention … systematic approach to safer medication use during pregnancy: summary of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention–convened

  11. Surgical 'never events': how common are adverse occurrences? | PSNet

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    November 16, 2022 - Related Resources Perspectives on Safety Suicide Prevention … Interview In Conversation with Edwin Boudreaux about Suicide Prevention … June 7, 2016 Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic

  12. Gossypiboma: tales of lost sponges and lessons learned. | PSNet

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    March 24, 2021 - November 16, 2022 Reducing falls in hospitalized children and adolescents with cancer

  13. Reducing errors in emergency surgery. | PSNet

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    January 31, 2018 - In the context of emergency surgery, this review summarizes error classification, error prevention strategies

  14. Verbal medication orders in the OR. | PSNet

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    March 06, 2024 - This article describes the causes of medication errors in the operating room and discusses prevention

  15. Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH: health care quality evangelist. | PSNet

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    July 28, 2014 - March 20, 2013 Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic

  16. Healthcare Simulation Dictionary, Third Edition. | PSNet

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    January 10, 2024 - October 26, 2016 Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care

  17. Administration of concentrated potassium chloride for injection during a code: still deadly! | PSNet

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    May 02, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Administration of concentrated potassium chloride for injection during a code: still deadly! Citation Text: Administration of concentrated potassium chloride for injection during a code: still deadly! ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. June …

  18. National Nursing Home COVID Action Network. | PSNet

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    October 23, 2019 - COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection Prevention

  19. Addressing prehospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention and control. | PSNet

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    April 12, 2019 - Commentary Addressing prehospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention … Addressing prehospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention and control. … commentary discusses patient safety in emergency medical services (EMS) and illustrates how injury prevention … Addressing prehospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention and control. … January 19, 2011 Assessment of a wearable fall prevention system at a Veterans Health

  20. Building safer systems by ecological design: using restoration science to develop a medication safety intervention. | PSNet

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    February 14, 2024 - November 6, 2019 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management … medication review followed by face-to-face feedback to prescribers on adverse drug events recognition and prevention … May 29, 2024 Patient Safety Innovations Suicide Prevention
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