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  1. About AHRQ's Nursing Home Network | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2023 - mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection prevention

  2. The problem with 'never events'. | PSNet

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    July 12, 2023 - August 7, 2024 Patient falls in the operating room: why is this still a problem in 2024

  3. Improving Patient Safety/Quality with HIT Implementation (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015284-reiling-final-report-2008.pdf
    January 01, 2008 - Suicides Transfusion-related Events Correct Tube, Correct Connector, Correct Hole Patient Falls … The adverse events of falls and infections declined since 2002. … Patient falls. … The number of patient falls steadily declined during the study period, from 149 to 31 (almost 80%), … with one spike in 2006 of 115 falls (the new hospital opened in 2005).

  4. Archived: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/cervical-cancer-screening-2003
    January 07, 2003 - Despite falling incidence, cervical cancer remains the tenth leading cause of cancer death. 10 The … (Associate Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard … Washington, DC: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; 1996.

  5. Returning Home Safely | PSNet

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    December 22, 2018 - strategies for managing the patient's serious illness at home, alternatives to hospital care, fall prevention … Resources From the Same Author(s) Effect of promoting high-quality staff interactions on fall prevention

  6. What We Learned | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    October 01, 2020 - What We Learned The CHIPRA quality demonstration States are pursuing innovative strategies to improve health care for children. Learn about the CHIPRA quality demonstration States' strategies, lessons learned, and outcomes from these National Evaluation products: Final Summary Final Project Report Spe…

  7. Missing Trauma | PSNet

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    March 03, 2011 - William Haddon, widely recognized as the father of modern injury prevention strategies, may be responsible … Blunt injuries are the result of falls, motor vehicle or motorcycle crashes, bicycle accidents, pedestrians … The changing approach to the epidemiology, prevention, and amelioration of trauma: the transition to

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 01, 2007 - Implications for prevention. ADE Prevention Study Group. JAMA. 1995;274:29-34. [go to PubMed] 7. … Wait until aPTT is For INRs significantly above the therapeutic range, hold warfarin until INR falls

  9. The LifePoint National Quality Program Provides Structured Framework for Reducing Inpatient Harm | PSNet

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    February 26, 2025 - achieved performance goals but also supports accountability and data transparency when performance falls … Preventing Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) Outside of the Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Bundle,” Prevention … May 29, 2024 Patient Safety Innovations Suicide Prevention

  10. Resident Physicians as Safety Champions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    October 01, 2015 - Infection prevention plays a consulting and facilitating role to support the effort. … Infection preventionists are considered content experts in infection prevention and play a role in educating … wound care nurses and physical therapists would discourage UC use to reduce the risk for immobility and falls

  11. Patient Safety 101 | PSNet

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    January 16, 2025 - Lucian Leape highlighted the issue and presented a framework for error analysis and prevention that is … include: Preventable adverse events: those due to error or failure to apply an accepted strategy for prevention … been less harmful if care had been different; Adverse events due to negligence: those due to care that falls

  12. Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    March 01, 2017 - Reports that focused on health promotion (e.g., smoking cessation, diet) and disease prevention (e.g. … Reports that focused on falls in the home were not regarded as addressing patient safety unless the falls

  13. In Conversation with... Regina Hoffman about Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet

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    July 31, 2023 - Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … We were working not on falls or adverse drug reactions, but on the overarching issues that could make … Education can focus on promoting a culture of safety, implementing error-prevention strategies, recognizing … replicating care in various healthcare settings can train staff to identify potential errors and improve prevention

  14. Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet

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    July 31, 2023 - Education can focus on promoting a culture of safety, implementing error-prevention strategies, recognizing … replicating care in various healthcare settings can train staff to identify potential errors and improve prevention … Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … We were working not on falls or adverse drug reactions, but on the overarching issues that could make

  15. Reducing Preventable Patient Harm Due to Retained Surgical Items: The RSI Bundle | PSNet

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    July 23, 2024 - This way, the innovators would know when problems with RSI prevention bundle compliance occurred and … Practices to aid in the prevention of unintentionally retained surgical items. … Novel computer-aided diagnosis software for the prevention of retained surgical items. … 30, 2023 Patient Safety Innovations Preventing Falls … Through Patient and Family Engagement to Create Customized Prevention Plans May 31, 2023

  16. Medical abbreviations that have contradictory or ambiguous meanings. | PSNet

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    November 18, 2020 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Medical abbreviations that have contradictory or ambiguous meanings. Citation Text: Medical abbreviations that have contradictory or ambiguous meanings. Davis N. ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition! January 30, 2020;25(2):1-5. Copy Citatio…

  17. Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis. | PSNet

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    May 22, 2019 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis. Citation Text: Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis. Ross C. STAT. June 2, 2021. Copy Citation Save Save to …

  18. Geriatric medication reconciliation in the home setting. | PSNet

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    September 01, 2021 - Strategies to improve the patient safety outcome indicator: preventing or reducing falls

  19. Reporting and second-order problem solving can turn short-term fixes into long-term remedies. | PSNet

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    May 07, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Reporting and second-order problem solving can turn short-term fixes into long-term remedies. Citation Text: Reporting and second-order problem solving can turn short-term fixes into long-term remedies. ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. May 19, …

  20. First annual review of data submitted to the ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (VERP). | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/first-annual-review-data-submitted-ismp-national-vaccine-errors-reporting-program-verp
    June 10, 2018 - February 29, 2012 Detection and prevention of medication misadventures in general practice
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