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  1. Innovations in Promoting Hand Hygiene Compliance | PSNet

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    May 01, 2014 - setting, hospitals continue to struggle with suboptimal rates of compliance with this basic infection prevention … include insufficient time, work overload, inadequate knowledge, skepticism about hand hygiene as a prevention … Infection prevention promotion program based on the PRECEDE model: improving hand hygiene behaviors among … make it problematic to generalize from the hand hygiene experience to let's say trying to decrease falls … Prostatic Hyperplasia August 10, 2019 Remote patient monitoring improves patient falls

  2. Recovering After Emergency Appendectomy (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/booklets/appendectomy-booklet.pdf
    November 01, 2023 - Recovering After Emergency Appendectomy Recovering After Emergency Appendectomy e Emergency Appendectomy Patient Education Guide 1 Recovering After Emergency Appendectomy Patient Name ___________________________________________________________________ Surgeon Name _________________________________________…

  3. Core Principles for the PCA Diagnostic Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-reimagining-healthcare-teams-6.html
    July 01, 2023 - ensuring the technology is worn, while the AI would provide daily summaries about fall risk and near falls … This information could lead to interventions to prevent falls.

  4. Vitamin D With or Without Calcium Supplementation for Prevention of Cancer and Fractures: An Updated Meta-analysis for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)

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    December 01, 2011 - These functions suggest a possible role of vitamin D in cancer prevention. … vitamin D3 of all included RCTs and demon- strated that the megadose increased the risk for fractures and falls … Should older people in residential care receive vitamin D to prevent falls? … Vitamin D supplementation and the prevention of fractures and falls: results of a randomised trial in … Annual high-dose oral vitamin D and falls and fractures in older women: a randomized controlled trial

  5. Innovation and Lean Thinking: Mutually Supportive Partners in the Transformation of Health Care | PSNet

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    January 01, 2015 - Benefits of this approach include reducing the risk of falls, earlier mobilization following surgery, … April 1, 2014 Perspective How Does Infection Prevention … April 1, 2013 Perspective Implementing a Fall Prevention

  6. Understanding human over-reliance on technology. | PSNet

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    February 24, 2016 - We ALL have a role in prevention!

  7. Hardwiring safety into the computer system: one hospital's actions to provide technology support for U-500 insulin. | PSNet

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    February 24, 2016 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Hardwiring safety into the computer system: one hospital's actions to provide technology support for U-500 insulin. Citation Text: Hardwiring safety into the computer system: one hospital's actions to provide technology support for U-500 insulin. ISMP Medicatio…

  8. Is an indication-based prescribing system in our future? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/indication-based-prescribing-system-our-future
    February 24, 2016 - July 12, 2017 E-collection: Safety and Error Prevention in Health.

  9. Getting closer to the bull's eye: 2014–2015 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. | PSNet

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    July 08, 2015 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Getting closer to the bull's eye: 2014–2015 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. Citation Text: Getting closer to the bull's eye: 2014–2015 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 12, 2015;20:1…

  10. Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook. | PSNet

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    October 23, 2019 - Book/Report Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook. Citation Text: Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2023. AHRQ Publication no. 23-0082. Copy Citation Save Save to your libr…

  11. Using information from external errors to signal a "clear and present danger." | PSNet

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    March 14, 2023 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Using information from external errors to signal a "clear and present danger." Citation Text: Using information from external errors to signal a "clear and present danger." ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. February 9, 2017;22:1-5. Copy Citati…

  12. Assessing and monitoring override medications in automated dispensing devices. | PSNet

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    May 06, 2009 - Study Assessing and monitoring override medications in automated dispensing devices. Citation Text: Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ, Skledar S, et al. Assessing and monitoring override medications in automated dispensing devices. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32(6):309-17. Copy Citation F…

  13. Fatality involving vinblastine overdose as a result of a complex medical error. | PSNet

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    January 25, 2023 - July 11, 2019 Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments.

  14. Enteral feeding misconnections: a consortium position statement. | PSNet

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    June 17, 2009 - January 23, 2017 Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management

  15. Stepping out further from the shadows: disclosure of harmful radiologic errors to patients. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/stepping-out-further-shadows-disclosure-harmful-radiologic-errors-patients
    April 21, 2011 - Commentary Stepping out further from the shadows: disclosure of harmful radiologic errors to patients. Citation Text: Brown SD, Lehman CD, Truog RD, et al. Stepping Out Further from the Shadows: Disclosure of Harmful Radiologic Errors to Patients. Radiology. 2012;262(2):381-386. doi:10…

  16. Online consultations in cyberpharmacies: completeness and patient safety. | PSNet

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    January 12, 2022 - Resources From the Same Author(s) Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention

  17. CMS's hospital-acquired condition lists link hospital payment, patient safety. | PSNet

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    May 20, 2009 - March 20, 2013 Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic

  18. 2009 National Patient Safety Goals. | PSNet

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    August 03, 2016 - Commentary 2009 National Patient Safety Goals. Citation Text: Saufl NM. 2009 National Patient Safety Goals. J Perianesth Nurs. 2009;24(2):114-8. doi:10.1016/j.jopan.2009.01.008. Copy Citation Format: DOI Google Scholar PubMed BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote ta…

  19. Smarter clinical checklists: how to minimize checklist fatigue and maximize clinician performance. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/smarter-clinical-checklists-how-minimize-checklist-fatigue-and-maximize-clinician-performance
    July 10, 2017 - Vital signs: epidemiology of sepsis: prevalence of health care factors and opportunities for prevention

  20. AHRQ focuses on ambulatory patient safety. | PSNet

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    January 31, 2024 - March 5, 2013 Primary care–relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults:
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