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21. How To Avoid the Harms of Antibiotic Overuse | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/urine-culturing/antibiotic-stewardship/part-1-slides.html
    February 01, 2019 - How To Avoid the Harms of Antibiotic Overuse AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI … Slide 1: How To Avoid the Harms of Antibiotic Overuse Training Module 4 Slide 2: Learning Objective … 10: Avoid Knee-Jerk Antibiotics Remember, unnecessary antibiotic use can lead to— Resident harms

22. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
    July 01, 2023 - Harms such as adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and obstetric adverse events … seminal National Academy of Medicine report that elevated awareness of longstanding risks and patient harms … Making Healthcare Safer report was commissioned in 2022 as a continuous updating of patient safety harms … Related Content Making Healthcare Safer IV: A Continuous Updating of Patient Safety Harms and Practices

23. Section 2. Recommendations for Adults (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/guide/section2d.html
    June 01, 2014 - Balance of Harms and Benefits For children, adolescents, and young adults aged 10 to 24 years with … Screening Tests There is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms of whole … Balance of Benefits and Harms There is no evidence that screening for suicide risk reduces suicide … Balance of Benefits and Harms Screening by self-examination or clinician examination is unlikely to … Potential harms include false-positive results, anxiety, and harms from diagnostic tests or procedures

24. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol2-5.html
    June 01, 2023 - they may lead to an entirely new family of performance metrics that characterize the prevalence of harms … address the capacity of the healthcare system to assist patients and families who have experienced those harms

25. Research Summit: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/brady-summit2016-plenary.pdf
    September 28, 2016 - Hospital Safety and Measurable Impact 17% reduction in HACs 87,000 lives saved 2.1 million patient harms … saving-lives.html Patient Safety in the United States: National Progress, but Harm Persists 2010: 145 Harms … /1,000 Discharges 2011: 142 Harms/1,000 Discharges 2012: 132 Harms/1,000 Discharges 2013: 121 Harms … /1,000 Discharges 2014: 121 Harms/1,000 Discharges How AHRQ Makes a Difference • AHRQ invests in … Clinical Environment Patient Safety Research Context & External Environment Safer Care & Fewer Harms

26. Making Healthcare Safer III Patient Safety Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2020 - MDRO Status Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae  ( PDF , 1.4 MB) Contact Precautions Harms … Anticoagulation Management Service Use of Dosing Protocols or Nomograms Safe Transitions Harms … Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults ( PDF , 2.6 MB) Deprescribing Use of STOPP Criteria Harms

27. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1-1.html
    June 01, 2023 - and its outcomes can enrich clinicians’ understanding of patient and family experience and reduce the harms … through both changes in clinician-patient interactions and system-level responses that address the harms

28. Interim Update on 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/interimhac2013-ap3.html
    December 01, 2014 - Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms Interim Update on 2013 … Page Table of Contents Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms

29. Screening for Breast Cancer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/guide/appendix-f.html
    June 01, 2014 - Balance of Benefits and Harms The precise age at which the benefits from screening mammography justify … the potential harms is a subjective judgment and should take into account patient preferences. … should inform women about the potential benefits (reduced chance of dying from breast cancer), potential harms … The balance of benefits and potential harms of mammography improves with increasing age for women ages

30. The Effective Health Care Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/otherwebsites/effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.html
    March 01, 2024 - designed to inform health care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms … effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov Relevance The EHC Program develops products that present the benefits and harms

31. Making Healthcare Safer III: Structured Abstract | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/abstract.html
    March 01, 2020 - The PSPs were chosen for inclusion in the report based on the high-impact harms they address and interest … PSPs that are more well-established are now being investigated in light of emerging harms, such as the … Similarly, emerging PSPs are being investigated for use to address well-established harms, such as the

32. Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-patient-safety.html
    May 01, 2024 - References Patient safety aims to prevent and reduce the potential risks, errors, and harms … been shown to have high rates of false-positive results. 57 This can set off a cascade of patient harms … including anxiety, financial burden, and unnecessary treatments which can have their own physical harms … However, primary care also plays an important role in reducing common patient harms, such as preventing … The goal is to help reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions and the related costs and harms of

33. Final Progress Report: Patient Safety in Hospice Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/smucker-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - (Specific Aim 2: Outcomes and harms) 4. … Description of actual and potential harms: The interviewer then expanded and clarified the participant … not only physical harms but also the potential for psychological or emotional harms from the incident … Severity of harms: The interviewer then asked the participant to describe the most significant harms … Harms ranged from small facial burns to significant structural fires causing death.

34. Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-trautner.html
    October 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic … increases the risk of antibiotic resistance, adverse drug reactions, damage to the microbiome, and other harms … field understand the disparities in the use of antibiotics and help develop interventions to reduce harms

35. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/comparison.html
    January 01, 2025 - seminal National Academy of Medicine report that elevated awareness of longstanding risks and patient harms … Making Healthcare Safer report was commissioned in 2022 as a continuous updating of patient safety harms … Table of Contents Adverse Drug Events (ADEs): General Medication Topics ADEs: Harms Due to Anticoagulants … ADEs: Harms Due to Diabetic Agents ADEs: Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults ADEs: Harms Due … Reconciliation and Handoffs (Not reviewed) (Not reviewed) Summary of Evidence (Not reviewed) ADEs: Harms

36. Probability and the Diagnostic Pathway | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking3.html
    September 01, 2022 - While many clinicians do not frame diagnostic testing in terms of patient benefit and harms, tests, like … outcomes or it may expose a patient to toxic substances, inconvenience, or unnecessary care for which harms … These benefits and harms vary widely in magnitude. Step 4: Test interpretation. … Step 3: Selection of a diagnostic test: Provide information on probability of potential benefits and harms … While few clinicians currently conceptualize tests through a lens of benefits and harms, the approach

37. Probability and the Diagnostic Pathway | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking3.html
    September 01, 2022 - While many clinicians do not frame diagnostic testing in terms of patient benefit and harms, tests, like … outcomes or it may expose a patient to toxic substances, inconvenience, or unnecessary care for which harms … These benefits and harms vary widely in magnitude. Step 4: Test interpretation. … Step 3: Selection of a diagnostic test: Provide information on probability of potential benefits and harms … While few clinicians currently conceptualize tests through a lens of benefits and harms, the approach

38. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/funding/contracts/epc-iv/4-epc-protocol.pdf
    January 31, 2022 - Purpose of the Review This systematic review will assess the comparative effectiveness and harms of … How do harms vary by patient characteristics? KQ3b. … How do harms vary by routes of administration, dosing, and timing? KQ3c. … How do harms vary by patient characteristics? KQ5b. … How do harms vary by routes of administration, dosing, and timing?

39. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol2-5.html
    June 01, 2023 - they may lead to an entirely new family of performance metrics that characterize the prevalence of harms … address the capacity of the healthcare system to assist patients and families who have experienced those harms

40. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-patients-source-understanding-dx-error-vol1-1.html
    June 01, 2023 - and its outcomes can enrich clinicians’ understanding of patient and family experience and reduce the harms … through both changes in clinician-patient interactions and system-level responses that address the harms