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  1. Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group Environmental Scan (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/healthcare-safety-competency-environmental-scan.pdf
    March 27, 2025 - showed a marked increase in hospital-acquired conditions, including central line-associated bloodstream infections … events, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, patient falls, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … system lens rather than individual improvement efforts in specific areas such as healthcare-associated infections

  2. Improving Patient Safety/Quality with Health Information Technology Implementation | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-patient-safetyquality-health-information-technology-implementation
    January 01, 2023 - These included: operative and post-operative complications and infections, medication errors, patient

  3. Undetected Foreign Object | PSNet

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    April 24, 2018 - and even mortality.( 3,9,10 ) Patients can experience immediate postoperative complications such as infections … January 2, 2017 Operating room traffic as a modifiable risk factor for surgical site infection

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/838855/psn-pdf
    October 27, 2022 - occurs commonly (up to 33% of cases), but typically resolves without intervention and post-procedural infection … settings, for tasks such as identifying correct surgical sites in the operating room and reducing infections

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49672/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2013 - Based on these results, the nodule was felt to be benign and not an active malignancy or infection. … Although malignant cells are more metabolically active (and will therefore "light up" on a PET scan), infections

  6. The Worst Headache | PSNet

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    July 01, 2016 -     Intracranial hematomas (parenchymal, subdural, epidural)     Parameningeal infections … disorders: migraine, tension, or cluster headaches Meningitis and encephalitis Systemic infection

  7. Missed Appendicitis | PSNet

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    March 13, 2013 - Appendiceal perforation increases the risk of wound infection, abscess formation, sepsis, wound dehiscence

  8. Communication Error in a Closed ICU | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/communication-error-closed-icu
    July 01, 2016 - Decline in ICU adverse events, nosocomial infections and cost through a quality improvement initiative

  9. Periodic Issue | PSNet

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    March 25, 2025 - March 5, 2025 Weekly Issue PSNet highlights the latest patient safety literature, news, and expert commentary, including Weekly Updates, WebM&M, and Perspectives on Safety. The current issue highlights what's new this week in patient safety literature, news, conferences, reports, …

  10. Operational-Adjustments-Event-Summary (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/operational-adjustments-event-summary.pdf
    July 02, 2020 - 1 Learning Community Affinity Group Summary-at-a-Glance: Operational Adjustments while Resuming In-Person Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs July 2, 2020 Event Purpose and Overview • Purpose: To share and acquire strategies for how to adjust operations while resuming in-person cardiac rehabilitation p…

  11. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/handouts.html
    September 01, 2017 - their familiar setting with our staff who know them well, and residents aren’t exposed to nosocomial infections … DON, nursing supervisors, nurse managers or charge nurses, MDS nurse, QI nurse, infection control nurse … Multidisciplinary team weekly review of residents with stage 2 or above pressure ulcers at risk for infection … shift nursing supervisors (A), Staff Development Coordinator (A), QAA Coordinator (A), MDS Nurse (V), infection … Her physician wanted to send her to the ED for evaluation of a possible infection.

  12. Final Progress Report: Safety Outcomes of Obese Residents in US Nursing Homes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/felix-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - in NHs with high and low rates of falls, falls with injuries, pressure injuries, and urinary tract infections … Per Patient Day, LPN=Licensed Practical Nurse, RN=Registered Nurse, Q=Quartile, UTI=Urinary Tract Infection … The impact of obesity on urinary tract infection risk. Urology. 2012;79(2):266-9. 25. … Association between body mass index and urinary tract infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis … Impact of obesity on urinary tract infections in Korean adults: Secondary data analysis using community-based

  13. PAIGE Chatbot For Patient-Clinician Communication: (pdf file)

    cdsic.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/PAIGE%20Assessment%20Report_Public%20Version.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - that AI should adhere to standard triage questions for common conditions (e.g., upper respiratory infection … should still ask 19 standard triage questions for common conditions (e.g., upper respiratory infection … I have a MAC infection and bronchiectasis. … that we'll send to your physician: Dear Doctor, I started taking Arikayce last week for my MAC infection

  14. Prostate-Cancer-Test Research-Protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prostate-cancer-test_research-protocol.pdf
    October 14, 2011 - experience unnecessary anxiety, discomfort, and occasionally significant procedural complications such as infection … delay in biopsy or biopsy performed when not needed; psychological harms Adverse events; infection … treatment G Standard Testing * Diagnostic accuracy a Adverse events; infection … Long-term outcomes – mortality, morbidity, function, and quality of life Harms – complications of biopsy (infection

  15. Layout 1 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/gerd_executive.pdf
    September 01, 2011 - Fundoplication was also associated with procedural complications such as postoperative infections and … complications possibly associated with PPI use that were reported in the 2005 CER included enteric infections … been associated with potentially serious complications, which include an increased risk of enteric infections … In addition, all of these procedures have been associated with complications, including dysphagia, infection … • Potential serious complications possibly associated with PPIs included not only enteric infections

  16. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2004_07.pdf
    January 01, 2004 - PSI 7 Selected infections due to medical care per 1000 discharges* (excluding immunocompromised and cancer … patients and neonates) * Also excludes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases … sepsis per 1000 elective-surgery discharges of longer than 3 days (excluding patients admitted for infection … PSI 23 Selected infections due to medical care* per 100,000 population (excluding immunocompromised or … cancer patients and neonates) * Includes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases

  17. In Conversation with…Robert M. Wachter, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withrobert-m-wachter-md
    October 01, 2008 - Let's think about central line–associated bloodstream infections, which we know with good scientific … Pronovost's work in Michigan and other studies in preventing central line–associated bloodstream infections … every doctor or nurse to remember to do these five things to prevent catheter-associated bloodstream infections

  18. In Conversation with...Joseph Britto, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withjoseph-britto-md
    February 01, 2007 - For example, toxic shock syndrome would be a diagnosis node under streptococcal or staphylococcal infections … , which would be a diagnosis node under gram-positive infections, that being under bacterial infections

  19. In Conversation With... Joel Willis, DO, PA, MA, MPhiL and Neal Sikka, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-joel-willis-do-pa-ma-mphil-and-neal-sikka-md
    May 14, 2020 - October 27, 2021 Evidence of respiratory infection transmission within physician offices … could inform outpatient infection control.

  20. HCUP Facts and Figures 2009: Statistics on Hospital-Based Care in the United States

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/highlights.jsp
    January 01, 2009 - mood disorders (64 percent), non-specific chest pain (99 percent), and skin and subcutaneous tissue infections … population) than for males (123 per 10,000 population). 5.2b Hospitalization for urinary tract infections
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