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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
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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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/undetected-foreign-object
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
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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
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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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/worst-headache
July 01, 2016 - Intracranial hematomas (parenchymal, subdural, epidural) Parameningeal infections … disorders: migraine, tension, or cluster headaches Meningitis and encephalitis Systemic infection
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/missed-appendicitis
March 13, 2013 - Appendiceal perforation increases the risk of wound infection, abscess formation, sepsis, wound dehiscence
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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
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psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-473
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, …
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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…
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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