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  1. The role of hospital managers in quality and patient safety: a systematic review. | PSNet

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    December 30, 2014 - March 5, 2014 Organizational culture and its implications for infection prevention and

  2. Effect of contextual factors on the prevalence of diagnostic errors among patients managed by physicians of the same specialty: a single-centre retrospective observational study. | PSNet

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    February 02, 2022 - 2019 In-hospital mortality associated with the misdiagnosis or unidentified site of infection

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 30, 2024 - often need but have trouble accessing, such as wound care, hepatitis C treatment, sexually transmitted infection … individuals with opioid and methamphetamine use disorders, who are often hospitalized for injection-related infections … They also reduce soft tissue skin infections and things like infective endocarditis, yet uptake and legality

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2010 - Tacit Handover, Overt Mishap June 1, 2010 Cooper JB, Kamdar BB. Tacit Handover, Overt Mishap. PSNet [internet]. 2010. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/tacit-handover-overt-mishap The Case A 61-year-old man was admitted for management of an infected aortic stent, which had been placed 3 years earlier to treat an abdo…

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 14, 2023 - developed fever and https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/critical-echocardiogram-result-lost-follow overt infection

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 27, 2022 - discharged from hospitals to HHA care have accounted for 25% of hospital readmissions associated with infections … appropriate policies resulted in a 21% higher probability of hospital transfer due to urinary tract infections … patient preferences, as well as the known risks associated with hospitalization (e.g., nosocomial infections … Urinary catheter policies in home healthcare agencies and hospital transfers due to urinary tract infection

  7. Post-Acute Transitional Services: Safety in Home-Based Care Programs | PSNet

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    April 24, 2024 - discharged from hospitals to HHA care have accounted for 25% of hospital readmissions associated with infections … appropriate policies resulted in a 21% higher probability of hospital transfer due to urinary tract infections … , patient preferences, as well as the known risks associated with hospitalization (e.g., nosocomial infections … Urinary catheter policies in home healthcare agencies and hospital transfers due to urinary tract infection

  8. The Lung Nodule That Refused To Grow | PSNet

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    March 01, 2004 - 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 … September 2, 2015 Hospital Differences in Adult Inpatient Stays with Healthcare-Associated Infections

  9. Physical Diagnosis: A Lost Art? | PSNet

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    January 17, 2018 - seen a patient with spinal cord injury who was transferred from an outside hospital for urinary tract infection … January 12, 2022 Eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national … January 15, 2014 Eradicating central line–associated bloodstream infections statewide

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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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 … amendment was made to the act that required long-term care facilities to report healthcare-acquired infections

  11. The PeaceHealth Governance Journey in Support of Quality and Safety | PSNet

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    August 01, 2007 - But the routine stories of medication errors with harm, serious post-op and surgical infections, and … The best boards right now are actually asking for their own data on things like hospital-acquired infections … They're hearing about the rates of central line infections, but they're also hearing stories—stories … computer programmer who is a father of three, admitted with pancreatitis, who developed a central line infection

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

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    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

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

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    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

  14. In Conversation with...James L. Reinertsen, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withjames-l-reinertsen-md
    August 01, 2007 - But the routine stories of medication errors with harm, serious post-op and surgical infections, and … The best boards right now are actually asking for their own data on things like hospital-acquired infections … They're hearing about the rates of central line infections, but they're also hearing stories—stories … computer programmer who is a father of three, admitted with pancreatitis, who developed a central line infection

  15. Diagnostic Errors in Medicine: What Do Doctors and Umpires Have in Common? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/diagnostic-errors-medicine-what-do-doctors-and-umpires-have-common
    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

  16. Collaboration focused on priority issues promotes safety. | PSNet

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    May 05, 2018 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Collaboration focused on priority issues promotes safety. Citation Text: Collaboration focused on priority issues promotes safety. ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. October 10, 2008;13:1-3. Copy Citation Save Save to your…

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49596/psn-pdf
    December 01, 2009 - familiar with the patient, the type of implant used, technical aspects of the operation, perioperative infection … If the situation looks problematic due to the possibility of infection or excessive swelling, the patient

  18. Spotlight Case (ppt file)

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    May 01, 2006 - pneumothorax from central venous catheter placement anaphylaxis to penicillin postoperative wound infection … Similarly, postoperative wound infections count as adverse events even if the operation proceeded with

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49838/psn-pdf
    August 01, 2018 - patients' goals in the ICU a preventable harm, in the same way a central line–associated bloodstream infection … ICU should be considered a preventable harm, in the same way as central line–associated bloodstream infections

  20. Association of cataract surgical outcomes with late surgeon career stages: a population-based cohort study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-cataract-surgical-outcomes-late-surgeon-career-stages-population-based-cohort
    September 23, 2020 - increases in risk of two specific complications—dropped lens fragment and endophthalmitis, a surgical site infection
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