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5781. Agitated Delirium Contributes to Missed Testing and Delayed Diagnosis of Gastric Perforation | PSNet
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      June 28, 2023 - January 23, 2019 Changes in prevalence of health care-associated infections in U.S. hospitals … Quality improvement initiative to decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections

5782. Complications of ECMO During Transport | PSNet
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      January 27, 2021 - The major complications of ECMO include healthcare-associated infections, hematologic complications ( … Evaluation of wound photography for remote postoperative assessment of surgical site infections

5783. A Loss of Trust and a Missed Diagnosis | PSNet
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      October 31, 2023 - several diagnoses that require urgent evaluation and imaging; these include cauda equina syndrome, spinal infections … Veterans Affairs initiative to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections

5784. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 26, 2022 - as erosion of the catheter through the vein wall or heart, vessel thrombosis, vessel stenosis, and infection … (such as central line-associated blood stream infection [CLABSI] or endocarditis).

5785. Getting the Diagnosis Both Right and Wrong | PSNet
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      May 29, 2024 - tumor lysis syndrome, the cause of death was septic shock due to a disseminated  Staphylococcus aureus  infection … consultants was around managing this oncologic emergency, with the result that a concomitant serious infection

5786. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2014 - Each time she had been diagnosed with sepsis even though no clear source of infection had been found … Although the degree of illness and lactic acidosis could be consistent with sepsis, no clear source of infection

5787. Battle Buddies: rapid deployment of a psychological resilience intervention for health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic | PSNet
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      September 09, 2020 - July 28, 2021 Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification

5788. Interpreting the Patient Safety Literature | PSNet
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      June 01, 2005 - rotating the antibiotics used in an intensive care unit was associated with a six-fold reduction in infection-related … We know little about other infection control programs introduced at the time, changes to ICU staffing … Infection Control Programme. Lancet. 2000;356:1307-1312. [ go to PubMed ] 9.

5789. Delayed Evaluation of Abdominal Pain in an Elderly Patient. | PSNet
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      February 26, 2020 - Many common medications, such as beta blockers, blunt the response to inflammation and infection. 3 … WebM&M Cases Delayed Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection … WebM&M Cases Delayed Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection

5790. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2011 - Common events (e.g., health care–associated infections, falls) may be so common that individual hospitals

5791. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 10, 2024 - of patient safety events and adverse events such as medication issues, falls, pressure ulcers, and infections

5792. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2014 - Unnecessary antibiotics place patients at risk for dangerous infections, such as Clostridium difficile

5793. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2015 - other safety topics such as medication errors, surgical complications, and health care–associated infections

5794. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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      December 01, 2004 - adverse events Errors in drug ordering, prescription filling, or reaction to medication Nosocomial infections

5795. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 23, 2024 - Michigan reports that at least 100,000 people die each year from major complications like blood clots, infections

5796. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - The patient was suffering from multiple concurrent infections requiring intravenous antibiotics.

5797. National Patient Safety Goals | PSNet
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      January 16, 2025 - safety, alarm safety, facilitating clinician communication, as well as preventing hospital-associated infections

5798. Accountability in Patient Safety | PSNet
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      January 01, 2018 - For example, failing to perform hand hygiene demonstrably leads to health care–associated infections,

5799. Spotlight (pdf file)
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      January 01, 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

5800. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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      December 31, 2024 - Study Becoming Hand Hygiene Heroes: implementation of an infection prevention and