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1. Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals
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   June 16, 2017 - Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals ADD Name of Hospital … Most pressure injuries are preventable. … How do you measure pressure injury rates and pressure injury prevention practices? … patients, which includes skin and pressure ulcer assessment as part of all aspects of patient care needs Wound … Care Team Interdisciplinary group of experts who provide day-to-day care of skin and wound needs Implementation

2. University of Missouri Health Care Decreases Pressure Injuries and Saves in Avoidable Costs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2024 - Implementation focused on MU Health Care’s 390-bed University Hospital, the only Level I trauma center … AHRQ toolkit, MU Health Care began this journey by assessing the need for hospital-acquired pressure injury … representatives from quality; data analytics; information technology; and content experts, such as wound … the head-to-toe skin assessment by two nurses known as 4E4H (4 eyes in 4 hours) and to utilize the wound … scout, a thermal imaging device that can identify possible deep tissue injury.

3. Module 1: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals (doc file)
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   July 12, 2017 - Module 1: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals Module 1: Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals … Pressure injuries are preventable, but pressure injury rates continue to escalate. … In addition, pressure injuries cause pain and, in some cases, late-stage pressure injuries lead to life-threatening … This sparked interest in a physician member of the board who has expertise in wound care. … The Prevention Implementation Team, wound care experts, and patient care unit staff need to work together

4. Overview of Emergency Department Visits Related to Injuries, by Cause of Injury, 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - , by Cause of Injury, 2017 SHARE: … , by Cause of Injury, 2017 Injuries are common and can have many causes, such as falls, cuts, … In 2018, unintentional injuries were the leading cause of death among people ages 1 to 44 years. … The chart shows the five most common types of injury and can be categorized by age, income, patient location … , by Cause of Injury, 2017.

5. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
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   January 01, 2016 - Adipose (fat) is visible in the injury, and granulation tissue and epibole (rolled wound edges) are often … The wound may evolve rapidly to reveal the actual extent of tissue injury or may resolve without tissue … If you are not sure a skin lesion is a pressure injury, ask the Wound Care Team or Wound Care Nurse. … , · Number of injuries, · Location of injuries, and · Stage of the deepest injury. … The shadowing intervention included requiring two RNs to sign off on skin assessments and staging of wounds

6. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
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   July 02, 2008 - injuries. … with a red-pink wound bed No slough 9 Stage 3 Full-thickness tissue loss Visible subcutaneous fat … If not sure, ask the Wound Care Team or Nurse. 16 Measures Measures used in monitoring pressure injury … Document the results of the assessment, noting: Presence of an injury. Number of injuries. … of injuries) 17 patients with any pressure injury # of patients with a >Stage 2 pressure injury 5 patients

7. Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention (doc file)
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   June 12, 2018 - Any patient with an existing pressure injury is at risk for additional injuries. · Determine whether … Int Wound J 2010;7:358-65. PMID:20561094. … as possible, integrate the skin exam into the normal workflow. · Determine the correct etiology of wounds … · Consider having a wound care expert or nurse from another unit with wound expertise round with unit … SAY: The answer is the wound or ostomy nurse consult revealed a slightly pink coccyx.

8. Falls and Injury | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2018 - Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Long Term Care Resources Injuries … Patient Safety News and Events Education & Training Resources Falls and Injury … Long-term care resources about falls and injuries The Falls Management Program: A Quality … reviewed September 2018 Page originally created March 2013 Internet Citation: Falls and Injury … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/index.html

9. Confidential Performance Feedback and Organizational Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Patient Safety: Results of a Randomized Trial (pdf file)
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   March 14, 2008 - Overall medical injury rates for drug-associated injuries increased significantly during the study period … payer, hospital ownership, presence of a residency program, percentage of board-certified staff, trauma … present [N (%)] 18 (28) 7 (23) 5 (15) 30 (24) Percentage board-certified staff 86.7 86.1 86.9 86.6 Trauma … , 2002 vs. 2005 (%) Post-op infections/nonhealing wounds 1.97 1.51 1.28 1.35 2.42 2.07 0.42 … • Dehiscence (998.3) or • Persistent post-operative fistula (998.6) or • Non-healing surgical wound

10. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2003 - Validation of medical injury surveillance criteria Medical chart review Injury No Injury … ; and more than 1,400 discharges with injuries due to radiation. … Infection/inflammation 4,203 7.5 2.01*** Hematoma, hemorrhage, seron 4,958 8.9 1.06*** Nonhealing wound … injuries from hospital discharge data. … Accuracy of administrative data in trauma. Surgery 1999 Aug;126(2):191–7. 22.

11. Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing, Adverse Events, and Costs (pdf file)
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    April 27, 2004 - 31 7,413 229,803 234 Crush injury 8 4,744 37,952 235 Open wound head 16 16,499 263,984 236 Open … wound extremity 27 4,150 112,050 239 Superficial injury 25 3,995 99,875 240 Burns 3 6,911 20,733 … 122.23 248 30,313 234 Crush injury 231.05 14 3,235 235 Open wound head 206.20 306 63,097 236 Open … 926 4.63 2,530 294 24.08 7,707 234 Crush injury 76 0.38 1,793 30 2.46 4,189 235 Open wound head 1,801 … 9.01 324 39 3.19 5,631 236 Open wound extremity 1,139 5.70 633 74 6.06 7,210 239 Superficial injury

12. Developing a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Serious Injury Surveillance System that Includes Adverse Event Hospitalizations (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2003 - Injury surveillance systems have been operational and producing public information on trends in injuries … codes in the 800–999 range, included various types fractures; sprains; wounds; complications due to … across the many settings VHA Injury Surveillance System 269 of care where injuries are treated … during the inpatient episode and may be coded in the secondary diagnosis fields, such as postoperative wound … in episodes of care; and identify risk factors for injuries to aid in focused injury prevention and

13. University of Iowa Uses AHRQ Data to Study Ways to Lower Incidence, Costs of Sports-Related Injuries | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - , as well as the economic burden associated with these injuries," Yang notes. … At least 4.3 million sports and recreational injury episodes occur each year in school-aged children … During this period, there were approximately 10,000 sports injury hospitalizations per year for patients … codes that do not specify the injury as being sports-related. … More than half of these injury hospitalizations were attributed to fractures, and approximately half

14. Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention
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    November 20, 2014 - Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention ADD Hospital … literature and expert opinion—that represent the best ways we currently know of preventing pressure injuries … assessment. 10 Barriers to Practice Finding time for skin assessments Determining correct etiology of wounds … Page 42 14 Pressure Injury risk assessment BEST PRACTICE 15 Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Next … Care planning guides what will be done to prevent pressure injuries. 23 Pressure Injury care planning

15. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Behavioral Health (699) Blood Clots (62) Blood Pressure (132) Blood Thinners (79) Brain Injury … and Wounds (207) Inpatient Care (221) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (267) Kidney Disease and … Tools & Toolkits (49) Training (143) Transitions of Care (192) Transplantation (141) Trauma … Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Injuries and Wounds, Social Determinants of Health Mohanan M … Keywords: Healthcare Costs, Injuries and Wounds, Social Determinants of Health Boland MR ,

16. Connecticut Hospital Reduces Pressure Injuries Using AHRQ Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2018 - Pressure injuries are painful, can lead to serious deep tissue infections, and can affect clinicians’ … Major steps included: Measuring staff’s knowledge of and attitude about pressure injuries. … Staging pressure injuries on a 1-4 scale. … “If one nurse thought there was a pressure injury, we required confirmation from a second RN. … If anything, they’re over-reporting pressure injuries,” Dr. Safer said.

17. Validation of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicator for Accidental Puncture or Laceration (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2004 - Adnominal injuries caused by lysis of peritoneal adhesions 91 52.6 82 47.4 Abdominal injuries caused … If trauma patients are going to be identified and eliminated from the PSI, the definition of a trauma … Only 14.9 percent of the events did not appear to be serious injuries, and 4.5 percent involved trauma … It is likely that many of the trauma patients identified by the indicator suffered injuries outside … While it is impressive that bladder injuries from hysterectomies, bowel injuries from cholecystectomies

18. Pressure Injury Prevention Program Implementation Guide (doc file)
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    October 01, 2017 - Collect and analyze data to learn about pressure injury rates and causes of pressure injuries. … device-related pressure injuries, mucosal injuries, and how they differ from regular pressure injuries … injuries. … and wound care. … prevention education targeted to different types of nurses Simulation with a mannequin to educate on wounds

19. Most Common Cause of Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Home Data & Analytics Data Infographics Most Common Cause of Injuries … Treated in Emergency Departments   Most Common Cause of Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments … ) Source: AHRQ, HCUP Statistical Brief #266, Overview of Emergency Department Visits Related to Injuries … , by Cause of Injury, 2017  ( PDF , 292 KB). … March 2021 Page originally created March 2021 Internet Citation: Most Common Cause of Injuries

20. VHA’s National Falls Collaborative and Prevention Programs (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2006 - • Monthly fall injury rate, calculated as the number of injuries/number of falls x 100. … • Severity of injury for each fall, defined as no injury, minor injury (e.g., abrasion, bruise, minor … laceration), or major injury (e.g., hip fracture, head trauma, arm fracture).12 Team characteristics … their major injury rate by 82 percent, to only 0.39 major injuries per 100 falls. … o No injury or minor injury. o Major injury. o Death.