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141. How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices
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     December 03, 2012 - ‹#› NDNQI Definitions of Fall Injury None or no injury: The patient is free of injuries (no signs or … Major: Needs surgery, cast, traction; and/or results in neurological or internal injury. … Death: The patient died as a result of injuries sustained from the fall (not from physiologic events … causing the fall). ‹#› NDNQI Definitions of Fall Injury None: No injury Minor: Resulted in bruise … What other definitions of fall injury would be appropriate for this hospital?

142. Final Progress Report: Clinical Prediction of Hepatotoxicity & Comparative Hepatic Safety of Medications (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Keywords: hepatotoxicity, acute liver failure, liver injury 2. … Prediction of ALF among patients with drug-induced liver injury. … suspected drug-induced liver injury within KPNC at the initial drug-induced liver injury diagnosis … Risk of acute liver injury with modern antiretroviral therapy (ART). … Incidence of drug-induced hepatic injuries: a French population-based study.

143. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Adv Skin Wound Care 2007;20(4):208, 210, 212, 214, 216, 218-20. 2. … national-pressure-ulcer-advisory-panel-npuap-announces-a-change-in-terminology-from-pressure-ulcer-to-pressure-injury-and-updates-the-stages-of-pressure-injury … national-pressure-ulcer-advisory-panel-npuap-announces-a-change-in-terminology-from-pressure-ulcer-to-pressure-injury-and-updates-the-stages-of-pressure-injury … national-pressure-ulcer-advisory-panel-npuap-announces-a-change-in-terminology-from-pressure-ulcer-to-pressure-injury-and-updates-the-stages-of-pressure-injury … Laurel, NJ: Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society; June 2010. 8.

144. Long-term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … safety, create a more resident-centered environment, and reduce the number of falls and fall-related injuries

145. Fall Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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     January 01, 2012 - · Identify all visible injuries and initiate first aid; for example, cover wounds. · Assist patient … · Identify all visible injuries and initiate first aid; for example, cover wounds. … · Clean and dress any wounds. · Arrange medical review. … requires ice, dressing, cleaning of wound, elevating of limb, or medication) __Moderate (requires suturing … Describe injuries; check all that apply Injury Yes No Site of Injury Abrasion/bruise/laceration

146. Home Health Care Patients and Safety Hazards in the Home: Preliminary Findings (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - Although 24 percent of participants reported that they provided wound care, only a small proportion … 85.2) Record vital signs 1,138 (79.2) Provide urinary catheter/ostomy care 556 (44.8) Provide wound … The perception of risk of personal injury was high. … Childhood injury prevention at home and play. Curr Opin Pediatr 1999; 11: 578-582. 6. … Iowa City: University of Iowa, Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center; 2001. 52 .

147. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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     January 01, 2017 - SAY: Low tidal volume ventilation, or LTVV, protects lungs from a variety of insults and injuries associated … There’s also a cyclical type of trauma that occurs, often called “atelectrauma.” … There’s some sort of priming insult, such as pneumonia, sepsis, severe trauma, noncardiogenic shock, … Indirect pulmonary insult includes extrapulmonary sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome from trauma … Insults secondary to mechanical ventilation include ventilation-induced lung injuries.

148. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Training (pdf file)
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     November 09, 2017 - head injuries with altered consciousness, and  Subdural hematomas. … Note that one fall may have major and minor injuries; in such a case, only the major injury will be … injuries occur, they will only be counted as one. … or major injuries, only major injury will appear. … Injury Site.

149. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Assistance in healing of open pressure ulcers, skin grafts, and stage III or IV perineal and sacral wounds … Management of the neurogenic bladder for adults with spinal cord injuries. … resident) · After having contact with body fluids or excretions, mucous membranes, nonintact skin and wound … This will help to reduce urethral and bladder injury (e.g., irritation, hemorrhage, ulceration), which … Examples when a suprapubic catheter is used include— · Urethral injuries or trauma · Urethral obstruction

150. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - Conditions National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries

151. Fall Dashboard Data 2023 (xls file)
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     January 01, 2023 - FallSupp_1b: Falls By Age Group and Fall Assistance Injury No Injury Unknown Total Frequency Percent … Falls_4a FallSupp_4a: Type of Injury by Age Group Age Group Injury Type Percent Frequency Total Under … Falls_4b FallSupp_4b: Type of Injury by Age Group - Assisted Falls FallSupp_4b: Type of Injury … by Age Group - Unassisted Falls Age Group Injury Type Percent Frequency Total Age Group Injury Type … requiring sutures 25.0% 5 20 UNK Other injury 32.4% 11 34 UNK Other injury 20.0% 4 20 UNK Skin tear

152. Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s Success in Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Approximately 25% of hospital falls result in injuries, including fractures and death (Heng, et al., … Specialist joined the Quality department at CRH and explored ways to reduce patient falls and subsequent injuries … The goal of this initiative was to decrease patient falls and falls with injury. … initially focused on two medical telemetry units which had experienced an increase in falls and falls with injury … Root cause analyses are completed for each fall resulting in significant injury.

153. Appendix III (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2010 - Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … Populations: Adults with physical or intellectual disabilities, including those with acquired brain injuries … and Access Populations: Elders with physical or cognitive disabilities, adults with acquired brain injuries … Department of Health Use history: Developed to monitor safety for individuals with traumatic brain injury … : County Social Service Boards that provide case management services to Adults with acquired brain injuries

154. Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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     June 04, 2018 - Conditions National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries

155. Human Factors in Surgery: Shifting the Paradigm on Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - point-of-use reprocessing due to time pressures to limited space and low lighting that resulted in fatigue and injuries … Medication Delivery  , focuses on reducing the 200,000 to 20 million anesthesia-related medication injuries … approaches, and perspectives across simulated and real environments to address these types of medication injuries

156. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Tables 1 - 5 (pdf file)
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     October 17, 2019 - Personal history of other certain diseases TIA and cerebral infarction V12.5 Table 4 [=IMG9]: Head Trauma … 850.0 With brief loss of consciousness 850.1 Fracture of skull Closed w/o mention of intracranial injury … of other and unspecified nature 800.4 Open w/o mention of intracranial injury 800.5 Open with … 800.7 Open with other and unspecified intracranial hemorrhage 800.8 Open with intracranial injury … 852.x Other/unspecified intracranial hemorrhage following injury 853.x Intracranial injury

157. Reducing Patient Falls with Evidence-based Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - to a million hospitalized patients fall annually; approximately 30 percent of those falls result in injury … Falls and related injuries also are a concern for older adults living in the community. … assessment found that the evidence-based toolkit reduced hospital falls by 15 percent and fall-related injuries … primary care clinicians with standards-based software tools to prevent patient falls, as “fall and injury

158. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Trauma. Noncardiogenic shock. Multiple transfusions. Cardiopulmonary bypass. … Trauma. Pancreatitis. Post-circulatory arrest. Multiple transfusions. Severe burns. … development of Lung Injury. … LTVV significantly reduced development of lung injury. … Unclear optimal level in nonacute lung injury (non-ALI) patients.

159. Measure 6: Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - for Atraumatic Headache U18HS020516 Page 53 Submitted January 2016 Exclusions o Trauma-related … headache or pain (Table IMG3) on the day of or within the 7 days prior to imaging o Head injury by … 339.43 Other complicated 339.44 Other Post-traumatic headache 339.2x Acute pain due to trauma … U18HS020516 Page 56 Submitted January 2016 Table 3 [= IMG9]: ICD-9-CM Codes to Identify Head Trauma … 852.x Other/unspecified intracranial hemorrhage following injury 853.x Intracranial injury of other

160. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-intro-fac-guide.html
     February 01, 2017 - Say: Low tidal volume ventilation, or LTVV, protects lungs from a variety of insults and injuries associated … There’s also a cyclical type of trauma that occurs, often called “atelectrauma.” … There’s some sort of priming insult, such as pneumonia, sepsis, severe trauma, noncardiogenic shock, … Indirect pulmonary insult includes extrapulmonary sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome from trauma … Insults secondary to mechanical ventilation include ventilation-induced lung injuries.