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21. Cost Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Program for Safe Patient Handling (pdf file)
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    January 10, 2005 - Such on-the-job injuries can affect patient care. … self-care capability, the VHA units typically have temporary patients recuperating from surgery or trauma … The vast majority of injuries did not require medication. … Reduction in injury incidence and severity Injury data included a description of the incident (equipment … Injury incidence rates were defined as the number of reported injuries divided by the total number of

22. Fallpxtool3N (doc file)
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    January 01, 2008 - 3N: Postfall Assessment, Clinical Review Background: This protocol explains how to assess and follow injury … In addition, there may be late manifestations of head injury after 24 hours. … · 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.

23. Combining Performance Feedback and Evidence-based Educational Resources (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2004 - Selection of priority medical injuries and preventive interventions We selected key medical injury … • Confidential WMIRS data: baseline injury rates and most frequent injuries and most frequent procedures … of our five high priority injuries. … A series of different measures of medical injury occurrence will be used: any medical injury, four major … Injury prevention: educational strategies.

24. How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization
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    November 20, 2014 - Implementation Planning Goals Determine the roles and responsibilities of staff in preventing pressure injuries … What role will the Unit Team and Wound Care Team play? What role will the Unit Champions play? … Unit staff tell the Wound Care Team about high-risk patients or if skin problems occur. … Braden risk assessment and patient comorbidity review 5 in 5 Visual Assessment Tool for pressure injuries … Care Team, and Implementation Team in preventing pressure injuries Importance of the Unit Champions

25. Prologue—Volume 1—Five Years Later—Are We Any Safer? (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2004 - While evidence documenting high rates of treatment-associated injury and mortality have appeared in … A few institutions have reached the initial IOM goal for some injury sources (for example, Brigham & … [ADEs]; Intermountain Health Care’s LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City for ADEs and for postoperative wound … retrospective clinical trigger systems), to successful interventions that addressed specific, single injury … Invisible injuries. (Op-ed column) The Washington Post 2003 July 29; p. A17. 3. Morrissey J.

26. Most Common Cause of Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments (pdf file)
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    May 21, 2021 - Most Common Cause of Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments

27. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization (doc file)
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    August 31, 2017 - answering the following questions: · What roles and responsibilities will staff have in preventing pressure injuries … · What role will the Wound Care Team play? What if the hospital has no formal Wound Care Team? … implementation, such as determining the roles and responsibilities of staff in preventing pressure injuries … A Wound Care Team usually: · Serves as the hospital’s content experts on pressure injury prevention. … Braden risk assessment and patient comorbidity review. · 5 in 5 Visual Assessment Tool for pressure injuries

28. The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - Patient Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Long Term Care Resources Injuries … Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx.html

29. Appendix B2: Tracking Record for Improving Patient Safety TRIPS (Text Description) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Patient Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Long Term Care Resources Injuries … ) __ No injury __ Minor injury/first aid only (ex: bruise, abrasion, skin tear) __ Major … injury (ex: laceration with suture, closed head injury, fracture) __ Death Treatment (check all … If injury, indicate site(s) injured in first column, and the type of injury for each site checked ("X … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb2txt.html

30. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2017 - Webinars in a systematic quality improvement effort focused on reducing hospital acquired pressure injuries … Risk Factors for Pressure Injuries: Going Beyond Validated Instruments —AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention … Device-Related Pressure Injury —AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention Program Implementation Sharing Webinar … Putting the Nutrition Guidelines into Practice for Pressure Injury Prevention —AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention … Wound Classification —AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention Program Training Webinar. 

31. Risk-Based Patient Safety Metrics (pdf file)
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    March 25, 2008 - an injury occurs. … Ideally, a patient safety program would use injury-based metrics to calculate an injury rate that could … That rate would be: Identified injuries Potential opportunities for those injuries to occur As … Identified injuries also become a source of risk identification, regardless of whether or not the injury … In using errors and injuries as sources for identifying risk, the rates of errors and injuries are irrelevant

32. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2024 - Topics include infections (CDI and MRSA), adverse drug events (ADEs), and potentially avoidable injuries … HCUP Statistical Briefs: Emergency Department Visits by Injury These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide … statistics about injuries that result in emergency department visits. … Topics include sports-related injuries, motor vehicle accidents, firearm-related injuries, and bicycle-related … injuries that result in visits to the emergency room.

33. NPSD Data Spotlight - Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2023 - Dislocations (42 / 6,343 injuries; 0.66% among female patients and 30 / 6,536 injuries; 0.46% among … Other injury made up 47.3% (3,002 / 6,343) of injuries among female patients and 45.1% (2,947 / 6,536 … ) of injuries among male patients.xi Across all 6,091 Other injury records, only 627 (10.3%) had any … Minor injuries from the pre-existing injury types in CFER-H v1.2 made up over 20% of Other injuries. … Multiple injuries made up a small share of Other injuries reported (46 / 627; 7.3%).

34. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 31, 2016 - Workbook for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program http://www.cdc.gov … • American Nurses Association Sharps Injury Prevention http://www.nursingworld.org/safeneedles Tools … Needlestick Injury Prevention Assessment Tool http://www.who.int/occupational_health/activities/2needlest.pdf … Sharps injuries in the operating room: Massachusetts Sharps Injury Surveillance System Data, 2004. … Strategies for preventing sharps injuries in the operating room.

35. Elements of Access to Health Care: Workforce Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2018 - Distribution of trauma center utilization (Level I and II) for severe injuries in the United States, … Trauma Center Utilization for Severe Injuries Trauma care systems were developed to provide complex … Level II: Provide initial definitive trauma care regardless of the severity of the injury. … Distribution of trauma center utilization (level I and II) for severe injuries in the United States, … Importance: Well-coordinated and timely treatment for trauma patients can prevent needless injury to

36. Tool 3N: Postfall Assessment, Clinical Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - In addition, there may be late manifestations of head injury after 24 hours. … Identify all visible injuries and initiate first aid; for example, cover wounds. … Clean and dress any wounds. Inform treating medical provider. … Identify all visible injuries and initiate first aid; for example, cover wounds. … Clean and dress any wounds. Arrange medical review.

37. Appendix B1: The FMP Self-Assessment Tool (Text Description) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Patient Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Long Term Care Resources Injuries … Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … Monthly falls analysis by: location and time of fall shift and day of week type of injury … Monthly falls analysis by # of falls, fallers, patients ≥2 falls, and falls with serious injury?   … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb1txt.html

38. Appendix C. Case Study and Program Examples | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - She was assessed to have no injuries resulting from the fall. … Physical restraint—increases risk of serious injury. … Full side rails—increase risk of serious injury. … P has no evidence of injury resulting from her two falls on 4/1/04 at this time. … P has no evidence of injury resulting from her two falls on 4/1/04 at this time.

39. Final Progress Report: Generalizability and Spread of an Evidenced-based Fall Prevention Toolkit: Fall TIPS (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - and categorization of the types and severities of major inpatient fall-related injuries. … injury (e.g., nasal bone fracture), or disruption of a surgical wound; major B - injuries that caused … ; 2: fall, minor injury; 3. fall, moderate injury; 4: fall, major injury; 5: fall, fatal. … Fall with injury was defined as any fall that has a severity score of >2. … with injuries x 1,000 Total number of inpatient days A cost-benefit analysis was performed.

40. Chapter 5a. Presentation Content | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Patient Safety Patient Safety Resources by Setting Long Term Care Resources Injuries … Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … Physical Restraints Physical restraints increase the likelihood of serious injury resulting from … Consequences of Falls Serious injury such as hip fracture Increased risk of death associated … https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/slides.html