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41. Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/slides3.html
    October 01, 2017 - literature and expert opinion—that represent the best ways we currently know of preventing pressure injuries … How to conduct a standardized assessment of pressure injury risk factors. … Determining correct etiology of wounds. Using inadequate documentation forms. … Slide 15: Best Practice Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Slide 16: Pressure Injury Risk Assessment … Care planning guides what will be done to prevent pressure injuries.

42. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module4/module4_pu-implementation.docx
    June 02, 2025 - 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

43. Prologue—Volume 1—Five Years Later—Are We Any Safer? (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/James.pdf
    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.

44. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/slides4.html
    October 01, 2017 - Implementation Planning Goals Determine the roles and responsibilities of staff in preventing pressure injuries … Slide 13: Wound Care Team Role Serves as this hospital’s content experts on pressure injury prevention … Bimonthly Unit Champion pressure injury prevention/ wound care lunch and learn sessions. … Braden risk assessment and patient comorbidity review. 5 in 5 Visual Assessment Tool for pressure injuries … Wound Care Team, and Implementation Team in preventing pressure injuries.

45. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressure-injury/index.html
    October 01, 2017 - Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program AHRQ developed the Pressure Injury Prevention … 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 … Wound Classification —AHRQ Pressure Injury Prevention Program Training Webinar. 

46. 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

47. Final Progress Report: Call Light Responsiveness and Effect on Inpatient Falls and Patient Perceptions (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/tzeng-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Key Words: Falls; injurious falls; hospital-acquired injury; consumer satisfaction; quality of healthcare … hip fractures, head traumas) [1]. … in half by 2013 or 43,750 fall injuries over 3 years [1]. … A fall was defined as an unplanned descent to the floor with or without injury. … A fall was defined as an unplanned descent to the floor with or without injury.

48. Module 4: How To Implement the Pressure Injury Prevention Program in Your Organization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/guide4.html
    October 01, 2017 - 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 … Care Team to prevent pressure injuries in patients.

49. Combining Performance Feedback and Evidence-based Educational Resources (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Meurer.pdf
    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.

50. Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Falls can lead to serious injuries, decreased ability to function, reduced quality of life, increased

51. Final Progress Report: Analysis of Factors Associated With Clinical Checklist Compliance (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/sarcevic-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - , and (4) patients with external injuries. … 1(0-3) 0(1-3) Injury 0(0-2) 0(0-1) External 0.014 0.053 <.001* <.001* 0.92 0.13 No injury 1(0-1.5) … with penetrating injuries and those with a blunt injury. … Of 187 patients, 111 (59.4%) had external injuries. … without external injuries (p<.001, Table 1).

52. Risk-Based Patient Safety Metrics (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Scanlon_62.pdf
    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

53. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/webinars.html
    October 01, 2017 - Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars Training Webinars Staff Roles and Training … Wound Classification (41 min) ( PDF of the Slides , 2.11 MB). … Learning Network Webinars Device-Related Pressure Injury (35 min) Measurement and Analysis of … Pressure Injury Data (42 min) The Power of Nutrition for Pressure Ulcer Prevention (73 min) Putting … Injuries: Going Beyond Validated Instruments (60 min) Sustainment (61 min) Video Assessing

54. Impact of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Tools: Challenge Competition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - for Improving Quality of Care to decrease Patient Safety Indicator 03 (PSI-03) (reportable pressure injuries … Implementation focused on MU Health Care’s 390-bed University Hospital, the only level I trauma center … technology, MU Health Care rose from the 87th percentile ranking of all-cause hospital-acquired pressure injury … experience using this tool is summarized in "MU Health Care Uses AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Reportable Pressure Injuries

55. NPSD Data Spotlight - Falls: Associated Factors and Clinical Outcomes (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/spotlights/spotlight-falls-rev.pdf
    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%).

56. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4l_combo_psi15-accidentalpuncturelaceration-bestpractices.pdf
    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.

57. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

58. Healthcare Costs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Falls by 21 Percent Chartbook on Care Affordability Connecticut Hospital Reduces Pressure Injuries

59. Pressure Injury Prevention Program Phases | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/guide/phases.html
    September 01, 2017 - Pressure Injury Prevention Program Implementation Guide Pressure Injury Prevention Program Phases … To learn more about measurement, see the supplementary Training webinars Wound Classification and … Assign all staff roles and responsibilities to prevent pressure injuries. … Collect and analyze data to learn about pressure injury rates and causes of pressure injuries. … To learn more about measurement, see the supplementary training webinars Wound Classification and

60. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4a_pdi01-lacerationpuncture-bestpractices.pdf
    May 31, 2016 - Workbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program http://www.cdc.gov … Needlestick Prevention Guide http://www.nursingworld.org/safeneedles Tools • WHO Needlestick Injury … Sharps Injuries in the Operating Room, Massachusetts Sharps Injury Surveillance System Data, 2004. http … ://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/occupational-health/sharps-injuries- operate-room-04.pdf. … Strategies for preventing sharps injuries in the operating room.