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61. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - aureus    (MRSA) prevention that seeks to improve bathing and skincare techniques to reduce pressure injuries … , wounds, and MRSA and other Multidrug Resistant Organism (MDRO) transmission.{*}The program, which will

62. 065-Dec-Staff-Faqs-Decolonization (doc file)
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    October 01, 2024 - Be especially thorough if there are any nearby wounds, pressure injuries, or breaks in the skin. … Use the CHG on superficial wounds and stage 1 and 2 pressure injuries. … Wound Cleaning For what types of wounds is CHG safe? … CHG can be applied to any superficial wounds, including stage 1 and 2 pressure injuries, friable skin … and stage 1 and 2 pressure injuries.

63. 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

64. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Keywords: Critical Care, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Injuries and Wounds, Intensive Care … mapping analysis was performed in a large sample of patients with focal, penetrating traumatic brain injuries … Keywords: Brain Injury, Imaging, Trauma Kernodle AR , Frail CK , Gernant SA Patients … Reducing acute kidney injury due to contrast material: how nurses can improve patient safety. … Keywords: Adverse Drug Events (ADE), Adverse Events, Injuries and Wounds, Patient Safety, Heart Disease

65. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - ICU sedation with dexmedetomidine after severe traumatic brain injury. … Keywords: Adverse Drug Events (ADE), Brain Injury, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Medication, Trauma … Keywords: Injuries and Wounds, Risk, Sex Factors, Outcomes McCoy RG , Lipska KJ , Yao X … and is comparable to in-person evaluation with regard to most wound characteristics. … Keywords: Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Injuries and Wounds, Telehealth, Surgery, Health

66. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 06, 2025 - 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.

67. 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

68. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 26, 2023 - 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.

69. 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%).

70. 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.

71. Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

72. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 25, 2021 - 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.

73. 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

74. 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.

75. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - This study included trauma patients who were admitted to trauma centers participating in the National … Trauma Data Bank. … Keywords: Elderly, Injuries and Wounds, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Hospitals, Patient-Centered Outcomes … Evaluation of a patient-centered fall-prevention tool kit to reduce falls and injuries: a nonrandomized … Keywords: Falls, Injuries and Wounds, Prevention, Tools & Toolkits, Patient and Family Engagement, Patient-Centered

76. Appendix D. Falls Engineer Instructions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Engineer Instructions The Falls Management Program is designed to prevent falls and injuries

77. Final Progress Report: Call Light Responsiveness and Effect on Inpatient Falls and Patient Perceptions (pdf file)
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    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.

78. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - at the injury scene, and to examine patterns in individual patient demographics, injury characteristics … socioeconomic disparities in trauma. … Keywords: Disparities, Injuries and Wounds, Mortality, Social Determinants of Health, Trauma … and almost 9-fold for stab wounds. … Keywords: Injuries and Wounds, Mortality, Outcomes, Trauma Pagination « first « First

79. Falls Prevention | 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

80. 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