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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. 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

3. 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

4. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
   www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module5/module5_pressureinjury-msmt_slides.pptx
   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

5. 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

6. Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Children, 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2020 - Home Data & Analytics Data Infographics Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries … Knowledgebase Data Sources Available from AHRQ Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries … Among Children, 2017   Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Children, 2017 (PDF … Statistical Brief #255, Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits Involving Traumatic Brain Injury … Page originally created May 2020 Internet Citation: Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries

7. 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.

8. COVID-19 Pandemic Led to Long Absences, Reduced Hours, and Job Exits Among the U.S. Healthcare Workforce (pdf file)
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   May 11, 2023 - Yearly work injury rates per 100 full-time-equivalent workers (left) and illness incidence rates per … Note: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration considers an injury or illness work related if … definitions/occupational-safety-and-health-definitions.htm ◆ The work injury … ◆ The work injury incidence rate for ambulatory healthcare services decreased 19% from 2.1 per 100 … ◆ The work injury incidence rate for the nursing and residential care facilities industry decreased

9. 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.

10. 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. 

11. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 29, 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.

12. Overuse of Imaging for the Evaluation of Children with Post-Traumatic Headache (pdf file)
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    December 17, 2019 - Over the past decade, ED visits for traumatic brain injuries have increased substantially (Coronado, … , seizure associated with trauma, loss of consciousness associated with trauma, repeated vomiting, documented … These risks include dental trauma; airway edema (swelling of the windpipe); vocal cord spasm or injury … Over the past decade, ED visits for traumatic brain injuries have increased substantially. … in a non-trauma center.

13. Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices (doc file)
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    June 30, 2017 - It defines the first level of injury from a fall as: None, or no injury: The patient is free of injuries … with ice, cleaning the wound, limb elevation, topical medication, or a bruise or abrasion. … Death: The patient died because of injuries sustained from the fall (not from physiologic events causing … the Team does not agree to use these definitions, ask them what definitions they will use for fall injuries … Interventions to prevent falls and fall injuries are tracked.

14. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - (253) Imaging (245) Implementation (191) Infectious Diseases (260) Influenza (41) Injuries … and Wounds (207) Inpatient Care (220) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) (264) Kidney Disease and … center (NTC) and were diagnosed with a traumatic injury with an injury severity score of greater than … , major chest injury, and presentation at a teaching hospital. … , Injuries and Wounds Cron DC , Braun HJ , Ascher NL Sex-based disparities in access to

15. 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

16. Data Visualizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - Grants Health Insurance HIV Hospital Safety Hospital-Acquired Conditions Hospitalizations Influenza Injuries … Poverty Prescription Drugs Sick Leave Social Determinants of Health Surgery Technology Traumatic Brain Injury … Sick Leave Among Wage Earners, 2017 Overview of Emergency Department Visits Related to Injuries … , by Cause of Injury, 2017 Poverty and Access to Internet, by County

17. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries

18. Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices—Training Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - injuries (no signs or symptoms) resulting from the fall. … treating with ice, cleaning the wound, limb elevation, topical medication, or a bruise or abrasion. … Death : The patient died because of injuries sustained from the fall (not from physiologic events causing … the Team does not agree to use these definitions, ask them what definitions they will use for fall injuries … Interventions to prevent falls and fall injuries are tracked.

19. We Must Not Underestimate the Impacts of Gun Violence on Healthcare Workers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - recognized; too often we may assume that healthcare workers are hardened to such events, given the daily trauma

20. Improving Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - 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