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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. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
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   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

4. Module 3: Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention (doc file)
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   June 12, 2018 - Any patient with an existing pressure injury is at risk for additional injuries. · Determine whether … Int Wound J 2010;7:358-65. PMID:20561094. … as possible, integrate the skin exam into the normal workflow. · Determine the correct etiology of wounds … · Consider having a wound care expert or nurse from another unit with wound expertise round with unit … SAY: The answer is the wound or ostomy nurse consult revealed a slightly pink coccyx.

5. Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention
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   November 20, 2014 - Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention Best Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention ADD Hospital … literature and expert opinion—that represent the best ways we currently know of preventing pressure injuries … assessment. 10 Barriers to Practice Finding time for skin assessments Determining correct etiology of wounds … Page 42 14 Pressure Injury risk assessment BEST PRACTICE 15 Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Next … Care planning guides what will be done to prevent pressure injuries. 23 Pressure Injury care planning

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. 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

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. 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. 

10. 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.

11. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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    August 31, 2017 - Prevention Group or the Wound Care Group. … at least two other types of teams in any patient care unit where changes are to be implemented: the Wound … ASK: Do you have a Wound Care Team or Wound Care Nurse in this hospital? … Once you examine and understand current practices that are being used to help prevent pressure injuries … current policies and practices, you understand what this hospital currently does to prevent pressure injuries

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. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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

20. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Final Results for 2014 Through 2017 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2020 - Central Venous Catheters Falls MPSMS In-Hospital Patient Falls Obstetric Adverse Events PSI OB Trauma … National number of adverse events captured by PSIs 18 and 19 on obstetric injury and national number … Accidental Puncture/Laceration 32,396 19,811,918 5,220 4,824,816 5,095 4,806,878 PSI 18, Obstetric Trauma … Vaginal Delivery with Instrument 14,663 121,323 17,925 165,125 17,891 156,244 PSI 19, Obstetric Trauma … Patient Falls 239,286 8.04 225,199 7.57 223,106 7.50 226,642 7.62 Obstetric Adverse Events PSI OB Trauma