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5541. Screening for Dementia in Primary Care: A Summary of the Evidence (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2003 - hospitalizations, institutionalizations, or health care visits; behavioral problems; caregiver burden; accidental injuries … studies rarely addressed other important health outcomes such as utilization of health care services, injuries … suffer from progressive cognitive and functional dependence, psychotic and depressive symptoms, and injuries … caregiver burden, increased use of health care, problem behaviors, psychiatric symptoms, and accidental injury … institutionalizations, and health care visits; fewer behavioral problems; reduced caregiver stress; fewer injuries

5542. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 28, 2024 - The MA stated that the patient never reported that the wound was red, hot, foul- smelling, swollen, … The surgeon’s MA removed the patient’s sutures and noted that the wound was not infected or swollen. … dehiscence, or nerve injury. … Minimize tissue trauma and achieve good hemostasis to promote faster healing and reduce the risk of … Instruct the patient on proper wound care, including keeping the bandage and wound clean and dry.

5543. Trauma-Child-Interventions Executive (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2013 - including disturbed sleep, agitation, headache, abdominal pain, nausea, pharyngitis, vomiting, accidental injury … treated in an emergency department who had already experienced accidents (motor vehicle, thermal injuries … , natural disasters, war or political violence, or other types of traumas. … Traumas and posttraumatic stress disorder in a community population of older adolescents. … The efficacy of early propranolol administration at reducing PTSD symptoms in pediatric injury patients

5544. Ratio of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans to Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Seizure: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0197-fullreport.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - These complications include compromised airway, hypoxia leading to central nervous system injury, and … moderate and deep sedation carry risk of airway compromise, hypoxia resulting in central nervous system injury … These risks include dental trauma; airway edema (swelling of the windpipe); vocal cord spasm or injury … ; regurgitation of stomach contents with subsequent aspiration (inhalation) pneumonia; injury to arteries … ACR Appropriateness Criteria: Head trauma — Child. American College of Radiology, 2014.

5545. Opioid Safety | PSNet
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      December 15, 2024 - monitored carefully in patients (such as those with cancer or those recovering from severe traumatic injuries

5546. Part 1: Overviews of the Report and the Hispanic Population | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2020 - Leading causes of morbidity and mortality include heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke

5547. Final Progress Report: Disseminating a Web-Enabled Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) Toolkit for Designing Safer Healthcare Facilities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/taylor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - ,” including infections, falls, medication errors, immobility-related outcomes, security breaches, injury … associated with behavioral health, and musculoskeletal/other injuries associated with patient handling … organized around six key safety areas: infection control, medication safety, falls, patient handling, injury … concern for most healthcare organizations today, with estimates that there were 3.8 million hospital injuries … in 2015, which translates to 115 injuries per 1,000 patient hospital stays.6 From an adverse event

5548. Statistical Brief #129: Rates of Obstetric Trauma, 2009 (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2012 - Trauma, 2009 Anika L. … Potentially avoidable injuries, such as obstetric trauma during vaginal deliveries, may lead to increased … as trends in obstetric trauma over time. … Obstetric trauma was measured using two of the AHRQ PSIs. … Rates of Obstetric Trauma, 2009. HCUP Statistical Brief #129. April 2012.

5549. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2019 - Development of cellulitis is generally associated with skin surface disruption due to recent trauma, … These included venous stasis dermatitis (37%), trauma-related inflammation (5%), deep vein thrombosis … Wound cultures should be obtained if purulence is present. … concern for necrotizing infection, peri-rectal infections, bites, cellulitis associated with aquatic injuries … patients with more severe infections including cellulitis/erysipelas, major cutaneous abscess, or wound

5550. Polysubstance Use & Integrated Behavioral Health | AHRQ
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      February 01, 2025 - the effects of one substance by taking another Prevent withdrawal symptoms Cope with daily effects of trauma … potentially fatal ones Depressants with Depressants (e.g. opioids and benzodiazepines) Accidents or injury … That said, the use of Buprenorphine and benzodiazepines increases the risk for death and accidental injury … problems, including genetics, epigenetics, brain region involvement, environmental influences, stress, trauma … National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Drug Overdose Prevention.

5551. Imp-Handouts (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/imp-handouts.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - Report data help identify residents with new ADL decline, fall risk, or fall injury, therefore at risk … Rehab Managers Weekly huddle to review residents at risk for ADL decline or fall or with fall injury … DON or ADON, nurse manager, wound nurse, physician, NP, and QI Director. … The team conducting wound rounds typically attends this meeting for a more detailed review of the … Discharge diagnoses were dehydration, fall with injury, cellulitis, and angina.

5552. Transitioning Newborns from NICU to Home: Family Information Packet, Appendix B (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - are at risk for zinc deficiency and may need supplementation: – Poor growth, diarrhea, impaired wound … ■ BPD, even in the absence of overt brain injury, is a risk factor for neurodevelopmental delay. … ■ Peristomal skin must be protected from mechanical trauma due to use of aggressive adhesives, improper … stenosis may be caused by intraoperative damage to cricoid, tracheostomy placed too high, mucosal trauma … – Gastric or esophageal trauma during placement.

5553. Archived: Final Research Plan: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/ResearchPlanFinal/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
      January 23, 2014 - Perioperative complications including stroke, death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, cranial nerve injuries

5554. Archived: Final Research Plan: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan36/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
      January 23, 2014 - Perioperative complications including stroke, death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, cranial nerve injuries

5555. HCUP Award for Outstanding Research - Archive of Recipients
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      November 01, 2024 - The epidemiology of inpatient pediatric trauma in United States hospitals 2000 to 2011. … Emergency Department Visits for Firearm-Related Injuries In The United States, 2006-14.

5556. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Assessment of Primary Care of the Elderly (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/karsh-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - hazards. 18,19,33 3 It is well recognized in safety engineering that the heart of safety lies not in injuries … A hazard is anything that increases the probability of errors or of patient/ employee injury and is … -Minimal or no chronic problems -Orthopedic injury without hospitalization and no chronic problems related … -Sutures removed too soon after minor surgical procedure and wound dehiscence, which requires 6 weeks … Patient gets dizzy after first dose, falls, but no injury and stops med.

5557. In Conversation with… Edward Tenner, PhD | PSNet
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      June 01, 2011 - analysts who see this behavior as a universal law: automobile seat belts actually do reduce deaths and injuries … While the team adjusted the table, it swung loose and the patient fell to the floor but sustained no injury

5558. Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2022 - private-public partnerships to: (1) identify the causes of preventable health care errors and patient injury … Education in 2003 and that the long shifts medical interns worked led to 61 percent more needlestick injuries

5559. Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/advancing-patient-safety.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - private-public partnerships to: (1) identify the causes of preventable health care errors and patient injury … Education in 2003 and that the long shifts medical interns worked led to 61 percent more needlestick injuries

5560. Chronic Pain | CDS Connect
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