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  1. Chronic Pain | CDS Connect

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    August 23, 2024 - Search All AHRQ Sites Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Email Updates

  2. Rotator-Cuff-Tear-Surveillance-140925 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/rotator-cuff-tear-surveillance-140925.pdf
    February 01, 2014 - comorbidities, workers’ compensation claims) and clinical (e.g., size/severity of tear, duration of injury … torn or lesion* or rupture* or avuls* or injur* or repair* or debride*)).mp. (11259) 3 exp tendon injuries … torn or lesion* or rupture* or avuls* or injur* or repair* or debride*)).mp. (11259) 123 exp tendon injuries … Patients with trauma had a statistically higher prevalence of stiffness (P = .0264). … Patients with trauma had a statistically higher prevalence of stiffness (P = .0264). 60

  3. Managing Ascites: Hazards of Fluid Removal | PSNet

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    June 01, 2018 - This is because the risk of developing acute kidney injury and/or hepatorenal syndrome is highest in … Guidelines for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in the trauma

  4. Hiding in Plain Sight | PSNet

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    April 24, 2019 - She was diagnosed with a musculoskeletal injury and discharged from the ED with muscle relaxants and … • Cancer • Chronic steroid therapy • Psychological stress • Trauma

  5. Archived: Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

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    January 01, 1996 - fractures in persons aged 45 or older are types that are related to osteoporosis. 2 Most of these injuries … counseling regarding preventive measures to reduce the risk of falls and the severity of fall-related injuries

  6. Table 5.A.1. Evidence Table (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-143-section-5a-evidence-table.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - trigger report system to detect patients at risk for nephrotoxic medication-associated acute kidney injury … (NTMx-AKI) before the injury occurs. … Development and Performance of Electronic Acute Kidney Injury Triggers to Identify Pediatric

  7. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP KIDS' INPATIENT DATABASE (KID), 2016

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    January 01, 2016 - The collection and reporting of external cause of injury (E codes under ICD-9-CM) and external cause … Beginning in 2003, the diagnosis array does not include any of external cause of injury codes. … acute care hospital, (2) transferred out to another type of health facility External causes of injury … Beginning in 2003, external cause of injury codes are stored in a separate array ECODEn from the diagnosis … I10_NECAUSE Number of external cause of injury codes on the original record.

  8. CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) Candidate Measure Submission Form (CPCF) (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2014 - and service line (e.g., nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, infectious disease, injury

  9. Adolescent Diabetes: A Routine Visit? | PSNet

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    November 18, 2016 - 44.7 No. of emergency department (ED) visits attributed to nonfatal sexual assault injuries … 19,777 29,553 Rate per 100,000 population of ED visits for nonfatal sexual assault injuries

  10. Presentation: Optimize Your Briefings and Debriefings

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    December 01, 2017 - defines a sentinel event as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury … Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. … for improvement Ask if instrument, sponge, and needle counts are correct Record name of procedure and wound … Patient positioned to prevent injury Potential problems of the case identified and discussed All equipment

  11. Pain Management Interventions for Elderly Patients With Hip Fracture | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  12. Overuse of Imaging for the Evaluation of Children with Simple Febrile Seizure: Final Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-192-fullreport.pdf
    November 01, 2019 - These complications include compromised airway, hypoxia leading to central nervous system injury, and … sedation, moderate and deep sedation carry a greater risk of airway compromise, hypoxia resulting in CNS 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 … Incidental findings in children with blunt head trauma evaluated with cranial CT scans.

  13. Putoolssect7 (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.docx
    February 16, 2011 - Pressure ulcers are sterile wounds. 36. … Pressure ulcers are sterile wounds. False 36. … If a skin disruption is found, the type of skin injury will need to be identified. … For example is it a skin tear, a pressure ulcer, or moisture-associated skin damage or injury? … unit staff for pressure ulcer practice Certified Wound Care Nurse · Assesses wounds, does complex

  14. CVC Placement: Speak Now or Do Not Use the Line | PSNet

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    November 01, 2003 - The possibilities for harm are numerous and include accidental trauma to non-venous structures (arteries … , lung, nerve, visceral organs); bleeding (hematoma, hemothorax, or hemorrhage); operator injury (needle … wire, bloodstream infections, sheared catheter, dysrhythmias, thrombosis, through-and-through vessel trauma

  15. Central Line Clot | PSNet

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    August 04, 2021 - or more risk factors identified only one patient with a DVT.( 9 ) A retrospective study of pediatric trauma … Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Anaesthesia), Harvard Medical School Chair, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury … Deep venous thrombosis in the pediatric trauma population: an unusual event: report of three cases.

  16. Efforts To Improve Patient Safety Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Patient Harms | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    November 01, 2015 - 2 In 2010 an HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) team identified the rate of harm—that is, injuries … This estimate is based on analysis of data from HCUP identifying injuries in 7.45 million hospital discharge

  17. Case Report on Ambulatory Safety and Quality (pdf file)

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    September 05, 2017 - Recent illness or tissue injury, and chronic inflammation from arthritis can increase CRP levels and … AST & ALT Injury to cells releases these enzymes into the blood. … Liver disease and heart attacks, as well as serious physical injury can cause elevation of these … Levels can be elevated with age, as a result of injury, sexual activity (ejaculation), inflammation

  18. Z8Avschjezubsjtdsx424H (pdf file)

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    May 23, 2019 - and injury (4). … 54, 58, 59, 61), psychological scores (54, 59), and lifestyle improvements or reduced accidents and injuries … Alcohol and non-fatal injury in the U.S. general population: a risk function analysis. … Alcohol interventions in a trauma center [Abstract]. … Alcohol interventions in a trauma center as a means of reducing the risk of injury recurrence.

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49522/psn-pdf
    November 01, 2006 - Intramuscular injection site injuries masquerading as pressure ulcers. Wounds. 2003;15:302-312.

  20. Detailed Findings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    August 01, 2022 - resolution program decisionmakers to involve all of the essential elements of a negligence claim: an injury … addressing the problem so that no other patient is harmed in the same way, as it is to get compensation for injury … understanding of the immense distance between the health care system’s current response to medical injury … perinatal safety projects undertaken by Ascension Health had shown some success in reducing preventable injuries … Adverse Outcome Score (WAOS), the Severity Index (SI), and the AHRQ Patient Safety Index (PSI) 17-birth trauma
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