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61. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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    April 27, 2022 - medication reconciliation and education prior to discharge reported higher patient satisfaction scores; lower … medication reconciliation and education prior to discharge reported higher patient satisfaction scores; lower … Studies were generally from lower and lower-middle income countries and focused primarily on strengthening

62. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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    March 31, 2022 - Burnout in healthcare providers has been linked to lower patient safety and increased adverse events. … situation pre-merger, findings show that in-hospital mortality and hospital-acquired infection rates were lower … Burnout in healthcare providers has been linked to lower patient safety and increased adverse events. … of 50 pack-years of cigarette smoking presented to her primary care physician (PCP), concerned about lower

63. Advance Alert Monitor Program: An Automated Early Warning System for Adults At Risk for In-Hospital Clinical Deterioration | PSNet
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    April 24, 2024 - Key results from implementation of the AAM program include lower mortality within 30 days of an alert … , reduction of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, decreased hospital length of stay, lower 30-day … alert threshold during 43,949 hospitalizations. 1 Implementation of the intervention resulted in a lower

64. Quality and Safety. | PSNet
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    September 21, 2022 - made in the adoption of infrastructure, Safety I, and Safety II concepts in high- and middle- to lower-income … January 30, 2019 Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care

65. Nothing Called Small Surgery | PSNet
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    February 01, 2023 - extremity tourniquet pressure should not exceed 250 mmHg in the upper extremity and 350 mmHg in the lower … extremity; 11–15 the pressure required to prevent blood flow in the digits is often even lower because … digital artery pressures are lower than arterial pressures in the extremities.   … range 3.8 to 7.7 hours). 20  Numerous studies have demonstrated their safety and efficacy in upper and lower

66. Overdose on Oxygen? | PSNet
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    June 01, 2010 - The chest radiograph revealed bilateral lower lobe infiltrates. … abnormally low blood oxygen tension and have adjusted physiologically; their bodies become accustomed to lower … with exacerbated COPD.( 7 ) Selected patients with a history of respiratory acidosis may require a lower … Some patients with previous episodes of respiratory acidosis may require an "oxygen alert card" with a lower

67. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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    June 30, 2021 - minimum nurse staffing ratios, length of stay, mortality, and readmission rates were significantly lower … Women exposed to maternal near miss events were more likely to have overall lower quality of life, poorer … minimum nurse staffing ratios, length of stay, mortality, and readmission rates were significantly lower … Women exposed to maternal near miss events were more likely to have overall lower quality of life, poorer

68. Measuring patient safety events: opportunities and challenges. | PSNet
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    February 15, 2023 - October 16, 2019 A culture of openness is associated with lower mortality rates among 137

69. Weight and Height Juxtaposition in the Electronic Medical Record Causing an Accidental Medication Overdose | PSNet
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    March 15, 2023 - presented again to the ED with worsening hand pain, associated with swelling of her hands, feet, and lower … She was alert and playful, with slight swelling on her lower lip, but no tongue swelling or angioedema … Consequently, healthcare staff may lower alert volumes, disregard alerts, or deactivate them. … WebM&M Cases Under Pressure: Delayed Diagnosis of Compartment Syndrome after Lower

70. The quality connection. | PSNet
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    November 25, 2020 - Results showed lower mortality rates among the 100 "Most Wired" hospitals, or those hospitals exhibiting

71. AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments: A Journey to Excellence. | PSNet
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    May 01, 2022 - January 27, 2021 Is my patient ready for a safe transfer to a lower-intensity care setting

72. In Conversation with... Susan McGrath, PhD and George Blike, MD about Surveillance Monitoring | PSNet
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    April 26, 2023 - care setting, the prevalence of people who are deteriorating in a way that needs attention is much lower … The lower thresholds allow you to get to those severe and sustained events, while preventing the issues … For example, George wanted the oxygen saturation alarm to be lower than 80, and the nurses came back … In contrast, patients on a general care unit are considered lower acuity. … The SpO 2 trigger threshold for surveillance monitoring is between 80% and 85%, which is lower than

73. Anchoring Bias With Critical Implications | PSNet
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    July 18, 2018 - On exam his left lower leg was dusky in color with extreme tenderness to palpation and his pulses could … trauma patients who had already received a primary and second survey.( 19 ) In this case, a structured lower … Does the clinical examination predict lower extremity peripheral arterial disease?

74. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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    July 01, 2005 - patients, particularly elderly patients, start with 5 mg of warfarin Other factors associated with lower … required to achieve INR of 2.5, could give a modestly higher dose of 7.5 mg on days 4 and 5 and then lower … pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15338843 Take-Home Points Hospitalized patients generally require lower

75. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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    January 01, 2006 - Pulmonary Embolism Following Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Diagnosis Risk of symptomatic PE in patients with lower … of deaths following hip fracture surgery due to PE PE identified at autopsy in 60% of patients with lower … Clinical Risk Factors Surgery Highest in orthopedic, spinal, pelvic, and neurosurgery Trauma Lower

76. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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    May 16, 2022 - Latino patients who experience racism in healthcare, report worse views on the quality of their care and lower … In this study, limited English proficiency was associated with lower odds of speaking up or asking questions … Latino patients who experience racism in healthcare, report worse views on the quality of their care and lower

77. Risk assessment of the acute stroke diagnostic process using failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis. | PSNet
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    July 21, 2021 - the Same Author(s) Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower … WebM&M Cases Under Pressure: Delayed Diagnosis of Compartment Syndrome after Lower … August 25, 2021 Stroke hospitalization after misdiagnosis of "benign dizziness" is lower

78. Hip Fractures in Older Patients: the Case for Geriatrics Comanagement | PSNet
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    February 01, 2019 - The literature demonstrates that early surgery is associated with lower complication rates and 1-year … 31,242 hip fracture patients age 60 and older found that patients operated on within 48 hours had a 20% lower … Because of this, hip fracture patients are typically given lower priority with regard to operating room

79. Intraosseous Line Extravasation in a Pediatric Trauma Patient | PSNet
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    September 29, 2021 - During surgery, her left lower extremity was palpated frequently and a pulse oximeter was placed distally … IO placement include decreased pain, higher first attempt success rate, and utility in patients with lower … Acute compartment syndrome in lower extremity musculoskeletal trauma. … Bilateral lower extremity compartment syndromes secondary to intraosseous fluid resuscitation. … Compartment syndrome of the lower extremity after intraosseous infusion of fluid.

80. Organisational failure: rethinking whistleblowing for tomorrow's doctors. | PSNet
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    June 22, 2022 - Normalization of deviance describes a situation where individuals, teams or organizations accept a lower … standard of performance until that lower standard becomes the “ norm ” and can threaten patient safety