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381. Draft Final Report Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated with Selected Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications2/files/hac-cost-report2017.pdf
     November 01, 2017 - , Closed"[Mesh] OR "Craniocerebral Trauma"[Mesh] OR "Cerebrovascular Trauma"[Mesh] OR "Cerebrovascular … Ostomy/wound Mgmt. 2016 Nov;62(11):30. d Weiser TG, Semel ME, Simon AE, et al. … Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization … The costs of medical falls by component of cost, timing, and injury severity. … Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization

382. Draft Final Report Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated with Selected Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/hac-cost-report2017.pdf
     November 01, 2017 - , Closed"[Mesh] OR "Craniocerebral Trauma"[Mesh] OR "Cerebrovascular Trauma"[Mesh] OR "Cerebrovascular … Ostomy/wound Mgmt. 2016 Nov;62(11):30. d Weiser TG, Semel ME, Simon AE, et al. … Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization … The costs of medical falls by component of cost, timing, and injury severity. … Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization

383. Implementing Opioid Risk Screening for Older Adults Using Automated Patient Reminders in an Electronic Health Record Case Study (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/opioids/compendium/opioids-case-study-risk-screening.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - older adult patient on LTOT completed two annual screenings: the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries … ▶ Electronic Health Records system: Athena ▶ Percent of older adult patients (60+): 30% 1 MD = Medical … ▶ Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) tool for assessing fall risk.

384. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Neurodevelopment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-neurodevt.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - ■ BPD, even in the absence of overt brain injury, is a risk factor for neurodevelopmental delay. … instruments have excellent psychometric properties and are comparable to screening tests administered by medical

385. Transforming Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/transform.html
     December 01, 2017 - Building a Safer Health System , exposed the tremendous costs, both in human and financial terms, of medical … report indicate that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year in the United States as a result of medical … Patient Falls Patient falls, which are common in hospitals, can result in serious injuries, extend … By 2020 the estimated annual cost of fall injuries for older people will exceed $30 billion. 7-8 Now … improving light sources for surgical staff; and designing patient beds to reduce back stress, fatigue, and injuries

386. Strategies to Better Engineer Safety into Healthcare Delivery (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/safety-engineering-strategies.pdf
     March 06, 2025 - that make it more difficult for people to make errors in care delivery or experience a work-related injury … designed to reduce the transmission of healthcare-associated infections and the risk of occupational injury … In 2007, responding to these risks, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center implemented pulse-oximetry-based … Healthcare Settings includes strategies to identify risks and hazards and prevent/control work-related injury … /medsun-medical-product-safety-network/medsun-newsletters https://www.patientsafety.va.gov/professionals

387. Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Imaging in the Emergency Department: A Research Agenda to Optimize Utilization (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/marin-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - unnecessary and can occur as a result.29-32 Intravenous contrast may be associated with acute kidney injury … their initial list in 2013, 43 which includes “avoiding head CT scans in patients with minor head injury … Diagnostic Emergency Imaging Utilization at an Academic Trauma Center From 1996 to 2012. … Use of advanced radiology during visits to US emergency departments for injury-related conditions, 1998 … Incidental findings on total-body CT scans in trauma patients. Injury 2014;45(5):840–4. 33.

388. Researcher Akira Nishisaki Designs Quality Improvement Processes To Reduce Harm in Pediatric ICUs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/961.html
     June 01, 2025 - (Source: AHRQ Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief #561, Expenditures for Key Diet-Related … Nishisaki’s team created the  airway bundle checklist , a tool medical teams could easily use at the … Nishisaki serves as chair of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network … Anneliese Schleyer, M.D., M.H.A., a practicing hospitalist and chief medical officer at UW Medicine in … Validity evidence of a resuscitation team leadership assessment measure for use in actual trauma resuscitations

389. Chartbook on Healthy Living: National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/qdr2015-chartbook-healthyliving.pdf
     January 01, 2020 - , and ■ Birth trauma not elsewhere classified. 24  Many of these injuries to neonates may be preventable … . 25 Birth trauma—injury to neonate per 1,000 live births, 2004-2013 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 …  Trends: ■ Birth trauma-neonatal injury rates fell from 2.6 per 1,000 live births in 2004 to … ■ Between 2004 and 2013, birth trauma-neonatal injury rates fell for all racial/ethnic groups, … Birth Trauma Rate—Injury to Neonate: Technical Specifications.

390. Peer Review at AHRQ - Study Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/peerrev.html
     January 01, 2025 - It reviews applications relating to identifying risks and hazards that lead to medical errors and identifying … solutions to prevent patient injury associated with delivery of health care. … The research findings and products encompass providing information on the scope and impact of medical … quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of care; quality improvement research; examining and improving medical … Dissemination and translation of research findings and methods to reduce medical errors, examining effective

391. Final Progress Report: Enhancing the Safety of Warfarin in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/gurwitz-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - most frail patients in the geriatric population and are at increased risk for drug-related iatrogenic injury … We identified preventable adverse events associated with warfarin therapy, defined as injuries resulting … of potential warfarin-related adverse events (situations in which the INR was 4.5 or greater and no injury … Physician reviewers determined occurrence of adverse warfarin events (AWEs; injuries resulting from … Little is known about the quality of warfarin monitoring and risk of drug injury in this population.

392. P14: Is Telehealth Effective for Providing Nurse-Led Healthcare to Vulnerable Populations in Colorado? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p14-barton.html
     May 01, 2024 - Appendix D: Grant Summaries P1: Does A New Care Model Improve Care for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury … Reform Models P7: Understanding the Relationship Between Proximity and Utilization of Patient-Centered Medical … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical

393. S5: Developing a Mobile Tool to Improve Self-Care and Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s5-jih.html
     May 01, 2024 - Appendix D: Grant Summaries P1: Does A New Care Model Improve Care for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury … Reform Models P7: Understanding the Relationship Between Proximity and Utilization of Patient-Centered Medical … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical

394. P11: Identifying Ways to Improve Preventive Care for Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p11-devoe.html
     May 01, 2024 - Appendix D: Grant Summaries P1: Does A New Care Model Improve Care for Patients with Acute Kidney Injury … Reform Models P7: Understanding the Relationship Between Proximity and Utilization of Patient-Centered Medical … Understanding How Nurse Practitioners Increase Access to Primary Care S9: Using Integrated Social and Medical

395. Final Progress Report: Weekend Effects and the July Phenomenon in Patient Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/weissman-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - The PSIs identify “birth trauma” in low-risk births with documentation of hypoxic injury, nerve injuries … , and several other types of injuries. … anesthetic poisoning AND active drug dependence, active nondependent abuse of drugs, or self-inflicted injury … (N) Inc: liveborn infants Exc: infants w/subdural or cerebral hemorrhage, pre-term infants, injury … Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I. [see comments.].

396. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=6
     January 01, 2024 - Improvement Publication Date: April 2018 Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury … Date: September 2017 Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical … Medication Safety, Pediatrics Publication Date: August 2017 Improving Patient Safety in Orthopedic Trauma … Publication Date: August 2017 Simulation to Support Competency-Based Training in Orthopedic Trauma

397. 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Executive Summary (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2022qdr-final-es.pdf
     October 01, 2022 - injury deaths), followed by accidental falls and motor vehicle accidents (each of which accounted for … approximately 20% of unintentional injuries) … an important cause of death that disproportionately affects younger populations, was unintentional injury … • Among the top 10 causes of YPLL, rates of unintentional injury, heart disease, liver disease, and … Demographics Health Measures Social Determinants of Health Healthcare Delivery Systems Ambulatory Medical

398. Cover slide
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/patfamilyengagement/CUSP-Patient-Family-Engagement.pptx
     May 01, 2013 - How-to strategies Engaging after an adverse event Introduction to Adverse Events Adverse event: An injury … to a patient caused by medical intervention rather than by the underlying disease or condition of the … Victim: Health Care Workers7 Health care workers involved in an adverse event experience their own trauma … their hospital and peers Hospitals have developed Employee Assistance Programs and Medically Induced Trauma … Medical error: the second victim. The doctor who makes the mistake needs help, too.

399. Availability and Use of State Medicaid HCBS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/find3.html
     December 01, 2012 - services may not be limited on the basis of disability group (e.g., limited only to people with brain injuries … defined by age, type of disability (e.g., physical disability, developmental disability, traumatic brain injury … Many fewer were enrolled in waivers serving people with specific clinical conditions (brain injury, HIV … Durable medical equipment and supplies are an interesting exception. … The number of people benefiting from durable medical equipment/supplies is likely even higher when one

400. Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017.html
     November 01, 2017 - Comparison to 2010 AHRQ estimates Summary Despite advancements in infection control and injury prevention … injuries or adverse events; or exposure to pathogens, such as Clostridium difficile . … Beginning in 2008, CMS identified the HACs (e.g., CAUTI, falls and trauma, surgical site infection) for … Falls Fall during an inpatient admission, with or without injury, whether or not fall was assisted. … It includes eclampsia, infection not present on admission, injury to other body part, and fetal or maternal