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81. Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s Success in Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Approximately 25% of hospital falls result in injuries, including fractures and death (Heng, et al., … Specialist joined the Quality department at CRH and explored ways to reduce patient falls and subsequent injuries … The goal of this initiative was to decrease patient falls and falls with injury. … in falls and falls with injury. … Root cause analyses are completed for each fall resulting in significant injury.

82. Final Progress Report: Unexpected Clinical Events: Impact on Patient Safety (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Seven cases led to patient injury. … The goal of all safety efforts should be to reduce the chances of future injuries through the redesign … Barach P and Weinger MB: Trauma team performance. Wilson, W. C., Grande, C. M., Hoyt, D. … TRAUMA: Resuscitation, Anesthesia, Surgery, and Critical Care. Marcel Dekker: New York (in press). … acute care medicine, with an emphasis on methods to train and measure a team’s quality of care in the trauma

83. Chartbook on Hispanic Health Care: Slide Presentation—Part 4 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/hisph-slides-pt4.html
    March 01, 2020 - Hispanic, Border County: Medical - 38.7, Surgical - 14.8, Mental - 3.7, Injury - 3.5, Maternal - 20.2 … Non-Hispanic, Border County: Medical - 45.9, Surgical - 22.3, Mental - 6.0, Injury - 5.2, Maternal - … Hispanic, Non- Border County: Medical - 37.1, Surgical - 15.8, Mental - 4.0, Injury - 3.4, Maternal - … injuries. … Injuries: Any external cause of injury code indicating motor vehicle accident and unintentional injuries

84. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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    March 01, 2017 - Assistance in healing of open pressure ulcers, skin grafts, and stage III or IV perineal and sacral wounds … Management of the neurogenic bladder for adults with spinal cord injuries. … resident) · After having contact with body fluids or excretions, mucous membranes, nonintact skin and wound … This will help to reduce urethral and bladder injury (e.g., irritation, hemorrhage, ulceration), which … Examples when a suprapubic catheter is used include— · Urethral injuries or trauma · Urethral obstruction

85. Appendix F. CAUTI Prevention in Long-Term Care: Frequently Asked Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Assistance in healing of open pressure ulcers, skin grafts, and stage III or IV perineal and sacral wounds … After having contact with body fluids or excretions, mucous membranes, nonintact skin and wound dressings … or trauma. … Bowel perforation and intra-abdominal injuries are possible during the insertion. … Management of the neurogenic bladder for adults with spinal cord injuries.

86. Chapter 1 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2002 - Rehabilitation services may include medical or surgical therapy, environmental measures, or social and … As such, rehabilitation would differ little from medical intervention. … Aside from the few types of more common and medically-oriented rehabilitation (such as for stroke and trauma … of stroke rehabilitation, care may be provided across multiple settings, depending on the patient's medical … Closely integrated with mainstream medical care. Well reimbursed.

87. The Emergency Department & Catheter Insertions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Keeps patients from having to get up to urinate, protecting them from injury. … Trauma) Admitting service (e.g. … Is immobilization needed for trauma or surgery? … Is the patient incontinent with open sacral or perineal wounds? … Protocolized care for trauma Incontinence without open sacral or perineal wounds Pre-operative

88. Data Visualizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - Insurance Health Systems HIV Hospital Safety Hospital-Acquired Conditions Hospitalizations Influenza Injuries … Prescription Drugs Sepsis Sick Leave Social Determinants of Health Surgery Technology Traumatic Brain Injury … Patient Safety Dashboard Flu’s Annual Impact Visualized Traumatic Brain Injury … in Health Insurance at Private Employers, 2008–2022 Grants by State Medical

89. QDR 2014: Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care, Part 4 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2014 - County Medical Surgical Mental Injury Maternal Neonatal Percentage of Inpatient Stays, by Service … County Medical Surgical Mental Injury Maternal Neonatal Chartbook on Health Care for Hispanics … Resident, Non-Border Hospital Medical Surgical Mental Injury Maternal Neonatal Source: Agency … County Hospital Medical Surgical Mental Injury Maternal Neonatal Percentage of Inpatient Stays … : Any external cause of injury code indicating motor vehicle accident and unintentional injuries (screen

90. Final Progress Report: NPSF Joint Medical-Legal Conference at SMU (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2025 - to patients (when such injuries involve medical mistakes); and (4) identification of needed model … Disclosure was also defined as a process of defusing the situation of a medical error resulting in injury … practitioner following a patient injury arising in whole or in part from a medical error shall be … to make people whole was designed by the US Constitution, but, when it comes to medical mistake injuries … There was also discussion of the fact that the concept of just compensation for injuries caused by medical

91. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation: Introduction, Evidence, and Implementation: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Today, Dräger is a leading international company in the fields of medical and safety technology, producing … Slide 11: Endotracheal Intubation Say: Another medical practice that helped propel positive pressure … There’s also a cyclical type of trauma that occurs, often called “atelectrauma.” … There’s some sort of priming insult, such as pneumonia, sepsis, severe trauma, noncardiogenic shock, … Insults secondary to mechanical ventilation include ventilation-induced lung injuries.

92. Part 4: Health Care of Residents of the U.S.-Mexico Border (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - injuries. … , surgical, and medical. … The discharge is assigned to medical if the DRG indicates ungroupable. … Age-Sex Adjusted Rate of Injury Inpatient Stays, by Ethnicity Age-Sex Adjusted Rate of Injury Inpatient … Age-Sex Adjusted Rate of Medical Inpatient Stays, by Ethnicity Age-Sex Adjusted Rate of Medical Inpatient

93. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Today, Dräger is a leading international company in the fields of medical and safety technology, producing … Slide 10 Endotracheal Intubation SAY: Another medical practice that helped propel positive pressure … There’s also a cyclical type of trauma that occurs, often called “atelectrauma.” … There’s some sort of priming insult, such as pneumonia, sepsis, severe trauma, noncardiogenic shock, … Insults secondary to mechanical ventilation include ventilation-induced lung injuries.

94. NPSD Data Spotlight: Patterns of Fall Interventions (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2023 - COMMON INTERVENTION(S) IN PLACE FOR PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS OR RISKS OF FALLS OR INJURIES … commonFormatsOverview ii Event categories (or modules, types) of the CFER-H include: Blood or Blood Product, Device or Medical … health considerations.1–4 Falls result in significant physical and economic burden, ranging from injuries … Incidence of and county variation in fall injuries in US residents aged 65 years or older, 2016-2019 … Trends in fatal and nonfatal injuries among older Americans, 2004– 2017. Am. J. Prev.

95. Slide 1
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    January 01, 2020 - Center Utilization for Severe Injuries Trauma care systems were developed to provide complex medical … Level II: Provide initial definitive trauma care regardless of the severity of the injury. … Importance: Well-coordinated and timely treatment for trauma patients can prevent needless injury to … Distribution of trauma center utilization (Level I and II) for severe injuries in the United States … Importance: In 2013, patients with intracranial injuries represented 53.6% of trauma center visits.

96. Appendix B1: The FMP Self-Assessment Tool (Text Description) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb1txt.html
    December 01, 2017 - Monthly falls analysis by: location and time of fall shift and day of week type of injury … Monthly falls analysis by # of falls, fallers, patients ≥2 falls, and falls with serious injury?   … All areas warrant assessment and should be accessible in the medical record. … care plan include general behavior management strategies and specific interventions to reduce risk of injury … results of fall (BP, BS, mental status, VS, tests ordered, ER or hospital visit) description of injury

97. Early Mobility in the Intensive Care Unit: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Subjects: 330 medical ICU (MICU) patients requiring ventilation on admission. … Subjects: Academic medical center MICU: 1,110 admissions with at least one PT session. … medical center. … Subjects: 2,176 trauma and burn ICU patients, Pre (n=1044) and post (n=1132) EM program. … Slide 23: 5-Year Sustainability of Time to PT Postacute Lung Injury Diagnosis 8 Post-QI → earlier

98. Mod01-Grand-Rounds-Slides (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2016 - injury … injury. … Slide 12 Facilitator Notes - Grand Rounds Presentation – 5 Say: The response to medical injury … of ergonomics; as we work more at desks and computers, these areas are redesigned to help prevent injuries … Slide 35 Say: In addition to the organization Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (or MITSS)

99. Surveillance of Surgery-related Adverse Events in Missouri Using ICD-9-CM Codes (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Tuinen.pdf
    March 01, 2004 - Classifying trauma severity based on hospital discharge diagnoses. … J Trauma 1996;41(3):380–8. 4. Rutledge R, Osler T, Kromhout-Schiro S. … Excess length of stay, charges and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization … J Trauma 1998;45(4):791–9. 13. Hartz AJ, Kuhn EM. … Patient safety efforts should focus on medical injuries. JAMA 2002;287(15):1993–7. 23.

100. Do Transient Working Conditions Trigger Medical Errors? (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - .6, 10–12 Injuries to workers result from a causal chain of events involving both latent and immediate … Indeed, many risk factors for injury that have been studied in case-crossover studies of injury are … errors.13–18 The close parallels between risk factors for injury and risks for medical error have led … Case-crossover studies of occupational trauma: methodological caveats. … Injury Prevention 2001;7:Supplement 38–42.