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  1. Elements of Access to Health Care: Workforce Capacity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    June 01, 2018 - Distribution of trauma center utilization (Level I and II) for severe injuries in the United States, … Trauma Center Utilization for Severe Injuries Trauma care systems were developed to provide complex … Level II: Provide initial definitive trauma care regardless of the severity of the injury. … Distribution of trauma center utilization (level I and II) for severe injuries in the United States, … Importance: Well-coordinated and timely treatment for trauma patients can prevent needless injury to

  2. Implementation of the Canadian CT head rule and Its association with use of computed tomography among patients with head injury. | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - Canadian CT head rule and Its association with use of computed tomography among patients with head injury … Canadian CT head rule and Its association with use of computed tomography among patients with head injury … Investigator Melnick, Edward Project Name Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury … Support System Document Type Journal Publication Population Adults Medical

  3. Don’t Bite Your Tongue. | PSNet

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    September 18, 2024 - The Case A 63-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension, osteoarthritis, migraine … Changes in motor evoked potentials can indicate an impending neurologic injury and should trigger an … Dental injury associated with anesthesia: a report of 161,687 anesthetics given over 14 years.  … Airway injury during anesthesia: a closed claims analysis.  … Cost analysis of intubation-related tracheal injury using a national database. 

  4. Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - Final Report | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2023 - Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - Final Report Citation … Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - Final Report. … Investigator Melnick, Edward Project Name Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury … Decision Support System Document Type Report Population Adults Physician Medical

  5. Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission: Summary & Definitions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    October 01, 2015 - Injuries: Any external cause of injury code indicating motor vehicle accident and unintentional injuries … (screen based on CDC classification for injuries). … Injury: PDX in range 800-990.4, 909.9, 910-994.9, and 995 (with some exclusions). … Medical: All other discharges. … , surgical, and medical.

  6. Communication during trauma resuscitation: do we know what is happening? | PSNet

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    February 03, 2021 - Injury. 2005;36(8):905-11. … Injury . 2005; 36 (8) :905-11 . View more articles from the same authors. … Injury. 2005;36(8):905-11. … Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II. … August 10, 2010 Changes in medical errors after implementation of a handoff program.

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 19, 2012 - The association between sepsis and potential medical injury among hospitalized patients. … The association between sepsis and potential medical injury among hospitalized patients. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-sepsis-and-potential-medical-injury-among-hospitalized … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-sepsis-and-potential-medical-injury-among-hospitalized-patients … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-sepsis-and-potential-medical-injury-among-hospitalized-patients

  8. Themes from HCBS Expert Call Discussions (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2012 - previous trauma. …  One panelist suggested examining wound infections rather than infection due to prosthesis use. … Accidents and Injuries A. … or sometimes spinal cord injury. …  Another panelist suggested examining wound infections rather than infection due to prosthesis

  9. Patient safety and medical malpractice: a case study. | PSNet

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    May 20, 2015 - Commentary Patient safety and medical malpractice: a case study. … injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. … February 3, 2011 Medical monitoring for pharmaceutical injuries: tort law for the public's … April 21, 2015 Who pays for medical errors? … February 4, 2015 Beyond negligence: avoidability and medical injury compensation.

  10. Neurologic Disease | Digital Healthcare Research

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    January 01, 2024 - (Prepared by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center under Grant No. R21 HS024977). … Epilepsy Surgery Patients Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury … Clinical Decision Support for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - Final Report. … Canadian CT head rule and Its association with use of computed tomography among patients with head injury … Canadian CT head rule and Its association with use of computed tomography among patients with head injury

  11. In Conversation With… Jane Brice, MD, MPH | PSNet

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    May 01, 2019 - "She's hypotensive because she has a gunshot wound in her armpit that I didn't find because I didn't … Many calls for EMS assistance involve critical or potentially critical injury or illness like trauma, … Occupational injuries and exposures among emergency medical services workers. … Teammate familiarity and risk of injury in emergency medical services. … Teammate familiarity, teamwork, and risk of workplace injury in emergency medical services teams.

  12. Clinical Classifications Software (CCS), 2003 (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2016 - The reviews consisted of trained medical records personnel and a physician with experience in medical … 234 Crushing injury or internal injury 235 Open wounds of head; neck; and trunk 236 Open wounds of … by other medications and drugs 243 Poisoning by nonmedicinal substances 244 Other injuries and conditions … injury or internal injury [234] 16.6 Open wounds 16.6.1 Open wounds of head; neck; and trunk [235] … 16.6.2 Open wounds of extremities [236] 16.7 Sprains and strains [232] 16.8 Superficial injury; contusion

  13. Injuries before and after diagnosis of cancer: nationwide register based study. | PSNet

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    May 25, 2022 - Injuries before and after diagnosis of cancer: nationwide register based study. … have found that patients recently diagnosed with cancer are at elevated risk of suicide and accidental injury … November 14, 2011 Framing family conversation after early diagnosis of iatrogenic injury … February 1, 2012 Fatality involving vinblastine overdose as a result of a complex medical … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Providers Medical

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    December 01, 2005 - , which was interested in exploring the possibility of a no-fault system for medical injury. … RW: When did you begin thinking that no-fault might be a better way to deal with medical injury? … It does very little to help with prevention of medical injuries, and it does nothing to address the … A lot of medical injuries are caused by negligence. … From a business case point of view, most of the costs associated with medical injury are not being absorbed

  15. Prologue—Volume 1—Five Years Later—Are We Any Safer? (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2004 - While evidence documenting high rates of treatment-associated injury and mortality have appeared in … the peer- reviewed medical literature since the 1950s, neither the health professions nor the health … A few institutions have reached the initial IOM goal for some injury sources (for example, Brigham & … [ADEs]; Intermountain Health Care’s LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City for ADEs and for postoperative wound … Views of practicing physicians and the public on medical errors. NEJM 2002;347(24):1,933– 40. 5.

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 20, 2015 - Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. … Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/disclosure-medical-injury-patients-improbable-risk-management-strategy … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/disclosure-medical-injury-patients-improbable-risk-management-strategy https … ://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patients-and-physicians-attitudes-regarding-disclosure-medical-errors https:/

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 18, 2011 - Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II. … Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II. N Engl J Med. 1991;324(6):377-84. … - study-ii The authors analyzed the nature of injuries sustained in a cohort of hospitalized patients … Physician reviewers evaluated 1133 injury cases with respect to negligence, errors in management, and … The reviewers found complications from medications were most common, followed by wound infections and

  18. 2017-02 (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2017 - System All-Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) is a national probability sample providing counts of injuries … used by the CDC.5 THE NEISS-AIP reports on injuries annually. … level by the type of injuries reported in the NEDS. … Comparing volume of injury visits in the NEDS to the TIEP trauma designation, we found that injury volume … injuries (46 percent of cases are treated in trauma level I hospitals).

  19. Towards international consensus on patient harm: perspectives on pressure injury policy. | PSNet

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    September 27, 2016 - Towards international consensus on patient harm: perspectives on pressure injury policy. … Towards international consensus on patient harm: perspectives on pressure injury policy. … December 8, 2021 Medical device-related pressure ulcers: a systematic review and meta-analysis … March 7, 2018 6-PACK programme to decrease fall injuries in acute hospitals: cluster … April 29, 2015 The $17.1 billion problem: the annual cost of measurable medical errors

  20. Exhibit 2.4 Average Length of Stay and Average Charges

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    January 01, 2005 - 192 Umbilical cord complication 216.7 8.676 2.0 0.014890 7,100 175 193 Trauma … complications following abortion) 2.7 0.175 2.6 0.110958 12,800 831 235 Open wounds … 521 24 Cancer of breast 91.3 3.840 2.8 0.179038 20,200 757 256 Medical … 246 Fever of unknown origin 86.4 4.815 3.4 0.073659 13,300 507 244 Other injuries … blood pressure during pregnancy) 220.3 8.652 3.5 0.043953 12,000 324 236 Open wounds
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