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  1. Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: What's Wrong and How to Fix It | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/medication-safety-nursing-homes-whats-wrong-and-how-fix-it
    August 01, 2012 - circumstances combine to place the elderly nursing home resident at special risk for preventable drug-related injuries … all of medicine and place older persons residing in nursing homes at substantial risk of iatrogenic injury … resident-months, of which 40% were considered preventable.( 7 ) Errors associated with preventable drug-related injuries … directly from inadequate information at the time of ordering, including information about relevant medical … October 11, 2023 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries

  2. Statistical Brief #118: Hospital Stays for Children, 2009 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb118.pdf
    August 01, 2011 - hospitals or other institutions, fewer discharges to home health care, and fewer discharges against medical … Injuries (including poisonings, multiple trauma, and burns) and neoplasms each accounted for about 2 … Similarly, injuries and poisonings declined from 2000 (8.7 per 10,000) to 2006 (7.5 per 10,000) and 2009 … assigned a single MDC that designates the body system (e.g., respiratory system) or etiology (e.g., trauma … HCUP data include OB-GYN, ENT, orthopedic, cancer, pediatric, public, and academic medical hospitals

  3. Final Progress Report: Staff Nurse Fatigue and Patient Safety (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/rogers-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - common type of preventable error (44%), followed by errors in diagnosis (17%), failures to prevent injury … Work injuries and time of day-national data. … The preventability of medical injury. In: Bogner MS, ed. Human error in medicine. … American Association of Medical Colleges. … The impact of overtime and long work hours on occupational injuries and illness: New evidence from

  4. Pitts, Samantha | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/pitts-samantha
    July 24, 2024 - July 24, 2024 - 2:30pm - July 24, 2024 - 4:00pm Medication errors are a leading cause of injury

  5. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE (NIS), 2003

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Introduction_2003_v7.jsp
    January 01, 2003 - ECODEn is an array of the external cause of injury codes (i.e., “E codes”). … Also included are public hospitals and academic medical centers. … 1988-2003 Admission type, uniform coding: (1) emergency, (2) urgent, (3) elective, (4) newborn, (5) trauma … Beginning in 2003, the diagnosis array does not include any of external cause of injury codes. … NECODE 2003 Number of external cause of injury codes on the original record.

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49835/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2020 - The patient was discharged and completed 6 weeks of antibiotics and wound care, with healing of the … needs to be part of the care process early on, while hospitalists and other physicians are directing medical … Medical conditions (such as diabetes) that cause kidney failure often require extensive health care … with cumulative exposure to venous injury. … The contralateral veins were already unusable by the time of the PICC, suggesting repeated vein injuries

  7. Michael Pine Presentation

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/MPinepresentation.jsp
    December 01, 2010 - Comparative Performance of Alternative Databases Inpatient Quality Indicators (Mortality) Medical … laboratory data not in HYBRID models (e.g., blood culture results) Key clinical findings abstracted from medical … All POA coding must be supported by medical record documentation by a qualified healthcare practitioner … For accidents (i.e., E codes), POA codes are based on the relation of the time of injury to the time … Therefore, POA=Y only when injury occurs prior to admission.

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836964/psn-pdf
    April 20, 2022 - The most common preventable events were medication events, pressure injuries, and healthcare-associated

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39477/psn-pdf
    April 28, 2010 - effects-adverse-drug-event-alert-system-cost-and-quality-outcomes-community-hospitals https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/computer-alert-system-prevent-injury-adverse-drug-events-development-and-evaluation-community

  10. Medication reconciliation in a rural trauma population. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-reconciliation-rural-trauma-population
    April 24, 2018 - Study Medication reconciliation in a rural trauma population. … Medication reconciliation in a rural trauma population. … frequently inaccurate medication histories at time of admission, particularly for those patients with severe injuries … Medication reconciliation in a rural trauma population. … September 12, 2016 The effect of resident duty hour restriction on trauma center outcomes

  11. A model for medication safety event detection. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/model-medication-safety-event-detection
    May 14, 2008 - From research to practice: factors affecting implementation of prospective targeted injury-detection

  12. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraref.html
    April 01, 2018 - Assessing patient safety risk before the injury occurs: An introduction to sociotechnical probabilistic

  13. Kuperman GJ et al. 2003 "Computer physician order entry: benefits, costs, and issues." | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/kuperman-gj-et-al-2003
    January 01, 2003 - Studies have documented that CPOE can decrease costs, shorten length of stay, decrease medical errors … "Studies have shown that CPOE systems can reduce medication errors and associated costs and injuries. … to a pharmacy application have been described, and interfacing a CPOE application and an electronic medical

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/845360/psn-pdf
    March 29, 2023 - use-interprofessional Patients with cognitive impairment (such as dementia, delirium, traumatic brain injury

  15. CHIPRA 194: Section 1, Tables 1-5 (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-194-section-1-tables-1-5.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - thunderclap 339.43 Other complicated 339.44 Other Post-traumatic headache 339.2x Acute pain due to trauma … seizure 780.33 Other convulsions 780.39 4 Table 4 [=IMG9]: ICD-9-CM Codes to Identify Head Trauma … 800.2 Closed with other and unspecified intracranial hemorrhage 800.3 Closed with intracranial injury … 852.x Other/unspecified intracranial hemorrhage following injury 853.x Intracranial injury of other … excision of foreign body from brain 61570 Craniectomy or craniotomy; with treatment of penetrating wound

  16. INTRODUCTION TO THE HCUP KIDS' INPATIENT DATABASE (KID), 2003

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2003_introduction_rpt.jsp
    January 01, 2003 - ECODEn is an array of the external cause of injury codes (i.e., �E codes�). … Included among community hospitals are academic medical centers and specialty hospitals such as obstetrics … some data sources were prohibited from providing HCUP with discharge records that indicated specific medical … , 2003 Admission type, uniform coding: (1) emergency, (2) urgent, (3) elective, (4) newborn, (5) trauma … nursing facility, intermediate care, and another type of facility, (6) home healthcare, (7) against medical

  17. High Reliability in Health Care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/high-reliability-health-care
    May 06, 2015 - May 6, 2015 Preventing Falls With Injury.

  18. Triggers and Trigger Tools | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/triggers-and-trigger-tools
    September 15, 2024 - These methods are often referred to by various names such as Targeted Injury Detection Systems and most … Triggers have become a widely used way to retrospectively analyze medical records in order to identify … events is laborious and expensive, even in the era of electronic medical records. … Triggers provide a way of screening medical records for possible harm and identifying cases that merit … September 28, 2022 Medical Device Use Error: Root Cause Analysis.

  19. Creating high reliability: a new approach for patient safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/creating-high-reliability-new-approach-patient-safety
    April 07, 2022 - February 29, 2012 Do nurse and patient injuries share common antecedents?

  20. Open for Better Care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/open-better-care
    January 28, 2015 - December 22, 2021 Utilizing quality improvement methods to prevent falls and injury from
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