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  1. HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT — HCUP (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/Introduction_NRD_2010-2014.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - , (4) surgical, and (5) medical. … cavity 821 8.53 8.77 2.9 192: Umbilical cord complication 421 1.43 1.43 0.0 193: OB-related trauma … 55,231 16.40 17.16 4.6 234: Crushing injury or internal injury 13,358 15.29 15.98 4.5 235: … Open wounds of head; neck; and trunk 5,616 12.29 12.84 4.5 236: Open wounds of extremities 5,507 … 15.48 15.99 3.3 243: Poisoning by nonmedicinal substances 2,659 11.51 12.19 5.9 244: Other injuries

  2. One size fits all? Mixed methods evaluation of the impact of 100% single-room accommodation on staff and patient experience, safety and costs. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/one-size-fits-all-mixed-methods-evaluation-impact-100-single-room-accommodation-staff-and
    July 01, 2016 - May 11, 2019 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … Does the culture of the medical profession influence health outcomes? … May 1, 2019 Sleep deprivation and starvation in hospitalised patients: how medical care

  3. Hospital discharge: it's one of the most dangerous periods for patients. | PSNet

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    June 01, 2016 - January 17, 2018 More than 750 hospitals face Medicare crackdown on patient injuries.

  4. Cardiac surgical ICU care: eliminating "preventable" complications. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cardiac-surgical-icu-care-eliminating-preventable-complications
    August 04, 2021 - Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical … November 16, 2022 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries

  5. Patient safety: moving the bar in prison health care standards. | PSNet

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    August 28, 2024 - September 21, 2005 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … practices associated with effective prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in US academic medical

  6. Michael Pine Presentation

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    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.

  7. Triggers and Trigger Tools | PSNet

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    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.

  8. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    April 01, 2018 - Assessing patient safety risk before the injury occurs: An introduction to sociotechnical probabilistic

  9. 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.

  10. Introduction to Trigger Tools for Identifying Adverse Events. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/introduction-trigger-tools-identifying-adverse-events
    January 08, 2020 - January 6, 2017 Preventing Falls With Injury.

  11. Psychological and psychosomatic symptoms of second victims of adverse events: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/psychological-and-psychosomatic-symptoms-second-victims-adverse-events-systematic-review-and
    June 23, 2021 - The authors recommend both preventive programs and postevent support for health care workers after medical … June 3, 2020 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … September 19, 2016 Health care workers as second victims of medical errors.

  12. How to induce an error management climate: experimental evidence from newly formed teams. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-induce-error-management-climate-experimental-evidence-newly-formed-teams
    August 24, 2022 - August 10, 2022 When bad things happen: training medical students to anticipate the aftermath … of medical errors. … February 17, 2011 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries

  13. Preventing unintended retained foreign objects. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/preventing-unintended-retained-foreign-objects
    January 25, 2023 - January 25, 2023 Medical device alarm safety in hospitals. … December 23, 2016 Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in health care facilities

  14. Measuring handoff quality in labor and delivery: development, validation, and application of the Coordination of Handoff Effectiveness Questionnaire (CHEQ). | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/measuring-handoff-quality-labor-and-delivery-development-validation-and-application
    January 03, 2017 - January 12, 2022 Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training. … January 7, 2015 Developing a medical emergency team running sheet to improve clinical

  15. Natural history of retained surgical items supports the need for team training, early recognition, and prompt retrieval. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/natural-history-retained-surgical-items-supports-need-team-training-early-recognition-and
    January 18, 2013 - November 16, 2022 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical

  16. To err is human: use of simulation to enhance training and patient safety in anaesthesia. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/err-human-use-simulation-enhance-training-and-patient-safety-anaesthesia
    January 18, 2023 - July 19, 2023 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … Evaluation of the culture of safety: survey of clinicians and managers in an academic medical

  17. Six things every plastic surgeon needs to know about teamwork training and checklists. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/six-things-every-plastic-surgeon-needs-know-about-teamwork-training-and-checklists
    September 07, 2016 - September 24, 2008 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries … October 4, 2023 Electronic medical record-based interventions to encourage opioid prescribing

  18. What's in a name? Newborn naming conventions and wrong-patient errors. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/whats-name-newborn-naming-conventions-and-wrong-patient-errors
    September 14, 2016 - April 27, 2010 National safety effort targets perinatal injuries.

  19. Computerised clinical decision support systems to improve medication safety in long-term care homes: a systematic review. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/computerised-clinical-decision-support-systems-improve-medication-safety-long-term-care-homes
    May 17, 2023 - long-term care facilities found promising improvements in prescribing decisions and reduced risk of injury

  20. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.359_slideshow.ppt
    October 01, 2015 - Case: The Risks of Absent Interoperability A 47-year-old man with paraplegia (secondary to a gunshot wound … he had been to 4 different hospitals in the past few weeks and left Hospital X that morning against medical … However, the cardiac arrest led to an anoxic brain injury, and he remained in a vegetative state. 6 … IT system, then the patient's adverse reaction to the antibiotic would have been documented in the medical … it had never been captured Illustrates that having a well-functioning EHR is no substitute for good medical
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