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4941. Final Progress Report: Risk Assessment of Pediatric Emergency Transfers (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/holl-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - the process of transfer from a referring hospital ED to receiving hospitals PICU (3), floor (2), and trauma … 15%), patient/relative dissatisfaction (7%), prolonged hospital stay (4%), physical/ psychological injury … ) has been developed to promote research into the prevention and management of acute illnesses and injuries … Coping with Medical Mistakes and Errors in Judgment. … NEJM, 2004;18:1884. 18 Injuries in Hospitals Pose a Significant Threat to Patients and a Substantial

4942. Appendix B. Clinical Materials to Share With Primary Care Providers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2013 - supplementation, mechanical ventilation, air leaks, pulmonary edema, PDA ligation, infection causing lung injury … Treatment Medical or surgical therapy is indicated only for pathological GER. … If still symptomatic despite optimal medical management and: >2.4 kg, surgical ligation or percutaneous … diarrhea are at risk for zinc deficiency and may need supplementation: Poor growth, diarrhea, impaired wound

4943. Appendix B. Clinical Materials to Share With Primary Care Providers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/nicu/packet/apb.html
      December 01, 2013 - supplementation, mechanical ventilation, air leaks, pulmonary edema, PDA ligation, infection causing lung injury … Treatment Medical or surgical therapy is indicated only for pathological GER. … If still symptomatic despite optimal medical management and: >2.4 kg, surgical ligation or percutaneous … diarrhea are at risk for zinc deficiency and may need supplementation: Poor growth, diarrhea, impaired wound

4944. Interventions for Tobacco Smoking Cessation in Adults, Including Pregnant Persons: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      November 16, 2020 - Additionally, an outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping prod- uct, use–associated lung injury (EVALI) that … Outbreak of lung injury associated with the use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products. … Blount BC, Karwowski MP, Shields PG, et al; Lung Injury Response Laboratory Working Group. … Practice advisory: lung injury associated with e-cigarettes (“vaping”). Published October 2019. … 24, 2020. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/ practice-advisory/articles/2019/10/lung-injury

4945. Using HIT to Improve Transitions of Complex Elderly Patients from SNF to Home - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017817-field-final-report-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - treatment, or other clinical service. 2 Final Report Purpose The incidence of drug-induced injury … the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ] (AG 15979), we determined that drug- related injuries … to a need for prolonged nursing care after hospitalizations, many of which followed an ED visit for trauma … disease 3 (0.96) 7 (2.24) 0.2023 From ED, psychiatric 3 (0.96) 8 (2.56) 0.1283 From ED, trauma … for continued in- patient care after a hospitalization triggered by an ED visit, frequently including trauma

4946. AHRQ Quality Indicator-related Publications (pdf file)
      qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads/Resources/Publications/FullListPublications-508.pdf
      October 09, 2024 - Risk Reduction for Potentially Preventative Hospitalizations Among People With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury … A critical review of patient safety indicators attributed to trauma surgeons. … Injury. 2017 Sep;48(9):1994-8. PMID: 28416153. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2017.03.051. Epub 2017 Apr 1. … Adv Skin Wound Care. 2013 Jan;26(1):13-8. … Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator 'postoperative wound dehiscence'.

4947. Managing Ascites: Hazards of Fluid Removal | PSNet
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      June 01, 2018 - This is because the risk of developing acute kidney injury and/or hepatorenal syndrome is highest in … Perspective Operationalizing Patient Safety at Academic Medical … Guidelines for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in the trauma

4948. Final Progress Report: Improving the Safety of Primary Care by Measuring Adverse Events and Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/kennerly-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - implement interventions to address these.1 Development of the BI-OTT Consistent with the “no preventable injuries … Group Northeast in Portland and Providence Medical Group Milwaukie. … expenditures, employment status, or work days missed due to illness or injury. … 18.8) During 2010 about how many days did you miss work at a job or business because of illness or injury … expenditures, employment status, or days missed due to illness or injury.

4949. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Obesity in Adults: Screening and Management | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary38/obesity-in-adults-screening-and-management-2012
      October 15, 2011 - Limited data suggested no increased risk for serious injuries or eating disorders. … Safety of strength training in premenopausal women: musculoskeletal injuries from a two-year randomized … Questions and answers: orlistat and severe liver injury. FDA Drug Bulletin. May 26, 2010. … Orlistat and acute kidney injury: an analysis of 953 patients [Letter]. … found that orlistat recipients required more vitamin supplementation during the study - Liver injury

4950. Managing Complexity in Diagnosis: Life-threatening Complications after Gastric Bypass Surgery. | PSNet
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      September 25, 2019 - The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an ineligible company as “ … Identify ways that bias associated with medical conditions, such as obesity and its treatment, can lead … Due to the delayed diagnosis, the patient suffered permanent brain injury requiring around-the-clock … If this new information is not incorporated into teams’ medical decision-making, there is a substantial … Education Research and Innovation, Medical Education Outcomes Center University of Minnesota Medical

4951. Survey on Patient Safety (facility version) (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/hospital/facilscanform.doc
      June 02, 2025 - Survey on Patient Safety Instructions This survey asks for your opinions about patient safety issues, medical … · “Patient safety” is defined as the avoidance and prevention of patient injuries or adverse events

4952. HCUP Award for Outstanding Research - Archive of Recipients
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      November 01, 2024 - The epidemiology of inpatient pediatric trauma in United States hospitals 2000 to 2011. … Emergency Department Visits for Firearm-Related Injuries In The United States, 2006-14. … Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns . … Outstanding Achievement in Healthcare Research Using HCUP Data: Jay Berry, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical

4953. Distraction of the Anesthesiologist and Lack of Resuscitation Drugs Resulting in Delayed Treatment of Laryngospasm. | PSNet
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      January 29, 2021 - Succinylcholine is contraindicated in patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, burns, or myotonic dystrophy … inadequate resources such as the broken drug refrigerator otherwise could have led to irreversible injury … Risk of respiratory complications and wound infection in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery: smokers

4954. New-Fac (pdf file)
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      September 30, 1997 - . . . . . . . . . 3 CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 BRAIN INJURY … ALZHEIMER’S AND RELATED DEMENTIAS 2 = AIDS/HIV 3 = DIALYSIS 4 = CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES 5 = BRAIN INJURY … Truncate names as follows: 1 = ALZHEIMER’S 2 = AIDS/HIV 3 = DIALYSIS 4 = CHILDREN 5 = BRAIN INJURY 6 … CARE UNITS Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias AIDS/HIV Dialysis Children with Disabilities Brain Injury … CARE UNITS Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias AIDS/HIV Dialysis Children with Disabilities Brain Injury

4955. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 3 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/methods-guidance-tests-outcomes_methods.pdf
      July 01, 2012 - Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews Chapter 3 3-1 Chapter 3 Choosing the Important Outcomes … for a Systematic Review of a Medical Test Jodi B. … medical tests. … process because direct test effects are unlikely in this example: a vaginal swab will not cause any injury … Choosing the important outcomes for a systematic review of a medical test.

4956. Usability Testing and the Relation of Clinical Information Systems to Patient Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Rogers.pdf
      January 01, 2003 - The scenarios were developed after extensive ethnographic observation of the medical work with bar-coding … ability to identify impact prior to implementation and to suggest redesign before adverse events or injury … Access to electronic medical records in a de-identified test account, as well as an extensive clinical … X is a 90-kg BM with a past medical history significant for diabetes. … Software used in health care can prevent patient injury or contribute to it, when usability testing

4957. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/tinnitus_research-protocol.pdf
      February 22, 2012 - , tinnitus is the most common service-connected disability among U.S. veterans. 1 Traumatic brain injury … can range from the use of dental orthotics and self-care instructions to surgery in instances where injury … The VHA has endorsed PTM as the standard method of treatment at VA medical centers. … factors (degree and type of hearing loss, hyperacusis, loudness tolerance, masking criteria, etc.), head injury … Cigna medical coverage policy. Tinnitus treatment services and devices.

4958. Communication: Severe Hypertension (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/perinatal-care-2/hypertension_3-communication-speaker-notes.pdf
      July 01, 2023 - patient's family members. 4 Hospital AIM Team Leads SPPC‐II Maternal and Perinatal Deaths and Injuries … communication breakdowns are identified as the primary root cause of maternal and perinatal deaths and injuries … staff credentialing/privileging, medical staff peer review, other (e.g., rushing, fatigue, distraction … Other root causes for maternal and perinatal deaths and injuries are— • Assessment (i.e., the adequacy … Untitled Communication Severe Hypertension Communication is… Maternal and Perinatal Deaths and Injuries

4959. Final Progress Report: Disseminating a Web-Enabled Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) Toolkit for Designing Safer Healthcare Facilities (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/taylor-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - ,” including infections, falls, medication errors, immobility-related outcomes, security breaches, injury … organized around six key safety areas: infection control, medication safety, falls, patient handling, injury … in 2015, which translates to 115 injuries per 1,000 patient hospital stays.6 From an adverse event … All the architects/designers had roles that involved design of medical facilities. … Using usability heuristics to evaluate patient safety of medical devices.

4960. Miscommunication During the Interhospital Transport of a Critically Ill Child | PSNet
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      March 27, 2024 - errors. 16 Standardized handoff processes can effectively decrease adverse events and medical errors … Changes in medical errors after implementation of a handoff program. … Disconnection in information exchange during pediatric trauma transfers: a qualitative study. … moderator of child’s acute biological response and subsequent posttraumatic stress symptoms in pediatric injury … disorder symptoms and child gender on risk for persistent posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in child trauma