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281. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/VAP-slides.pptx
     November 01, 2019 - Pseudomonas Infections Study Design Clinical outcomes* OR/RR (95% CI) Paul 20029 Cochrane 68 RCTs Mortality … : 0.87 (0.34–2.24) Clinical failure: 1.41 (0.90–2.22) Paul 200310 BMJ 47 RCTs Mortality: 0.78 (0.24 … –2.56) Clinical failure: 1.46 (0.23–9.41) Paul 200411 BMJ 64 RCTs Mortality: 1.50 (0.70–32.84) Clinical … There was no difference in all-cause mortality or length of ICU stay comparing the 8-day and 15-day groups … Does combination antimicrobial therapy reduce mortality in Gram-negative bacteraemia?

282. AHRQ-Supported Publications and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - and Future Health Crisis (August 2021) Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality …  (July 2021) Elevated Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness With COVID-19  (June 2021)

283. Intro (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/monahrq/pdf/MONAHRQ1_0and1_1Comparison.pdf
     November 23, 2010 - 20WinQI%20(Version%204%201b).pdf 3 Table 2 AHRQ Quality Indicators MONAHRQ 1.0 MONAHRQ 1.1 Mortality … Rates for Medical Conditions Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (IQI 15)   AMI, Without Transfer … 17)   Gastrointestinal hemorrhage (IQI 18)  Hip fracture (IQI 19)  Pneumonia (IQI 20)   Mortality … Rates for Surgical Procedures Esophageal resection (IQI 8)   Pancreatic resection (IQI 9)  Abdominal …  Hospital-level Patient Safety Indicators Complications of anesthesia (PSI 1) Death in low mortality

284. Mortality_Diabetes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/mortality-diabetes-3.pdf
     September 13, 2021 - Mortality_Diabetes

285. Final Progress Report: Rapid Understanding of Best Practices in Rural Intensive Care (RUBRIC) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/valley-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Although ICU mortality was similar between rural and urban ICUs, mortality for patients in rural intermediate … In the first, we sought to examine relationships between rurality, intermediate care, and mortality … second study, we examined changes in in patient characteristics, hospital characteristics, and 30-day mortality … Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the association between year of admission and mortality … was similar between rural and urban ICUs (47.0% and 47.2%, respectively); and 8) adjusted 30-day mortality

286. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Influence of nonindex hospital readmission on length of stay and mortality. … Keywords: Hospitals, Mortality, Outcomes, Hospital Readmissions Doherty JA , Crelia SJ , … Mortality and pulmonary outcomes of extremely preterm infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroids. … The only measure used was neonatal mortality and results did not find any difference between using a … Keywords: Evidence-Based Practice, Labor and Delivery, Mortality, Newborns/Infants, Outcomes, Pregnancy

287. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - The researchers aimed to identify US counties with high sepsis mortality and to assess the community … characteristics associated with increased sepsis mortality. … They found that sepsis mortality is higher in the southern United States and that regions of high sepsis … mortality are characterized by lower education, income, employment, and insurance coverage. … Defining sepsis mortality clusters in the United States.

288. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Keywords: Elderly, Cancer: Lung Cancer, Medicare, Mortality, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research … This study's objective was to evaluate the relative effects of surgeon and hospital volume on mortality … Keywords: Adverse Events, Elderly, Hospitals, Mortality, Surgery Feraco AM , Starmer AJ , … They concluded that operative mortality and complication rates were low for lung cancer resection among … There was limited evidence on the association between skin cancer screening and mortality.

289. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Severity-adjusted mortality in trauma patients transported by police. … Keywords: Injuries and Wounds, Mortality, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Trauma Liss DT … The researchers studied the association between coefficient of variation of glucose and mortality and … Coefficient of glucose variation is independently associated with mortality in critically ill patients … Keywords: Critical Care, Mortality, Diabetes Thacker EL , Muntner P , Zhao H Claims-based

290. Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis, Evidence Synthesis, No. 50 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/prevent/pdfser/cas/cases.pdf
     December 01, 2007 - One Veterans Affairs study showed a perioperative stroke or death rate of 1.6%.45 The systematic review … of 103 studies found an overall stroke and death rate at 30 days of 3.0% in studies published since … Subjects with three or more risk factors or an end-stage disease had a perioperative stroke/death rate … CEA is associated with important complications, including a perioperative stroke or death rate of 2.4% … Secular trends in cardiovascular disease mortality, incidence, and case fatality rates in adults in

291. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Mapping areas with concentrated risk of trauma mortality: a first step toward mitigating geographic and … Keywords: Disparities, Injuries and Wounds, Mortality, Social Determinants of Health, Trauma … This study analyzed contemporary trends in pre-hospital mortality from penetrating trauma in the past … The authors concluded the odds of pre-hospital mortality has increased over 4-fold for gunshot wounds … Nationwide trends in mortality following penetrating trauma: are we up for the challenge?

292. AHRQ Multiple Chronic Conditions Research Network Publications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2014 - Clinical complexity and mortality in middle-aged and older adults with diabetes. … Assessing the impact of screening colonoscopy on mortality in the medicare population. … The vulnerable elders-13 survey predicts 5-year functional decline and mortality outcomes in older ambulatory … Cognitive impairment: an independent predictor of excess mortality: a cohort study. … High doses of epoetin do not lower mortality and cardiovascular risk among elderly hemodialysis patients

293. Final Progress Report: Topical Vancomycin for Neurosurgery Wound Prophylaxis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/connolly-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - : Postoperative SSIs in neurosurgical patients carry a significant risk of increased morbidity and mortality … Additionally, SSIs are a significant source of morbidity and mortality for surgical patients. … Given the tremendous potential for lifelong morbidity and mortality as a result of cranial SSIs, more … included length of stay, length of intensive care, rate of re-operation, functional outcomes, and mortality … For mortality rate, a 30-day mortality table estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method was constructed.

294. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/sepsis-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - The investigators noted an association between later antibiotic administration and mortality. … antibiotic administration was delayed there was a 4 percent increase in risk adjusted in- hospital mortality … arm, although the mortality difference was small—21 percent with procalcitonin vs 24 percent without … However, subgroup analyses showed no mortality reduction in studies in which patients had sepsis, in … The results of this subgroup analysis suggest that the mortality benefit seen in these meta-analyses

295. AHRQ Resources and Activities Highlight Support for Patient Safety Awareness Week 2022 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - Severe sepsis has an 8 percent prevalence in critically ill hospitalized children and a 25 percent mortality … rate, according to researchers. … Researchers found that blood cultures per 1,000 patient days per month declined by 34 percent while rates of mortality … in PSNet’s current issue or access recent cases and commentaries in AHRQ’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality

296. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - The researchers did not find that women were significantly associated with decreased odds of mortality … Sex differences in mortality following isolated traumatic brain injury among older adults. … Keywords: Sex Factors, Trauma, Brain Injury, Mortality, Elderly Gulbrandsen P , Clayman ML … They did not demonstrate a difference in mortality, rate of discharge to rehabilitation, and readmissions … Keywords: Cancer, Comparative Effectiveness, Elderly, Mortality, Surgery Ali MM , Chen J ,

297. Premier Uses AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to Improve Safety and Quality, Reduce Costs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2017 - QUEST is focused on the following five measurement areas: Mortality ratio—with a goal of eliminating … The initial phase of the program—year one—focuses on mortality, evidence-based care, and cost of care … The PSIs will play a role in understanding harm avoidance and mortality reduction in QUEST, which is … of the wonderful case studies, tools, and references available on the AHRQ WebM&M site (Morbidity & Mortality

298. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Association of cardiac rehabilitation with decreased hospitalization and mortality risk after cardiac … Keywords: Surgery, Risk, Mortality Shafer G , Singh H , Suresh G Diagnostic errors in the … Candida bloodstream infection is associated with high mortality. … Effect of infectious disease consultation on mortality and treatment of patients with candida bloodstream … Keywords: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Mortality Salvador J , Bhatt S , Fowler R

299. 2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Executive Summary (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2019qdr-final-es.pdf
     December 01, 2020 - Trends in Quality Trends in Person-Centered Care Importance of Person-Centered Care Morbidity and Mortality … Care Quality Measures by Setting of Care Trends in Patient Safety Importance of Patient Safety Mortality … Measures by Topic Areas Trends in Affordable Care Importance of Affordable Care Morbidity and Mortality … Measures by Sub-Areas Trends in Effective Treatment Importance of Effective Treatment Morbidity and Mortality … Visits Involving Opioids Worsening Trend: Hospital Stays Involving Opioids Worsening Trend: Suicide Mortality

300. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - They found that CRT-D was associated with lower risks of mortality, all-cause readmission, and heart … better nursing environments and above-average staffing levels were associated with better value (lower mortality … rates. … Counties eliminating racial disparities in colorectal cancer mortality. … Keywords: Cancer: Colorectal Cancer, Disparities, Mortality, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Simmons