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8121. The Future of Diagnostic Documentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact5.html
      July 01, 2024 - Examples illustrating future implications for clinical practice include a model to predict in-hospital mortality

8122. Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/improving-safety-diagnosis-long-desc.html
      February 01, 2024 - researchers developed a structured case review process that was validated against their institution’s mortality

8123. Archived: Aspirin for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/aspirin-for-the-prevention-of-cardiovascular-disease-preventive-medication-2009
      March 15, 2009 - or death from either cause), myocardial infarctions, death from cardiovascular disease, or all-cause mortality … there was no significant benefit in the reduction of myocardial infarctions or cardiovascular disease mortality … 0.86]); there was no significant benefit in the reduction of ischemic stroke or cardiovascular disease mortality … There was no significant reduction in total mortality with aspirin use either in men or in women.

8124. Quality and Safety Challenges in Critical Care: Preventing and Treating Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/quality-and-safety-challenges-critical-care-preventing-and-treating-delirium-intensive
      December 01, 2012 - delirium risk factors and have been associated with either less delirium or better outcomes (e.g., reduced mortality … Days of delirium are associated with 1-year mortality in an older intensive care unit population. … Delirium is a marker of a more vulnerable patient, but delirium contributes excess morbidity and mortality … There is still the concern of increased mortality with those agents in confused older adults, so we try

8125. Dietary-Supplements Surveillance (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/dietary-supplements_surveillance.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Clinical cardiovascular effectiveness/ efficacy outcomes (e.g., mortality and specific cardiovascular … report does not need updating Ginkgo biloba With no deaths observed, insufficient evidence for mortality … In three short-term efficacy trials of omega-3 fatty acid and statin coadministration, effects on mortality … Clinical cardiovascular effectiveness/ efficacy outcomes (e.g., mortality and specific cardiovascular … New Evidence: Ginkgo biloba With no deaths observed, insufficient evidence for mortality

8126. Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/resources/issue-briefs/dx-safety-rural-healthcare.pdf
      July 01, 2024 - rates for the top 5 causes of death in the U.S. are higher in rural areas than in urban areas. … rates in rural areas decline more slowly than in urban areas. … Trends in death rates in urban and rural areas: United States, 1999-2019. NCHS Data Brief, no 417. … Assessment of disparities in diabetes mortality in adults in U.S. rural vs nonrural counties, 1999-2018 … Rural stroke patients have higher mortality: an improvement opportunity for rural emergency medical

8127. Appropriate Emergency Department Fever Management for Children With Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-216-fullreport.pdf
      February 01, 2018 - In addition, SCD can have hemolytic and infectious complications that result in morbidity and mortality … Sepsis and meningitis caused by S. pneumoniae are a major cause of mortality in children with SCD under … Sepsis and meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumonia are a major cause of mortality in children with … Medical care utilization and mortality in sickle cell disease: A population‐based study. … Trends in pediatric sickle cell disease‐related mortality in the United States, 1983‐2002.

8128. Technical Review 17: Nutritional Research Series, Vol. 1: Application of Systematic Review Methodology to the Field of Nutrition (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/nutrtp1.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - An example of a question and component parts is presented, ‘What is the overall 5 y mortality in various … For example, ‘What is the 5 y overall mortality in general populations taking 1 g of fish oil supplement … Meta-analysis: high-dosage vitamin E supplementation may increase all-cause mortality. … by selecting “general population”, “fish oil supplements”, “isocaloric fat placebo”, and all cause mortality … ” and adding appropriate modifiers, one would produce the question; ‘What is the 5 y overall mortality

8129. Ch 5-User-Guide-To-Ocer 130129 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/ch_5-user-guide-to-ocer_130129.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Paradoxical relations of drug treatment with mortality in older persons. Epidemiology. … Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med. … The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. N Engl J Med. … Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med.

8130. Screening to Prevent Osteoporotic Fractures: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/jmCXJwxefa67VY4NfD8gUg
      June 26, 2018 - Kahwati, MD, MPH IMPORTANCE Osteoporotic fractures cause significant morbidity and mortality. … MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Incident fractures and related morbidity and mortality, diagnostic and predictive … S creening to prevent osteoporotic fractures may reduce frac- ture-related morbidity and mortality.1- … , all-cause mortality, and harms. … No studies reporting on hip fractures, fracture- related morbidity, or mortality were identified.

8131. Final Progress Report: TIPI Systems To Reduce Errors in Emergency Cardiac Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/selker-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - send home about 12,000 patients with AMI and 14,000 with UAP,6 which nearly doubles their expected mortality … rates.6 Reflecting this is that ED cases of missed ACS perennially represent one of the largest cost … with AMI is directly related to the earliness of use (an hour delay, which is common, can halve the mortality … The issues identified by ED directors were addressed with staff during monthly Morbidity and Mortality … A time-insensitive predictive instrument for acute myocardial infarction mortality: A multicenter study

8132. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - web-mm/toxic-tachycardia https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references high mortality … rates even with therapy.(3) Although atrial arrhythmias are common in hyperthyroidism, thyrotoxic hospital

8133. Prioritization Worksheet (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/c1_pdi_prioritizationworksheetinstructions.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - organization-specific information needed for prioritization, columns can be added (e.g., length of stay, mortality … rates, patients harmed).

8134. Recommendation: Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      July 23, 2019 - Chronic HBV infection increases long-term morbidity and mortality by predisposing infected persons to

8135. Microsoft Word - 2008-07.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2008 - NSDUH SEER OTHER Births NVSS - Natality NVSS - Natality NVSS - Natality Deaths NVSS - Mortality … NVSS - Mortality NVSS - Mortality COMBINATION – COMPILATION OF DATA FROM OTHER SOURCES … race/ethnic composition, and poverty Geographic Entity: State Diseases and Health: Infant mortality … rate, low birth weight infants, deaths per 100,000 population for various diseases, utilization of … Diseases and Health: Health insurance, preventive care, risk factors, limitation of activity, and mortality

8136. Spotlight (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/final_spotlight_stacked_opioid_administration_01.03.2022.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - POSS within an institution may be helpful in predicting and preventing opioid-related morbidity and mortality … Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long- acting

8137. Spotlight (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/final_spotlight_case_delays_in_the_ed_powerpoint_for_cme_review_03.09.2020.pdf
      January 01, 2020 - Crowding and Boarding • Consequences of ED crowding and boarding are well established: – Patients (e.g. mortality … The association between transfer of emergency department boarders to inpatient hallways and mortality

8138. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/respiratory-slides.pptx
      November 01, 2019 - Baseline characteristics were similar between groups After adjustment for patient-level predictors of mortality … : In hospital mortality similar between both groups (25% vs. 25%) Transfer to ICU similar between both

8139. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49472/psn-pdf
      March 01, 2005 - Preventable Rash March 1, 2005 McLean C. Preventable Rash. PSNet [internet]. 2005. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/preventable-rash The Case A 35-year-old man with HIV was being followed in an outpatient internal medicine clinic. At a routine visit, screening laboratories were checked. The clinic never contacted th…

8140. Renal Artery Stenosis Management Strategies: An Updated Comparative Effectiveness Review (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/renal-update_executive.pdf
      August 01, 2016 - The assessed outcomes included all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular events (including … no statistically significant differences or, overall, minimal clinically important differences in mortality … One RCT that compared PTRAS and surgery found no statistically significant difference in mortality, … nonrandomized studies of PTRAS versus medical therapy found no statistically significant difference in mortality … Studies of PTRAS versus surgery found no statistically significant difference in mortality or BP control