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41. Annual Perspective: Topics in Medication Safety | PSNet
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    April 27, 2022 - EQUIPPED was designed to decrease the number of PIMs prescribed to older adults upon discharge from the … The analysis revealed that state regulations appeared to reduce opioid use by limiting the number of … As a result, the health system saw reductions in (1) the total number of opioid prescriptions per 100 … patient discharges, (2) the number of opioid prescriptions exceeding a three-day supply, (3) the number … of prescriptions exceeding 30 MME, and (4) the number of prescriptions written for opioids that were

42. Effect of medication reconciliation on patient reported potential adverse events after hospital discharge. | PSNet
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    April 27, 2022 - to primary care – did not decrease the proportion of patients with adverse events, it did reduce the number … December 22, 2021 Correlation between the number of patient-reported adverse events, … 2021 Effect of medication reconciliation with and without patient counseling on the number … November 9, 2022 Correlation between the number of patient-reported adverse events, adverse

43. Toxic Tachycardia | PSNet
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    September 20, 2023 - In the hospital setting, thyrotoxic storm may be precipitated by a number of events. … Thyrotoxicosis or thyroid storm may be precipitated by a number of clinical stressors including surgery … This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research

44. Reporting Patient Safety Events | PSNet
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    March 30, 2022 - In a sense, event reports supply the numerator (the number of events of a particular type–and even … here, this number only reflects a fraction of all such events) but do not supply the denominator (the … number of patients vulnerable to such an event) or the number of "near misses." … This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research

45. The "Seven Pillars" response to patient safety incidents: effects on medical liability processes and outcomes. | PSNet
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    January 18, 2017 - Also, the number of malpractice claims, along with their resultant costs, decreased significantly. … October 19, 2022 Effect of restriction of the number of concurrently open records in … May 29, 2019 A national survey assessing the number of records allowed open in electronic … March 13, 2013 Effect of number of open charts on intercepted wrong-patient medication

46. Observational evidence of the prevalence and association of polypharmacy and drug administration errors in hospitalized adult patients. | PSNet
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    October 05, 2022 - Findings indicate that medication administration errors increase as the number of prescribed drugs increased … April 27, 2022 Correlation between the number of patient-reported adverse events, adverse … November 18, 2020 Association between limiting the number of open records in a tele-critical … November 30, 2022 Correlation between the number of patient-reported adverse events,

47. Getting the (Right) Doctor, Right Away | PSNet
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    January 01, 2016 - near the nurses' station, and looking at the board to determine first call provider's name and pager number … First call teams are required to have an associated service pager number. … At the time of shift change, the oncoming provider signs the virtual pager number assigned to a particular … service (e.g., the pager number for Medicine A Intern 1) over to their personal pager number, which … [go to PubMed] This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency

48. Safety in Numbers: Evidence-based Development of a Medicine Management Learning Tool. | PSNet
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    January 15, 2014 - Special or Theme Issue Safety in Numbers: Evidence-based Development of a Medicine Management Learning Tool. Citation Text: Holland K, ed. Nurse Educ Pract. 2013;13(2):e1-e87.  Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook …

49. In Conversation With… Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil | PSNet
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    March 27, 2024 - I've talked to a number of payers as they're getting into value-based arrangements and quite a number … So we have a number of users both upstream and downstream of our programs and processes.  … But we have a number of different programs that try to identify where there are critical measure gaps … How do you see the evolution of the list over time, and do you see the list growing in both number and … You've identified a number of them.

50. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes | PSNet
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    April 10, 2024 - In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a disproportionate number of COVID-19-related deaths … In response to the rapid spread of COVID-19 and increasing number of deaths in NHs, federal and state … Due to the highly contagious nature of COVID-19 and the number of deaths in NHs, the Senate asked the … State Health Facts: Total Number of Residents in Certified Nursing Facilities. 2020. … https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/number-of-nursing-facility-residents/?

51. Data-driven implementation of alarm reduction interventions in a cardiovascular surgical ICU. | PSNet
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    November 16, 2022 - Reducing the number of alarms can help alleviate alarm fatigue and the associated patient safety … In this study, researchers successfully implemented a number of interventions which led to a 61% decrease … April 3, 2013 Effect of restriction of the number of concurrently open records in an

52. Periodic Issue | PSNet
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    May 16, 2022 - Study Monitoring preventable adverse events and near misses: number and type identified … Using each of the three methods, this study identified the number and types of near misses and adverse … patients from six hospitals and different clinical departments and found that hospitals differed in the number … Study Monitoring preventable adverse events and near misses: number and type identified … Using each of the three methods, this study identified the number and types of near misses and adverse

53. In Conversation with…Troyen A. Brennan, MD, JD, MPH | PSNet
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    April 10, 2024 - While I was in medical school, I sampled a number of different graduate programs at Yale, and found that … We published a number of studies from the original data set assessing risk factors for poor quality care … to 98,000 figure [estimate of annual deaths from medical errors in the US] would become this iconic number … But it is clear that over the course of the last 5 to 8 years in a number of states, numerous insurance … This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research

54. Risk factors for patient-reported medical errors in eleven countries. | PSNet
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    March 24, 2021 - Emergency room care, hospitalization, and the number of providers involved were also important predictors … September 4, 2019 Effect of restriction of the number of concurrently open records in … August 15, 2018 A national survey assessing the number of records allowed open in electronic

55. Looking for Meds in All the Wrong Places | PSNet
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    March 20, 2024 - Within 100 feet of the ED nurses' station were several ED doctors, a number of nurses, and a pharmacy … on limited clinical information and in which clinicians are required to provide care to an unlimited number … There are a number of things that nurses and other clinicians can do to prevent medication errors. … Moreover, limits should be placed on the number of vials that can be removed from a single dispensing … [go to PubMed] This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency

56. In Conversation With… Brian Jarman, PhD | PSNet
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    March 01, 2015 - BJ : At Bristol we spent a long time trying to measure morbidity, because quite a number of children … It's just the difference between the number of deaths that you get in the hospital and the number that … And they themselves developed more care bundles to cover the diagnoses with the largest number of deaths … The commonly used HSMR is a ratio of the observed number of in-hospital deaths to the number expected … Sensitivity may be increased by enlarging the number of evaluable deaths by including those occurring

57. Harm From Alarm Fatigue | PSNet
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    March 27, 2024 - In 2015, for the fourth consecutive year, ECRI listed alarm fatigue as the number one hazard of health … A number of different forces result in an excessive number of cardiac monitor alarms. … This could minimize the number of false alarms for asystole, pause, bradycardia, and transient myocardial … Clinicians should learn how to tailor alarm thresholds to an individual patient to avoid an excessive number … This project was funded under contract number 75Q80119C00004 from the Agency for Healthcare Research

58. The impact of duty hours on resident self reports of errors. | PSNet
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    October 28, 2009 - In this survey of internal medicine residents, the number of hours worked was not associated with a perceived … The results suggest that, in order to reduce errors committed by residents, both the number of hours … July 29, 2015 Effect of restriction of the number of concurrently open records in an

59. Affordable Housing Community Offers Seniors Onsite Health Care Coordination and Support, Reducing Hospital Admissions and Falls and Improving Resident Health | PSNet
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    April 24, 2024 - Additionally, the program saw residences experience a decrease in the number of falls. … Large, increasing number of older adults who need assistance: By 2030, more than 70 million Americans … will be age 65 or older, twice the number as in 2000. … Fewer falls: The number of residents experiencing falls declined by 22 percent in the first year after … Better nutritional status, more physical activity: The number of residents at moderate nutritional risk

60. In Conversation With… Derek Feeley | PSNet
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    April 10, 2024 - For example, we had an outbreak of C. difficile, which resulted in the deaths of a number of patients … RW : As I think about that story, it strikes me that there are a huge number of lessons. … We're working on a number of important things. The first is around trying to reach more people. … For a small not-for-profit organization, IHI has been impactful in terms of the number of people that … Whether the number is 98,000 or 400,000, it's too many.