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4521. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2010 - Both medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) are types of medication safety events. … in the ambulatory setting is a crucial component of improving the quality and safety of patient care … Yet patients often refuse counseling, especially for medication refills. … advocates that the intended use be indicated on each prescription as an aid for pharmacists and for patients … Health care systems are adopting systems approaches to improve patient safety.

4522. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/atypical-antipsychotics-off-label-update_research-protocol.pdf
      May 19, 2010 - Effectiveness of Off-label Use of Atypical Antipsychotics reviewed the scientific evidence on the safety … risk of death and antipsychotics drugs, and comparison of the development of adverse effects between patients … Studies that did not report any outcomes of efficacy, effectiveness, safety/adverse events, or utilization … We will define loss to follow-up as the number of patients excluded from efficacy analyses, expressed … as a proportion of the number of patients randomized.

4523. Duplicate Insulin Order | PSNet
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      May 04, 2012 - safety incidents, with 24% resulting in patient harm.( 3 ) Insulin errors are reported across all phases … A prospective, observational study found 178 medication errors in 192 patients over 28 observed provider … shifts.( 6 ) At least one error occurred in almost 60% of patients (37% reaching the patient), most … Insulin, hospitals and harm: a review of patient safety incidents reported to the National Patient Safety … August 30, 2023 Patient Safety Innovations Remote

4524. Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part4-comm2.html
      October 01, 2015 - Hispanic Health Care Acknowledgments Health Care For Hispanics National Quality Strategy Priorities: Patient … Safety National Quality Strategy Priority: Healthy Living Part 1: Overviews of the Report and the … Severity index is based on a weighted sum of the 29 individual comorbidity indicators with more severe

4525. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache: Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-206-fullreport.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - Additionally, CT overuse creates cost burdens for the patient, as well as for payers. … Measure Topic – patient safety: Yes. k. Measure Topic – family experience with care: No. l. … Ten Things Physicians and Patients Should Question. 2013. … CT scan utilization patterns in pediatric patients with recurrent headache. … Renal safety in pediatric imaging: Randomized, double blind phase IV clinical trial of iobitridol 300

4526. Bringing Quality Measurement to the Point of Care - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2010 - Characterize provider attitudes and measure provider satisfaction with performance indicators 4. … Patient Goal Body Mass Index Patients 18+ BMI recorded in past 24 months Breast Cancer Screen … 50+ Patient received flu shot from the most recent September 1 For each practice, 120 patients age … with their current methods Functionality % Keeping medication lists 53.1% Monitoring medication safety … Easier % of Respondents: No Change % of Respondents: More Difficult Monitoring medication safety

4527. C- Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/musculoskeletal-disorders-imaging_research-protocol.pdf
      August 05, 2010 - Evidence-based Practice Center Technical Brief Protocol Project Title: Technical Brief - Use and Safety … It requires that the patient be placed in a tube lying flat, either prone or supine. … What are the potential safety issues and harms of positional MRI technologies? … i Types of patients/patient selection criteria: inclusion and exclusion criteria, characteristics of … enrolled patients (demographics, disease spectrum).

4528. Meeting Minutes, July 24, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2015 - Funding for grants for the use of health information technology targeting patient safety would be reduced … Efforts in quality indicators would be reduced. … Kronick added the news that AHRQ has begun a multiyear initiative to improve patient safety in ambulatory … Grumbach, M.D., added the need to engage patients, with an eye toward safety. … Jeff Brady, M.D., of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, noted a fairly new AHRQ

4529. Wrong Route for Nutrients | PSNet
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      September 04, 2010 - Lucian Leape on patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Interview by Peter I. Buerhaus. … February 17, 2010 Keeping patients safe in healthcare organizations: a structuration … theory of safety culture. … June 20, 2011 Perspective Advancing Patient Safety Through … March 25, 2020 View More Related Resources Patient safety in nursing

4530. Appendix B21: Facts and Flow Chart | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Environment and Equipment Safety Appendix A. References and Equipment Sources Appendix B. … About 65,000 patients suffer a hip fracture each year.

4531. Prescription opioid use, misuse, and use disorders in U.S. adults: 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. | PSNet
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      October 17, 2012 - The majority of patients who misused opioids did so without a prescription, with many patients obtaining … A recent PSNet perspective discussed the patient safety aspects of the opioid epidemic. … : the case of urine drug screening and opioid-patient suicide- and overdose-related events in the Veterans … March 28, 2012 Improving patient safety and efficiency of medication reconciliation through … February 1, 2017 The rate and costs attributable to intravenous patient-controlled analgesia

4532. Success Stories from the AHRQ-Funded Health IT Portfolio (2009) (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/HITSuccessStories112910.pdf
      May 02, 2014 - safety, or they can have patients sign consents to opt-in and share all of their clinical information … of patient care. 11 Researchers did not find differences in the majority of quality-of-care indicators … This highlights the importance of ongoing studies to identify how CPOE impacts the safety of patient … Patient safety: the role of human factors and systems engineering. … Coordination in the ICU and the Relation With Quality of Care and Patient Safety.

4533. Handshake antimicrobial stewardship as a model to recognize and prevent diagnostic errors | PSNet
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      September 08, 2021 - and pharmacists reviewing relevant clinical electronic health record (EHR) data for all hospitalized patients … April 6, 2022 Patient safety, resident well-being and continuity of care with different … June 27, 2018 View More Related Resources Patient Safety … and Quality April 26, 2023 Patient Safety Innovations … April 7, 2022 Patient Safety Innovations U.S.

4534. Assessing the Assessing the Impact of a Dynamic Chronic Care Registry on the Quality of Care - Implementation Handbook (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/assessingdynamicchroniccareimphndbk_120111comp.pdf
      November 01, 2011 - quality indicators. … The patient population served by the safety net represents a segment of the priority populations identified … Patient Report Cards Patient report cards were mailed to 2,729 patients in the intervention group on … Clinic staff also reviewed patient lists and identify deceased patients, incorrectly-diagnosed patients … Due to the high mobility of the safety net patient population we were expecting a relatively high mail

4535. Using name overlap analysis to understand medication name search safety. | PSNet
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      August 31, 2022 - Study Using name overlap analysis to understand medication name search safety. … Using name overlap analysis to understand medication name search safety. … Using name overlap analysis to understand medication name search safety. … culture: a quasi-experimental evaluation of a patient safety demonstration project October 16, 2019 … preventable time-critical dose omissions: impact of electronic medication management systems on in-patients

4536. Bad Writing, Wrong Medication | PSNet
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      March 01, 2015 - in the ambulatory setting is a crucial component of improving the quality and safety of patient care … Yet patients often refuse counseling, especially for medication refills. … Health care systems are adopting systems approaches to improve patient safety. … May 26, 2010 Patient safety in nursing practice. … June 23, 2009 View More Related Resources Patient Safety

4537. Technical Brief 13: Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage II Colon Cancer (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/colon-cancer-gene-profiling_technical-brief.pdf
      December 01, 2012 - Patient-oriented and patient-advocacy Web sites for colon cancer were searched. … These GEP assays are all prognostic indicators. Table 1. … The FDA addresses the safety and effectiveness of diagnostic tests and the quality of the design and … Historically, the FDA has subjected test kits to premarket review of safety and effectiveness, but not … result from both preanalytic factors (e.g., sample preparation) as well as analytic factors (such as reagents

4538. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49812/psn-pdf
      November 01, 2017 - harm, additional anxiety, and frustration for both patients and care providers. … Heher, MD, MPH Director, Quality & Patient Safety Department of Pathology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical … Errors in laboratory medicine: practical lessons to improve patient safety. … Patient Safety Solutions. [Available at] 6. … Pathology and patient safety: the critical role of pathology informatics in error reduction and quality

4539. Implementation of Systems Redesign: Approaches to Spread and Sustain Adoption (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Hagg_80.pdf
      January 01, 2007 - Quality improvement implementation and hospital performance on patient safety indicators. … Patient safety proves elusive. … safety, but progress is another matter. … The business case for patient safety. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2007; 457: 21-34. 14. … What do we know about financial returns on investments in patient safety? A literature review.

4540. Reasons for computerised provider order entry (CPOE)-based inpatient medication ordering errors: an observational study of voided orders. | PSNet
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      June 27, 2018 - Investigators interviewed ordering and voiding providers and reviewed patients' medical records. … A past PSNet perspective discussed the impact of CPOE on patient safety . … Annual Perspective Technology as a Tool for Improving Patient … Safety March 29, 2023 Outpatient CPOE orders discontinued due to 'erroneous … safety.