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September 24, 2024 - tool to improve availability of care, then they will need to assess internet and device access for populations … Audio-only telehealth may be appropriate as a safety net in very vulnerable populations but is not a … A study on laboratory and pharmacy data found that safety reporting did not identify issues in populations … Patient Safety Innovations
Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population
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March 27, 2024 - infrastructure-provide-safer-higher-quality-and-more-equitable-telehealth
care, then they will need to assess internet and device access for populations … Audio-only telehealth may be appropriate as a safety net in very vulnerable populations but is not a … A study
on laboratory and pharmacy data found that safety reporting did not identify issues in populations
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June 21, 2016 - The reported prevalence of HIV infection in emergency department patient populations ranges from 0.15% … to 7.8%,( 3-5 ) with even higher values reported from centers with particularly high-risk patient populations … human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and rapid plasma reagin in a trauma population … Human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus seroprevalence in an urban trauma population. … 17, 2011
A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population
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March 22, 2009 - of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations … Robert Wachter, Editor, AHRQ WebM&M: You work in a county hospital with underserved populations, which … What are some of the unique challenges of doing patient safety work in that population?
Dr. … One unique challenge that I face in caring for that population in that setting is the degree to which … RW: You mentioned that half of the U.S. population has health literacy levels below adequate.
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May 01, 2011 - Common Pathogens
An infectious threat prevalent in many ED populations is HIV.(3) As this pathogen emerged … outbreaks early and disseminate information rapidly) will be important to help protect ED HCWs and the
populations
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February 13, 2019 - October 19, 2022
Inpatient patient safety events in vulnerable populations: a retrospective
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January 21, 2019 - Result in Better Outcomes and Reduced Acute Care Utilization in Low-Income Seniors and other High-Risk Populations
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January 29, 2015 - Common Pathogens An infectious threat prevalent in many ED populations is HIV.( 3 ) As this pathogen … outbreaks early and disseminate information rapidly) will be important to help protect ED HCWs and the populations
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March 26, 2015 - Studies of ADC-related errors report on diverse patient populations with various control factors and … While it is clear that such errors occur in a range of pediatric populations, the incidence of ADC-specific … failures, and human error.( 8 ) For these and physiological reasons, we generally consider the pediatric population
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November 26, 2019 - KH: Can this approach be used for other patient populations too, or is it just for frail older patients … we have to think about in frail older patients that we
don’t have to think about in other patient populations
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March 01, 2019 - Prior studies in large heterogeneous populations requiring invasive mechanical ventilation have
found … breathing trial of 30 minutes has been shown to be as effective as a 120-minute trial
in certain patient populations
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May 16, 2022 - Incidence of intrahospital patient transport errors varies across settings, patient populations, reporting … with intrahospital transport at 102.5 per 1,000,000 sessions2,estimates in
critically ill patient populations
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June 01, 2007 - medications taken from storage and prepared without pharmacy oversight, particularly in known
high-risk populations
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February 28, 2024 - and a 53% increase in the number of LEP Americans.( 2 , 3 ) Between 1980 and 2000, both of these populations … more than doubled, whereas the overall US population increased only 25%.( 2 ) Unfortunately, nearly … A recent study of all 161 pharmacies in the Bronx, NY (a borough with a large Spanish-speaking population … trained volunteers from local universities.( 16 ) For clinics and hospitals caring for larger LEP populations
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October 01, 2016 - Platt is Professor and Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population
Medicine. … RP: It's now possible to talk about the experience of large, well-defined populations, which is a great … RW: What are you seeing in terms of your ability to follow populations over time as people move from … patients who need follow-up care and
don't receive it, to monitor clinical outcomes, and to support population … And on the population
medicine front, we've partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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December 15, 2024 - Knowing which
patient populations- such as children, older adults, and those with polypharmacy- are
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September 01, 2017 - increases with age, such that patients older than 65 years (who account for about 12% of the United
States population … survival.(8)
Although the accuracy of these systems has not been studied specifically in the older population … sepsis in older patients, the test characteristics of sepsis
alerts may well be even worse in this population … phenotypes in elderly patients as well as to improve
diagnostic support tools across all relevant populations … There is a need to develop better tools to identify sepsis in different populations.
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January 01, 2007 - home and a 53% increase
in the number of LEP Americans.(2,3) Between 1980 and 2000, both of these populations … more than
doubled, whereas the overall US population increased only 25%.(2) Unfortunately, nearly half … A recent study of all 161 pharmacies in the Bronx, NY (a borough
with a large Spanish-speaking population … or trained volunteers from local universities.(16) For clinics and hospitals caring for larger
LEP populations
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March 15, 2025 - 53 different triggers, some applicable to all patients and
some inappropriate for certain patient populations
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September 27, 2019 - approach is the incorporation of primary care services into existing health-related programs that
serve populations … these services improves mental health outcomes and increases use of preventive
services among patient populations … described
this phenomenon, which is supported by recent research27: “The health of individuals or populations