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Long-term Care Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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November 01, 2021 - Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention End of Life Care Home and Community-based Services Falls and Injury … Long-Term Care Facilities Multiple Chronic Conditions Omissions of Care in Nursing Homes Pressure

Health Care Facility Design Safety Risk Assessment Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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October 01, 2020 - Resources CANDOR Family-Centered Rounds Toolkit MATCH Toolkit NICU Toolkit Pressure … Injury Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit QI … The toolkit: Targets six areas of safety—infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of

Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)

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January 01, 2019 - Conditions National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries … CLABSI+ -6% Clostridioides difficile Infections -37% Falls -5% Obstetric Adverse Events -3% Pressure

Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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July 01, 2020 - Description: National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries … Pressure ulcers: 6% increase. Surgical site infections: 8% increase.

Fallpxtool3F (doc file)

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January 29, 2013 - Have possible spinal injuries. Have lower extremity or pelvic fractures. … Equipment Noninvasive blood pressure measurement device. … Blood pressure cuff of correct size for the patient. Procedure 1. … Check sitting blood pressure and pulse. … Support the forearm at heart level when taking the blood pressures to prevent inaccurate measurement.

AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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March 01, 2024 - Injury Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit QI … pressure ulcer prevention practices through an interdisciplinary approach to care. … Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program supports the training of hospital staff on … how to implement AHRQ's Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit. … injury prevention.

C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)

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July 01, 2016 - Patient Safety PSI 03 Pressure Ulcer PSI 06 Iatrogenic Pneumothorax PSI 07 Central Venous Catheter-Related … Perioperative Pulmonary Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis PSI 13 Postoperative Sepsis PSI 14 Postoperative Wound … Dehiscence PSI 15 Accidental Puncture or Laceration Obstetric PSI 17 Birth Trauma-Injury to Neonate … PSI 18 Obstetric Trauma-Vaginal Delivery With Instrument PSI 19 Obstetric Trauma-Vaginal Delivery … 09 Postoperative Respiratory Failure Rate PDI 10 Postoperative Sepsis Rate PDI 11 Postoperative Wound

AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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September 01, 2021 - Effectiveness Reviews Facilities Home and Community Resources Findings Report Injuries … Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention is a team training curriculum to … help nursing homes with electronic medical records reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers.

Module 5: How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices—Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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September 01, 2017 - Resources CANDOR Family-Centered Rounds Toolkit MATCH Toolkit NICU Toolkit Pressure … Injury Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Re-Engineered Discharge Toolkit QI … None or no injury: The patient is free of injuries (no signs or symptoms) resulting from a fall … Death: The patient died as a result of injuries sustained from the fall (not from physiologic events … Slide 13: NDNQI Definitions of Fall Injury None: No injury Minor: Resulted in bruise, abrasion

Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)

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June 05, 2016 - Best practices forms exist for the following 14 PSIs: • PSI 03 Pressure Ulcer Rate • PSI 05 Retained … Pulmonary Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis Rate • PSI 13 Postoperative Sepsis Rate • PSI 14 Postoperative Wound … 03 Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate • PDI 01 Accidental Puncture or Laceration Rate • PDI 02 Pressure … Postoperative Respiratory Failure Rate • PDI 10 Postoperative Sepsis Rate • PDI 11 Postoperative Wound … • PSI 17 Birth Trauma Rate―Injury to Neonate: The existing literature on birth trauma and injury