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1401. Improving Safety Using Teamwork and Patient Safety Norms (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2025 - Implementation of TeamSTEPPS at a Level-1 Military Trauma Center: The San Antonio Military Medical … hospital-acquired infection was reviewed using LFD ► LFD used for post-fall huddle and after skin injury … Skin: Pressure Ulcer? POA? - Current descript ion of PU 10. Foley: Can it be removed?

1402. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2010 - the wound patterns in the two settings are vastly different. … injury and hypotension, and these conditions are thought to drive the coagulopathy of trauma. … Therefore, despite the differences in injury mechanisms, injuries of sufficient severity … trumps that of other injuries and where the other injuries are not of a life-threatening hemorrhagic … guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Council, High Blood Pressure

1403. N3Veybr4Zdhzfqsw3Erlhe (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2014 - Mortality from all strokes has decreased sub- stantially over the past 5 decades; improved blood pressure … Cranial nerve injury is another important potential harm; it oc- curred in 3.8% of patients (8 of 211 … The MACE trial reported a 1.1% rate of minor cranial nerve injury in the 36 patients ran- domly assigned … treatment groups in the RCTs were poorly defined and probably did not include the intensive blood pressure

1404. Presentation: Optimize Your Briefings and Debriefings
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      December 01, 2017 - defines a sentinel event as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury … Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. … Confirm patient identity, site, and procedure Review perfusion plan, including– Cannulation Perfusion pressure … Review the perfusion plan, including cannulation, perfusion pressure goals, temperature, and transfusion … for improvement Ask if instrument, sponge, and needle counts are correct Record name of procedure and wound

1405. Case 2. Central Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2014 - Participation is required in the following priority areas: falls and fall injuries, pressure ulcers, … For example, in 2008 the national system launched a campaign to have zero preventable injuries or deaths … , the department was working toward certification as an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Level II Trauma … The ED successfully launched a trauma center and identified a new director in early 2010. … Staff perceived a shift of work to other staff because of the pressures of Lean process.

1406. A Statewide Collaborative to Support Vaginal Birth and Reduce Unnecessary Cesarean Deliveries | PSNet
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      July 23, 2024 - riskier. 13 Babies delivered via cesarean section are at risk for respiratory problems and surgical injury … A 2014 study of women who gave birth found that 14.8% of respondents perceived pressure from a clinician … www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/c-section/about/pac-20393655#:~:text=A%20C%2Dsection%20might%20increase,Wound … Patient-perceived pressure from clinicians for labor induction and cesarean delivery: a population-based

1407. Technology for Improving Medication Monitoring in Nursing Homes (pdf file)
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      March 09, 2005 - Activities Falls* Nutritional status Dehydration Dental care Feeding tubes† Physical restraints† Pressure … Factors associated with serious injury during falls by ambulatory nursing home residents. … Fall injuries in the elderly. Clin Geriatr Med 1985;1(3):501–12. 28. Monane M, Avorn J.

1408. First Aid | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1409. Imp-Handouts (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - Report data help identify residents with new ADL decline, fall risk, or fall injury, therefore at risk … Rehab Managers Weekly huddle to review residents at risk for ADL decline or fall or with fall injury … 2 or above pressure ulcers at risk for infection who potentially require hospitalization/ED visit … Reports provide information about current and changing risks for pressure ulcer healing and can aid … Discharge diagnoses were dehydration, fall with injury, cellulitis, and angina.

1410. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 27, 2023 - diuresis, diarrhea, and fluid restriction, they ordered blood products and albumin to increase oncotic pressure … psnet.ahrq.gov//#8 resuscitation,” with the added requirement for vasopressors to maintain a mean arterial pressure … perforations.21 Other identified risk factors include older age, presence of comorbidities,22 acute kidney injury

1411. A Missed Bowel Perforation - the Importance of Diagnostic Reasoning | PSNet
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      January 29, 2021 - diuresis, diarrhea, and fluid restriction, they ordered blood products and albumin to increase oncotic pressure … responsive to fluid resuscitation,” with the added requirement for vasopressors to maintain a mean arterial pressure … perforations. 21 Other identified risk factors include older age, presence of comorbidities, 22 acute kidney injury

1412. Archived: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      January 01, 1996 - important modifiable risk factors are hypertension and smoking. 8 Improved treatment of high blood pressure … An awareness of the diagnosis might motivate patients to modify other risk factors (e.g., high blood pressure … ACAS was small and not conclusive surgery may result in other nonfatal complications (cranial nerve injury

1413. Interventions for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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      June 18, 2024 - apnea]), intermediate outcomes (BMI, weight, physical fitness, cardiometabolic outcomes [eg, blood pressure … was phentermine/topiramate, and only at the higher dose level (mean difference for diastolic blood pressure … pressure, fasting glucose levels, and quality of life but had no apparent impact on lipid levels, other … of thyroid tumors, including cancer, as well as pan- creatitis, gallbladder problems, acute kidney injury … prospective study of weight self-perception and blood pressure in adolescents with overweight and obesity

1414. In Conversation With... James Augustine, MD | PSNet
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      July 28, 2021 - we have different approaches to care that can take place for MIs [myocardial infarctions], strokes, trauma … What if that trauma patient all of a sudden decompensated? … To assist EMS personnel in decision making in high-pressure situations and to support standardized care … One example is injuries personnel can sustain from slipping or tripping when lifting and moving equipment … and patients. 8 An injury can harm not only the worker, but also the patient, if, for example, the

1415. In Conversation With... Charles A Crecelius, MD, PhD, CMD and Lori L Popejoy, PhD, RN, FAAN | PSNet
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      October 28, 2020 - In putting all of this in place, did you see reductions in harms like pressure injuries, resident falls … individuals can gain from social interaction and enhanced mobility, such as reduced risk of falls and pressure … mitigate safety risks associated with usual care needs for this patient population, such as falls and pressure

1416. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - homes include indicators of physical care, such as rate of restraint use (physical and chemical), pressure … sore prevalence, urinary tract infections, pain, injuries, hospitalizations, functional decline; staffing … follows: .626 for urinary tract infections, .528 for weight loss, .853 for tube feeding, .570 for pressure … indicated that NHs with higher total hours of care had higher rates of urinary tract infections and pressure

1417. Long-Term Care and the Response to COVID-19 | PSNet
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      October 28, 2020 - individuals can gain from social interaction and enhanced mobility, such as reduced risk of falls and pressure … mitigate safety risks associated with usual care needs for this patient population, such as falls and pressure … In putting all of this in place, did you see reductions in harms like pressure injuries, resident falls

1418. Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Alcohol-Use Disorders in Outpatient Settings (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2017 - Injuries may be from a wide variety of alcohol-related problems (e.g., violence, falls). … We did not use strict definitions for accidents and injuries. … Yes Likely current Topiramate D-26 Fewer topiramate users experienced accidents or injuries (4%) … No studies reported accidents or injuries, and mortality. … Higher pretreatment blood pressure is associated with greater alcohol drinking reduction in alcohol-dependent

1419. Statistical Brief #29
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      April 01, 2007 - This category includes high blood pressure medications (antihypertensives), cardiotonic drugs such as … To define ADEs in this analysis, we used the following ICD-9-CM codes or external cause of injury codes … same drug event was coded (e.g., diagnosis code 960.0, Penicillin poisoning; and external cause of injury

1420. HCUP Statistical Brief #29: Adverse Drug Events in U.S. Hospitals, 2004 (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2007 - This category includes high blood pressure medications (antihypertensives), cardiotonic drugs such as … To define ADEs in this analysis, we used the following ICD-9-CM codes or external cause of injury codes … same drug event was coded (e.g., diagnosis code 960.0, Penicillin poisoning; and external cause of injury