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1441. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/congdon-magilvy-report.pdf
      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

1442. 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

1443. Archived: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-1996
      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

1444. 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

1445. 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

1446. Pharmacotherapy for Adults with Alcohol-Use Disorders in Outpatient Settings (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/alcohol-misuse-drug-therapy-surveillance.pdf
      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

1447. 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

1448. 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

1449. First Aid | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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1450. CER 220: Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesics To Reduce Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-220-disposition-comments-analgesics-prehospital-setting.pdf
      September 03, 2019 - What about other direct injury? … is not a fair substitute for prehospital care – patients would necessarily have the same extent of injury … Many of the opioid studies were pre hospital battlefield injuries. … We have added a statement that patients with multiple major traumas, crushed pelvis or major burns … Page 62 Line 18: Change “less” to “lower” oxygen saturation and “more” to “higher” systolic blood pressure

1451. 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

1452. In Conversation With... Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH | PSNet
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      September 28, 2022 - A big step was just educating people that, in fact, they have high blood pressure and how they can take … As part of this education, the community health worker would give a patient a blood pressure monitor … so they could take their own blood pressure at different times during the day and see for themselves … that since hypertension is such a huge issue in these populations, everybody should have a home blood pressure … AHRQ’s broad definition of patient safety includes “prevention of diagnostic errors, medical errors, injury

1453. Final Progress Report: Human Factors and Systems Integration in High Technology Surgery (HF-SIgHTS) (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - model of the mechanisms by which small seemingly innocuous events escalate to create serious surgical injuries … verbal communication which is already the most frequently cited cause of procedural error and surgical injury … separation among members of the OR team, new anesthesia strategies, coordination and communication pressures … verbal communication which is already the most frequently cited cause of procedural error and surgical injury … primarily applied in surgery, comparable research has been successfully conducted in other venues such as trauma

1454. Glaucoma-Screening Executive (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2012 - glaucoma may be characterized by optic nerve damage, visual field loss, and elevated intraocular pressure … The USPSTF noted that intraocular pressure measurement and optic nerve head assessment alone have limited … KQ4b: How does intraocular pressure vary when comparing different screening-based programs for open- … Goldmann Applanation Tonometry (GAT) Tonometry is the measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP). … Detection of psychophysical and structural injury in eyes with glaucomatous optic neuropathy and normal

1455. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary11/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-december-2007
      December 15, 2007 - Although it is difficult to determine the intensity of medical management, the mean systolic blood pressure … However, among the RCTs, the VACS reported a surgical complications rate of 3.8% for cranial nerve injuries … (none of these injuries were permanent), 5.2% for hypotension, and 25% for hypertension. 34 Return … Cumulative effects of high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and cigarette smoking on carotid … Overall=3.7% High volume hospital (>100 cases/year) = 3.5% Low volume hospital=5.2% 3% HTN 2% wound

1456. Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Reiling.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - Unfortunately, a small portion of errors do result in an “adverse event”—an injury caused by medical … For example, a 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study reported that 69 percent of injuries suffered by … hospitalized patients in New York State in 1984 were the result of errors, and nearly 14 percent of these injuries … It may elevate blood pressure, increase pain, alter quality of sleep, and reduce overall perceived

1457. Archived: Dementia in Older Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/dementia-older-adults-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - A variety of other possible risk factors (e.g., lower educational level, 20 prior head trauma, family … depression, wandering, incontinence, adverse drug reactions, poor personal hygiene, and unintentional injuries … multi-infarct dementia, smoking cessation was associated with improving cognitive function, but low blood pressure … from support and self-help strategies in order to minimize the financial, emotional, and medicolegal pressures

1458. Urine Culturing Stewardship in the ICU Setting Facilitator Notes
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      April 01, 2022 - Abbreviations: BP = blood pressure; GI = gastrointestinal; Hgb = hemoglobin; HR = heart rate; ICU = intensive … without evidence of another source on history, physical examination, or laboratory testing In spinal cord injury … Has the patient had recent urologic manipulation such as trauma to the GU tract or surgery? … Effectiveness of a bundled approach to reduce urinary catheters and infection rates in trauma patients

1459. An Incomplete Anesthesia History Leads to Adverse Outcomes | PSNet
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      January 29, 2021 - The trauma team was called to assist and the patient was given additional sedation and opioid analgesia … The trauma surgeon then manipulated both TMJs and was finally able to unloose the locked jaw. … diagnosis and a physician experienced in reducing the TMJ should be consulted to minimize the risk of injury … Placing staff under too much time pressure can, at times, be counterproductive and can adversely affect

1460. Final Progress Report: Creating Safe Ambulatory Care: The Path to Resilience (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/nemeth-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - exploratory study of ambulatory care settings was to identify and minimize or eliminate the potential for injuries … Time pressure can force clinicians to make decisions on insufficient or ambiguous information. … Patients who report shortness of breath (suggesting cardiac or pulmonary crises) or have suffered trauma