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361. Table 16A: Outcome Indicators by County Socioeconomic Status | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - 9,257 6,892 Composite: ACSC Overall 17,570 24,934 20,620 17,662 23,518 18,337 Pressure … 10,435 7,884 Composite: ACSC Overall 19,406 27,524 22,656 19,821 25,958 20,278 Pressure … 5,382 4,110 Composite: ACSC Overall 12,450 16,541 14,919 11,150 15,491 12,897 Pressure … 3,777 3,248 Composite: ACSC Overall 5,094 6,963 6,484 4,695 6,310 5,297 Pressure … 8,215 6,780 Composite: ACSC Overall 17,579 23,121 20,378 17,055 21,295 18,297 Pressure

362. Supporting Clinicians to Improve Decision Making and Patients’ Care - Emerging Research | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2020 - patient care in hazardous decision-making environments fraught with excessive cognitive loading and time pressure … Hopkins University are investigating the use of AI to provide CDS in the detection of acute kidney injury … development and implementation of this AI-driven CDS system for detection and treatment of acute kidney injury … developed EHR-linked CDS tool, Peds & TeenBP, on screening and treatment of hypertension and high blood pressure … The research team aims to advance the standard practice of blood pressure measurement, increase hypertension

363. How can interventions more directly address drivers of unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff? | PSNet
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     October 09, 2024 - December 19, 2018 Association of hospital participation in a regional trauma quality … Root cause analysis to identify contributing factors for the development of hospital acquired pressure … injuries.

364. Statistical Brief #3
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     April 01, 2006 - burden of hospitalizations related to pressure sores (figure 1). … The mean charge for hospital stays principally for pressures sores was $37,800, but charges varied by … paralysis, spinal cord injury, substance abuse, malnutrition, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and senility … percent), paralysis (27.4 percent), senility (22.7 percent), malnutrition (17.8 percent), spinal cord injury … Paralysis, spinal cord injury, and substance abuse were prominent among younger patients, while malnutrition

365. Patient safety in palliative care at the end of life from the perspective of complex thinking. | PSNet
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     October 05, 2022 - care can include inappropriate pain management , preventable hospital (re)admissions, falls, and pressure … injuries .

366. Long-term Care and Patient Safety | PSNet
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     February 24, 2022 - care hospitals, including the ability to care for patients requiring mechanical ventilation, complex wound … Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) care for patients recovering from surgery, trauma, or an … daily evaluation by a physician but do require services such as intensive nursing, physical therapy, or wound … injuries) during their stay, half of which were preventable. … injuries, and falls).

367. How safety is compromised when hospital equipment is a poor fit for patients who are obese. | PSNet
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     October 07, 2020 - the identified events resulted in a delay in care and 41% resulted in temporary harm (e.g., falls, pressure … injuries, skin tears, abrasions).

368. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 31, 2024 - hypervolemia, leading to mismanagement of her hypertensive emergency, irreversible progression of cardiac injury … patients first present to the ED.1 The presence of pulmonary edema with hypoxemia and acute kidney injury … with an especially elevated diastolic pressure. … nitroglycerin (given that nitroprusside is relatively contraindicated in the setting of acute kidney injury … treating hypertensive emergencies, choosing appropriate antihypertensives for patients with end-organ injury

369. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - purchasing • Sentinel event • Publicly reported • Public perception • Marketing • Competitive pressure … Rate on scale of 10 (agree/high) to 0 (disagree/low) PSI 14 Postoperative Wound … Dehiscence PSI 15 Accidental Puncture or Laceration 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

370. The Emergency Department & Catheter Insertions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Few days later, he develops fever and his blood pressure drops. … Keeps patients from having to get up to urinate, protecting them from injury. … Trauma) Admitting service (e.g. … Is the patient incontinent with open sacral or perineal wounds? … Protocolized care for trauma Incontinence without open sacral or perineal wounds Pre-operative

371. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 18, 2024 - wound care and intravenous antibiotics. … Despite animal studies suggesting sealant alone can withstand high hydrostatic pressures,52–54 some … Suture Choice in Lumbar Dural Closure Contributes to Variation in Leak Pressures: Experimental Model … Quantification of leakage pressures after durotomy repairs in the canine. … Occult spinal pseudomeningocele following a trivial injury successfully treated with a lumboperitoneal

372. Airway Obstruction during Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery | PSNet
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     January 29, 2021 - His peak airway pressures were initially 23-25 cm H 2 O but suddenly increased to 48-52 about 30 minutes … Obesity is often associated with difficult ventilation because high airway pressures are required to … Thirty minutes into the operation the airway pressures suddenly increased from 25 to 50 cm of H 2 O and … Pneumothorax can occur in trauma patients who may have undiagnosed rib fractures. … Airway management in trauma.

373. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2015 - Benefits include measurement of important parameters (e.g., PA occlusion wedge pressure [an indirect … indication of left atrial pressure, a surrogate for left ventricular function], cardiac output, and … hurry-up" situation should be a red flag that leads to recognition of the danger of such production pressures … While it is tempting to look at a case like this and focus only on understaffing or production pressures … Under all perioperative circumstances, but particularly with dangerously increased production pressure

374. Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 04, 2024 - IMPORTANCE Falls are the leading cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality among older adults in … (170 fall-related injuries per 1000 older adults). … disease events, cardiovascular disease mortality, and all- cause mortality, as well as lower blood pressure … assessment using a com- bination of various components, such as balance, gait, vision, pos- tural blood pressure … initial assessment of modifiable risk factors for falls (eg, balance, gait, vision, postural blood pressure

375. SMART/FHIR | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 08, 2025 - Study protocol: Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure … Study protocol: Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) in adults … Project Name Collaboration-Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) … clinical decision support to improve venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for patients with traumatic brain injury … clinical decision support to improve venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for patients with traumatic brain injury

376. Recommendation: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     June 04, 2024 - initial assessment of modifiable risk factors for falls (eg, balance, gait, vision, postural blood pressure … Falls are the leading cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality among older adults in the US. … adults 65 years or older reported at least 1 fall in the past year and 10.2% reported a fall-related injury … (170 fall-related injuries per 1000 older adults). … assessment using a combination of various components, such as balance, gait, vision, postural blood pressure

377. 5. How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Remember, pressure ulcers are areas of soft tissue damage caused by pressure or pressure and shear. … If unsure whether it is a pressure ulcer, get help from the wound care nurse or another experienced clinician … Typically, this comprehensive evaluation is performed by an "outside" expert such as a wound nurse or … Therefore, consider performing a comprehensive skin assessment every 3 months with a wound care nurse … Pressure ulcers may take several days to develop after a severe pressure injury.

378. 5. How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/put5.html
     October 01, 2014 - Remember, pressure ulcers are areas of soft tissue damage caused by pressure or pressure and shear. … If unsure whether it is a pressure ulcer, get help from the wound care nurse or another experienced clinician … Typically, this comprehensive evaluation is performed by an "outside" expert such as a wound nurse or … Therefore, consider performing a comprehensive skin assessment every 3 months with a wound care nurse … Pressure ulcers may take several days to develop after a severe pressure injury.

379. Reducing potential errors associated with insulin administration: an integrative review. | PSNet
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     March 31, 2021 - March 31, 2021 Intervention study for the reduction of medication errors in elderly trauma … Shift-to-shift nursing handover interventions associated with improved inpatient outcomes - falls, pressure … injuries and medication administration errors: an integrative review.

380. A decade of preventing harm. | PSNet
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     July 10, 2008 - The health system sought to prevent pressure ulcers , adverse drug events , falls with injury , health … January 3, 2017 The cost of serious fall-related injuries at three midwestern hospitals