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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=8
January 01, 2024 - Publication Date: March 2015
Using an Electronic Health Record To Examine Nurse Continuity and Pressure … Coordination, Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange, Human and Environmental Factors, Pressure … Information Exchange Publication Date: December 2014
Communication To Prevent and Respond to Medical Injuries
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/ereport-slides.html
September 01, 2017 - showing 15 active medications during the report week, active high-risk diagnosis of UTI, stage III pressure … DNR,DNH, MOLST, or POLST Order in Place
Oxygen Therapy
Catheter or Ostomy Present
Stage II or > Pressure … Gastrointestinal/
Genitourinary
Symptoms
Endocrine/
Metabolic/
Nutrition
Issues
Wound … Genitourinary
Endocrine/
Nutritional/
Metabolic
Musculoskeletal/
Joint
Symptoms
Wound … Circulatory Problems
Hypertension or Renal Failure
Gastroenteritis
Angina Pectoris
Falls /Trauma
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/index.html
September 01, 2025 - that make it more difficult for people to make errors in care delivery or experience a work-related injury … Healthcare Settings includes strategies to identify risks and hazards and prevent/control work-related injury … Healthcare-Associated Infections Program (contains multiple resources and toolkits). * Preventing Pressure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/goldman2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - constraints impact the coordination and delivery of care, and patients suffer unexpected
complications and injuries … sequence of preceding events, the specific end states that are modeled can range from a
specific patient injury … Blood pressure regulatory functions are modeled as a subsystem of both the mother
and the fetus. … A common initiating event or failure is blood pressure lability that can ultimately
lead to one or more … Risk is perhaps best depicted as a dynamic situation in which two events –
progression to injury and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/urinary-catheter-alternatives-notes.docx
April 01, 2022 - They are as follows:
· Stage III or stage IV or unstageable pressure ulcers
· Moderate to severe incontinence-associated … Intermittent catheterization is often used in patients with neurogenic bladder or spinal cord injury, … urinary retention with or without bladder outlet obstruction
· Stage III or stage IV or unstageable pressure … ulcer, or similarly severe wounds of other types, that cannot be kept clear of urinary incontinence … despite wound care and other urinary management strategies, if the ISC is adequate to manage the type
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/find5.html
December 01, 2012 - higher rates on all measures other than Short-Term Complications of Diabetes, Bacterial Pneumonia, and Pressure … The exceptions are Pressure Ulcer, which is effectively equal in urban and nonurban areas, and Infection … Rates for women in the Medicaid-only population are always higher than for men except in Pressure Ulcer … The main exception to the county-level age pattern is the Pressure Ulcer measure, for which rates are … The pattern is strong for all conditions except high blood pressure.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017-ref.html
May 01, 2023 - Costs of venous thromboembolism, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, and pressure ulcer. … The costs of medical falls by component of cost, timing, and injury severity. … Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization … Ostomy Wound Manage . 2016 Nov;62(11):30-8.
65. Mendizabal A, Thibault DP, Willis AW. … Marginal hospital cost of surgery-related hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/world-patient-safety-day-2024.html
September 01, 2024 - common individual adverse events for populations with sufficient size for analysis were: 1) worsening pressure … injuries that were present on admission (2021: 4.9 percent, 2022: 6.0 percent), 2) hypoglycemic events
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module5-presenters-notes.pdf
January 10, 2022 - It
also ensures staff are supported in times of stress or production pressures or when
the day is just … or
unfolding error
An opportunity to
interrupt or correct
an action or event
before harm or
injury … and teams to take steps to interrupt or correct an action or event
before harm or injury … Are the blood pressure cuffs,
otoscope, ophthalmoscopes, and other equipment working properly? … Are
things being left undone because of time pressure?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/dx-improvement/module5-situation-monitoring.pptx
January 10, 2022 - It also ensures staff are supported in times of stress or production pressures or when the day is just … allows individuals and teams to take steps to interrupt or correct an action or event before harm or injury … risk or unfolding error
An opportunity to interrupt or correct an action or event before harm or injury … Are the blood pressure cuffs, otoscope, ophthalmoscopes, and other equipment working properly? … Are things being left undone because of time pressure?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Blike.pdf
January 01, 2003 - Elimination of sedation errors is particularly important since associated deaths
and neurological injuries … review of 90 pediatric sedation-
related critical incidents resulting in death or severe neurological injury … This report has served
as a warning that pediatric patients are at especially high risk for injury during … They initially took over positive
pressure ventilation. … Assumed
RN had optimized positive
pressure ventilation.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module1/grand-rounds-presentation-slides.pptx
January 01, 2014 - Video: Do Less Harm
2
Presentation Goals
Highlight the gap between optimal response to medical injury … Resolution) process and how this toolkit will help organizations improve their response to medical injury … The nursing staff in the room had Michelle connected to a monitor and monitored her heart rate, blood pressure … field of ergonomics; as we work more at desks and computers, these areas are redesigned to help prevent injuries … helps them care for their patients.
36
Module 1
In addition to the organization Medically Induced Trauma
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/grandrounds/mod01-grand-rounds-slides.pdf
April 01, 2016 - Say:
Today’s Presentation Goals are to:
■ Highlight the gap between optimal response to medical injury … the CANDOR process and how this toolkit will help organizations
improve their response to medical injury … nursing
staff in the room had Michelle connected to a monitor and monitored her heart
rate, blood pressure … of ergonomics; as we work more at desks and computers, these areas
are redesigned to help prevent injuries … Slide 35
Say:
In addition to the organization Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (or
MITSS)
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/grand-rounds.html
August 01, 2022 - Say:
Today's Presentation Goals are to:
Highlight the gap between optimal response to medical injury … The nursing staff in the room had Michelle connected to a monitor and monitored her heart rate, blood pressure … Slide 12
Say:
The response to medical injury involves more than just what to do and what … field of ergonomics; as we work more at desks and computers, these areas are redesigned to help prevent injuries … Slide 35
Say:
In addition to the organization Medically Induced Trauma Support Services
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/qdr-blackhealth-slides.html
November 01, 2020 - Infant mortality per 1,000 live births (more than 2,499 grams)
Worse
No Change
Birth trauma—injury … Slide 75
Birth trauma—injury to neonate per 1,000 live births, by race/ethnicity, 2004-2013
Image … : Chart shows birth trauma—injury to neonate per 1,000 live births, by race/ethnicity, 2004-2013: … Trends:
From 2004 to 2013, birth trauma-neonatal injury rates fell from 2.6 per 1,000 live births … Between 2004 and 2012, birth trauma-neonatal injury rates fell for all racial/ethnic groups.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Furmaga.pdf
January 01, 2005 - initiated efforts to decrease the common but unapproved use of that agent for
treating high blood pressure … Further concern was raised regarding the use of short-acting nifedipine for rapid
reduction of blood pressure … nifedipine that, while
allowing for some uses (e.g., autonomic dysreflexia secondary to spinal cord
injury … were continued (158 [9.5 percent] for treatment of autonomic dysreflexia in
patients with spinal cord injury … acting nifedipine for hypertension, 84 (15 percent) for autonomic dysreflexia
secondary to spinal cord injury
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/2-preventablehospitalandedvisits-samplerpts_3.pdf
November 30, 2013 - • Current clinical conditions contributing to transfer risk: use of oxygen, catheter or
ostomy, any pressure … and skin, injury (fall
related or not fall related), musculoskeletal, abnormal labs or anemia, fever … or skin issues
• Fall-related injury
• Non-fall-related injury
• Abnormal labs
• Fever/possible infection … disease
• Asthma
• Circulatory problems
• Hypertension
• Gastroenteritis
• Angina pectoris
• Falls/trauma … obstructive
pulmonary disease, asthma, circulatory problems, hypertension, gastroenteritis, angina,
falls/trauma
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod1sess2.html
October 01, 2014 - Reddened or darkened skin near a pressure point, or skin breakdown in those areas, can lead to a full … pressure ulcer (bed sore) if not responded to promptly. … whether it is an observed and assisted transition to the floor or an unwitnessed event that results in an injury … Vital Signs
Vital signs include temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and pulse rate. … Residents are safest—protected from harm or injury—when everyone expects to openly report anything that
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab13c.html
December 01, 2012 - Composite: ACSC Overall
16,190
13,777
11,837
15,406
12,890
12,089
11,728
15,849
Pressure
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab13f.html
December 01, 2012 - Composite: ACSC Overall
25,088
21,726
18,033
23,910
21,388
17,059
17,977
25,619
Pressure