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1401. Chartbook on Women's Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2020 - Importance: About 70 million American adults (29%) have high blood pressure ( Nwankwo, et al., 2013 … High blood pressure costs the Nation $46 billion each year. … mostly attributable to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), congenital anomalies, infection, and injury … Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [Online] (2013). … http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html . Accessed September 1, 2015.

1402. Webinar Transcript - The National Quality Strategy and the Public Sector: Federal Agency Alignment to the Six Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2016 - We work to prevent the leading cause of illness, injury, disability, and death. … We've displayed performance on the ABCs, which are appropriate aspirin use, blood pressure control, control … tobacco and got preventive care, we still have to address modifiable risk factors, including blood pressure … their profit according to the extent to which they're able to assist their members in controlling blood pressure

1403. Functional Assessment Screening Patient Reported Information: FAST-PRI - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2015 - care organizations…should adopt as their explicit purpose to continually reduce the burden of illness, injury … you less likely to have medical problems such as: Diabetes Heart disease Colon Cancer High blood pressure … less likely to have medical problems such as: Diabetes Heart disease Colon Cancer High blood pressure … you less likely to have medical problems such as: Diabetes Heart disease Colon Cancer High blood pressure

1404. Interpreting the Patient Safety Literature | PSNet
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      June 01, 2005 - a particular patient safety intervention is going to save large numbers of lives or reduce serious injuries … intervention, they referred to any event that resulted in the emergency team being called—low blood pressure … the error caught by their regular physician, others would experience asymptomatic reduction in blood pressure

1405. JAMA JATS (pdf file)
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      September 18, 2018 - recommendations on screening for abnormal blood glucose levels and type 2 diabetes, screening for high blood pressure … Intermediate outcomes (eg, prevalence of high blood pressure or the metabolic syndrome, use of cardiovascular … fractures, serious injuries resulting from increased physical activity, and an increased risk for eating … Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure … Screening for high blood pressure in adults: U.S.

1406. 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

1407. Findings and Lessons From the Enabling Quality Measurement Through Health IT Grant Initiative (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2012 - and modeling to iden- This is one in a series of five reports highlighting tify preventable patient injuries … The grantees confirmed that higher scores on the disease management indices for blood pressure were … data from the EHR, that the latter ap- proach was highly accurate for case identification for blood pressure … mix adjustment model to account for patient heterogeneity, comparing actual hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure … had a modest impact on treatment intensification rates for patients with elevated systolic blood pressure

1408. CER 220: Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesics To Reduce Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting (pdf file)
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      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

1409. DARTNet Summary Report (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2009 - Rates of hypoglycemia, liver injury, and liver failure were rare, and did not differ substantially … claims  Medication allergies  Reason for appointment  Family history  Findings (blood pressure … Rates of hypoglycemia, liver injury, and liver failure were determined from EHR data. … As was the case in Phase 1, rates of hypoglycemia, liver injury, and liver failure were rare and did … the exception of a few values not represented in administrative data (e.g., height, weight, blood pressure

1410. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      November 25, 2020 - His initial vital signs in the ED were notable for a systolic blood pressure in the 100s and a heart … This suggests that the clinicians initially considered trauma but prematurely narrowed their focus to … additional history-taking may have revealed the patient’s recent history of falls with repeated closed head injuries … ST-segment abnormalities in a patient with a recent history of head trauma and no chest pain should … “Has this patient suffered recent head trauma or is this patient at increased risk of head trauma?”)

1411. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - For example, only half of people with high blood pressure have it controlled. … High blood pressure costs the Nation $46 billion each year. … mostly attributable to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), congenital anomalies, infection, and injury … Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [Online]. (2013). http://www.cdc.gov … /injury/wisqars/index.html .

1412. 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

1413. Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)
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      July 13, 2021 - from current standard therapy because it compared tighter control of blood pres- sure by targeting pressures … less than 150/85 mm Hg vs less tight con- trol targeting pressures less than 180/105 mm Hg. … The state of US Health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states. … Long-term follow-up after tight control of blood pressure in type 2 diabetes. … ; National High Blood Pressure Education Program Coordinating Committee.

1414. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Response: Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve the Safety of Surgical Care (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2023 - infection, or other wound complication Making Healthcare Safer IV – Use of Report Cards and Outcome … embolism or deep vein thrombosis rate • PSI 13 – Postoperative sepsis rate • PSI 14 – Postoperative wound … Other independent predictors included injury severity score, systolic blood pressure, heart rate. … injury and 0.78 (0.51-1.06) for blunt multisystem injuries; changes sustained in 2009 O/E for all … multiple ICPs; Postoperative shower, skin prep technique, clean instruments/gowns/gloves for wound

1415. A Fatal Twist in Pseudohyperkalemia | PSNet
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      February 10, 2021 - On arrival at the ED, he was afebrile, heart rate was 98 beats per minute (bpm), blood pressure was 103 … especially in busy clinical settings such as the ED. 2–4 Hemolysis is defined as a generalized process of injury … WebM&M Cases Intraosseous Line Extravasation in a Pediatric Trauma

1416. Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design (pdf file)
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      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

1417. Prescribers-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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      June 01, 2021 - unanticipated event in a health care setting resulting in death or serious physical or psychological injury … Half of the respondents in that study reported feeling pressure to give a medication for which they questioned

1418. Patient Safety Organizations: A Summary of 2014 Profiles (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2014 - The term safety refers to reducing risk from harm and injury, whereas the term quality suggests striving … Information Form, and Summary of Initial Report Form) and then applying Common Formats for falls, pressure

1419. Research on the Integration of Behavioral Health in Primary Care webinar
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      March 07, 2024 - I would’ve never thought to refer him to it because of the level of his brain injury” Tack, E., Lakhtakia … There are key SSDOH in driving blood pressure disparities for example, like lack of access to healthy

1420. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 31, 2024 - On arrival at the ED, he was afebrile, heart rate was 98 beats per minute (bpm), blood pressure was … especially in busy clinical settings such as the ED.2–4 Hemolysis is defined as a generalized process of injury