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461. Dangerous Dialysis | PSNet
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     June 12, 2024 - Risk factors for falls included patient age, number of comorbidities, having a lower systolic blood pressure … addition, after dialysis sessions, hemodynamic shifts can lead to transient hypotension (low blood pressure … The quality indicators include identification of medical injuries and medical errors. … Falls and fall-related injuries in older dialysis patients.

462. Update on the Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Insufficient Evidence (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2009 - take up the time available to discuss smoking cessation, or to address an acute problem or a minor injury … Pharmacologic treatment of high blood pressure has side effects. … Routine measurement of blood pressure in adolescents is common practice. … Contrast: Screening for High Blood Pressure in Adolescents Screening for high blood pressure in adolescents … High Blood Pressure.

463. Transitioning Newborns from NICU to Home: Family Information Packet, Appendix B (pdf file)
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     April 02, 2025 - ■ Should have: – Blood pressure checked at every visit. … are at risk for zinc deficiency and may need supplementation: – Poor growth, diarrhea, impaired wound … – Bivona ■ Cuffed: Indicated to prevent chronic aspiration, or when ventilating with high pressures … – Set suction pressure between 80-100 mmHg. … – Gastric or esophageal trauma during placement.

464. AHRQ Views: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2024 - 36 states from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project focusing on adverse outcomes such as pressure … Epidemiology and clinical outcomes of community-acquired acute kidney injury in the emergency department

465. Failure to Adhere to Dietary Restrictions Leading to Complications and Poor Follow-up | PSNet
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     September 27, 2023 - with factitious disorder consciously and manipulatively (usually surreptitiously) produce illness or injury … advocated by most experienced practitioners. 20 Applying cricoid pressure compresses the esophagus … this communication error because the foreign body likely traversed the gastrointestinal tract without injury … Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med . 2021;29(1):64. [ Free full text ] Zdravkovic M, Rice MJ, Brull SJ. … The clinical use of cricoid pressure: first, do no harm.

466. Measuring Patient Safety | PSNet
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     December 14, 2022 - Falls and pressure ulcers also went up – in skilled nursing facilities, we saw rates of falls causing … major injury increase by 17% and pressure ulcers increase by over 40%. … healthcare-acquired infections, complications, medication safety, safety of the EMR, patient falls with injury … , and pressure injuries. … Did you take someone's blood pressure?

467. In Conversation With... Dr. Michelle Schreiber on Measuring Patient Safety | PSNet
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     December 14, 2022 - Falls and pressure ulcers also went up – in skilled nursing facilities, we saw rates of falls causing … major injury increase by 17% and pressure ulcers increase by over 40%. … healthcare-acquired infections, complications, medication safety, safety of the EMR, patient falls with injury … , and pressure injuries. … Did you take someone's blood pressure?

468. Cognitive Overload in the ICU | PSNet
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     June 01, 2005 - The patient ultimately regained a pulse but required two vasopressors to maintain her blood pressure … Bedside cannulation of the central circulation for measurement of central venous pressure and for vasopressor … The patient immediately responded, with improved oxygenation and blood pressure. … radiograph provided reassurance that the central line was in the correct position without evidence of lung injury … Relative value of central-venous-pressure monitoring and blood-volume measurement in the management of

469. Hidden Danger! Insidious Postpartum Bleeding After Emergency Cesarean Delivery. | PSNet
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     November 25, 2020 - Vital signs showed systolic blood pressure around 90 mm Hg, mean arterial pressure (MAP) 60-70, pulse … At that time, the patient’s vital signs showed a blood pressure of 88/40, mean arterial pressure of 57 … include increased blood volume, increased cardiac output, decreased vascular resistance (with lower blood pressure … For example, single parameter alerts such as a diastolic blood pressure >90 mm Hg were common in the … October 30, 2024 WebM&M Cases Uterine Artery Injury during

470. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 24, 2020 - group differences in serious adverse events, any adverse events, hospitalizations, musculoskeletal injuries … more of the following: serious adverse events, any adverse events, hospitalizations, musculoskeletal injuries … Effect of drug and diet treatment of mild hypertension on diastolic blood pressure. … Increasing daily walking lowers blood pressure in postmenopausal women. … differences in any study for serious adverse events, any adverse events, hospitalizations, musculoskeletal injuries

471. Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for CVD Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     November 24, 2020 - • There is convincing evidence that counseling interventions improve blood pressure, lipid and fasting … a Hypertension or elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemia, or mixed risk factors (eg, metabolic syndrome … Risk factors include: dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure or hypertension, or multiple or mixed risk … At 12 to 24 mo, the intervention groups showed greater reductions in blood pressure (systolic blood pressure … trials evaluating physical activity interventions, a few participants reported minor musculoskeletal injuries

472. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2022 - The Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals Toolkit assists hospital staff in implementing effective … pressure ulcer prevention practices through an interdisciplinary approach to care. … The toolkit draws on literature on best practices in pressure ulcer prevention and includes both validated … patients can suffer adverse outcomes and even fatal complications, and clinicians can be exposed to injury

473. 2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Quality Trends (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - 51.9% in 2013 67.7% in 2017 -9.5 0.006 Surgical Safety Home health care patients whose surgical wound … single measure that was not changing over time examines long-stay nursing home patients who experience injuries … Ulcers Short-stay nursing home patients with new or worsening pressure ulcers (MDS) 0.7% in 2013 … Ulcers High-risk, long-stay nursing home patients with pressure ulcer (MDS) 5.3% in 2013 4.8% in … 2017 -2.1 0.018 Falls Long-stay nursing home patients experiencing one or more falls with major injury

474. Archived: Evidence Summary: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 17, 2018 - of falls resulting in injury as reported in the trials. … number of the following components: balance, gait, vision, cardiovascular health (eg, postural blood pressure … Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) website. … https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/ . 2016. Accessed November 8, 2017. 2. … Injury . 2014;45(1):265-271. 38.

475. 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2022 - injury deaths), followed by accidental falls and motor vehicle accidents (each of which accounted for … approximately 20% of unintentional injuries) … an important cause of death that disproportionately affects younger populations, was unintentional injury … • Among the top 10 causes of YPLL, rates of unintentional injury, heart disease, liver disease, and … eclampsia/preeclampsia rate, which measures a complication of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure

476. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2025 - health care providers who are involved in an unanticipated adverse event, medical error, or patient injury … natural-history-recovery-healthcare-provider-second-victim-after-adverse-patient-events Stage of Recovery Summary Moving On Clinicians feel internal and external pressure

477. Archived: Treatment: Evidence Summary: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     May 28, 2013 - For other injury outcomes (that is, brachial plexus injury and clavicular fractures), results were inconsistent … Second, where reported, definitions of preeclampsia varied (for example, a blood pressure of 140/90 mm … apart, these criteria with laboratory measures indicative of preeclampsia, or an increase in blood pressure … because of heterogeneity 88 Cohort 2 515 −1.04 (−2.89 to 0.81) ‡ 8 Maternal birth trauma … 1 1030 0.35 (0.01 to 8.45) NA Cohort 1 389 0.02 (0.00 to 0.22) † NA Birth trauma

478. Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     July 26, 2022 - For the purposes of this review, cardiovascular risk factors included elevated blood pressure, elevated … (high blood pressure stage 1 [systolic blood pressure [SBP] 130 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure [DBP … behavioral outcome (eg, dietary intake, physical activity) or report adverse events (eg, serious harm, injury … different between groups. 29-31 , 48 , 56 , 82 Twelve trials reported the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries … including physical activity counseling reported generally no differences in rates of musculoskeletal injuries

479. 6Jfgjyjsbmc48Mj2Uksahb (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2014 - blood pressure, and aspirin use when appropriate. … Systolic and diastolic blood pressures decreased by 1 to 3 mm Hg and 1 to 2 mm Hg, respectively. … interventions, a few participants reported fatigue, muscle soreness, or other mi- nor musculoskeletal injuries … In Brief: Your Guide to Low- ering Your Blood Pressure With DASH. … Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease.

480. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2012 - On physical examination, his initial blood pressure was elevated at 192/100 mm Hg, but his heart rate … Bilateral upper-extremity blood pressures were equal. … oral antacid/anesthetic combination) was given, and the patient reported symptom relief; his blood pressure … ECG interpretation: sinus tachycardia, with posterolateral injury pattern.