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  1. Health Plan Patient Safety Initiatives | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/health-plan-patient-safety-initiatives
    July 10, 2024 - experience, and prevention of patient safety events and adverse events such as medication issues, falls, pressure … ulcers, and infections.

  2. In Conversation With...Amy Helwig about Health Plan Patient Safety Initiatives | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withamy-helwig-about-health-plan-patient-safety-initiatives
    July 10, 2024 - experience, and prevention of patient safety events and adverse events such as medication issues, falls, pressure … ulcers, and infections.

  3. Development of a Web-Based Patient Safety Resource: AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Sehgal_64.pdf
    April 02, 2008 - For example, our list of “Medical Complications” is limited to five items—nosocomial infections, pressure … ulcers, delirium, venous thrombosis, and falls—rather than an enumeration of every possible medical

  4. Meeting Minutes, July 24, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0715-minutes.html
    December 01, 2015 - The agency will fund studies to address a broad range of issues, including pressure ulcers and falls

  5. Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/advancing/index.html
    July 01, 2022 - By using hospital administrative data, PSIs can identify pressure ulcers, postoperative pulmonary emboli

  6. Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/advancing-patient-safety.pdf
    January 01, 2010 - By using hospital administrative data, PSIs can identify pressure ulcers, postoperative pulmonary

  7. Final Progress Report: Benchmarking Patient Safety and Quality in U.S. Hospitals: The Stochastic Frontier Approach (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/unruh-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - complications Weighted average of reliability and risk-adjusted rates of adverse events, such as pressure … ulcers, postoperative respiratory failure and postoperative sepsis. … PSI indicators were rates of adverse events, such as pressure ulcers, postoperative respiratory failure

  8. Chartbook on Black Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/qdr-blackhealth-slides.html
    November 01, 2020 - are restrained can become weak, lose their ability to go to the bathroom by themselves, and develop pressure … ulcers or other medical conditions.

  9. Care Managers Use Software-Aided Medication Review Protocol for Frail, Community-Dwelling Seniors, Leading to More Appropriate Medication Use | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/care-managers-use-software-aided-medication-review-protocol-frail-community-dwelling
    September 13, 2023 - Care Managers Use Software-Aided Medication Review Protocol for Frail, Community-Dwelling Seniors, Leading to More Appropriate Medication Use Save Save to your library Print Download PDF Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL March 31…

  10. Crosscutting-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1406 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/crosscutting-horizon-scan-high-impact-1406.pdf
    June 01, 2014 - a risk of falls for elderly patients, narrow and thin mattresses increase the risk of developing pressure … ulcers, fluorescent lights and a lack of windows foster disorientation in cognitively impaired older … mattresses that patients lie on while awaiting admission or tests; these mattresses can increase risk of pressure … ulcers.

  11. Crosscutting-Horizon-Scan-High-Impact-1412 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/crosscutting-horizon-scan-high-impact-1412.pdf
    December 01, 2014 - a risk of falls for elderly patients, narrow and thin mattresses increase the risk of developing pressure … ulcers, fluorescent lights and a lack of windows foster disorientation in cognitively impaired older … mattresses that patients lie on while awaiting admission or tests; these mattresses can increase risk of pressure … ulcers.

  12. Final Progress Report: Demonstration Project To Refine, Automate and Test a Novel Emergency Department Trigger Tool (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/griffey-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - care related (38.6% vs. 4.7%); the most common subtypes were falls (48%), traumatic injury (11%), and pressure … ulcers (12.3%).

  13. ___APS-DRG_Def.book (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APS_DRGsDefManualV26Public.pdf
    April 01, 2010 - ___APS-DRG_Def.book 4 0 0 C a p i t a l B o u l e v a r d • R o c k D e f i n i t i o n s M a n u a l PUB 4.15.2010 APS-DRGs® ALL-PAYER SEVERITY-ADJUSTED DRG (APS-DRGS®) ASSIGNMENT VERSION 26 FOR PUBLIC USE y H i l l , C T 0 6 0 6 7 • 1 - 8 0 0 - 9 9 9 - 3 7 4 7 COPYRIGHT PAGE Copyright © 2010 Ingeni…

  14. ___APS-Def_Public.book (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APS-DRGsDefManualV27Public.pdf
    April 01, 2010 - ___APS-Def_Public.book 4 0 0 C a p i t a l B o u l e v a r d • R o c k D e f i n i t i o n s M a n u a l PUB 4.13.2010 APS-DRGs® ALL-PAYER SEVERITY-ADJUSTED DRG (APS-DRGS®) ASSIGNMENT FOR PUBLIC USE VERSION 27 y H i l l , C T 0 6 0 6 7 • 1 - 8 0 0 - 9 9 9 - 3 7 4 7 COPYRIGHT PAGE Copyright © 2010 In…

  15. Safe Practices for Better Health Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Kizer1.pdf
    April 01, 2004 - Evaluate each patient upon admission, and regularly thereafter, for his or her risk of developing pressure … ulcers.

  16. Technology for Improving Medication Monitoring in Nursing Homes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Lapane.pdf
    March 09, 2005 - Activities Falls* Nutritional status Dehydration Dental care Feeding tubes† Physical restraints† Pressure … ulcers Psychotropic drug use *RAPs targeted by the intervention

  17. Implementation Guide: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication (pdf file)

    cds.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cds/artifact/26/2024_CDS_Connect_IG_Aspirin_Therapy.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Implementation Guide: Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication Implementation Guide US Preventive Services Task Force Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 www.ahrq.gov …

  18. Final Progress Report: Pursuing Perfection in Pediatric Therapeutics (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lannon2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Pursuing Perfection in Pediatric Therapeutics Title Page • Title of Project: PURSUING PERFECTION IN PEDIATRIC THERAPEUTICS • Principal Investigator and Team Members: CAROLE MARIE LANNON, MD, MPH; Peter Margolis, MD, PhD; Michael Seid, PhD; Jeffrey Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA; Patrick Brady, MD, MS…

  19. Sustaining Zero CLABSIs (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/zero-clabsi.html
    April 01, 2013 - infections, urinary catheter infections, ventilator-associated infections, obstetric disasters, falls, and pressure … ulcers.

  20. Chartbook on Healthy Living: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/healthyliving-slides.html
    April 01, 2018 - Weight loss also may lead to muscle wasting, infections, and increased risk of pressure ulcers.
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