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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/resources/type-harm.html
July 01, 2025 - Falls Healthcare-Associated Infections Maternal Safety Medication Safety Never Events Opioid Safety Pressure … Ulcers Readmissions Sepsis Surgical Safety Transitions in Care Venous Thromboembolism Diagnostic Safety … Organizations can use this report to understand fall prevention strategies. … Back to Contents Pressure Ulcers AHRQ Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving … Quality of Care This resource assists hospital staff in implementing effective pressure ulcer prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/long-term-care.html
AHRQ Research Findings Support Effort to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in Virginia
AHRQ’s Safety Program … for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits
Bringing Human Factors
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab14b.html
February 01, 2023 - Ulcer
3,799
3,199
3,745
3,230
Injurious Falls
334
265
324
272
Dually Eligible … Ulcer
4,200
3,634
4,114
3,703
Injurious Falls
415
344
410
347
Medicaid-Only … Ulcer
2,619
1,957
2,698
1,836
Injurious Falls
96
38
80
50
I/DD Subpopulation … Ulcer
5,536
4,402
5,759
4,127
Injurious Falls
189
96
161
116
HCBS Population … Ulcer
4,932
3,599
4,712
3,767
Injurious Falls
608
453
613
448
HCBS
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab16b.html
February 01, 2023 - Ulcer
3,050
4,160
3,514
3,406
Injurious Falls
252
369
291
315
Dually Eligible … Ulcer
3,478
4,542
4,009
3,629
Injurious Falls
327
453
373
390
Medicaid-Only … Ulcer
1,883
2,943
2,104
2,733
Injurious Falls
45
101
57
88
I/DD Subpopulation … Ulcer
1,206
1,720
1,560
1,136
Injurious Falls
61
90
75
68
SMI Subpopulation … Ulcer
3,775
4,848
4,198
4,163
Injurious Falls
436
657
486
644
HCBS
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab15b.html
February 01, 2023 - Ulcer
3,481
3,488
3,458
3,512
Injurious Falls
365
245
338
259
Dually Eligible … Ulcer
3,912
3,899
3,818
3,992
Injurious Falls
448
321
423
333
Medicaid-Only … Ulcer
2,094
2,388
2,373
2,172
Injurious Falls
99
43
81
51
I/DD Subpopulation … Ulcer
1,283
1,527
1,280
1,578
Injurious Falls
91
53
84
57
SMI Subpopulation … Ulcer
4,594
3,884
4,481
3,940
Injurious Falls
644
430
625
433
HCBS
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/p.html
June 12, 2025 - Policy Population Health Practice Improvement Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Pregnancy Pressure … Ulcers Prevención y bienestar Prevention Primary Care Provider Performance Provider: Clinician
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/areas.html
February 01, 2018 - Our areas of research and tools cover:
Healthcare Infections
Team Training
Falls
Pressure Ulcers … Diagnostic Safety
Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment
Adverse Drug Events
AHRQ Quality Indicators
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/challenge-competition.html
February 01, 2024 - University of Missouri
University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) utilized AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure … Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care to decrease Patient Safety Indicator 03 … Initially focused on two medical-telemetry units and eventually expanding to include additional units, fall prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/Updated-hacreportFInal2017data.pdf
July 01, 2020 - ulcers/pressure injuries and falls. … Comparing these data with other sources of information, such as the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention … measured with MPSMS, the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators
(PSIs), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … Ulcer MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers/Pressure Injuries
Surgical Site
Infection
NHSN SSIs … Ulcer
MPSMS Hospital-
Acquired
Pressure
647,096 21.75 699,790 23.52 676,834 22.75 682,984 22.96
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/index.html
November 01, 2021 - Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention … Injury
Long-Term Care Facilities
Multiple Chronic Conditions
Omissions of Care in Nursing Homes
Pressure … Ulcers
Quality of Life
TeamSTEPPS
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide … and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities
Affiliated Centers, Portfolios & Initiatives
Prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/uni-missouri-healthcare.html
February 01, 2024 - Avoidable Costs
University of Missouri (MU) Health Care utilized the AHRQ toolkit Preventing Pressure … Ulcers in Hospitals to decrease PSI-03 (reportable pressure injuries) by 92% and save an estimated … The project spanned two phases: the first focused on general HAPI prevention (February 2019 - July 2020 … into the root causes of identified pressure injuries, along with an assessment of best practices for prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab14.html
February 01, 2023 - Ulcer
3,690
3,126
3,660
3,435
3,626
3,404
Injurious Falls
279
344
376
263 … Ulcer
4,133
3,523
3,912
3,945
4,035
3,846
Injurious Falls
355
435
467
339 … Ulcer
2,435
1,929
2,922
1,971
2,477
2,094
Injurious Falls
63
72
107
46
76 … Ulcer
1,524
1,248
1,380
1,455
1,569
1,307
Injurious Falls
74
70
93
59
82 … Ulcer
2,744
2,615
2,612
2,762
2,893
2,560
Injurious Falls
228
282
305
207
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017-results.html
November 01, 2017 - Pressure Ulcers
Based on three studies reporting cost data, we estimated the additional cost for hospital-acquired … pressure ulcers to be $14,506 (95% CI: -$12,313 to $41,326), whereas excess mortality, based on three … ulcer cases, there are 41 excess deaths). … ulcers. … (Goudie 2015) and estimated the additional cost for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers among adult inpatients
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/dailygoals.docx
January 01, 2003 - vein thrombosis:
|_| Heparin every 8 hours/every 12 hours/continuous drip
|_| Peptic ulcer disease prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/b4_pdi_documentationcoding.pdf
March 15, 2016 - ulcers). … ulcers or CLABSI, deaths, oncology patients). … PDI 02 Pressure Ulcer Rate (stage
III, IV, Unstageable)
Diagnosis and site of pressure ulcer must … PDI 02 Pressure Ulcer X If the ulcer progresses from one stage
to another higher stage during the
encounter … Provider must document the site of
pressure ulcer; the stage of the ulcer
can be documented and coded
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-measures/21st-century/private-sector.html
June 01, 2018 - Pressure Ulcers in Adults: Prediction and Prevention . … Treatment of Pressure Ulcers . … Evaluating and Improving Pressure Ulcer Care: The VA Experience with Administrative Data. … Implementation of a comprehensive skin care program across care settings using the AHCPR pressure ulcer … prevention and treatment guidelines.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2013-refs.html
October 01, 2015 - Pressure Ulcers
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Eliminating facility-acquired pressure ulcers at Ascension Health . … Improvement report on reduction of nosocomial pressure ulcers, University of Minnesota Medical Center … Preventing pressure ulcers in hospitals: a toolkit for improving quality of care. … http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/pressure-ulcers/pressureulcertoolkit
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/interimhac2013-ref.html
December 01, 2014 - Pressure Ulcers
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. … Eliminating facility-acquired pressure ulcers at Ascension Health . … Improvement report on reduction of nosocomial pressure ulcers, University of Minnesota Medical Center … Preventing pressure ulcers in hospitals: a toolkit for improving quality of care. … http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/pressure-ulcers/pressureulcertoolkit
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www.ahrq.gov/npsd/data/dashboard/index.html
September 01, 2024 - Pressure Ulcer Dashboard Details the documentation of increased risk for pressure ulcer following a risk … assessment; and the timing of the first risk assessment for reported pressure ulcers or sDTIs.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/daily-goals.html
December 01, 2012 - thrombosis:
__ Heparin every 8 hours/every 12 hours/continuous drip
__ Peptic ulcer disease prevention