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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab11.html
February 01, 2023 - Overall
Yes
14,177
28,212
18,788
9,372
No
19,380
19,211
19,521
20,716
Pressure … Ulcer
Yes
2,730
11,421
3,150
1,840
No
3,506
3,461
3,696
3,731
Injurious … Composite: ACSC Overall
50,783
40,549
9,972
20,001
18,997
10,923
20,108
19,218
Pressure … Ulcer
12,696
8,204
883
4,475
3,415
1,644
3,729
3,459
Injurious Falls
469
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March 01, 2023 - 6,924
7,208
Composite: ACSC Overall
20,218
17,976
20,084
17,046
19,215
17,075
Pressure … Ulcer
3,124
2,492
3,084
2,232
2,819
2,301
Injurious Falls
297
218
268
212 … 6,471
8,020
7,037
6,881
Composite: ACSC Overall
17,757
20,393
19,476
16,171
Pressure … Ulcer
2,658
2,731
2,846
2,191
Injurious Falls
239
247
236
260
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19d.html
March 01, 2023 - 3,685
2,830
Composite: ACSC Overall
6,401
5,144
6,083
4,903
6,049
4,408
Pressure … Ulcer
1,887
1,225
1,703
1,115
1,573
1,084
Injurious Falls
88
67
77
69
79 … 3,503
3,242
3,720
2,668
Composite: ACSC Overall
5,768
5,111
6,087
4,163
Pressure … Ulcer
1,543
1,223
1,589
999
Injurious Falls
77
67
77
63
Notes:
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19g.html
March 01, 2023 - 12,136
Composite: ACSC Overall
32,463
23,973
25,306
28,599
25,757
29,466
Pressure … Ulcer
4,845
3,916
4,034
4,473
4,279
3,822
Injurious Falls
694
450
520
525 … 12,380
10,227
12,540
Composite: ACSC Overall
24,470
31,390
25,983
29,126
Pressure … Ulcer
4,169
4,242
4,328
3,449
Injurious Falls
498
580
497
653
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19c.html
March 01, 2023 - 4,435
3,912
Composite: ACSC Overall
14,847
12,685
13,750
12,591
14,039
10,413
Pressure … Ulcer
3,144
1,922
2,311
2,203
2,306
2,125
Injurious Falls
114
46
72
55
58 … 4,284
4,429
4,470
3,725
Composite: ACSC Overall
13,151
13,631
14,134
9,746
Pressure … Ulcer
2,071
2,713
2,345
1,945
Injurious Falls
68
59
59
92
Notes:
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19b.html
March 01, 2023 - 8,456
8,118
Composite: ACSC Overall
25,741
19,330
21,845
20,450
21,888
19,402
Pressure … Ulcer
4,659
3,573
4,127
3,570
4,133
3,186
Injurious Falls
476
335
399
346 … 8,162
8,798
8,469
8,012
Composite: ACSC Overall
20,856
22,154
22,042
18,402
Pressure … Ulcer
4,014
3,688
4,171
2,882
Injurious Falls
384
365
381
366
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19.html
March 01, 2023 - 7,387
7,164
Composite: ACSC Overall
23,095
17,584
19,743
18,467
19,802
17,363
Pressure … Ulcer
4,291
3,139
3,655
3,225
3,647
2,945
Injurious Falls
388
259
314
272 … 7,138
7,741
7,427
6,977
Composite: ACSC Overall
18,821
20,092
19,980
16,312
Pressure … Ulcer
3,501
3,452
3,695
2,655
Injurious Falls
301
291
297
299
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/findings/tab19f.html
March 01, 2023 - 5,990
6,632
Composite: ACSC Overall
23,094
19,763
20,681
21,282
21,204
19,420
Pressure … Ulcer
6,082
4,303
4,919
4,872
4,765
5,535
Injurious Falls
173
119
141
130 … 5,861
6,673
6,037
6,455
Composite: ACSC Overall
20,343
22,153
21,427
18,076
Pressure … Ulcer
4,499
5,846
4,870
5,072
Injurious Falls
140
131
131
168
Notes
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/impmaterials.html
June 01, 2017 - Section 1: Screening for Hospital Transfer Risk
Section 2: Preventable Hospital and ED Visits - Prevention … |___|
Confusion/mental status change
|___|
|___|
Any full thickness wound (e.g., pressure … ulcers [Stage II or greater], surgical wound, stasis ulcer)
|___|
|___|
Polypharmacy (15 or … Chronic pressure ulcers
Yes |___|
No |___|
L. … Meeting
Hospital/ED Transfer Prevention Discussed (Yes/No)
Meeting Chair/Leader Name and Discipline
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/missed-nursing-care
September 15, 2024 - include delayed or omitted medications or treatments; complications such as atelectasis, deconditioning, pressure … ulcers, falls, ventilator-associated pneumonia, or other nosocomial infections; increased length of … Statistically significant impacts were demonstrated on medication errors, patient falls, nosocomial infections, pressure … ulcers, mortality, and patient satisfaction. … Prevention The most consistent predictors of missed nursing care are staffing levels , work environment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45511/psn-pdf
July 21, 2017 - Investigators compared a global measure of safety, which
included pressure ulcers, venous thromboembolism … preventability-hospital-acquired-venous-thromboembolism
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/health-care-associated-infections
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/fall-prevention-acute-care-hospitals-randomized-trial
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-harms.pdf
August 01, 2025 - Ulcer Prevention in
Nursing Homes
2015–2018
$1,783,070
Purpose: 1) Disseminate the On-Time Pressure … effective pressure ulcer prevention
practices. … Key Findings/Impact: A final report was not available; however, the
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals … : Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a pressure ulcer module,
“On-Time Quality Improvement … rates, in reducing the rate
of pressure ulcers among nursing home residents.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/b2b_combo_ratesgenbywin.pdf
March 01, 2016 - Ulcer Rate 0 0 - 0.00013297
PDI3 PDI #3 Retained Surgical Item/Unretrieved Device Fragment Count 0 … Count 0 - - -
PSI2 PSI #2 Death Rate in Low-Mortality DRGs 8 132 0.06060606 0.00028197
PSI3 PSI #3 Pressure … Ulcer Rate 0 47 0 0.00040548
PSI4 PSI #4 DeathRateSurgInpatientswSeriousTreatableComplications 0 0 … PQI92 PQI #92 Prevention Quality Chronic Composite 795 0.00949090839
PSI21 PSI #21 Retained Surgical … Ulcer Rate 0 47 0 0.000832 0 0.000405 0 0.000379
PSI #4 Death Rate among Surgical
Inpatients with
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/design-safe-or-sorry-study-cluster-randomised-trial-development-and-testing-evidence-based
May 22, 2013 - randomised trial on the development and testing of an evidence based inpatient safety program for the prevention … randomised trial on the development and testing of an evidence based inpatient safety program for the prevention … implementation of a patient safety program focused on evidence-based guidelines to reduce the incidence of pressure … ulcers , falls , and urinary tract infections . … July 16, 2013
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/exploring-nursing-sensitive-events-home-healthcare-national-multicenter-cohort-study-using
August 05, 2020 - December 1, 2021
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Related Resources
The challenge of risk prevention … room hospital accommodation associated with differences in healthcare-associated infection, falls, pressure … ulcers or medication errors?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adverse-events
October 28, 2020 - June 29, 2016
National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention. … Quality and Safety Professionals
Patients
Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events
Pressure … Ulcers
Surgical Complications
View More
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33734/psn-pdf
August 01, 2012 - ulcer or were put in physical restraints. … We looked at the outcomes on falls, pressure ulcers, and restraint use. … We
didn't find it for pressure ulcers. … ulcers. … But they are mainly medical-based outcomes or process-
based outcomes like pressure ulcers, use of restraints
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017-ref.html
May 01, 2023 - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. … Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. National Action Plan for ADE prevention. … Costs of venous thromboembolism, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, and pressure ulcer. … Pressure ulcers in the United States' inpatient population from 2008 to 2012: results of a retrospective … Marginal hospital cost of surgery-related hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/No_More_CAUTI_Preventing_CAUTI_transcript.docx
May 05, 2015 - Finally, Liz served as a national mentor to 2 fellows in the project protect infection prevention fellowship … Today, we're going to be talking specifically about the education component in your CAUDI prevention … For a lot of people, part of their CAUDI prevention program is not only looking at appropriate indication … Again, this is a good visual of we're not talking about just a little stage 1 or stage 2 pressure ulcer … The catheter itself can actually cause pressure ulcers just as much as incontinence can.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/faqs/faq-chg-bathing.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Do not
wipe the CHG off as this will reduce its infection prevention abilities. … Be especially thorough if there are any nearby wounds, pressure ulcers, or breaks in the skin. … Using the CHG cloths on superficial wounds/stage 1 and 2 decubitus ulcers
How should we dispose of