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4181. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      October 26, 2015 - Nurses seek to reduce long hours and fatigue. October 26, 2015 Ungar L. USA Today. February 1, 2015. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nurses-seek-reduce-long-hours-and-fatigue This news article discusses problems associated with nurse fatigue and strategies hospitals are utilizing to prevent nursing staff from being o…

4182. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/toolkit-sections.html
      March 01, 2017 - Toolkit Sections Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The toolkit is organized in three sections. Your facility can use the materials in each section in improvement efforts to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections …

4183. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Chlamydial Infection: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary14/chlamydial-infection-screening-2007
      June 15, 2007 - concluded that screening and treating young women at increased risk for chlamydial infection significantly reduced

4184. Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship5.html
      August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis Introduction Background …

4185. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities. | PSNet
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      January 09, 2024 - Toolkit Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities. Citation Text: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities. September 2021. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar BibTeX EndNote X…

4186. Reducing Risky College Drinking Through The Use of Cutting Edge mHealth Technology | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2018 - Reducing Risky College Drinking Through The Use of Cutting Edge mHealth Technology Key Finding and Impact Apps to address dangerous alcohol use in college age adults may be as effective, and more cost-effective, as traditional in-person interventions. Heavy alcohol use and its related consequences are maj…

4187. Improving Medication Safety with Accurate e-Prescribing Tool | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2020 - Improving Medication Safety with Accurate e-Prescribing Tool Successful implementation of CancelRx, an e-prescribing functionality to electronically communicate medication discontinuation orders between electronic health records and pharmacies, can improve medication safety and reduce adverse drug events. …

4188. Medications for Risk Reduction of Primary Breast Cancer in Women: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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      Medications for Risk Reduction of Primary Breast Cancer in Women: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation MEDICATIONS FOR RISK REDUCTION OF PRIMARY BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN CLINICAL SUMMARY OF U.S. PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION Population Asymptomatic women aged ≥35 years without a prior diagn…

4189. Boston Medical Center | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Boston Medical Center Implementation and Dissemination of 'Gabby,' a Health Information Technology System for Young Women, Into Community-Based Clinical Sites Description This research evaluated the appropriateness, acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of the Gabby He…

4190. Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-engaging-leadership-slides.html
      December 01, 2017 - Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change Slide presentation Slide 1 Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH M. Todd Greene, MPH, PhD University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor VA Medical Center …

4191. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 07, 2005 - Reducing Adverse Drug Events. March 7, 2005 Leape LL, Kabcenell A, Berwick DM et al. Boston, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 1998. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/reducing-adverse-drug-events This application-oriented book provides the results of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Breakthrough S…

4192. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2021 - Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Mortality Workshop. June 2, 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. June 7-8, 2021. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/advancing-maternal-health-equity-and-reducing-maternal-mortality-workshop Maternal safety is challenged by clinical, equity…

4193. 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      September 01, 2018 - 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce CVD Resource title: 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults . Resource description: This clinical guideline, published in Circulation in 2011, outlines how to treat hig…

4194. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - Deprescribing as a clinical improvement focus. November 20, 2019 Dharmarajan TS, Choi H, Hossain N, et al. Deprescribing as a Clinical Improvement Focus. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2020;21(3):355-360. doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2019.08.031. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/deprescribing-clinical-improvement-focus Polypharmacy is a …

4195. Making Healthcare Safer III: Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2020 - In the second Making Healthcare Safer report, team training was associated with reduced errors and safety … Simulation-based medical education curriculums were associated with decreased complication rates, fewer errors, reduced

4196. Disposition of Comments CER 214 Stroke Prevention in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (pdf file)
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      October 30, 2019 - increase in stroke/systemic embolism but no statistically significant difference in bleeding with reduced … dose vs standard dose apixaban in patients without a renal indication for reduced dosing; in the same … analysis, there was no difference in the benefit : risk of reduced dose vs. standard dose rivaroxaban … I think it would be worth noting that all of the newer agents reduced the risk of hemorrhagic stroke … This summary states that in the third study dabigatran reduced stroke in diabetic patients which was

4197. Systematic Review on Treatments for Acute Pain: Surveillance Report 1 (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2022 - Cold therapy was associated with reduced use of oxycodone 5 mg at day 1 (18% vs. 52%) and day 6 (11% … Reduced pain and opioid use in the early postoperative period in patients undergoing a frontotemporal … A randomized controlled noninferiority trial of reduced vs routine opioid prescription after prolapse … Examining reduced opioid prescriptions after gynecologic laparoscopy: a randomized controlled trial … Reduced opioid use among patients who received liposomal bupivacaine for ACL reconstruction.

4198. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 14. Delirium (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2020 - If the threshold was >/-1, the sensitivity improved but the specificity was reduced.14 Arendts (2017 … Nonpharmacological interventions significantly reduced delirium incidence in four trials,4,5,7,12 while … The NuDESC (threshold ≥1) had improved sensitivity (80%; 95% CI 65 to 91) but reduced specificity … Incidence of delirium was reduced (15.7% vs. 9.4%, p=.04). … Use of multicomponent interventions reduced prevalence of delirium; to enable use, education of the

4199. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Supporting Measure Implementation (pdf file)
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      August 01, 2025 - ■ A nursing home medication safety project implemented an active medication monitoring system that reduced … Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) in private hospitals, demonstrating reduced … ■ Enhance Patient Outcomes: Reduced adverse events in high-risk environments (e.g., intensive care … Thirty-day postoperative morbidity in private sector hospitals was reduced with the implementation of … was relatively insensitive to cost of care, and the risk of stroke influenced the decision only when reduced

4200. Archived: Evidence Summary: Visual Impairment in Children Ages 1-5: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary5/visual-impairment-in-children-ages-1-5-screening-2011
      January 15, 2011 - examination, age-specific visual acuity testing, and cover-uncover test) from 8 through 37 months of age reduced … rather than screening versus no screening. 20 Although it found that repeated preschool screening reduced … results Hyperopia >3.0 D; myopia >1.0 D; strabismus; ptosis Cross-sectional; 4-7 y; N = 288; reduced … 5 y old) in 1 eye, worse than 20/40 (20/30) in contralateral eye, and bilateral amblyogenic factor; reduced … "very important to detect and treat early" conditions: 5.4% (135/2588); amblyopia: 2.9% (75/2588); reduced