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41. Managing cognitive biases during disaster response: the development of an aide memoire. | PSNet
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    November 16, 2022 - Nonoperating room anaesthesia: safety, monitoring, cognitive aids and severe acute respiratory … View More See More About The Topic Policy Makers Public Health Infectious Diseases

42. Identifying barriers to and opportunities for telehealth implementation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic by using a human factors approach: a leap into the future of health care delivery? | PSNet
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    July 07, 2021 - October 27, 2021 Evidence of respiratory infection transmission within physician offices … Topic Ambulatory Clinic or Office Information Professionals Public Health Infectious Diseases

43. Routine Goes Awry | PSNet
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    September 23, 2020 - populations of children, including those with neurologic delay, craniofacial abnormalities, lower airway disease … to screen this patient with a history of asthma to assess the severity of possible reactive airway disease … In a study of more than 9,000 children in Australia, a positive respiratory history was predictive of … Balancing pain control and respiratory depression can be difficult with narcotic administration. … Risk assessment for respiratory complications in paediatric anaesthesia: a prospective cohort study.

44. Timely diagnosis of esophageal perforation | PSNet
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    September 27, 2023 - The Case  A man with mixed connective tissue disease on low-dose prednisone and methotrexate presented … moribund with chest and left shoulder pain, a left hydropneumothorax, and progressive respiratory failure … Over the ensuing days, the patient’s condition deteriorated with worsening respiratory failure, progressive … Were the physicians unduly swayed by the fact that de novo respiratory complications such as pneumonia … and pneumonitis are fairly common in patients with mixed connective tissue disease (framing)?  

45. In Conversation With… Alison Holmes, MD, MPH | PSNet
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    March 01, 2014 - But not for people coming in with viral upper respiratory tract infections. … pathogens (e.g., endemic and emerging multidrug-resistant organisms, C. difficile , influenza, and other respiratory … Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Available at] 7. Jarvis WR. … Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Available at] 9. … (e.g., aspergillus) Respiratory illness (e.g., influenza) C. difficile infection

46. Miscommunication During the Interhospital Transport of a Critically Ill Child | PSNet
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    March 27, 2024 - At the hospital, testing for SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was negative … respiratory failure requiring air transportation to the pediatric intensive care unit at a children’ … The young child in this case required high-flow oxygen support for her respiratory failure. … In addition to protocols governing the transfer process, disease-specific protocols targeting some of … pediatric interfacility transfers to provide higher-level care for these children, are both facilitated by disease-specific

47. Long-term care healthcare-associated infections in 2021: an analysis of 17,971 reports. | PSNet
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    July 06, 2022 - February 1, 2012 Process failures that increase the risk of infection through respiratory … May 24, 2023 Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease … Long-Term Care Quality and Safety Professionals Geriatrics Nurse Care Infectious Diseases

48. COVID-19: patient safety and quality improvement skills to deploy during the surge. | PSNet
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    March 23, 2022 - facilitators to healthcare workers' adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory … infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis.

49. Use and impact of virtual primary care on quality and safety: the public's perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic. | PSNet
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    July 08, 2020 - October 27, 2021 Evidence of respiratory infection transmission within physician offices … Topic Researchers Ambulatory Clinic or Office Primary Care Public Health Infectious Diseases

50. Spotlight (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - • A viral swab was negative for SARS-CoV2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). … pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in 2000, even while bacterial pneumonia and other invasive pneumococcal disease … ” • Viral respiratory infections are common in pediatrics. … regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990-2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease … Hyponatremia in Infectious Diseases-A Literature Review.

51. Preventable Transfer to the Hospital | PSNet
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    March 31, 2022 - hospitalization for COVID-19 pneumonia-associated complications including acute-on-chronic hypoxic respiratory … Unfortunately, the patient developed acute hypoxic respiratory failure that night, prior to transition … from the hospital, patients discharged to SNFs are often more medically complex with greater burden of disease … April 10, 2024 Patient Safety Primers Coronavirus Disease … WebM&M Cases Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease

52. Rapid Mis-St(r)ep | PSNet
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    February 01, 2004 - Further adding to the management challenge, many patients with a viral upper respiratory tract infection … Bisno AL, Gerber MA, Gwaltney JM Jr, Kaplan EL, Schwartz RH, for the Infectious Diseases Society of America … Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases. 27th ed. … Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease … antigen detection test results: reduced specificity in the absence of group A streptococci in the upper respiratory

53. Coping with medical error: a systematic review of papers to assess the effects of involvement in medical errors on healthcare professionals' psychological well-being. | PSNet
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    March 04, 2015 - facilitators to healthcare workers' adherence with infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines for respiratory … infectious diseases: a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis.

54. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    March 27, 2024 - A viral swab was negative for SARS-CoV2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. … pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in 2000, even while bacterial pneumonia and other invasive pneumococcal disease … Viral respiratory infections are common in pediatrics. … regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990-2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease … Hyponatremia in infectious diseases-a literature review.

55. Spotlight: Overdiagnosis and Delay: Challenges in Sepsis Diagnosis | PSNet
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    October 28, 2020 - pathophysiology of sepsis is the presence of organ dysfunction, such as hypotension, elevated lactate, respiratory … particularly metformin and antihypertensive drugs), acute mesenteric ischemia, malignancies, inflammatory diseases … broad causes of shock: hypovolemic, cardiogenic (e.g., acute myocardial infarction, valvular heart disease … a Stroke June 1, 2018 WebM&M Cases Acute Respiratory … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Physicians Infectious Diseases

56. Failed Interpretation of Screening Tool: Delayed Treatment | PSNet
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    August 20, 2018 - His initial vital signs showed a blood pressure of 130/75 mm hg, heart rate of 65 beats per minute, respiratory … However, he rapidly experienced further respiratory decompensation requiring intubation and mechanical … SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) Temperature >38°C or <36°C Heart rate >90 beats per min Respiratory …   Neurologic (GCS) 0–24 ≥ 2 MEWS (Modified Early Warning Score) Systolic blood pressure Heart rate Respiratory … Emergency Departments Health Care Providers Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Infectious Diseases

57. Missed Diagnosis of Addison’s Disease in Adolescent Presenting with Fatigue. | PSNet
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    October 28, 2020 - Missed Diagnosis of Addison’s Disease in Adolescent Presenting with Fatigue. … Missed Diagnosis of Addison’s Disease in Adolescent Presenting with Fatigue.. PSNet [internet]. … Missed Diagnosis of Addison’s Disease in Adolescent Presenting with Fatigue.. PSNet [internet]. … The Case A 13-year-old girl developed fatigue, weight loss, and a persistent upper respiratory infection … Shortly after dropping out of school, she developed a new respiratory infection and was taken back to

58. Code Status vs. Care Status | PSNet
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    September 30, 2020 - The ICU team continued to optimize the patient’s respiratory status as they prepared for his eventual … No one continued to emphasize to the patient the importance of BIPAP and other respiratory care to his … In fact, the new medical team seemed to have not even ordered BIPAP or other non-invasive respiratory … Unfortunately, they were not able to reverse the effect of the ineffective respiratory care from the … WebM&M Cases Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease

59. Health Care Worker Presenteeism: A Challenge for Patient Safety | PSNet
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    November 03, 2015 - They exact a tremendous toll in morbidity, mortality, and costs.( 1-3 ) The transmission of infectious diseases … When health care workers provide care while experiencing symptoms of infectious disease, they put their … 5 times in the past year, 55% said that they would come to work with the acute onset of significant respiratory … Healthcare workers as vectors of infectious diseases. … See More About The Topic Hospitals Facility and Group Administrators Infectious Diseases

60. AHRQ PSNet Annual Perspective: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patient Safety | PSNet
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    August 31, 2020 - Christian Sandrock, a patient safety professional and emerging infectious diseases specialist. … can have detrimental impacts on patients by potentially worsening long-term outcomes resulting from diseases … Types of errors can include missed or delayed diagnoses in patients with respiratory problems, missed … another trend among hospital medicine groups at academic medical centers is the rapid expansion of respiratory … The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, Society of Critical Care Medicine, American Association for Respiratory