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121. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/fallspx/intro.html
     November 01, 2017 - nursing home team with electronic medical record (EMR)-based tools to effectively monitor resident fall risk … Clinical reports provide resident and fall risk information staff need to proactively implement care … Reports also provide the facility team with information to assist them in analyzing resident fall risks … experts and the feedback of nursing home clinicians who reviewed and tested the feasibility of the risk … On-Time Falls Prevention: Reports and Implementation Materials Reports Falls High-Risk

122. Bleeding Risks Increase When Blood Thinners and Aspirin Are Taken Together | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/902.html
     February 01, 2024 - Bleeding Risks Increase When Blood Thinners and Aspirin Are Taken Together Issue Number 902 … National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report [PDF, 9 MB]) Today's Headlines: Bleeding Risks … Bleeding Risks Increase When Blood Thinners and Aspirin Are Taken Together Patients are at higher risk … thromboembolism, while aspirin may still be used to prevent primary cardiovascular events among high-risk … Surgical approach and reoperation risk in intermittent exotropia in the IRIS Registry.

123. New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/npsd-dataresources.html
     October 01, 2023 - New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks AHRQ’s Network of Patient Safety … chartbooks and updated dashboards to help healthcare organizations better understand patients’ safety risks

124. Final Progress Report: Medication Management at Home: Patient-Identified Processes and Risk Assessment (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/minnitti-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Medication Management at Home: Patient-Identified Processes and Risk Assessment … medication management behavior risks that should be further explored by health systems? … At times, patients are aware of the potential risk, and at other times they learn about the risk only … Medication Management at Home: Patient Identified Processes and Risk Assessment. … Medication Management at Home: Patient Identified Processes and Risk Assessment.

125. Final Progress Report: Risk Assessment of the Testing Processes of Access Community Health Network (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/eder-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Risk Assessment of the Testing Processes of Access Community Health Network Eder 4 The Risk Assessment … This risk assessment study focused on identifying risks and hazards as the basis for initiating targeted … Following Battles’ methodological recommendations for studying risks and hazards, we engaged in a … in testing represent a large risk to patients. … Risk Assessment of the Testing Processes of Access Community Health Network Eder 15 Risk Assessment

126. Final Progress Report: Risk Analysis of Pediatric Chemotherapy Processes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/14295%20Shenep-draft-1.pdf
     June 01, 2005 - Grant Award Number: 1 UC1 HSO14295-01 (Revised) Abstract Purpose: To formally evaluate the risks … using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). 1.1 The risks associated with each step of a complex … in a test environment prior to final comparison of identified risks of chemotherapy administration … This report, issued in 1999, outlined the risks to patient safety found in our nation’s hospitals and … In response to this problem of patient safety risks, a group of 140 public and private organizations

127. Improving the Safety of Diagnosis and Therapy in the Inpatient Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/improving-safety-diagnosis-long-desc.html
     February 01, 2024 - In this risk score, X n represents baseline risk factors and in-hospital clinical factors, as well as … The high-risk cohorts included cases of patients who were transferred to the ICU after 24 hours, died … with preimplementation period (16.5 vs. 20.9, OR 0.75 [95% CI 0.43-1.29], p=0.29), or a 25 percent relative … risk reduction in overall DE. 1 In postimplementation analysis, researchers found that relative risk … reductions in DE were greater in patients in the high-risk cohort.

128. Final Progress Report: Toward safer opioid prescribing for chronic pain in high risk populations (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/robinson-papp-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Current treatments for CP are only modestly effective and some, such as opioids, carry significant risks … Discuss benefits and risks and clinician and patient responsibilities for managing opioid therapy. 4. … Evaluate risk factors for opioid-related harms. Consider offering naloxone. 9. … • PLW recognize the risks of opioid use. … items, some already had high levels of adherence at baseline, (e.g., assessment for opioid related risks

129. Preamble and Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/phys-championsgd/section1.html
     October 01, 2015 - Sustainability Preventing CAUTI: Focus on Culturing Stewardship Tools To Help Mitigate Device Risk … Intended Audience Resident physicians Purpose Define an approach to evaluate the infectious risk … The risk of infection starts at the time of exposure to the device and continues until after removal. … The risk of device-associated infection is mitigated by using the devices only when necessary, complying … We present a plan to help teams that include RPs address risks related to invasive devices in the hospital

130. Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/896.html
     January 01, 2024 - Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery Issue Number 896 AHRQ … Today's Headlines: Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery . … Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery AHRQ-funded researchers identified … pneumonia, among the most common complications following cardiac surgery, was associated with increased risks … These findings may inform future quality improvement efforts to reduce patients’ risks of contracting

131. Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Clinical Network for Safe Pediatric Emergency Transfers (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/woods-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Risk-Informed Clinical Network for Safe Pediatric Emergency Transfers Risk-Informed … Healthcare risks are common in pediatrics and have been demonstrated to lead to avoidable harm. … Healthcare, as a life-critical industry, must assess existing risks and improve the reliability of the … and interacting communication, coordination, and assessment risks. … Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents.

132. Final Progress Report: Communicating Probabilities through Interactive Computer Graphics (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/kukafka-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Responses included relief about small risks and concern about large risks. … with higher perceived risks. … about risks. … Graphs can be useful in illustrating risks 5, 15, 16. … the relationship between graphically portrayed risks and viewers’ quantitative estimates of those risks

133. Screening for Suicide Risk: A Systematic Evidence Review (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/prevent/pdfser/suicidser.pdf
     May 01, 2004 - Still, DSH is a recurrent behavior with important long-term risks. … Key Questions for Screening for Suicide Risk Number Question 1 Does screening for suicide risk in … that screen for suicide risk in high-risk primary care populations. … to risk severity. … Compulsive Disorder OR Odds Ratio Outpt Outpatient PPV Positive Predictive Value Pts Patients RR Relative

134. AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Initiative: Reducing Primary Care Patients’ Risk of Heart Attacks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ahrqs-evidencenow-initiative.html
     February 01, 2018 - posts from AHRQ leaders AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Initiative: Reducing Primary Care Patients’ Risk … These include the “ABCS” of heart health— A spirin use by high-risk individuals, B lood pressure control … North Carolina has adopted a new workflow so that staff can calculate each patient’s heart disease risk … "It’s very powerful” for patients to see their risk of a heart attack over the next 10 years,” said Dr … But research shows that controlling risks can reduce the chances of heart attack or stroke by more than

135. Part 2: Trends in Priorities of the Heckler Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part2.html
     June 01, 2018 - Health of the Black Population in the United States Relative Risks and/or Prevalence 1980 … The 1985 Heckler report indicated, "Relative risks for specific causes of death... are disturbingly high … among Blacks compared to the White populations...Relative risk does not indicate the largest numbers

136. Session 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/ltc/mod3sess2.html
     October 01, 2014 - is lost quality of life; a resident may want to dance, or garden, or go on an outing, and taking the risk … Any resident who has a pattern of falls is at risk of falling again. … to assess residents' risk of falling. … frequently and be alert for any furniture, equipment, or other items that might make a fall likely—fixing risks … Development and validation of the Comprehensive Falls Risk Screening Instrument.

137. Chapter 1. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpra1.html
     April 01, 2018 - These risks can result in surgical mishaps, ranging from infections to wrong site surgeries. … This occurs not only because the rates of known risks may be increased, but also because additional, … Given that one of the greatest risks during the perioperative period is infection, infection control … ST-PRA is particularly helpful for estimating risks in outcomes that are very rare, such as the risk … and combinations of risks, and the design of an intervention aimed at reducing the risk of SSIs.

138. Final Progress Report: Risk of Acute Asthma Associated with the Pediatric Use of Opioids (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/chen-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Risk of Acute Asthma Associated with the Pediatric Use of Opioids … codeine or hydrocodone to limit the use of these products to adults 18 years and older because the risks … of precipitating an asthma exacerbation.48,49 More studies are needed to quantify the relative risk … Drug Safety and Availability - FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA Evaluating the Potential Risks of … Drug Safety and Availability - FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA Evaluating the Risks of Using the

139. Assessing the Availability of the Preconception Component of High-Risk Obstetrical Services by Estimating the Use of Teratogenic Medications Before and During Pregnancy (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-233-fullreport.pdf
     August 07, 2018 - with benefits of the drug typically outweighing risks; category X medications have evidence of human … Therefore, highly vulnerable groups and additional fetal risks were not evaluated. … While clinicians do feel responsible for counseling women about risks when they prescribe medications … For every reproductive age woman, the benefits and risks of medications must be weighed. … Women's perspectives on counseling about risks for medication-induced birth defects.

140. Occupational Health and Safety for Health Workers in the Context of COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/occupational-health-safety.html
     June 01, 2022 - sections that teach health workers how they can protect themselves and others from the occupational risks … Sub-topic areas include infectious risks to health and safety; physical risks to health and safety; psychosocial … risks to health and safety; and basic occupational health and safety in health services.