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221. Healthcare industry representatives: maximizing benefits and reducing risks. | PSNet
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     March 18, 2010 - Magazine Article Healthcare industry representatives: maximizing benefits and reducing risks … Citation Text: Healthcare industry representatives: maximizing benefits and reducing risks. … This article addresses strategies for minimizing patient safety risks related to interactions with health … Citation Citation Text: Healthcare industry representatives: maximizing benefits and reducing risks … April 17, 2017 Perioperative medication errors: uncovering risk from behind the drapes

222. CMS's Million Hearts Model Longitudinal ASCVD Risk Assessment Tool for Updated 10-Year ASCVD Risk (April 2021) (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - CMS's Million Hearts Model Longitudinal ASCVD Risk Assessment Tool for Updated 10-Year ASCVD Risk (April … Provide information resources to the patient outlining benefits, risks, effects, and evidence behind … The Updated Risk calculation compares the original baseline risk with the updated risk reflecting instituted … “10-year risk” Risk of showing evidence of ASCVD within the next 10 years. … Estimating Longitudinal Risks and Benefits From Cardiovascular Preventive Therapies Among Medicare Patients

223. Evidence Summary: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     April 30, 2024 - (relative risk, 0.47 [95% CI, 0.29-0.77]) and additional false-positive recalls and biopsy results with … Limited evidence on sub-KQs is available in the full report. 14 When available, reported relative risks … study using Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) registry data (1996 to 2012) 39 found the relative … Consistent with trial findings, a nonrandomized BCSC study did not find reduced risks of advanced or … difference; RR, relative risk; sDM, synthetic mammography. a Comparisons with no included studies are

224. Recommendation: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     August 20, 2019 - Tamoxifen reduced invasive breast cancer more than raloxifene in the head-to-head trial (relative risk … Risks for breast, ovarian, and other types of BRCA -related cancer are greatly increased in patients … Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case … Cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: results from prospective analysis of EMBRACE. … Familial breast cancer: classification, care and managing breast cancer and related risks in people with

225. Final Recommendation Statement: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 24, 2020 - Cardiovascular risk can be characterized as the elevation of a single risk factor or multiple risk … and Framingham Risk Score. 9 , 10 Cardiovascular disease risk factors covered in this recommendation … among patients receiving behavioral health counseling (pooled relative risk [RR], 0.80 [95% CI, 0.73 … /baseline-risk 10. Framingham Heart Study. Cardiovascular Disease (10-Year Risk) Calculator. … DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; DHHS, US Department of Health and Human Services; RR, relative

226. Medication Use to Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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     June 20, 2019 - These risks are increased in older women, although women who have had a hysterectomy are not at risk … These risks increase with age. … As with all of its recommendations, the USPSTF encourages clinicians to discuss with patients the risks … Risks of breast, ovarian, and contralateral breast cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. … Preferences of Women Evaluating Risks of Tamoxifen (POWER) study of preferences for tamoxifen for breast

227. Identified safety risks with splitting and crushing oral medications. | PSNet
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     September 24, 2010 - Commentary Identified safety risks with splitting and crushing oral medications. … Identified safety risks with splitting and crushing oral medications. … Identified safety risks with splitting and crushing oral medications. … July 2, 2008 Failure mode and effects analysis: a useful tool for risk identification … October 3, 2011 High-alert medications: shared accountability for risk identification

228. Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: Updated Evidence and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     October 11, 2022 - (3 studies with statistically significant results using varying thresholds), and loss of diagnosis (relative … Rating Scale–Revised mean difference, −3.76 [95% CI, −5.95 to −1.57; n = 793; 3 studies), remission (relative … Results favored pharmaco- therapy for remission (relative risk [RR], 1.20 [95% CI, 1.00 to 1.45]; n = … fluoxetine) reported varying results in the placebo group in dif- ferent publications; as a result, the relative … reporting across different publications on harms from the TADS trial led to uncertainty regarding the relative

229. Recommendation: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Behavioral Counseling Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     November 24, 2020 - Assess risk. Determine if the adult is at increased risk of CVD. … Using a risk tool such as the Pooled Cohort Equations or the Framingham Risk Score. … Cardiovascular risk can be characterized as the elevation of a single risk factor or multiple risk … among patients receiving behavioral health counseling (pooled relative risk [RR], 0.80 [95% CI, 0.73 … DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension; DHHS, US Department of Health and Human Services; RR, relative

230. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Vitamin D and Calcium to Prevent Fractures: Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
     www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary52/vitamin-d-and-calcium-to-prevent-fractures-preventive-medication-2013
     December 10, 2011 - (pooled relative risk, 0.88 [CI, 0.78 to 0.99]) in older adults, but the effects differed according … to study setting: institution (relative risk, 0.71 [CI, 0.57 to 0.89]) versus community-dwelling (relative … (pooled relative risk, 1.03 [CI, 0.84 to 1.26]), with high heterogeneity across studies ( I 2 = 60% … reduction among institutionalized elderly persons (relative risk, 0.71 [CI, 0.57 to 0.89]). … fracture (relative risk, 1.02 [CI, 0.89 to 1.16]) ( Figure 2 ).

231. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 10, 2010 - Introduction Women need to understand what their own risks are of death as a result of breast cancer … for that subgroup, or difference in relative risk. … We agree, sorting out baseline risks from elevated relative risks is confusing. … We have included relative risk estimates for each subgroup in the text when they are calculated. … (older age) versus relative risk of treatment.

232. Final Progress Report: Communicating Probabilities through Interactive Computer Graphics (pdf file)
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     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

233. Screening for HIV Infection in Asymptomatic, Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 11, 2019 - of a composite outcome of mortality, AIDS-defining events, or serious non-AIDS events (relative risk … Relative risks (RRs) were calculated based on reported event rates, to calculate absolute risk differences … (95% CI, 0.04-5.02) NR Abbreviations: HPTN, HIV Prevention Trials Network; NR, not reported; RR, relative … 95% CI, 0.94-1.25]) Some inconsistency between RCT and observational data regarding cardiovascular risks … rate ratio; KQ, key question; NA, not applicable; OR, odds ratio; RCT, randomized clinical trial; RR, relative

234. Detection of patient risk by nurses: a theoretical framework. | PSNet
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     September 24, 2010 - Commentary Detection of patient risk by nurses: a theoretical framework. … Detection of patient risk by nurses: a theoretical framework. … This article outlines a framework for nurses to promptly identify risks and prevent delays when a patient's … Detection of patient risk by nurses: a theoretical framework. … September 23, 2009 Risk, Safety and Reliability Special Issue.

235. Final Progress Report: National Claims-Based Quality Measures for Surgical Site Infections (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - Hospitals reporting higher SSI risks will receive lower reimbursement. … In general, deep incisional and organ/space SSIs are associated with a two- to four-fold relative risk … of death during the post- operative hospitalization and a five- to six-fold relative risk of readmission … For modeling risks, each hospital’s risk in a given year was assessed as a predictor of its risk in … The net result for the SSI risks was the proportion of the following year’s risk that is the result

236. Risk and Safety Management in Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology. | PSNet
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     August 01, 2016 - Special or Theme Issue Risk and Safety Management in Infertility and Assisted Reproductive … Citation Text: Risk and Safety Management in Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology. … Introduction of assisted reproductive technology has led to new risks in reproductive medicine. … Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Risk … 24, 2013 Patient Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Improving Outcomes, Reducing Risks

237. Interventions to Prevent Falls in Older Adults: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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     June 04, 2024 - of 1 or more falls (relative risk [RR], 0.96 [95% CI, 0.91-1.02]), injurious falls (IRR, 0.92 [95% CI … Random-effects meta-analyses with a Knapp-Hartung ad- justment7 were used to calculate the pooled relative … risks (RRs). … classes) typically available in the US Abbreviations: IRR, incidence rate ratio; KQ, key question; RR, relative … adherence and fall risks in older adults with a history of falling.

238. Disposition of Comments Report for Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention (pdf file)
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     May 08, 2013 - For eg., Is it what the study authors reported or did the review authors calculate relative risk for … The problem is that heel ulcers develop in neuropathic and ischemic patients, risks for whom the scales … This corresponded to a relative risk of developing a pressure ulcer of 1.57 in the control group compared … We calculated a standard relative risk with 95% CI based on the incidence rates reported in the trial … factors to identify persons with potentially reducible risks.

239. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Falls Prevention in Older Adults: Counseling and Preventive Medication | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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     December 15, 2010 - Thus, primary analyses estimated relative risk for falling by using random-effects models 20-21 . … After 12 months, the relative risk for falling between the intervention group and usual care was 0.86 … affect the overall statistical significance for comprehensive interventions (relative risk, 0.88 [CI, … statistically significant (relative risk, 0.83 [CI, 0.71 to 0.97]). … The overall pooled relative risk for falling (n=6,322) was 0.94 (95% CI, 0.87 to 1.02), with moderate

240. Blood-Clots-Hip-Knee-Surgery Executive (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2012 - Lastly, in contemporary practice, the risks of VTE, PE, and DVT and the causal link between DVT and … risks with associated 95 percent confidence intervals. … Peto’s OR was chosen over relative risk when the control event rate was exceptionally low (less than … of proximal and distal DVT (relative risk reduction [RRR] 47 percent and 41 percent, respectively) … Relative Risks (RRs): The ratio of an event occurring in an exposed group to an event occurring in a