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7461. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34981/psn-pdf
      July 14, 2010 - Child-specific risk factors and patient safety. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/child-specific-risk-factors-and-patient-safety To discover factors that … may contribute to a child’s risk for error during hospitalization, this study identified categories … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/child-specific-risk-factors-and-patient-safety

7462. Let's Talk About It: Medicines to Help Prevent Breast Cancer Discussion Guide for Healthcare Providers and Patients | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation-topics/lets-talk-about-it-discussion-guides/lets-talk-about-it-medicines-help-prevent-breast-cancer-discussion-guide-healthcare-providers-and-patients
      June 06, 2025 - A two-page document, the first page outlines basic information about risk factors for breast cancer, … the potential benefits and harms of risk-reducing medicines, and questions for patients to ask their … The second page provides additional information on assessing patient risk and more detailed data on benefits … This guide is not intended to serve as a risk assessment tool or decision aid.

7463. Measuring Pressure Ulcer Rates and Prevention Practices (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/webinars/webinar7_pu_measuringrates.pdf
      April 01, 2011 - assessment performance Care planning to address each risk on standardized risk assessment 25 Skin … on all patients within 24 hours of admission Tool 5D 27 Tool Tool 2E 28 Accuracy of Risk … Prevention and Care Planning Remember: • • • Assess pressure ulcer risk each time a new patient … Reassess risk daily or with a significant change in condition. … Assessment Tool Accuracy of Risk Assessment Care Planning Care Plan fopr Each Area of Risk Tool

7464. Final Progress Report: Transitional Care Medication Safety and Reducing Medical Liability: Closing the Chasm (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/corbett-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - medication safety; medication discrepancy; medication errors; adverse drug events; medical liability; risk … Design best practice risk management strategies that can be integrated into transitional care to reduce … Increasingly, inpatient medication risk management efforts focus on preventing errors by improving systems … However, the contribution of medication risk management systems into these transitional care quality … Such strategies have the potential to improve the overall health of the population and reduce the risk

7465. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50696/psn-pdf
      November 27, 2019 - potentially caused by malignancy, infection, aneurysm, or thrombosis.9 These patients face increased risk … In the absence of a standardized process for screening patients preoperatively, high-risk patients such … Better preoperative screening would have identified this patient as high-risk for complications given … Patients should be thoroughly screened for risk factors that may lead to complications and, if any are … Risk factors, including prior opioid/benzodiazepine usage and comorbid conditions, should be clearly

7466. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, May 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/ovarian-cancer-screening-2004
      May 04, 2004 - Family history increases the risk for ovarian cancer: having 1 first- or second-degree relative with … ovarian cancer increases risk by about threefold. 4 Carriers of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations … are also at increased risk. 5 The risk for developing ovarian cancer is reduced with oral contraceptive … For women at average risk for ovarian cancer, the positive predictive value of an abnormal screening … Menopausal hormone replacement therapy and risk of ovarian cancer. JAMA 2002;288(3):334-41.

7467. Final Progress Report: Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department (ERASED) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hall1-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department (ERASED) … Principal Investigator: Hall, Kendall K. 7P20HS017111-02 FINAL REPORT Evaluation of Risk by Active … Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) for a medication management process that was identified as highest risk … Care in the ED represents a complex system in a high-risk environment, making it a critical area for … 7P20HS017111-02 CONCLUSIONS This project is the first to deploy active surveillance of hazards and risks

7468. Disruptive behavior affects hospital financial health. | PSNet
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      February 03, 2010 - Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management … Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management … Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management

7469. Home Medications Contribute to a Unique Opportunity for Error on Discharge from the Hospital | PSNet
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      May 16, 2022 - system. 1 Transitions of care are an especially vulnerable time for patients, and unfortunately the risk … “Double-checking” is a well-known process utilized prior to high-risk medication administration, whereby … confirms that the medication to be administrated is intended for the current patient, reducing the risk … “Double checking” high-risk medications by two or more individuals may intercept some errors, but this … Cause to Pause: preventing medication errors with high-risk opioids.

7470. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49422/psn-pdf
      November 01, 2003 - The common perception of increased risk has prompted many hospitals to implement policies restricting … or were transcribed by nurses.(4) However, the only systematic evaluation of error risk by mode of … transmission found that verbal and telephone orders carried a similar or lower error risk than written … Such short cuts place patients at unnecessary risk for error. … Behaviors that inhibit communication place patients at greater risk for an adverse drug event (ADE).

7471. Investigation into Management of Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Patients Following Thrombolysis for an Acute Stroke. | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/investigation-management-venous-thromboembolism-risk-patients-following-thrombolysis-acute
      November 13, 2019 - Book/Report Investigation into Management of Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Patients … Citation Text: Investigation into Management of Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Patients Following Thrombolysis … incident analysis include that the UK National Health Service develop a standardized approach to VTE risk … Citation Citation Text: Investigation into Management of Venous Thromboembolism Risk … Investigation into the Role of Clinical Pharmacy Services in Helping to Identify and Reduce High-risk

7472. Implementing Evidence-based Heart Health Care in Asheville | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/stories/in-action/east-asheville.html
      March 01, 2021 - East Asheville team "rolled up its sleeves and worked together to develop a way to do [heart disease risk … systems—including the practice's own EHR—could not extract the crucial data needed to calculate the risk … While some practices might have given up once it was clear it was not possible to get the risk scores … As a result, in the first eight months of 2017, East Asheville calculated heart event risk scores for … "It's very powerful for patients to see their risk of a heart attack over the next 10 years," said James

7473. Behavioral Counseling Interventions: An Evidence-based Approach - Figure 1 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/behavioral-counseling-interventions-evidence-based-approach-figure-1
      November 01, 2013 - connected to three other boxes: "Sustained Health Behavior Change," "Intermediate Health Improvement or Risk … connects "Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Clinical Care" to "Intermediate Health Improvement or Risk … linked by a dotted line to the next immediate box to its right, "Intermediate Health Improvement or Risk … Is risk factor reduction or measured health improvement associated with reduced morbidity and/or mortality … Are behavioral counseling interventions in clinical care directly related to improved health or risk

7474. Transparency of Reporting Requirements: Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/transparency-omega-3_research-protocol.pdf
      September 02, 2016 - IF HIGH RISK OF BIAS, EXPLAIN IN NOTES. … IF HIGH RISK OF BIAS, EXPLAIN IN NOTES. … IF HIGH RISK OF BIAS, EXPLAIN IN NOTES. … , DM) ** Including diet but not CVD risk factors ** Including CVD risk factors, but not diet ** Neither … IF HIGH RISK OF BIAS, EXPLAIN IN NOTES.

7475. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46307/psn-pdf
      August 20, 2018 - staffing levels are associated with lower inpatient mortality and that reduced staffing increases the risk … They found a significant association between nurse staffing and missed nursing care with 30-day risk-adjusted … The authors conclude that measuring missed nursing care may help identify patients at greater risk for … nurse-staffing-and-inpatient-hospital-mortality https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intensive-care-unit-nurse-staffing-and-risk-complications-after-abdominal-aortic-surgery … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intensive-care-unit-nurse-staffing-and-risk-complications-after-abdominal-aortic-surgery

7476. Intermittent Inhalded Corticosteroids and Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonists for Asthma (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-194-evidence-summary-corticosteroids-asthma.pdf
      October 01, 2017 - ICS controller • Does affect: – The risk of exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids (low SOE) … combined with LABA as controller and quick relief vs. a higher ICS controller dose • Reduces the risk … ICS and LABA as controller at the same ICS dose • Reduces the risk of exacerbations measured as a … ICS controller • Does not affect the risk of exacerbations, regardless of definition (low SOE) • … ICS and LABA as controller at the same ICS dose • Reduces: – The risk of exacerbations defined as

7477. Disposition of Comments Report for Decision Aids for Cancer Screening and Treatment (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cancer-decision-support-tools_disposition-comments.pdf
      December 23, 2014 - There is a world behind this (risk communication science, framing risks in various ways (Gigerenzer, … , high risk, early cancer) and additional intervention characteristics. … their average baseline risk.” … Change to : “accuracy of perception of mortality risks . . .” … risk probabilities but 22 studies were for prostate cancer.

7478. Case Example #4: Foresight Family Physicians | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/workforce-financing/case-example-4.html
      July 01, 2019 - in by providers for point-of-care service (see QI section for risk segmentation). … QI section for risk stratification description and Appendix for risk stratification tool). … Care and transition management of high-risk patients Care managers work with high-risk patients, IHS … Monthly high-risk team meetings to review lists of high-risk patients (e.g., who were in the hospital … completed the PAM, setting goals for hypertension screening, and checking coding to assure documentation of risks

7479. Screening for oral cancer literature surveillance report 2023 (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/kBouKdKBx6XdvyT6Mej8w4
      September 01, 2023 - research on: • The benefits and harms of oral cancer screening in persons in the US at increased risk … • The efficacy of HPV vaccines in preventing infection at non-cervical sites and in decreasing the risk … Trial) presents a risk prediction model for oral cancer incidence to enable identification of high-risk … individuals and uses this model to compare screening efficacy on oral cancer mortality across risk … Risk-based selection of individuals for oral cancer screening.

7480. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33779/psn-pdf
      March 01, 2015 - Moreover, the studies help pinpoint patients at highest risk for adverse drug events and readmission … Glance and colleagues examined major surgical complications as a risk factor for readmission. … Using a risk-prediction tool, patients at very high risk for major complications had 10-fold higher … odds of readmission than those at very low risk for complications. … index may allow prospective identification of patients at high risk for unplanned readmission.