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7641. Safety and risk management interventions in hospitals: a systematic review of the literature. | PSNet
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      April 01, 2010 - Review Safety and risk management interventions in hospitals: a systematic review … Safety and risk management interventions in hospitals: a systematic review of the literature. … Safety and risk management interventions in hospitals: a systematic review of the literature. … Resources Patient Safety Innovations Combined Proactive Risk

7642. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      May 15, 2024 - delivery-inadequate-level-maternal-care-associated-severe-maternal-morbidity Obstetric care is a complex, high-risk … of 64,441 deliveries in Massachusetts in 2019 found that individuals delivering in hospitals with risk-inappropriate … Among the one-third of individuals with a high-risk obstetric condition, 13% delivered at a hospital … Assessment Tool to better understand their resources and capabilities to ensure that everyone receives risk-appropriate

7643. Module 1: Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2023 - catheter Identify causes of CAUTI in the intensive care unit (ICU) Describe methods to mitigate the risk … urinary catheter don’t have a valid indication for placement Each day the urinary catheter remains, the risk … Underlying comorbid conditions Exposure to invasive devices Antibiotic exposure putting them at risk … a urinary catheter without signs and symptoms of infections Slide 17 Methods for Mitigating Risk … Reminders/stop orders Nurse-driven removal protocol Slide 20 Methods for Mitigating Risk

7644. Renal-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      April 20, 2015 - renal mass (oncologic outcomes, renal functional outcomes, complications) as well as competing health risks … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies: The assessment of risk of bias of … Risk of bias judgment Overall bias Risk of bias judgment Table 4. … Risk: Low/High/Unclear Archived: This report is greater than 3 years old. … of bias: • Low risk of bias • Medium risk of bias • High risk of bias Well designed and executed

7645. Evaluation of Effectiveness and Safety of Antiepileptic Medications in Patients With Epilepsy (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2008 - proposed by Follman and colleagues.43 For dichotomous endpoints, weighted averages will be reported as relative … risks with associated 95 percent confidence intervals. … expected, a DerSimonian and Laird random-effects model will be used when pooling data and calculating relative … risks and 95 percent confidence intervals. … The risk of bias will be assessed through the evaluation of both design and study limitations.

7646. 40 of K | PSNet
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      January 12, 2011 - 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).

7647. Section 7. Tools and Resources (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2017 - Tools and Resources 2E: Assessing Screening for Pressure Ulcer Risk Background: The … Do you use either the Norton or Braden pressure ulcer risk assessment tool? If Yes, STOP . … Foam dressing may be used on areas at risk for shear injury.       28. … Hot water and soap may dry the skin and increase the risk for pressure injury/ulcers. … Foam dressing may be used on areas at risk for shear injury. True   28.

7648. Section 7. Tools and Resources (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2017 - Tools and Resources 2E: Assessing Screening for Pressure Ulcer Risk Background: The … Do you use either the Norton or Braden pressure ulcer risk assessment tool? If Yes, STOP . … Foam dressing may be used on areas at risk for shear injury.       28. … Hot water and soap may dry the skin and increase the risk for pressure injury/ulcers. … Foam dressing may be used on areas at risk for shear injury. True   28.

7649. Cardiac Arrest in a Woman with UTI: A Case of QT Prolongation | PSNet
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      March 27, 2024 - The risk factors for drug-induced QT prolongation include age, bradycardia, left ventricular failure, … of each additional QTc-prolonging agent, especially when the patient has other risk factors. … For high-risk QT prolonging medications (e.g. … Female gender as a risk factor for torsades de pointes associated with cardiovascular drugs.  … Torsades de pointes associated with fluoroquinolones: importance of concomitant risk factors.

7650. 2024 Intervention Content Prediabetes And Type 2 Diabetes Part One Screening (xls file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: Part 1, Screening DISPLAY notification to patient: You may be at risk … for (in other words, more likely to get) prediabetes or type 2 diabetes based on risk factors you may … If you can prevent or delay getting Type 2 diabetes, you can lower your risk for all those other conditions … Many factors increase a person’s risk for high blood sugar including: being 35 years or older; being … CDC website that provides risk information https://www.cdc.gov/prediabetes/risktest/index.html?

7651. First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics in Children and Young Adults: Systematic Review Update--Executive Summary (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - for ROB. g Downgraded for ROB and imprecision because of small event rates; confidence intervals of relative … risks ranged between 0.02 to 5.0, to 0.06 to 48.1). 13 Bipolar Disorder Of 19 studies examining … Risks for somnolence and EPS symptoms may be of little or no difference for low- versus high- dose risperidone … in risk for akathisia. … It may increase risk for any EPS symptoms.

7652. Tonsillectomy for Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing or Recurrent Throat Infection in Children (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - We considered 67 studies to have low risk of bias, 110 to have moderate risk, and 41 to have high risk … cohort studies had high risk. … Eighteen studies had low risk of bias, 28 had moderate risk, and 13 had high risk. … Twenty-two studies had low risk of bias; 36 had moderate risk; and 12 had high risk. … balance needs for relief of illness-related outcomes (including missing school and work) with the risks

7653. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Counseling for CVD Prevention in Adults | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      December 15, 2010 - Counseling Trials, by Intervention Intensity and Population Risk Table 2. … Although trials in populations with known traditional cardiovascular risk factors or risk equivalents … Effects of an intensive diet and physical activity modification program on the health risks of adults … Reducing diabetes risk in American Indian women. Am J Prev Med. 2008; 34:192-201. … However, the absolute risk for a cardiac event is very small.

7654. MAINTAIN AND EXPAND (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - This study simultaneously tests the effects of safety events on risks of deaths and readmission. … After risk adjustment, the relative risk of readmission within 3 months was about 1.20 (P < 0.01), … The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the risks of complications after open reduction … Conclusions: By analyzing a large, diverse patient population, the present study clarifies the risks … Age Groupings for Risk Adjustment Table 4.

7655. Effect-Dietary-Digestible (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2021 - accumulation that presents a risk to health. … Assessment of the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias of the included … unclear risk of bias studies and not rate down the SOE. … Diet, lifestyle, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women. … RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials.

7656. Imbedding Research in Practice to Improve Medication Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Raebel_53.pdf
      May 07, 2008 - Introduction Patient safety initiatives are intended to reduce the occurrence of harm and the risk … drugs requiring laboratory monitoring (High-Risk Drug Lab Monitoring); (4) have chronic kidney disease … category D (i.e., evidence of fetal risk; therapeutic benefits of the drug can outweigh the risk) or … Identifying and analyzing potential risks of harm. … Study demonstrated importance of monitoring drugs with toxicity risk.

7657. Implementation of Electronic Health Screening in Primary Care to Improve STI Testing | Digital Healthcare Research
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      September 29, 2023 - Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH) Emergency Department (ED) frequently treats at-risk adolescents. … The AQS, integrated with the Epic electronic health record (EHR), assesses STI risk for adolescents aged … Implement an electronic STI risk assessment tool in multiple pediatric clinics and assess for changes … Adapting an electronic STI risk assessment program for use in pediatric primary care. … Adapting an electronic STI risk assessment program for use in pediatric primary care.

7658. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2006 - that hospitals will turn away high-risk patients who might tarnish their scores. … This is a https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#references significant risk … Forcing functions are another approach that can be used to reduce the risk of unintended consequences … Although hematoma formation and frank bleeding are recognized risks following both subcutaneous and … , and thus the benefits of immunization outweighed the risk of complication.(15-18) Certainly, had

7659. Verbal Orders and Medication Overrides: A Dangerous Combination | PSNet
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      September 27, 2023 - orders and retrieval of the medication via override from the automated dispensing cabinet, two high-risk … Risk Mitigation Strategies for Recipients of Verbal Orders Readback and confirmation should be performed … these situations do not technically fit the traditional definition of “override,” they pose similar risks … the chance of medication errors. 7 Overrides should only be used in urgent situations in which the risk … medications (i.e., medications with a heightened risk of harm if used in error) Medications for which

7660. Spotlight Case July 2008 (ppt file)
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      June 01, 2013 - of this educational activity, participants should be able to: State that emergency surgery is high risk … and has high mortality Appreciate that emergency laparotomy is a particularly high-risk procedure with … to patients undergoing emergency surgery List simple interventions to reduce risk in emergency surgery … No Yes Difficult airway or aspiration risk? … No Yes, and equipment/assistance available Risk of >500ml blood loss (7ml/kg in children)?