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7681. 2024 Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-medication-chartbook-2024.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - and patterns in patient safety concerns, and to provide insight into how to mitigate patient safety risks … substance patient safety concerns and provides insights on how to mitigate related patient safety risks

7682. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Safety Program: October 2024 Update (pdf file)
      pso.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ai-healthcare-safety-program.pdf
      July 01, 2025 - in healthcare include improving patient safety, AI could also unintentionally introduce new safety risks … ,13 is that strikingly similar types of interventions were in place among patients with different risks

7683. Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk Are Needed. | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/progress-made-towards-improving-opioid-safety-further-efforts-assess-progress-and-reduce-risk
      May 16, 2018 - Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk … Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk … Progress Made Towards Improving Opioid Safety, But Further Efforts to Assess Progress and Reduce Risk … 2016 Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk … Safe and Transparent Opioid Prescribing to Promote Patient Safety and Reduced Risk of Opioid Misuse.

7684. Safety committees need to proactively address the risk of accidental cerebral injection of intravenous (IV) drugs. | PSNet
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      January 27, 2021 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Safety committees need to proactively address the risk … Citation Text: Safety committees need to proactively address the risk of accidental cerebral injection … Cite Citation Citation Text: Safety committees need to proactively address the risk … September 2, 2016 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Programs and Medication … June 21, 2023 Safety Risk of Air Embolus Associated with Central Venous Catheters Used

7685. What is an ethically informed approach to managing patient safety risk during discharge planning? | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-ethically-informed-approach-managing-patient-safety-risk-during-discharge-planning
      November 16, 2022 - Commentary What is an ethically informed approach to managing patient safety risk … What Is an Ethically Informed Approach to Managing Patient Safety Risk During Discharge Planning? … This article highlights the role of risk managers to assure that patients return to a  home environment … What Is an Ethically Informed Approach to Managing Patient Safety Risk During Discharge Planning? … May 22, 2024 Physician task load and the risk of burnout among US physicians in a national

7686. Matching nurse skill with patient acuity in the intensive care units: a risk management mandate. | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/matching-nurse-skill-patient-acuity-intensive-care-units-risk-management-mandate
      April 24, 2018 - Commentary Matching nurse skill with patient acuity in the intensive care units: a risk … Matching nurse skill with patient acuity in the intensive care units: a risk management mandate. … Matching nurse skill with patient acuity in the intensive care units: a risk management mandate. … July 24, 2024 Risk factors associated with medication administration errors in children … November 21, 2016 The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients

7687. Medical professional liability insurance and its relation to medical error and healthcare risk management for the practicing physician. | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-professional-liability-insurance-and-its-relation-medical-error-and-healthcare-risk
      December 21, 2014 - Medical professional liability insurance and its relation to medical error and healthcare risk … Medical professional liability insurance and its relation to medical error and healthcare risk management … history of medical liability insurance, its relationship to the patient safety movement, and the role risk … Medical professional liability insurance and its relation to medical error and healthcare risk management … December 21, 2014 Do written disclosures of serious events increase risk of malpractice

7688. Preventive Care | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2023 - Suicide Description This research will develop and validate a clinician-facing longitudinal risk-prediction … with the Electronic Health Record Description This study will integrate a previously piloted risk … support for both patients and clinicians to improve quality of care for women who are at increased risk … discussion with at-risk patients on whether lung cancer screening is right for them. … Description This study adapted and implemented an electronic sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk

7689. Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Outcomes (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/improved-cancer-outcomes-protocol_0.pdf
      December 01, 2021 - with cancer, with estimates ranging between 25 to 80 percent across patient populations.7-9 However, risk … pre-existing conditions (e.g., obesity), among other factors.8,10 Further, many factors may increase risk … All eligible studies addressing KQ 1-4 will be assessed for risk of bias. … reviewers will assess risk of bias of eligible studies. … Reviewers will consult to reconcile discrepancies in overall risk of bias.

7690. Final Progress Report: Evaluating and Improving Present-On-Admission for Performance Reporting (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/goldman-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - infarction in which we modified the present-on-admission reporting for subset of records with acute risk … Second, our performance assessment was based on AMI risk-adjusted mortality. … Third, our study simulated the impact of the accuracy of only six risk factors for AMI mortality. … of the relationship between volume of lung cancer operations and mortality risk. … The risk of upcoding in casemix systems: a comparative study.

7691. In Conversation with…Gerald B. Hickson, MD | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withgerald-b-hickson-md
      December 01, 2009 - We asked him to speak with us about high-risk physicians and malpractice . Dr. … Other studies that followed examined why certain physicians have a dark cloud for malpractice risk. … So we have examined, as an example, whether all trauma surgeons are equally at risk. … As I said, high-risk physicians often respond, "I never had any notion that my risk was higher than others … RW: What is your threshold to identify a physician as being at risk?

7692. How to Identify and Manage Problem Behaviors | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/how-identify-and-manage-problem-behaviors
      December 01, 2009 - Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor-quality health care? N Engl J Med. 2006;354:1147-1156. … We asked him to speak with us about high-risk physicians and malpractice . Dr. … So we have examined, as an example, whether all trauma surgeons are equally at risk. … As I said, high-risk physicians often respond, "I never had any notion that my risk was higher than others … RW: What is your threshold to identify a physician as being at risk?

7693. Managing Gout: A Review of the Research for Adults (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/gout_consumer.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - What increases the risk of gout? The exact cause of gout is not known. … But, certain things may increase the risk of getting it. … Being overweight can also increase the risk of gout. … � Allopurinol (Zyloprim®) and febuxostat (Uloric®) do not lower the risk of a gout attack in the … In fact, these medicines can increase the risk of a gout attack when you first start to take them.

7694. Evaluation and Integration of an Automatic Fall Prediction System - Final Report (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r21hs018205-kearns-final-report-2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Scope Changes in Movement Patterns and Other Risk Factors for Falls While risk of falling and fear … In a large study of fall risk in nursing homes, French et al.10 identified 18 fall risk factors; the … risk beyond that provided by previously identified fall risk factors: age;1 impaired gait and balance … Path tortuosity and fall risk. … Publication 7 also presents the data relating fall risk to SGB and other risk factors for falls.

7695. Effective Health Care (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0319_06-17-2009.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - whether these serum biomarkers provide evidence for the diagnosis or prognosis of sepsis for patients at risk … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, are there serum biomarkers available for the diagnosis and … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does C reactive protein provide any utility in their management … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does procalcitonin provide any utility in their Sepsis Biomarkers … For patients at risk for, or in, sepsis, does cortisol provide any utility in their management?

7696. Final Research Plan: Oral Health in Children and Adolescents Aged 5 to 17 Years: Screening and Preventive Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/oral-health-children-adolescents-screening-preventive-interventions
      June 17, 2021 - Are at increased risk of future oral health issues? … performed by a primary care clinician in identifying children and adolescents who are at increased risk … This review will address screening, risk assessment, and preventive interventions for oral health in … Interventions Screening: Oral examination/clinical assessment by a primary care provider Risk … assessment: Studies of diagnostic accuracy or risk prediction Case-control studies or uncontrolled

7697. Final Research Plan: Cervical Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
      March 17, 2022 - What is the test accuracy of and adherence to self-collected high-risk HPV vaginal samples? … What is the comparative test accuracy of high-risk HPV tests used in U.S. … triage technologies (e.g., DNA methylation testing and immunostaining for p16/Ki67) for abnormal high-risk … What are the social risk factors (e.g., race, racism, socioeconomic status, insurance status, or geography … ) or other risk factors (e.g., history of sexual trauma, smoking, or vaccination status) that contribute

7698. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Executive summary for the update of an ASTRO Evidence-Based Consensus Statement (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/topic-nomination-apbi-breast-cancer.pdf
      April 01, 2017 - define a group of patients with low-risk DCIS for whom observation confers a low absolute risk of IBTR … of IBTR.17 When analyzed by the ECOG 5194 risk criteria, the risk was 2% for patients meeting these … low-risk criteria. … However, given the low risk of IBTR in low-risk DCIS with wide local excision alone, coupled with favorable … results following APBI for low-risk DCIS in several series, the task force recommends inclusion of low-risk

7699. breast-biopsy-update-130920 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/breast-biopsy-update_research-protocol.pdf
      September 20, 2013 - a lesion will be classified as benign or as high risk (e.g., atypical ductal hyperplasia [ADH]) or … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will assess the risk of bias for … We discuss the handling of high risk of bias studies in sections E and F below. … levels of risk of bias will lead to downgrading the strength of the evidence. … of cancer (women at “average risk” vs. those at “high risk” may affect estimated test performance because

7700. Screening for Anxiety Disorders in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/mx2Ko29RH46mTYb36f-UBe
      June 20, 2023 - However, they are also often im- portant predictors of health risk. … factors, co- morbid conditions, and life events to determine if additional screen- ing of high-risk … Ongoing assessment of risks that may develop during pregnancy and the postpartum period is also a reasonable … However, there are some factors that increase risk. … Ongoing assessment of risks that may develop during pregnancy and the postpartum period is also a reasonable