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  1. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/020-ss-periop-infection-prevention.pptx
    April 01, 2025 - of SSI using razors versus clippers 82% increased risk using razors versus no hair removal4 Access a … with active warming Risk ratio: 0.36 (95% CI 0.2–0.66) | 15 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention … Factor for SSI Hyperglycemia is a risk factor for SSIs Preoperative hyperglycemia20 Day of surgery … How to know the risk is reduced? Learn more about the Learning From Defects process. … Perioperative hyperglycemia and risk of adverse events among patients with and without diabetes.

  2. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-surgery/020-perioperative-infection-prevention-strategies-slides.pptx
    April 01, 2025 - of SSI using razors versus clippers 82% increased risk using razors versus no hair removal4 Access a … with active warming Risk ratio: 0.36 (95% CI 0.2–0.66) | 15 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention … Factor for SSI Hyperglycemia is a risk factor for SSIs Preoperative hyperglycemia20 Day of surgery … How to know the risk is reduced? Learn more about the Learning From Defects process. … Perioperative hyperglycemia and risk of adverse events among patients with and without diabetes.

  3. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 14. Delirium (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/delirium-1.pdf
    March 01, 2020 - disturbance, urinary retention, fecal impaction, and exposure to high-risk medications. … Awareness of these costs can drive improvement in screening and assessment of individuals at risk for … While a single factor may put a patient at high risk for developing delirium, it is more likely that … , place an individual at a much higher risk, especially if he or she is over 65 years of age. … delirium incidence,2,4,5,7,9,12,13 followed by duration of delirium.5,7,8,9,12,13 Three papers reported relative

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49816/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2018 - The provider overrode the drug–drug interaction alert regarding the risk of simultaneously prescribing … treatment of acute pain is necessary to reduce suffering and health care utilization, and to reduce the risk … Its use is associated with a reduction in the risk of heavy drinking (relative risk 0.83 compared with … include nausea, headache, and dizziness (all of which often resolve with ongoing use), as well as a risk … could be rapidly tapered (e.g., reduction by 20%–25% of the starting dose every 1–2 days) without risk

  5. Systematic Review on Nonopioid Pharmacologic Treatments for Chronic Pain: Surveillance Report 2 (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/surveillance-report-2-nonopioid-pharm-chronic-pain.pdf
    April 01, 2022 - In patients with chronic pain, what are the risks of nonopioid pharmacologic agents for harms including … increased risk of dizziness.6,7,9 1 RCT (n=306) found increased risk of SAEs, sedation, and visual … disturbances.6,7 1 RCT (n=60) found increased risk of WAEs and nonsignificantly increased risk … –10 VAS -1.63, p<0.001) and increased likelihood of 30-percent improvement in pain (95% vs. 35.7%, relative … In patients with chronic pain, what are the risks of nonopioid pharmacologic agents for harms including

  6. Ovxmtapc8Tcpqzvrkeyhyd (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/ovXMtAPc8TCPQzVRkEYhyd
    August 01, 2013 - USPSTF commissioned a systematic review on inter- ventions to prevent child maltreatment for children at risk … Assessment of Risk Numerous risk factors are associated with child mal- treatment, including but not … Exposure to child abuse and risk for mental health problems in women. … Child Maltreatment: Risk and Protective Factors. … A cognitive approach to child mistreatment pre- vention among medically at-risk infants.

  7. Enhancing Complex Care through an Integrated Care Coordination Information System - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017832-dorr-final-report-2012.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - Identify patient situations at-risk for destabilization and intervene to eliminate the risk when possible … status Once Both given risk list, asked to review and engage high risk patients Document activity … Patients referred to CM included 60% lower risk and 40% from the high risk group. Table 7. … Other risk scores have independent variables for socioeconomic and insurance status. … However, after accounting for high risk patients, the differences were not significant.

  8. Hospitalizations for Circulatory System Disorders, 2004 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/ExampleofUsingPOA-CMSHACsusingall-payerdata.pdf
    July 01, 2011 - a Population at risk are selected non-maternal adult discharges: medical-surgical stays (8,959,419); … Medicare discharges represented 53 percent of the population at risk (non-maternal, medical-surgical … In contrast, private insurance represented 26 percent of the population at risk, but only 10 percent … a Population at risk is non-maternal, adult medical-surgical stays (8,959,419). … Table 3 shows the distribution of CMS HACs and discharges at risk by payer for DVT/PE following knee

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46168/psn-pdf
    June 14, 2017 - day-readmissions- conditions-targeted This retrospective cohort study demonstrated that a readmission risk … score could prospectively identify patients at risk for readmissions for the four target conditions … These results suggest that this algorithm can identify a high-risk patient group who may benefit from

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73322/psn-pdf
    May 26, 2021 - This article describes one health system’s experience adapting suicide risk assessments for virtual … record patient portal messaging can facilitate systematic identification and assessment of suicide risk … virtual-urgent-care-quality-and-safety-time-coronavirus https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/missed-opportunities-suicide-risk-assessment

  11. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.407_slideshow.ppt
    May 01, 2017 - /www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26531859 Hoffman J, Yu W. 2011 Annual Benchmarking Report: Malpractice Risks … Acute aortic dissection in the ED: risk factors and predictors for missed diagnosis. … 24730204 25 Preventing Diagnostic Errors (2) Use of established treatment protocols may reduce the risk … acute abdominal pain requires a thorough and time-sensitive approach, which should account for high-risk

  12. Disposition of Comments_Systematic Review: Implementing Recommended Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Counseling Interventions in Primary Care Settings for in Children and Adolescents (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/behavioral-health-screening-disposition-comments.pdf
    April 09, 2025 - MHA appreciates AHRQ’s efforts to evaluate the effectiveness and risks of various implementation approaches … Implementing Universal Suicide Risk Screening in a Pediatric Hospital. … Depression and Suicide-Risk Screening Results in Pediatric Primary Care. … evidence for reducing suicide risk. … Implementing Universal Suicide Risk Screening in a Pediatric Hospital.

  13. Reimagining Healthcare Teams: Leveraging the Patient-Clinician-AI Triad To Improve Diagnostic Safety (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/dxsafety-reimagining-healthcare-teams.pdf
    July 07, 2023 - annual risk of stroke.17,18 For an older female patient with all possible risk factors, the annual … assigned tasks (e.g., taking a careful history and physical examination, monitoring, estimating risks … The clinician must regularly evaluate the risks and benefits of the team’s structure and function. … higher risk models producing outputs within the context of high-risk situations (e.g., ML-based cardiac … CHA2DS2-VASc Score for Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Risk.

  14. Skin Cancer Screening: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/wKfFrTpC8VtforKLrqGpjQ
    April 18, 2023 - a consistent positive association between more advanced stage at melanoma detection and increasing risk … i Includes actinic keratosis; nevi; social risk factors. … Committee on Cancer; HR, Hazard ratio; KQ, Key Question; NA, not appli- cable; NR, not reported; RR, relative … risk; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. … Familial risks and proportions describing population landscape of familial cancer.

  15. In Conversation With... Poonam Sharma, MD, MPH, the Senior Clinical Data Analyst at Atrium Health, and Rhonda Dickman, MSN, RN, CPHQ, the Director of the Tennessee Hospital Association PSO | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-poonam-sharma-md-mph-senior-clinical-data-analyst-atrium-health-and-rhonda
    January 12, 2022 - how the unique circumstances surrounding care during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted patient safety risks … you found that were misaligned, or where you had to introduce different processes and equipment, what risks … For example, our anesthesia team needed additional protections to decrease risk of exposure as those … On top of all of this, there were their own personal concerns about risk of exposure, bringing COVID- … of both CLABSI and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). 7 , 10 This increased risk

  16. Patient Safety Events and the Role of Patient Safety Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/patient-safety-events-and-role-patient-safety-organizations-during-covid-19-pandemic
    January 12, 2022 - prevents lip reading, and makes reading facial expressions challenging. 4 As such, it creates the risk … venous catheter use increased during the pandemic 6 , 9 and that COVID-19 patients are at a higher risk … of both CLABSI and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). 7 , 10 This increased risk … how the unique circumstances surrounding care during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted patient safety risks … you found that were misaligned, or where you had to introduce different processes and equipment, what risks

  17. Living Systematic Reviews: Practical Considerations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Evidence-based Practice Center Program (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/product/pdf/practical-considerations.pdf
    March 01, 2022 - Challenges related to scoping, conducting searches, selecting studies, abstracting data, assessing risk … The decision to update the meta-analyses depends on the relative sample sizes and risk of bias of the … efficient, provided there is adequate staffing and funding (e.g., ongoing screening, abstraction, and risk … Annual surveillance report of drug-related risks and outcomes--United States, 2017. … Reducing the risks of relief--the CDC opioid-prescribing guideline.

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/851057/psn-pdf
    June 28, 2023 - participants reported that working night shifts reduced their quality of life and put their patients at risk … Importantly, this study reports on perceived risk to patients, not actual patient risk.

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60836/psn-pdf
    August 26, 2020 - barcode-assisted medication administration, the authors of this study sought to identify potential risk … Potential risk factors identified include the timing of medication rounds, the route of administration … Future quality improvement measures could focus on modifiable risk factors including nurse workload

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34843/psn-pdf
    March 02, 2011 - hand-rub solutions was associated with adherence, high workload and activities associated with high risk … for transmission were risk factors for poor adherence. … discuss the challenges with promoting effective hand hygiene practices and suggest targeting high risk
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