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8681. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2022 - • Older age is an important risk factor for most types of visual impairment. … Risk factors for cataracts include older age, smoking, alcohol use, exposure to ultraviolet light, diabetes … Risk factors for AMD are not com- pletely understood but are thought to include older age, smoking, obesity … reduced ability to perform activities of daily living, work, and drive safely, as well as increased risk

8682. On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Facilitator Training—Handouts (pdf file)
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      March 22, 2014 - Nutrition Report: High Risk 2. Nutrition Report (Exercise) 3. Weight Summary Report 4. … Risk Change Report: Resident Changes and Declines From Prior Week 8. … Intervention History for Nutrition Risk Report 9. … Only the report for the high-risk residents is shown. … Separate reports for high and medium nutritional risk residents can be produced.

8683. Re-engineering the Hospital Discharge: An Example of a Multifaceted Process Evaluation (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2005 - hospital team to primary care and other providers in the community at the time of discharge is a high-risk … These include probabilistic risk assessment, process mapping, qualitative analyses, failure mode and … The Structure-Process-Outcome model5 can be applied to hospital discharge since there are risks and … Nutrition and health risks in the elderly: the Nutrition Screening Initiative. … The inherent values of probabilistic risk assessment.

8684. What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2018 - What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? … What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? [40 sec.]

8685. Archived: Evidence Summary: Supplemental Screening in Women With Dense Breasts: Breast Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      January 11, 2016 - These studies included many women with elevated risk for breast cancer. … The third study included stratified results based on risk factors. 38 Among these subgroups of lower-risk … in general, these women were at higher risk. … No studies addressed the important potential risks of overdiagnosis and the associated harms of … Many studies included mixtures of women at increased breast cancer risk due to risk factors other

8686. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2017 - List interventions that health care institutions can use to reduce the risk of error associated with … Elective oophorectomy is performed for many reasons including elimination of ovarian cancer risk. … Another advantage of elective oophorectomy is a 27% reduction in risk of breast cancer in women younger … mortality, higher risk of osteoporosis, and decreased cognition and sexual function associated with … However, this progress has been accompanied by patient safety risks due to reduced face-to-face communication

8687. Design Options for a Self-Management Support Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - In employer settings, this model may extend to people identified (often through health risk assessments … ) as at-risk for disease or complications. … programs to readily identify and reach out to whole populations of patients with specified diagnoses and risks … As the plan or employer is at financial risk for the patients' health care, the external models provide … models is the targeted population, as the higher intensity models are typically only used for high-risk

8688. Alcohol-Misuse-Drug-Therapy Clinician (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2016 - acamprosate and oral naltrexone are not suitable or to individuals who prefer disulfiram and understand its risks … Epidemiologic studies consistently related heavy alcohol consumption to an increased risk of serious … a This column only includes studies rated as having a low or medium risk of bias that were included in … the main analysis; these numbers do not include studies rated as having a high or unclear risk of bias … b In the NNT column, NA indicates that the risk difference (95-percent confidence interval) was not

8689. Washington Final Report
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      July 01, 2016 - clear superiority for calculating risk measures. … Increasingly complex risk adjustment does not necessarily result in a more predictive measure, and risk … quality standards by consumers to supporting public health agencies in the surveillance of sudden health risks … This group also identified risks, primarily technical and related to data and analysis: data quality … While this group recognized some potential value in clinical data, discussion on uses, benefits, risks

8690. Wafinalreport042309 (pdf file)
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      April 23, 2009 - In addition, the DOH project team decided to add a review evaluating risk assessment methods. … clear superiority for calculating risk measures. … standards by consumers to supporting public health agencies in the surveillance of sudden health risks … This group also identified risks, primarily technical and related to data and analysis: data quality … While this group recognized some potential value in clinical data, discussion on uses, benefits, risks

8691. Appendix: State Overviews (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Contacting newly eligible high-risk patients to encourage them to enroll in the program. … Implementing clinical interventions for year two, based on claims data for both high-risk and low-risk … Services might include prevention, care coordination, and support for high-risk pregnancies. … In the contract's fourth year, the State assigned payment differentially according to high-risk and low-risk … Length of stay decreased for high-risk patients who were hospitalized. Diabetes.

8692. Suicidal-Thoughts-Young-People-Amendement-May-2025 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - to inform the implementation of interventions for children, adolescents, and young adults at high risk … Assessment of the Risk of Bias of Individual Studies We will evaluate the risk of bias of the included … of available studies (in a particular comparison) have high or unclear risk of bias. … How have the SSRI antidepressants affected suicide risk? … RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials.

8693. Primary Care Management Guidance for Fall Risk-Increasing Drugs | CDS Connect
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8694. Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: an unrecognised risk? | PSNet
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      August 04, 2021 - Study Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: an unrecognised risk … Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: An unrecognised risk? … Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: An unrecognised risk?

8695. Ticket to ride: reducing handoff risk during hospital patient transport. | PSNet
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      May 30, 2018 - Commentary Ticket to ride: reducing handoff risk during hospital patient transport … Ticket to ride: reducing handoff risk during hospital patient transport. … Ticket to ride: reducing handoff risk during hospital patient transport. … Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Do written disclosures of serious events increase risk

8696. Screening for Colorectal Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      June 06, 2017 - The risks andbenefits of different screeningmethodsvary. … Assessment of Risk For the vast majority of adults, the most important risk factor for colorectal cancer … Grade: C Risk Assessment For the vast majority of adults, the most important risk factor for colorectal … CTcolonography,and flexible sig­ moidoscopy combinedwith FIT), updated test characteristics, and age-specific risks … All of the following recommendations apply to average-risk adults 50 years and older.

8697. Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Rehabilitation Executive (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2012 - Risk of Bias Assessment of Individual Studies Risk of bias assessment forms were developed specifically … For RCTs, we modified the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool26 by adding items to capture potential risk of … Investigators consulted to reconcile discrepancies in overall risk of bias assessments. … Of these eight studies, one was rated low risk of bias, and seven were rated moderate risk of bias. … Chapter 8: Assessing risk of bias in included studies. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds.

8698. PEPTIC ULCER #11 (pdf file)
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      June 01, 2013 - Long-term PN can lead to serious side effects such as liver damage, the risk of which increases the … The approval required a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy consisting of a communication plan … tolerated according to reports from studies thus far.10 However, the procedure carries the usual risks … associated with surgery—such as those associated with general anesthesia and infection—and risks of … They stated that current treatment options for achalasia have benefits and risks associated with each

8699. Self-Management & Reminders with Technology: SMART Appraisal of an Integrated PHR - Final Report (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - evaluated the impact of an active personal health record (PHR) to improve the care of patients at high risk … intervention and control group, secondary outcomes included calculations of 10-year cardiovascular risk … , changes in cardiovascular risk prediction biomarkers, and patient satisfaction and barriers to use … Therefore, because the number of patients with multiple risk factors for CVD is increasing, and many … of these risk factors can be mitigated through prevention and treatment, we will use cardiovascular

8700. Archived: Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-screening-january-2017
      January 24, 2017 - Grade: I (insufficient evidence) Risk Assessment Risk factors associated with obstructive sleep … Evidence on other risk factors, such as smoking, alcohol and sedative use, and nasal congestion, is sparse … The evidence on other risk factors, such as smoking, alcohol and sedative use, and nasal congestion, … Risk factors of obstructive sleep apnea in adults. JAMA . 2004;291(16):2013-6. … A Norwegian population-based study on the risk and prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea.