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9021. What makes hospitalized patients more vulnerable and increases their risk of experiencing an adverse event? | PSNet
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      March 23, 2011 - Study What makes hospitalized patients more vulnerable and increases their risk of … What makes hospitalized patients more vulnerable and increases their risk of experiencing an adverse … demonstrated that the number of exposures to potentially iatrogenic actions put patients at greater risk … What makes hospitalized patients more vulnerable and increases their risk of experiencing an adverse

9022. Preventing and mitigating radiology system failures: a guide to disaster planning. | PSNet
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      November 23, 2016 - This guide assists hospital executives, quality & safety professionals, and risk managers by assessing … November 23, 2016 Planning for a pandemic: mitigating risk to radiation therapy service … June 23, 2009 Hidden danger, obvious opportunity: error and risk in the management of … See More About The Topic Emergency Departments Health Care Executives and Administrators Risk

9023. Failure to rescue as a patient safety indicator for neurosurgical patients: are we there yet? | PSNet
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      August 04, 2021 - January 25, 2023 Evidence-based guidelines for fatigue risk management in emergency medical … effect of computerised decision support alerts tailored to intensive care on the administration of high-risk … February 14, 2024 Adverse drug events caused by three high-risk drug-drug interactions … View More Related Resources Situation awareness and the mitigation of risk

9024. Improving handoff communications in critical care: utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk. | PSNet
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      February 16, 2011 - in critical care: utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk … in critical care: utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk … in critical care: utilizing simulation-based training toward process improvement in managing patient risk … View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Nurses Nurse Managers Risk

9025. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (doc file)
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      November 01, 2019 - cultures have been obtained, de-escalate therapy based on clinical judgment and individual patient risk … and oral medications can be tolerated, consider conversion from intravenous to oral therapy · If no risk … clavulanate or oral second-/third-generation cephalosporins; reserve fluoroquinolones for patients at risk … Risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with community-onset and hospital-onset

9026. Premature Closure: Was It Just Syncope? | PSNet
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      February 10, 2021 - Finally, the physician failed to appreciate the high-risk nature of anticoagulation, especially in the … High-risk medications: Anticoagulation Because the clinician was concerned for a cardiac etiology of … “Has this patient suffered recent head trauma or is this patient at increased risk of head trauma?”) … nature of anticoagulation and forcing consideration of contraindications to high-risk medications. … A New Risk Scheme to Predict Warfarin-Associated Hemorrhage.

9027. Importance of Following Safe Practices for Infant Feeding and Handling Expressed Breast Milk | PSNet
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      January 31, 2024 - out of the hospital. 12 The benefits of human milk feeding for infants are many and include decreased risk … These are times when there is higher risks of errors being made as the nurse assisting may not know the … policies and procedures but also about how “helping or covering during break episodes” can be high risk … laboratory testing for Hepatitis B surface antigen after discharge, which presents another potential risk … November 11, 2020 Pharmacists reducing medication risk in medical outpatient clinics:

9028. Liver-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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      July 24, 2013 - Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Cancer Statistics Review found that the lifetime risk … The population of high-risk patients is defined, as per the AASLD clinical guidelines, as composed … o Key Question 2  Patients at high risk for HCC in whom a suspicious lesion(s) has been detected … Each study evaluated will be dual reviewed for risk of bias by two team members. … Other definitions of high risk patients as defined by the primary studies will be accepted.

9029. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2010 - residency training could be improved to further reduce sleep deprivation, performance degradation, and the risk … particularly those calling for further reduction in duty hours, on the training of future physicians and the risks

9030. Appendix B: Grant Tables for Additional Topics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2025 - Improving Risk Prediction for Children Seeking Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Care with Nonemergent … Wang  Organization:  Boston Children’s Hospital   Grant Start Date:  July 1, 2024  Aims to reduce the risk … Women’s Health  Women face different health risks and concerns and require different approaches to treatment … clinicians work with their patients to choose a pain treatment approach that best balances the potential risks … inappropriate discontinuation of opioids for the patients for whom the benefits of opioids outweigh the risks

9031. Recommendation: Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      June 24, 2025 - In a recent systematic review, individual factors that consistently increased the risk of IPV included … Risk factors for experiencing abuse include isolation, lack of social support, functional impairment, … differs from their sex experienced increased prevalence of IPV (74 studies; n = 1,273,989 participants; relative … The USPSTF is deeply concerned about the risk of harm associated with IPV screening. … Risk markers for physical intimate partner violence victimization: a meta-analysis.

9032. Disposition of Comments for Comparative Effectiveness Review 133 Transitional Care Interventions To Prevent Readmissions for People With Heart Failure (pdf file)
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      May 27, 2014 - difference (instead of relative risk) as the unit for the meta-analysis. … risk be more comparable. … Could the authors revisit the measure of association and change that for readmission to Relative Risk … or Risk Ratio [95% CI]? … We are now reporting the relative risk of readmission (people readmitted) within a specified outcome

9033. Recommendation: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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      May 10, 2022 - It does not apply to populations at very high risk for COPD, such as persons with α-1 antitrypsin deficiency … Clinicians can help reduce patients’ risk for COPD by supporting them in not starting to smoke and helping … Accuracy of Screening Tests and Risk Assessment Based on foundational evidence from the 2016 review … , externally validated questionnaires that assess risk factors, symptoms, or both and are applicable … One study of cardiovascular risk associated with treatment with LABAs or LAMAs found an increased risk

9034. Vision Screening for Children 1 to 5 Years of Age: USPSTF Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2011 - for visual impairment in children 1 to 5 years of age with improved health outcomes, the accuracy of risk … children at least once between the ages of 3 and 5 years, to detect the presence of amblyopia or its risk … all children at least once between the ages of 3 and 5 years, to detect the presenceofamblyopiaor its risk … Accuracy of Screening Tests No studies evaluated the accuracy or reliability of risk factor assessment … One trial found that atropine treatment plus a plano lens was as- sociated with an increased risk of

9035. Folic Acid for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2009 - Recognition of Risk Status Although a personal or family history of a pregnancy affected by a neural … tube defect is associated with an in- creased risk for having an affected pregnancy, most cases occur … Assessment of Risk The use of certain antiseizure medicines and a personal or family history of neural … tube defects are well-established risk factors. … Two well-established risk factors for neural tube de- fects are a history of a fetus or child with a

9036. Gestational-Diabetes-Screening-Diagnosis Executive (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2012 - Risk Factors Risk factors for GDM include greater maternal age, higher BMI, member of an ethnic group … Women at moderate risk of GDM do not satisfy all criteria of women at low risk, but they lack two or … more risk factors for GDM. … (i.e., women who do not meet all low risk criteria but lack two or more risk factors for GDM). … determine the glucose thresholds and treatment targets at which GDM treatment benefits outweigh the risks

9037. EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2021 - they need to help their patients adopt the ABCS of cardiovascular disease prevention: Aspirin in high-risk … and almost one-third of deaths are caused by CVD (the CVD mortality rate is 251 per 100,000). 2 CVD risk … Over 90 percent of practices have access to CVD risk stratification tools. … ASCVD Risk Estimator Update 2014. … http://tools.acc.org/ASCVD-Risk-Estimator/#page_about http://www.implementationscience.com/content/

9038. Public Health and Community Integration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2024 - P2: Using an Electronic Screening Tool to Identify Adolescents at Risk for STIs P3: Using Veterans … Disorder in Rural New Mexico P13: Developing a Prediction Model to Identify Health Clinics at High-Risk … Patients' Decisions and Perspectives Regarding Healthcare-Based Social Risk Interventions (R36) PI: … Health & Science University; Overall Medicine Assesses patient perspectives on a healthcare-based social risk … intervention at healthcare sites, including primary care clinics, which links the EHR with a social risk

9039. Quantitative Synthesis II: Interactive Quiz (ppt file)
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      May 29, 2025 - studies are well suited for testing hypotheses of whether one intervention is associated with a greater risk … for an adverse event than another and for quantifying that risk. … for an adverse event than another and for quantifying that risk. … For both trials and observational studies, large attrition rates introduce a serious risk of bias, which … Studies with a high risk of bias due to confounding by indication are usually not suitable for inclusion

9040. Quantitative Synthesis II: Interactive Quiz (ppt file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/selecting-evidence-quiz.ppt
      May 29, 2025 - studies are well suited for testing hypotheses of whether one intervention is associated with a greater risk … for an adverse event than another and for quantifying that risk. … for an adverse event than another and for quantifying that risk. … For both trials and observational studies, large attrition rates introduce a serious risk of bias, which … Studies with a high risk of bias due to confounding by indication are usually not suitable for inclusion