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October 01, 2024 - This presentation will outline the severity of the threat that MRSA poses to patients in intensive care
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November 01, 2017 - Estimating the Additional Hospital Inpatient Cost and Mortality Associated With Selected Hospital-Acquired Conditions
Discussion
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May 01, 2016 - followup processes and procedures are currently required for all hotline reports, regardless of an event’s severity … A tiered approach might be more appropriate; that is, resources invested should be aligned with the severity
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May 20, 2016 - Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety
1 Tool D.4j
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PSI 13: Postoperative Sepsis
Why Focus on Sepsis?
• More than 750,000 cases of sepsis are…
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April 01, 2018 - • Severity of condition and burden of condition on children, family, and society
(unrelated to cost … Because severity of illness and complexity increase the risk of errors,
and black and Hispanic children … These
triggers were included because of the severity of the condition, preventability of the AEs, or … evaluated all suspected AEs to confirm whether an AE had indeed occurred and, if so, to rate its
severity … and they were able to identify triggers in medical records, use them to
detect AEs, and to assess severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/nishisaki3-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: Improving the safety of pediatric tracheal intubation in ICUs with apneic oxygenation and video laryngoscopes
Title: Improving the safety of pediatric tracheal intubation in ICUs with
apneic oxygenation and video laryngoscopes
Principal Investigator: Akira Nishisaki, MD, MSCE
Co-Investigator…
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January 01, 2018 - Estimating the precise impact of HACs is challenging and complex due, in part, to variable severity of … For each index HAC claim, there were five IPPS claims with the same Medicare Severity diagnosis-related
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July 10, 2025 - Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM/PCS) codes, Medicare Severity-Diagnosis
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November 01, 2019 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Antibiotic Use
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AHRQ Pub. No. 17(20)-0028-EF
November 2019
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis
and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Acute…
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July 01, 2024 - Participants identified few known reports of adverse events ranging in severity that were related to
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January 01, 2024 - If an AE was identified, information was collected about the severity of the AE, and judgments
were … Severity – The severity of patient harm was assessed using the National Coordinating Council Medication … are reviewed by physicians to evaluate agreement regarding
preventability, attribution, nature, and severity … For charts with agreed-upon AEs, we examined severity and preventability variables as secondary
variables
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January 01, 2024 - Approximately 30% of eligible
employees submitted at least one incident report, with the severity ranging … There was no difference in event severity between
the control and intervention groups. … levels of interrater agreement for incident
classification (k = 0.89), preventability (k = 0.91), and severity … classified by two physician-reviewers to
determine whether it constituted a warfarin-related event, its severity … Effect of intensity of oral anticoagulation on stroke severity and mortality in
atrial fibrillation
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November 01, 2019 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Antibiotic Use
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AHRQ Pub. No. 17(20)-0028-EF
November 2019
Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Clostridioides difficile Infections
Acute Care
Acute …
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September 01, 2021 - The Contribution of Diagnostic Errors to Maternal Morbidity and Mortality During and Immediately After Childbirth: State of the Science
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August 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Diagnostic Stewardship in Action
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Diagnostic Stewardship as a Model To Improve the Quality and Safety of Diagnosis
Introduction
Background
Diagnostic Error in the Testing…
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January 01, 2004 - Adverse
events are now graded for severity and attributed based on their relationship to an
investigational
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June 01, 2010 - Environmental Scan of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community-Based Services
Appendix V (continued)
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Environmental Scan of Measures for Medicaid Title XIX Home and Community-Based Services
Executive Summary
Introduction and Scan Methodology
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February 01, 2014 - Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from the Child Core Set
Appendix F.
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Background Report on 2013 Retirement of Measures from the Child Core Set
Abstract
Background
Methods
Results
Conclusions
References
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Appe…
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January 01, 2024 - institution-specific attributes (bed size, teaching status, rural/urban
location) and patient characteristics (age, severity … The patient’s All-Patient Refined
Diagnosis-Related Group Severity of Illness (APR DRG SOI) was obtained … *APR-DRG-SOI = All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Group Severity of Illness
**Percentages may not
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January 01, 2024 - Comprehensive Pain Assessment Measure: The percentage of patients who screened positive for pain (ESAS
pain severity … and who received a comprehensive pain assessment (five or more of the following
assessed: location, severity … 87.2) 43 (86) 41 (82) 44 (88) 41 (82) 49(98)
*Five or more of the following assessed: location, severity