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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/anesthesia-related-closed-claims-free-standing-ambulatory-surgery-centers
March 29, 2023 - malpractice claims of ASCs and hospital-based operating rooms (HORs) to examine any differences in severity … Claims with higher severity of injury were less frequent in ASCs compared to HORs, but patient burns
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-text-mining-techniques-identify-health-care-providers-patient-safety-problems
July 27, 2022 - Using text mining and sentiment analysis, more than 22,000 patient complaints were assigned a severity … The ‘bag-of-words representation’ was most successful for severity predicting and could be used to triage
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/resource/b4_singh_017020_archives_17_part2.pdf
January 01, 2009 - adverse event occurred and, if so, to obtain additional details from charts, such as preventability
and severity … care settings.1,2
ADE Trigger Tool
Adverse Drug Events Trigger tool
Severity … Undetermined: Not enough information provided in the patient chart to confidently give a severity level
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/sfstrategies.pdf
August 01, 2015 - NA
Assessment and Monitoring of Asthma Severity
We assess and document the child’s severity classification … The type of interaction
depends on their asthma severity; management and control
based on best practices
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb108.pdf
April 01, 2011 - of illness, 26.8 percent of insured cases had highest severity of
illness). … Patient complexity
Cases with the highest severity of illness are discharges with a score of 3 or 4 … on the APR-DRG
severity of illness scale. … , major, or extreme severity of illness. … The determination of severity of illness is
disease-specific.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb50.pdf
April 01, 2008 - Increasing prevalence and severity of Clostridium difficile
colitis in hospitalized patients in the … Measures of mortality, severity and complexity suggest that patients undergoing subtotal colectomy were … All Patient Refined DRG (APR-DRG) severity and risk of
mortality scores were significantly higher for … data to measure
severity of illness. … of illness, mean
score
3.0 2.5 3.3 1.8
Percentage with APR-DRG severity of
illness score: major
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47179/psn-pdf
September 26, 2018 - Organization International Classification for Patient Safety enables measurement of
safety incident severity … Their harm severity classification emphasizes psychological harm, hospitalizations, near misses, and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40604/psn-pdf
December 30, 2014 - procedures-and-nurse
This study found that skill and knowledge deficiencies contribute to the higher risk and severity … Of note, these errors and their severity decreased as
nurses became more experienced.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsumcarr.html
October 01, 2014 - Determine whether severity-adjusted differences in mortality exist for injured patients treated at trauma … Determine if validated estimates of prehospital time are significant predictors of severity-adjusted
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/sleep-apnea-protocol.pdf
June 09, 2020 - called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is the most common
type of sleep apnea.1
Definition and severity … The severity of OSA is typically quantified by the sum of
the number of apneas and hypopneas per hour … evidence to support specific criteria.5 Further complicating the definition of OSA
(and evaluations of severity … CPAP improves
AHI as defined in those studies and other surrogate or intermediate measures of OSA severity … ])
• Glycemia measures (e.g., hemoglobin A1c, fasting blood glucose)
• Instruments to measure severity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43960/psn-pdf
April 01, 2015 - critical-incident-technique
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-interruptions-increased-risk-and-severity-medication-administration-errors … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-interruptions-increased-risk-and-severity-medication-administration-errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/exploring-clinically-relevant-image-retrieval-diabetic-retinopathy-diagnosis
January 01, 2023 - However, clinicians remain superior in detecting and assessing the severity of DR over computer-based … Images were considered clinically relevant if they contained the same types of lesions with similar severity … The retrieval system was evaluated by examining whether the retrieved images have similar DR severity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/failure-events-transition-care-surgical-patients
October 19, 2022 - with unplanned transfers to the intensive care unit after surgery and found that failure to detect severity … September 12, 2016
An observational study of the frequency, severity, and etiology of
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part4-comm2.html
October 01, 2015 - Non-Border Counties
Border Counties
Non-Border
Hispanics
Non-Hispanics
Severity index … All ratios are of the percentage of diabetes stays with complications, except for the severity index, … Severity index is based on a weighted sum of the 29 individual comorbidity indicators with more severe
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prejudice-perceptions-physicians-influence-race-and-gender-evaluations-medical-errors
March 27, 2019 - This study asked Internet-recruited volunteers to evaluate the severity of a medical error and what consequences … October 13, 2018
Does the perception of severity of medical error differ between varying
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/aprdrg_risk_mortality/nisnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - This severity measure includes the base APR-DRG, the severity of illness subclass, and the risk of mortality … NIS Documentation CD-ROM and on the HCUP User Support Website (www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov):
Overview of Severity
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/aprdrg_risk_mortality/nrdnote.jsp
August 01, 2015 - This severity measure includes the base APR-DRG, the severity of illness subclass, and the risk of mortality … NIS Documentation CD-ROM and on the HCUP User Support Website (www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov):
Overview of Severity
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/aprdrg_risk_mortality/kidnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - This severity measure includes the base APR-DRG, the severity of illness subclass, and the risk of mortality … NIS Documentation CD-ROM and on the HCUP User Support Website (www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov):
Overview of Severity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accuracy-harm-scores-entered-event-reporting-system
October 19, 2022 - This study sought to evaluate the ability of nurses to use the Common Format definitions of harm severity … The investigators found relatively poor interrater reliability between nurses when asked to rate the severity
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/ICD-and-CPT-codes.xlsx
January 01, 2018 - Emergency department visit limited/minor prob
ED Visits CPT 99282 Emergency department visit low/moder severity … ED Visits CPT 99283 Emergency department visit moderate severity
ED Visits CPT 99284 Emergency department … visit high/urgent severity
ED Visits CPT 99285 Emergency dept visit high severity&threat funcj
ED