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261. Silent Pain in the Neck | PSNet
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     August 19, 2020 - , timing, and risk factors for postoperative neck hematoma are to some extent patient and procedure specific … Signs and symptoms of an expanding neck hematoma may include respiratory-specific symptoms such as stridor … Monitoring Specific protocols for monitoring patients after neck surgery vary across institutions. … Respiratory-specific symptoms such as stridor, hypoxia, dyspnea, tachypnea, or tracheal deviation occur

262. Discharging Our Responsibility | PSNet
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     January 16, 2019 - Joint Commission/Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Core Measures of quality: providing specific … Conformity with the specific discharge instruction measure requires that written instructions or educational … Participating hospitals received comparative feedback data on a quarterly basis; otherwise, no specific … program employed a web-based patient registry that facilitated feedback of performance data, provided specific

263. Improving transfusion safety in the operating room with a barcode scanning system designed specifically for the surgical environment and existing electronic medical record systems: an interrupted time series analysis. | PSNet
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     February 01, 2023 - Study Improving transfusion safety in the operating room with a barcode scanning system designed specifically for the surgical environment and existing electronic medical record systems: an interrupted time series analysis. Citation Text: Vanneman MW, Balakrishna A, Lang AL, et al. Impro…

264. The Role of Undergraduate Nursing Education in Patient Safety | PSNet
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     November 27, 2023 - core safety concepts into lectures focused on the fundamentals of nursing, and gradually introduce specific … their clinical learning environment rather than on quantifiable outcomes of different environments on specific … Under those big broad domain areas that I listed originally, there are very specific behaviors that a … Some states have set specific requirements for clinical hours in various types of settings, but the … But we also created a new role and set of competencies specific to a master’s degree in nursing called

265. In Conversation with... Joan Stanley about The Role of Undergraduate Nursing Education in Patient Safety | PSNet
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     November 27, 2023 - which is how the Essentials incorporate safety topics, like safety culture and teamwork, or more specific … Under those big broad domain areas that I listed originally, there are very specific behaviors that a … Some states have set specific requirements for clinical hours in various types of settings, but the … clinical faculty needs to understand their role in providing feedback to the learner on performance specific … But we also created a new role and set of competencies specific to a master’s degree in nursing called

266. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 15, 2025 - Specialized systems have also been developed for specific settings, such as the Intensive Care Unit … While event reports may highlight specific concerns that are worthy of attention, they do not provide

267. Sudden Collapse During Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Expect the Unexpected | PSNet
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     September 25, 2024 - Regardless of the specific dilators used, the operator must proceed cautiously and apply a measured degree … children, since serious cardiopulmonary events are rare, there are no high-quality data indicating whether specific … to minimize patient stress and anxiety while optimizing the performance of the procedure. 1 , 6 No specific … resuscitation suffers from an abundance of irrelevant talking, medically colloquial statements, non-specific

268. Detection of Safety Hazards | PSNet
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     March 30, 2022 - includes root cause analysis (RCA), mortality reviews, and related methods of in-depth investigation into specific … Standardized mortality reviews may be used to analyze specific cases for systematic harm or to estimate … have also yielded useful information regarding the types of adverse events that frequently occur in specific

269. In Conversation With...Amy Helwig about Health Plan Patient Safety Initiatives | PSNet
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     July 10, 2024 - You touched a little on specific health plan measures of patient safety. … Are there any other specific health plan measures of patient safety that you want to call out? … different aspects of data and the actual outcome, rather than just whether someone had a vaccine or a specific

270. Health Plan Patient Safety Initiatives | PSNet
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     July 10, 2024 - You touched a little on specific health plan measures of patient safety. … Are there any other specific health plan measures of patient safety that you want to call out? … different aspects of data and the actual outcome, rather than just whether someone had a vaccine or a specific

271. Engaging Seriously Ill Older Patients in Advance Care Planning | PSNet
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     December 22, 2018 - These determinations are generally made outside of the clinical context and should not be viewed as a specific … Medical decisions require consideration of wishes, values, and preferences associated with a specific … wishes or plans may be further codified in the form of written instructional directive or living will (specific … The (dis)utility of these specific documents has been previously discussed.

272. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 22, 2008 - the majority of patients in the emergency department felt safe from medical errors, though some had specific

273. In Conversation with Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar about Harm Reduction Strategies to Improve Safety for People Who Use Substances | PSNet
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     October 30, 2024 - In terms of the specific services that have been shown to reduce risk of death, we have naloxone distribution … This strategy can involve distribution of test strips that allow PWUS to test for specific substances … Specific strategies can include screening for substance use disorders (SUD) in all patients, educating … Specific strategies include managing pain and withdrawal symptoms during the hospitalization, offering … Another is more study into how harm reduction strategies can be tailored to specific sub-populations

274. "The Ultrasound Looked Fine": Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Patient Safety | PSNet
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     December 01, 2012 - , departments utilizing POCUS are typically responsible for oversight and compliance with specialty-specific … review of POCUS examinations and for providing feedback to providers in accordance with the specialty-specific … The diagnostic workup requires a transthoracic echocardiogram.( 20 ) Institutions can take specific … ) Regarding education and training, the current national guidelines for competency are specialty specific … These guidelines describe specific goals and expectations for didactic learning (e.g., lectures) and

275. Crossed Coverage | PSNet
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     September 01, 2015 - high-risk drugs like warfarin, another policy that potentially could reduce errors would mandate a specific … consider conflicting medications and comorbidities that influence warfarin might be able to recommend specific … transfusions.( 3 ) In most inpatient anticoagulation services, the pharmacist provides a chart note with specific … Use of specific indicators to detect warfarin-related adverse events.

276. Retained Surgical Items: Causation and Prevention | PSNet
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     January 04, 2024 - Team members have a joint and shared responsibility to prevent retention and are expected to use their specific … Incorrect Final Count At the final count, either too many or too few of a specific class of item (e.g … These observations are specific to surgical sponge management, but the principles are equally applicable … Hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory care surgical sites often develop site-specific or systemwide … Site-specific usability analyses and comparative effectiveness studies of new innovations and technological

277. CE/MOC Quizzes | PSNet
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     February 26, 2025 - CT scan was read as normal and he was diagnosed with a minor head injury and discharged without any specific … cognition and increased headache and was diagnosed with post-concussive syndrome and discharged without specific

278. Neurological Red Flags: A Missed Stroke after Intermittent Episodes of Dizziness and Headache | PSNet
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     February 08, 2023 - causes of dizziness (who “should” endorse “lightheadedness”) describe vertigo. 4 Thus, the specific … . 8 , 9 , 10 Using a logical, evidence-based algorithmic approach more often leads to a confident, specific … After an evaluation for headache, for example, a specific diagnosis often cannot be established, and … However, a non-specific diagnosis of “dizziness” should only be made after potential serious causes have … When to Call a “Code Stroke” A “Code Stroke” is intended to be highly sensitive but not specific.

279. Hidden Danger! Insidious Postpartum Bleeding After Emergency Cesarean Delivery. | PSNet
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     November 25, 2020 - through 2010 5 and found that hemorrhage was the cause of death in 11.4% of cases, with the following specific … (67.1% and 67.1%, respectively, versus 19% for MEWS and 40.5% for MEWT) but MEWS and MEWT were more specific … Baseline assessment of a hospital-specific early warning trigger system for reducing maternal morbidity

280. Project Nurture Engages Pregnant People with Substance Use Disorder, Improves Maternal and Infant Outcomes. | PSNet
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     September 23, 2024 - and excited about working with this patient population and are eager to learn how to approach their specific … and excited about working with this patient population and are eager to learn how to approach their specific