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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/sick-and-pregnant
August 25, 2021 - In two studies, nearly 60% of pregnant women used a prescription medicine other than a prenatal vitamin … Pregnancy Category Description Examples A Controlled studies show no risk. … levothyroxine B No evidence of risk in humans: either animal studies show risks, but … human studies do not; or no human studies have been done and no risk has been shown in animal studies … Human studies are lacking, and animal studies are either positive for fetal risk or lacking as well.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45552/psn-pdf
February 15, 2017 - Speaking up behaviours (safety voices) of healthcare
workers: a metasynthesis of qualitative research studies … Speaking up behaviours (safety voices) of healthcare workers: a
metasynthesis of qualitative research studies … This review of studies identified hierarchy and role expectations as barriers to nurses
speaking up
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45743/psn-pdf
June 21, 2017 - improving the value of the radiology report:
a retrospective analysis of errors in formally over-read
studies … improving the value of the radiology report: a retrospective analysis
of errors in formally over-read studies … strategies-improving-value-radiology-report-retrospective-analysis-errors-
formally-over-read
This retrospective review of imaging studies
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45836/psn-pdf
July 02, 2017 - This Veterans
Affairs study found that 0.17% of radiologic studies were not evaluated by radiologists … The study team
identified several technical and process problems that contributed to these unread studies … They were able
to address the issues to ensure all studies were read.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865588/psn-pdf
April 17, 2024 - This review identifies studies of inattentional blindness in healthcare, from radiology
to surgery to … The authors make recommendations on how to improve designing and reporting
studies of inattentional
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
June 15, 2024 - accounted for 17% of preventable errors in hospitalized patients, and a systematic review of autopsy studies … Taken together, these studies imply that thousands of hospitalized patients die every year due to diagnostic … This work has been informed by the field of cognitive psychology , which studies how individuals process … for malpractice claims, and much of the research into systems causes of diagnostic error arises from studies … However, studies evaluating the effect of these interventions on diagnostic error rates are lacking.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33784/psn-pdf
April 01, 2015 - But most studies didn't look at those
types of results. … I'm a bit suspicious about that happening in some of these studies. … into these study groups and before-and-after studies. … We're waiting for additional studies to see if
the earlier studies can be replicated or if the effects … DU: I think there will be more studies. I'm not sure they'll be better.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33851/psn-pdf
January 01, 2017 - In the intervening years, many studies have examined the weekend
effect for a variety of diseases. … A 2017 meta-analysis included 97 studies
comparing mortality between weekend and weekday admissions, … Two studies published in 2017 advanced our knowledge of the mechanisms for the weekend effect. … These studies provide important insights into the mechanisms of
the weekend effect. … Most studies
of the weekend effect rely on hospital-based administrative data.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44814/psn-pdf
February 24, 2018 - This systematic review analyzed 24
studies on alarm characteristics and 8 studies that evaluated interventions … Consistent with other studies, the vast majority of the time, alarms do not signal problems that require
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49575/psn-pdf
November 01, 2008 - Pregnancy
Category
Description Examples
A
Controlled studies show no risk. … B
No evidence of risk in humans: either animal studies show risks, but
human studies do not; or no … human studies have been done and no
risk has been shown in animal studies. … Human studies are lacking, and animal
studies are either positive for fetal risk or lacking as well. … Studies in animals or humans, or
investigational or postmarketing reports, have shown fetal risk,
which
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/special-issue-health-information-technology
August 22, 2007 - This AHRQ-sponsored special issue includes a collection of studies and commentaries that discuss health … June 29, 2022
Scoping review of studies evaluating frailty and its association with medication
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866196/psn-pdf
June 26, 2024 - (AI) has been shown to have similar diagnostic accuracy to humans in mammography
and other imaging studies … Pooled analysis from 34 studies shows AI-based screening has acceptable
performance for DR screening
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/858173/psn-pdf
December 13, 2023 - The authors identified 142 studies evaluating 21
measures of medication errors, including measures of … Only 31 studies assessed measure reliability.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33569/psn-pdf
June 15, 2024 - Discontinuity between inpatient and outpatient providers is common, and studies have shown that
traditional … Structured discharge communication: Information on medication changes, pending tests and studies,
and … These studies, the Care Transitions trial and the Project RED
study, both successfully reduced readmissions … postdischarge follow-up have been shown to prevent adverse drug events and reduce
readmissions in some studies … Several studies have shown that
only a minority of 30-day readmissions in medical patients are truly
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33747/psn-pdf
March 01, 2013 - These meta-analyses collectively included more than 1000 individual
studies, which enrolled well over … More than 600 studies enrolling over 36,500 participants
have attempted to answer this question by comparing … However, in performing these analyses, my colleagues and I observed high variability between studies … Very few studies have
enumerated these costs, and none has offered a complete accounting (10), leaving … Comparative effectiveness studies will play a critical role in this pursuit.(9)
Fourth, the appearance
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37437/psn-pdf
June 03, 2010 - This systematic review of 13 published studies found no
overall benefit of RRS on inpatient mortality … As noted in a prior commentary, most published studies had significant methodologic
problems that limited … While some more recent single-center studies of RRS have
achieved impressive results, the authors of
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43378/psn-pdf
August 14, 2014 - For example, only 1% of studies were
conducted at community hospitals, and only 11% were in ambulatory … Also, even though 41% of
studies involved computerized provider order entry, a meta-analysis could not … be performed due to
inconsistent methodology between studies.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40306/psn-pdf
May 07, 2015 - benefits-health-information-technology-review-recent-literature-shows-
predominantly-positive
This systematic review of health information technology (IT) studies … found that most published studies
reported positive effects on a variety of outcomes, ranging from … and clinics have been slow to implement
comprehensive electronic health records, and the negative studies
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38891/psn-pdf
January 04, 2010 - the connection between calculation errors and
actual medication errors, but found that while some studies … have examined the incidence of calculation
errors and methods of preventing these errors, few studies … have specifically measured the effect of
calculation errors on patient outcomes (and no studies have
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44609/psn-pdf
June 21, 2016 - This systematic review identified studies of
patient experiences with adverse events. … Included studies demonstrate that the types of adverse events
patients most often identify are medication … Calling for increased use of
patient experiences in future studies, the authors suggest that investigations