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161. State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD)
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/news/exhibit_booth/sasd_brochure.jsp
     May 01, 2018 - The SASD are well suited for research that requires complete enumeration of hospital-based ambulatory surgeries … SASD to study State-level outpatient surgery issues, including: Analyses of ambulatory surgeries … In addition, some States provide data on ambulatory surgeries from facilities not owned by hospitals. … 1997, SASD files include all patients, regardless of payer, thus providing a unique view of ambulatory surgeries

162. Safety of overlapping inpatient orthopaedic surgery: a multicenter study. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2018 - This retrospective cohort of overlapping orthopedic surgeries across five academic institutions found … The authors recommend individualizing decisions regarding overlapping surgeries.

163. Reducing the Risks of Wrong-Site Surgery: Safety Practices from The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project. | PSNet
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     October 19, 2016 - The authors highlight improvements in scheduling surgeries, preoperative processes, operating room preparations … , and organizational culture that substantially reduced wrong-site surgeries in the eight hospitals participating

164. Ambulatory Procedure/Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/asc/asc-survey-english.docx
     June 02, 2025 - ASCs are facilities where patients have surgeries, procedures, and treatments and are not expected to … complete. ► Doctors means all physicians (MDs or DOs), podiatrists, dentists, and others who perform surgeries … Communication in the Surgery/Procedure Room ► Are you typically in the surgery/procedure room during surgeries

165. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2019 - Commission and National Quality Forum both consider wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong- patient surgeries … This study measured the incidence of incorrect surgeries in Veterans Health Administration medical centers

166. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 21, 2014 - prior studies in adults have defined risk factors for retained instruments, which include emergency surgeries … Gynecologic surgeries emerged as the only type of surgery significantly associated with an increased

167. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 25, 2018 - This study examined trends in hospital admission within 7 days of all outpatient surgeries performed … national-surgical-quality-improvement-program https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/awareness-patient-safety-grows-increased-outpatient-surgeries

168. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 21, 2014 - issue/surgical-case-listing-accuracy-failure-analysis-high-volume-academic-medical- center Wrong-site surgeries … While no wrong-site surgeries occurred, there were nearly 800 cases where this potential was noted and

169. Chapter 2. Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - We began with identifying candidate surgeries among VASQIP data from 2007 through 2009. … As VASQIP surgeries are identified by CPT code and not by ICD-9s, we built a map between the two for … Each type was categorized as to whether it could be consistent with each of the surgeries of interest … For example, a urine specimen was considered to be incompatible with an SSI from any of our surgeries … A wound swab was considered to be compatible with any of the surgeries.

170. Operating-room fire at hospital burns patient, prompts changes. | PSNet
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     September 21, 2022 - November 4, 2020 View More Related Resources 5 cataract surgeries … February 5, 2014 Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries.

171. Association of overlapping surgery with perioperative outcomes. | PSNet
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     June 08, 2022 - Scheduling overlapping surgeries has raised substantial patient safety concerns . … between overlapping surgery and mortality, postoperative complications, and surgery duration for 66,430 surgeries

172. Are you surgically current? Lessons from aviation for returning to non-urgent surgery following COVID-19. | PSNet
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     September 29, 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to hospitals delaying or cancelling many elective and non-urgent surgeries … , 2021 Ethical considerations and patient safety concerns for cancelling non-urgent surgeries

173. Outcomes of concurrent operations: results from the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. | PSNet
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     February 14, 2017 - The practice of scheduling concurrent surgeries has raised concerns about inadequate supervision … Program study used propensity score matching to compare outcomes of concurrent versus nonoverlapping surgeries

174. Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. | PSNet
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     November 26, 2008 - Although wrong-site surgeries are rare , they have devastating consequences for patients and are often … The Joint Commission's Universal Protocol for prevention of wrong-site surgeries requires performing

175. Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention’s surgical services cohort, which aimed to reduce MRSA and surgical site infections in surgeries … relatively more common and harmful, specifically cardiac, knee and hip replacement, and spinal fusion surgeries

176. Disclosure of medical mistakes is sought. | PSNet
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     August 24, 2016 - Cite Related Resources From the Same Author(s) 5 cataract surgeries … August 27, 2008 Fires during surgeries a bigger risk than thought.

177. U.S. inaction lets look-alike tubes kill patients. | PSNet
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     September 01, 2008 - July 26, 2023 Awareness of patient safety grows with increased outpatient surgeries. … May 27, 2009 MGH halts a pediatric program: Heart surgeries on hold after errors.

178. Shining a glaring light on surgery: technology that records every move aims to improve safety. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/shining-glaring-light-surgery-technology-records-every-move-aims-improve-safety
     January 29, 2020 - January 29, 2020 Surgeons must tell patients of double-booked surgeries, new guidelines … March 24, 2016 5 cataract surgeries, 5 people blinded: what went wrong?

179. 58-Frontline-Presentation-Template (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/58-frontline-presentation-template.docx
     June 01, 2023 - When our team conducted our gap analysis for [service line] surgeries in CY[XXXX], we found that we performed … Bowel Preparation For surgeries with a planned bowel resection, have bowel prep and oral antibiotics … receiving multimodal pain management Regional analgesia protocol, if relevant VTE Prophylaxis For specific surgeries

180. AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS® Boosts Patient Safety, Efficiency for Texas Military Hospital's Operating Rooms | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2016 - Medical center clinicians studied the impact of TeamSTEPPS on urology-related surgeries in the year following … In addition to a decline from 16 percent to 6 percent in surgeries that involved potential or actual