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  1. The Inside of a Time Out | PSNet

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    March 01, 2004 - The Commentary In 2003, the Joint Commission made the elimination of wrong site surgeries a National … to be little scientific evidence of its ability to eliminate wrong site surgery.( 3-5 ) Wrong Site Surgeries … opinion, regulatory agencies, and organized medicine have all identified the reduction of wrong site surgeries … Past analyses of wrong site surgeries reveal that most emanate from the OR itself, but it is clear that … for some of these errors.( 3 ) Therefore, even an optimal time out will not prevent all wrong site surgeries

  2. Hospital-Level Gap Analysis for MRSA and SSI Prevention (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/132-gap-analysis-hospital-level.pdf
    April 01, 2025 - SSI Prevention Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries …  Chart review of all other surgeries using sternotomy other than CABG or valve replacement  Chart … review of a sample of surgeries using sternotomy other than CABG or valve replacement  Electronic … year_6: Off Intermittently two quarters per year_6: Off Other_23: Off Chart review of all other surgeries … using sternotomy other than CABG or valve replacement: Off Chart review of a sample of surgeries using

  3. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    March 29, 2023 - standardized-marking-procedure-ent-operations-prevent-wrong-site- surgery-development Although wrong-site surgeries

  4. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    July 10, 2008 - A prior study indicated a rate of approximately 1 case per 112,000 surgeries, but WSPEs may occur in

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 18, 2011 - risk-factors-retained-instruments-and-sponges-after-surgery This case-control study discovered that emergency surgeries

  6. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) NIS Notes

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    September 01, 2008 - Procedure Classes Refined for ICD-10-PCS version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries … Prior to version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries was based on the list of

  7. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) KID Notes

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    September 01, 2008 - Procedure Classes Refined for ICD-10-PCS version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries … Prior to version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries was based on the list of

  8. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) NEDS Notes

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    May 01, 2015 - Procedure Classes Refined for ICD-10-PCS version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries … Prior to version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries was based on the list of

  9. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) NRD Notes

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    August 01, 2015 - Procedure Classes Refined for ICD-10-PCS version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries … Prior to version 2021.1, the Procedure Classes definition of major surgeries was based on the list of

  10. Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS)

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    March 01, 2020 - in the United States, making it an exceptional resource for conducting research on major ambulatory surgeries … For the NASS, major ambulatory surgeries are defined as selected invasive, therapeutic surgical procedures

  11. Twenty Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children. | PSNet

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    December 24, 2008 - parents on how to help their children avoid medical errors pertaining to medicine, hospital stays, surgeries

  12. Reused devices, surgery's deadly suspects. | PSNet

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    January 04, 2006 - exposed to a rare brain disease after contaminated surgical instruments were used during their brain surgeries

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39123/psn-pdf
    April 30, 2014 - issue/incorrect-surgical-procedures-within-and-outside-operating-room Wrong-patient and wrong-site surgeries

  14. Doctor wear gloves is using lancet on a patient's finger. (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/096-ss-glycemic-control-one-pager.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Glycemic Control Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries

  15. Macro human skin texture. Closeup skin pattern. Medicine healthy surface background. Dermatitis concept (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/098-ss-hair-removal-one-pager.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Preoperative Hair Removal Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries

  16. Macro human skin texture. Closeup skin pattern. Medicine healthy surface background. Dermatitis concept (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-surgery/098-hair-removal-one-pager.docx
    April 01, 2025 - Preoperative Hair Removal Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries

  17. 126-Monthly-Team-Checkup-Tool (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/126-monthly-team-checkup-tool.docx
    April 01, 2025 - and SSI Prevention Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries … (Urgent/emergent surgeries may not have time to receive the full 5 days.) … (Urgent/emergent surgeries may not have time to receive the full 5 days.)

  18. SynergyHealth - St. Joseph's Hospital: Designing a safe hospital (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2005 - op & post-op infections •Falls •Transfusion events •Deaths in restraints •IP suicides •Wrong site surgeries … Transfusion events –Deaths in restraints –Suicides –Wrong tube- connector-hole events –Wrong site surgeries

  19. For second opinion, consult a computer? | PSNet

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    June 03, 2020 - March 4, 2020 Six ways to lower errors—and unnecessary surgeries—in radiology exams.

  20. F-SvcProc-User-Guide-v2022-1 (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2025 - .................................................................... 6 Counting Major Therapeutic Surgeries … If the focus is major therapeutic surgeries, the Surgery Flags Software- Services and Procedures can … be used to identify the Narrow surgeries and the CCS-Services and Procedures can be used to classify … a record-level data element that summarizes if there are any procedures that are Narrow or Broad surgeries … at any time between January 2013 and January 1, 2019 • The mapping of codes into Narrow or Broad surgeries
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