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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/remote-patient-monitoring
March 15, 2023 - hospital utilization and detecting any change in status of patients. … For example, when you can graph the vitals, you can highlight the data supplied by the patient and the … The company will help deploy the technology, do the monitoring, and transmit documentation of the twenty … scenario, where we see real-time vital signs, utilize telehealth, and work with a family caregiver to change … You can change treatment plans based remote monitoring data.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-dr-neal-sikka-and-dr-colton-hood-about-remote-patient-monitoring
March 15, 2023 - For example, when you can graph the vitals, you can highlight the data supplied by the patient and the … The company will help deploy the technology, do the monitoring, and transmit documentation of the twenty … scenario, where we see real-time vital signs, utilize telehealth, and work with a family caregiver to change … You can change treatment plans based remote monitoring data. … hospital utilization and detecting any change in status of patients.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/too-hot-comfort
May 19, 2015 - The nurses further assessed the site and removed the IV. … Within the next hour, the nurse coming on shift assessed the infant further and discovered redness and … a burn at the site as a result of the warm compress. … to entertain the possibility that the "burn" in this case may have been the result of extravasation … Cooling of the burn wound: the ideal temperature of the coolant. Burns. 2007;33:917-922.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/surprise-wire
July 15, 2020 - On the day of transfer, the ICU nurse removed the patient’s femoral catheter but discovered the guidewire … (used at the time of placement in the ED) still in the patient's femoral vein. … guidewire in place and failed to account for the missing guidewire at the end of the procedure. … and the kit from the supply cart prior to the procedure, increasing the likelihood that a non-air occlusive … November 16, 2022
Rapid response teams seen through the eyes of the nurse.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50768/psn-pdf
December 27, 2019 - CB: I’m the Co-Chair of the HHS Health Literacy Workgroup. … minimal context about the care of the
patient. … The approach that the toolkit took was
to create a separate tool called “How to deliver the re-engineered … The Standards operationalize the definition. … The language
assistance piece is by far the most developed and has made the most head way in health
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33651/psn-pdf
June 01, 2007 - RW: Talk a little bit about the genesis of the system and maybe even the politics. Who proposed it? … The legislation came from MAPS and
was supported by the Medical Association, the Hospital Association … , and the Department of Health from the
get go, as well as by the Governor, which probably made it a … RW: It's a little bit surprising that the hospitals would have been on board from the get go with the … what the point of
the system is.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49397/psn-pdf
May 01, 2003 - The Dropped Lung
May 1, 2003
Heffner JR. The Dropped Lung. PSNet [internet]. 2003. … The residents caring for the patient interpreted the white-out as a large pleural effusion, and diagnostic … Of greatest concern is the needlessness of the procedure. … The chest x-ray demonstrated a mediastinum
shifted toward the affected side. … The nature of conceptual understanding in biomedicine: The deep
structure of complex ideas and the development
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49725/psn-pdf
January 01, 2015 - from the pulmonary artery into the right ventricle when he performed the
actual ablation. … In the ICU, the nurse who assumed care of the patient noticed that the PA catheter waveform was
dampened … Fortunately, the nurse recognized the situation
quickly, and the resident deflated the balloon and withdrew … the final segment
of the case. … Automatic resistance to the implementation of checklists (it's a change, a possible slight increase in
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49466/psn-pdf
October 14, 2004 - The physician did not see the form, and the patient continued to
receive thickened liquids. … This protocol, now in effect, permits the speech pathologist to write the
order to make the patient … speech therapist to communicate the need to change the diet orders in a more
timely and direct fashion … the primary team to do
the same. … This effectively reduces the possibility
of aspiration from the time of the physician's order to the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/training-catalog
June 01, 2025 - , their teams, and themselves as providers. … All content will be accessible for six weeks following the conclusion of the program, ensuring you have … ample time to absorb and apply the knowledge. … Allied Health Professions
Event Description: Educational webinars support fall risk reduction teams … For webinars and practical tools to improve fall risk reduction, click on the topic links in the menu
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/patient-safety-101
January 16, 2025 - Background The History of the Patient Safety Movement The concept that patients could be harmed while … The term iatrogenesis —still used today to indicate harm experienced by patients at the hands of the … Reason's work led to the development of the systems approach , which takes the view that most errors … The systems approach seeks to identify situations or factors likely to give rise to human error and change … Another challenge for the field is the need to improve safety across the continuum of care.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-lawrence-smith-md
February 01, 2012 - the patient with the resident team engaged in the care probably winds up better for the patient. … They accept whatever is the culture and the rules of the game within residency. … LS : That was the implication of the conversation. … It's different than trading the retractor for the scissors. The technology is racing ahead. … The death of 18-year-old Libby Zion at The New York Hospital in 1984 led to the recommendation by the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/identifying-adverse-events-not-present-admission-can-we-do-it
October 01, 2008 - care, to measure and compare quality and patient safety, and even to change provider incentives through … can be expected to change. … Do you see evidence of this policy actually creating some change at the system level? … focus is not likely to occur, if there is no business case for change. … every time is probably the weakest method of systems change.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withdavid-c-classen-md-ms
May 01, 2012 - You can intervene in real time to change the dose and stop or modify the drug dosage. … Basically, even if you combine the AHRQ PSIs and the voluntary reporting system—they missed 90% of the … DC : In an analysis conducted at one of the hospitals looking at the sensitivity and specificity of the … The cascading of events that occurred in the Medicare study—more than a quarter of the patients had them … This methodology was valuable in the early days of the patient safety field by highlighting the major
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/emergence-trigger-tool-premier-measurement-strategy-patient-safety
May 01, 2012 - The Emergence of the Trigger Tool as the Premier Measurement Strategy for Patient Safety
Paul J. … The Emergence of the Trigger Tool as the Premier Measurement Strategy for Patient Safety. … The Emergence of the Trigger Tool as the Premier Measurement Strategy for Patient Safety. … You can intervene in real time to change the dose and stop or modify the drug dosage. … The Emergence of the Trigger Tool as the Premier Measurement Strategy for Patient Safety.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50858/psn-pdf
January 31, 2020 - The use of
AI in radiology has the potential to improve the efficiency and efficacy of medical imaging … .2 When
conducting an imaging study, the use of AI can improve the quality of the image captured. … AI systems can
detect at the time of imaging whether the quality of the data acquired is optimal for … The first is in the evaluation of the
AI technology and determining what level of accuracy is required … AI
systems are not as equipped as humans to recognize when there is a relevant change in context or
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-carole-stockmeier-about-zero-harm-striving-reduce-preventable-harms-point
September 24, 2024 - And, when we do have an event of harm, the role of the leader is to help the organization pick itself … , the day-to-day words and actions of the organization. … These kinds of leading and real-time indicators are the right focal point in the effort to change outcomes … The practices of organizations leading the way will hopefully become the tipping point for making the … The CMS structural measure is a push in the right direction and in the right way.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/missed-compartment-syndrome-after-steep-lithotomy-position-laparoscopic-gynecological
January 29, 2021 - The common peroneal nerve can be injured if it is compressed between the stirrup and the fibula. 1 The … For each centimeter that the ankles are elevated above the heart, the arterial pressure in the calf muscles … They elevate the pressure transducer of the arterial line to the level of the ear to measure and record … The calf muscles, however, are not given the same priority as the brain. … The more extreme the lithotomy and Trendelenburg positions, the higher the blood pressure needed for
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/possible-probable-sure-wrong-premature-closure-and-anchoring-complicated-case
October 02, 2013 - Subsequent review of the case, including the clinical documentation, noted that the provisional diagnosis … vasculitis during the ensuing outpatient follow-up, in both the minds of the clinicians and the chart … Neuroimaging was the correct choice of subsequent diagnostic tests, but the CT scan of the brain was … by the team. … about the incorrectness of the working diagnosis.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/ems-patient-safety-field
July 28, 2021 - Following the 911 call, the 911 center personnel must triage the call to ensure that, based on the information … That’s just the beginning of the process. … The same with stroke, the same with acute MIs, the same with delivering babies, the same with very sick … that the extrication of the patient took place; that the patient was transported; and that the EMS personnel … and to really take the care to the people.