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2241. Spotlight Case [MONTH] 2003 (ppt file)
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      May 01, 2008 - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Without treatment, median time from HIV seroconversion to developing … Time from HIV-1 seroconversion to AIDS and death before widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy … earlier stages of disease May reduce morbidity and mortality by starting patients on appropriate therapies … Prognosis of HIV-1-infected patients starting highly active antiretroviral therapy: a collaborative analysis … Cost-effectiveness of screening for HIV in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.

2242. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2010 - single full-thickness pressure ulcer in one patient can be as much as $70,000; in 2006, inpatient treatment … points including severe kyphoscoliosis or other unusual skeletal anomalies, and previous radiation therapy … While treatment of all hip fracture patients with a pressure redistribution surface is not a new idea

2243. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2014 - The interval between symptom onset and clinical assessment will determine whether acute reperfusion therapy … thrombin time or ecarin clotting time; laboratory assays are often not processed quickly enough to make therapeutic … have a database or registry capable of tracking the number and type of stroke patients seen, their treatments … , timelines for receiving treatments, and measurement of clinical outcomes.(15) A system should be in … these recommendations it is expected that patients will achieve more accurate diagnoses, more timely therapies

2244. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2016 - concept of "number needed to treat" is used to quantify the number of patients who would need to undergo therapy

2245. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 14, 2010 - sought to enroll students in all health professions (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical/occupational therapy

2246. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      May 06, 2015 - engineering-patient-safety-radiation-oncology-university-north-carolinas- pursuit-high Radiation oncology combines high-risk therapy

2247. Uterine Artery Injury during Cesarean Delivery Leads to Cardiac Arrests and Emergency Hysterectomy | PSNet
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      September 30, 2020 - For Response , birthing facilities must be prepared to administer medications for prevention and treatment … Continued abnormal vital signs should then prompt the health care team to escalate diagnostic and therapeutic … protocols with built-in triggers for objective data provide the infrastructure that enables equitable treatment … updated CMQCC guidelines on obstetric hemorrhage now include tranexamic acid (TXA) as an adjunctive therapy … The Joint Commission. [ Available at ] R 3 Report: Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services standards

2248. Classics and Emerging Classics | PSNet
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      August 01, 2023 - Information Systems (50) Electronic Health Records (36) Computer-Assisted Therapy … article describes two experimental studies exploring the impact of gender biases on pain estimation and treatment … Clinical decision support (CDS) systems are intended to support diagnosis and therapeutic processes of … impact of pharmacological/pharmaceutical care on medication safety and patient-reported outcomes during treatment … the intervention group reported considerably fewer medication errors and side effects and increased treatment

2249. Diagnostic error as a result of drug-laboratory test interactions. | PSNet
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      November 21, 2018 - test interactions can lead to misinterpretation of results, misdiagnosis, and unneeded tests or therapies … March 9, 2022 ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.

2250. The impact of electronic communication of medication discontinuation (CancelRx) on medication safety: a pilot study. | PSNet
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      December 07, 2022 - September 20, 2023 WebM&M Cases Duplicate Therapies in … May 5, 2021 Analysis of medication therapy discontinuation orders in new electronic prescriptions

2251. Spotlight (ppt file)
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      October 01, 2018 - Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant … Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis … Using procalcitonin to guide antibiotic therapy. … have an infection had higher mortality rates, which may have been related to delays in appropriate therapy … predictive value and may contribute to alert fatigue and the administration of inappropriate sepsis therapies

2252. Diseases of medical progress. | PSNet
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      June 27, 2018 - that the history of medicine provides numerous examples of how emerging illnesses develop from sound therapeutic … The author discusses more than 40 distinct entities that resulted from new and existing medication therapies … fascinating historical perspective, one that not only raises concern over all currently available novel therapies

2253. Intravenous chemotherapy preparation errors: patient safety risks identified in a pan-Canadian exploratory study. | PSNet
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      March 18, 2011 - June 13, 2018 Improving shared situation awareness for high-risk therapies in hospitalized … The use of human factors methods to identify and mitigate safety issues in radiation therapy

2254. To Resuscitate or Not? | PSNet
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      November 01, 2011 - that they would be more likely to override a DNR order when an arrest was caused by a complication of treatment … families want to be involved in decision making, establish goals based on the prognosis, and implement therapies … eg, if after several days the patient was still on mechanical ventilation and receiving vasopressor therapy … patients understand the potential course of events and prognosis, it is easier to establish the goals of therapy … Overriding a patient′s refusal of treatment after an iatrogenic complication.

2255. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2006 - instance in which a resident's misread film results in a patient being sent home without appropriate treatment … or in a patient receiving improper surgery or other therapies. … The patient did not have bleeding complications from the thrombolytic therapy. … A safeguard such as this (if extended to the use of thrombolytic therapy) may have prevented the error … more junior reviewers, or those whose interpretations could prompt procedures or life-threatening therapies

2256. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2008 - endoscopic procedure and, after the procedure, wrote orders for the patient to receive all of the previous treatments … These lists could prompt prescribers to reorder medication therapies that were discontinued for procedures … case presented in this commentary, a 25-year-old woman experienced elevated sodium levels after DDAVP therapy … if the intern further clarified the order to indicate what should be done with the patient's DDAVP therapy … The intern could have indicated to restart therapy the next day or based on the patient's sodium levels

2257. Uptake of pharmacist recommendations by patients after discharge: implementation study of a patient-centered medicines review service. | PSNet
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      December 14, 2016 - 19, 2022 Patient outcomes in dose reduction or discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy … September 13, 2023 WebM&M Cases Duplicate Therapies in

2258. Surveillance of medical device-related hazards and adverse events in hospitalized patients. | PSNet
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      March 11, 2011 - Related Resources Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy … June 15, 2022 Improving shared situation awareness for high-risk therapies in hospitalized

2259. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2018 - or discontinuation of a critical drug, giving the end users time to find alternative resources or therapies … 1516 directors of pharmacy, and they reported that out of 171 responses, 70.8% reported a delay in treatment … , 48.5% reported patients received suboptimal therapies, 15.8% reported a treatment failure, and 1.2% … regarding shortages along with frequent in-service education activities (when alterations from standard treatment … Drug shortages: effect on parenteral nutrition therapy. Nutr Clin Pract. 2018;33:53-61.

2260. Medication Reconciliation Victory After an Avoidable Error | PSNet
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      April 01, 2015 - Although the case above highlights the potential dangers of therapy duplication, it also illustrates … the medication reconciliation process identified the cause of the admission and resulted in prompt treatment … of the patient (in this case, discontinuation of duplicate therapies) as opposed to reducing future … as drug information from a pharmacist that included the purpose and side effects of the prescribed treatment … access to the complete medical record and prescription fill history could have identified the duplicate therapy