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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/add-case-and-missing-checklist
September 01, 2012 - In simple risk management terms, most clinical procedures aim to achieve long-term benefits from treatment … bleeding is less than 1% (such as colonoscopy including biopsies), and "high risk" (such as polypectomy, treatment … For patients in whom ongoing anticoagulation is deemed too risky, other treatment options are available … Perioperative complications in patients on low-molecular-weight heparin bridging therapy. … Perioperative management of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74038/psn-pdf
November 03, 2021 - Medication errors during treatment with new oral
anticancer agents: consequences for clinical practice … Medication errors during treatment with new oral anticancer agents:
consequences for clinical practice … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-during-treatment-new-oral-anticancer-agents-
consequences-clinical-practice … research, this study found that medication errors are common in patients starting new oral
anticancer therapy … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-errors-during-treatment-new-oral-anticancer-agents-consequences-clinical-practice
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60611/psn-pdf
June 24, 2020 - monitoring parameters for DOACs such as the International Normalized
Ratio (INR) which reflects the therapeutic … making it difficult for providers to keep up
with the most current evidence-based and FDA-approved drug treatments … Examples of specific indications include: VTE treatment vs atrial
fibrillation treatment, using warfarin … vs DOACs, normal vs. impaired renal function, weight adjustment and
initial treatment vs. chronic treatment … Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866283/psn-pdf
July 10, 2024 - considering
Parenteral nutrition (PN) is comprised of complex processes and prone to errors that can degrade therapy
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49816/psn-pdf
January 01, 2018 - anxiety, and sleep disturbance that can affect the severity of pain,
coping behaviors, and response to treatments … .(10) Treatments for alcohol use disorder include psychosocial as well as
pharmacologic approaches. … persons with moderate or severe alcohol use disorder as an
alternative or adjunct to psychosocial treatments … management that include nonopioid medications, regional
anesthetic techniques, and nonpharmacologic therapies … Acute pain management for patients receiving maintenance
methadone or buprenorphine therapy.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33585/psn-pdf
March 15, 2025 - psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/radiation-safety
Approximately 40% of patients diagnosed with cancer receive radiation therapy … at some point in their
treatment. … Primer will discuss the
safety issues associated with the use of radiation, both for diagnosis and therapy … Standards for licensure and certification of technologists and
treatment facilities also vary among … Improving the safety of radiation therapy relies in part on similar principles, including enhancing safety
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/inpatient-stroke-management-adolescent-type-1-diabetes-and-home-insulin-pump
February 01, 2023 - Imaging identified a new MCA territory infarct, and enoxaparin treatment was initiated. … Contraindications to insulin pump therapy – including critical illness, prolonged surgical procedures … The attending physician should decide whether to continue insulin pump therapy in collaboration with … Diabetes technology & therapeutics 2019;21:66-72.
Munt R, Hutton A. … Diabetes technology & therapeutics 2017;19:363-9.
American Diabetes A. 15.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33606/psn-pdf
December 15, 2024 - knowledge evolves, the balance of harms and benefits for specific medications evolves as well,
and therapies … Fig3
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/opioid-overdose-patient-safety-problem
pain, and nonopioid therapies … Both of these factors led to an increase in opioid
prescribing (and relative underuse of nonopioid therapies … reduction in opioid
use may lead to unrelieved pain in patients who would actually benefit from opioid therapy … Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality's Effective Health Care Program completed three reports on Treatments
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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/hospital-homesm-care-reduces-costs-readmissions-and-complications-and-enhances
November 15, 2023 - program provides hospital-level care (including daily physician and nurse visits, diagnostic testing, treatment … Additional equipment such as that which is required for oxygen therapy and bronchodilator therapy is … Diagnostic studies, such as electrocardiography and radiography, and intravenous (IV) treatment, are … , basic x-rays and ultrasounds, skilled therapies, and pharmacy support, are provided by a home health … Additional equipment such as that which is required for oxygen therapy and bronchodilator therapy is
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/838027/psn-pdf
September 07, 2022 - This document advocates that a stewardship approach be applied to anticoagulant
therapy to reduce the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73502/psn-pdf
July 14, 2021 - Designed to
align with four time elements of antibiotic therapy, its supports processes that enable
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836863/psn-pdf
April 06, 2022 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/radiation-risks-diagnostic-imaging
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/radiation-therapy-safety-critical-role-radiation-therapist
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/838085/psn-pdf
September 14, 2022 - administering-high-strength-insulin-pen-device-hospital
Misuse of insulin pens contributes to never events associated with diabetic medication therapy
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/dementia-and-risk-adverse-warfarin-related-events-nursing-home-setting
February 23, 2011 - February 11, 2009
The safety of warfarin therapy in the nursing home setting. … September 27, 2016
The safety of warfarin therapy in the nursing home setting.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/espen-guideline-hospital-nutrition
February 17, 2015 - January 25, 2023
Improving administration and documentation of enteral nutrition support therapy … June 12, 2018
ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/addressing-disease-related-malnutrition-hospitalized-patients-call-national-goal
June 12, 2018 - June 12, 2018
ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy. … June 12, 2018
ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/when-5-rights-go-wrong-medication-errors-nursing-perspective
June 27, 2018 - June 27, 2018
Making an infusion error: the second victims of infusion therapy-related … July 31, 2013
ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/strategies-improving-patient-safety-linking-task-type-error-type
August 22, 2012 - August 22, 2012
Drug shortages: effect on parenteral nutrition therapy. … December 12, 2018
Making an infusion error: the second victims of infusion therapy-related
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/devastatingly-human-analysis-registered-nurses-medication-error-accounts
June 27, 2018 - June 27, 2018
Making an infusion error: the second victims of infusion therapy-related … July 31, 2013
ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.173_slideshow.ppt
April 01, 2008 - Despite this therapy, her symptoms persisted. She was then prescribed azithromycin. … is second most common prescribed for acute sinusitis, but is generally not considered as first-line therapy … should have been with amoxicillin and symptomatic therapies
Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
Amoxicillin-clavulanate … She was started on high-dose immunosuppressive therapy with steroids. … Despite aggressive antifungal therapy, the patient ultimately succumbed to overwhelming infection and