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1. Making Healthcare Safer IV_Rapid Review: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2025 - There are more published reviews for between-unit handoffs than within-unit handoffs, making the latter … Used for “within unit” handoffs of clinical responsibility between clinicians Between-unit transfers … Between unit handoffs 58. Price DW. … Between unit handoffs 84. Tufts LM. … Between unit handoffs 89. Wibrandt I, Lippert A.

2. Liver-Cancer Executive (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2014 - MRI and CT performed similarly when patients with HCC were the unit of analysis, but sensitivity was … higher for MRI than for CT when HCC lesions were the unit of analysis (pooled difference 0.09; 95% … Surveillance settings Unit of analysis: patients with HCC CT Sensitivity: Low Specificity: Low … Surveillance settings Unit of analysis: patients with HCC MRI or PET Insufficient No evidence … Nonsurveillance settings Unit of analysis: HCC lesions CT Sensitivity: Moderate Specificity:

3. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Transitions (pdf file)
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   December 31, 2024 - ” handoffs have been recognized as having features distinct from “within unit” handoffs.15 For example … Additionally, between unit handoffs involve an entirely new team and different modes of care, whereas … within unit handoffs are about temporal boundaries in a shift. … There are more published reviews for between-unit handoffs than within-unit handoffs, making the … Purpose of the Review The purpose of this rapid review is to assess the effectiveness of “within unit

4. Nursing-Staff-Shortages-Rapid-Research-Appendix-C (xls file)
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   January 01, 2024 - medical record FEN Foreign-educated nurses HPPD Productive hours per patient days ICU Intensive care unit … A New Patient Acuity Tool to Support Equitable Patient Assignments in a Progressive Care Unit. … The effect of a nurse manager's authentic leadership intervention on nurses' well-being: A single unit … Unit Level Factors: leadership had moderate significant correlations with turnover intent (2 studies) … Current data indicate that factors at individual, unit, and organizational levels all impact RN work

5. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings on Patient Safety Practices and Ratings by a Technical Expert Panel, 2024-2025 (pdf file)
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   May 01, 2025 - Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions ................... 7 … Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions 2a. … • Structured tools for within-unit handoffs were not discussed in isolation in prior MHS reports. … the use of handoff protocols for intrahospital within-unit transitions. … Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions.

6. Comparative Effectiveness of Strategies to De-escalate Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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   October 01, 2016 - It can involve unit- or hospital-wide policies that address all patients on a unit, not just those … ,64,68 and 1 in an intensive care unit with intubated patients.51 The remaining 18 studies were pre … , staff resignations and transfers, and sick leave than a control unit. … Effects of a psychiatric intensive care unit in an acute psychiatric department. … on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit.

7. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Use of Structured Handoff Protocols for Intrahospital Within-Unit Transitions | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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8. Slide 1
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   January 01, 2013 - with estimates of sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value, when possible Support the unit … The unit of analysis must also be justified. … The nature of the intervention largely dictates the appropriate unit of analysis. … The unit of analysis must also be justified. … The unit of analysis must also be justified.

9. Making Healthcare Safer IV Rapid Response: Acute Care Nursing Staff Shortages That Compromise Patient-to-Nurse Ratios (pdf file)
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   April 01, 2025 - Unit- based quality improvement projects found an acuity tool improved registered nurse satisfaction … o Develop a unit-specific staffing guideline with exemplars. … Improving Staffing and Nurse Engagement in a Neuroscience Intermediate Unit. … Missed Nursing Care and Unit-Level Nurse Workload in the Acute and Post- Acute Settings. … Leadership skills for nursing unit managers to decrease intention to leave.

10. Topic Brief: Interventions to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - care unit Assessment Methods See Appendix A. … Cycled light in the intensive care unit for preterm and low birth weight infants. … • Specialized surgical unit. … • Acute medical unit. … ; and Intensive Care Unit length of stay.

11. Rapid Evidence Product: No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - post study (Pavia et al.)14 assessed UVL for reducing respiratory viral infections in the toddler unit … During the intervention period, additional unit-wide daily PX-UV disinfection of patient bathrooms … Sequentially deployed to 1 new unit every few weeks during assessment period. … Deployed by environmental services personnel to new wing with audits by unit management staff and … Unit-level hand hygiene compliance rates were assessed through an ongoing, anonymous auditing

12. S38 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2007 - of analysis differs from the unit of randomization, frequently limited data for eligibility criteria … Consider, as an example, the choice of unit of random- ization in a trial that evaluated a strategy to … indicates that the practice would be preferred over individual clini- cians as the more appropriate unit … In choosing the unit of randomization, a hybrid ap- proach with physicians or practices randomized at … Implementation of eligibility criteria is challenging when practices are the unit of randomization and

13. Engaging-Caregivers-Appendix-B (xls file)
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    May 29, 2025 - Components included:1) Orientation to the hospital, unit, room, and hospital resources; 2) Unmet social … Critical Park-Clinton, 2023 Pre-Post United States Hospital to home Adult Inclusion: 1) General Medicine Unit … ) Resided in 10 zip codes near the hospital; 3) Discharged to home Exclusions: 1) General Medicine Unit … B 30-day readmissions Baseline: 9.97% (statistical test not reported) Pilot unit in hospital experienced … record; ED = emergency department; IHI = Institute for Healthcare Improvement; ICU = intensive care unit

14. Patient-Monitoring-Systems-Appendix-C (xls file)
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    January 01, 2024 - electronic health record EMR electronic medical records EWS Early Warning Score ICU intensive care unit … Implementation of early warning system in the clinical teaching unit to reduce unexpected deaths. … Transfer to intensive care unit. … Three studies were included in the meta-analysis for transfer to intensive care unit with a total of … admission, comorbidities, and admitting unit and service Evidence Table C-29 Evidence Table C-

15. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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    June 27, 2011 - interventions and on specific domains, settings, or populations (e.g., communication, intensive care unit … 2010 noted that there are "…two main models for intensive care unit– palliative care integration: ( … Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: a … Models for structuring a clinical initiative to enhance palliative care in the intensive care unit: … seek to embed palliative care principles and interventions into daily practice by the usual care unit

16. Health-Careassociated-Infections Executive (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2012 - level • Leadership at unit level • Change in responsibilities at unit level • Availability of implementation … level and leadership at the unit level. … Level 14 10 3 4 31 Leadership at Unit Level 17 12 5 3 37 Change in Responsibilities at Unit Level … Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit. … ” concept decreases the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit

17. FRN 40 - Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Future Research Needs (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2013 - • Non- outbreak setting ED = emergency department; HA = hospital acquired; ICU = intensive care unit … Recruitment of individuals or unit “clusters” willing to be randomized may be a constraint on sample … Strategies implemented at the unit level require participation of all individuals within that unit, … Strategies implemented at the unit level require participation of all individuals within that unit, … Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus control in an intensive care unit: a 10 year analysis.

18. Antipsychotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Delirium: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2018 - cognitive impairment was strongly associated with the duration of delirium in the intensive care unit … each other, placebo, or non-drug approaches to prevent delirium in patients in an intensive care unit … to each other, placebo, or non-drug approaches to treat delirium in patients in an intensive care unit … Delirium in the intensive care unit: occurrence and clinical course in older patients. … Benzodiazepine and opioid use and the duration of intensive care unit delirium in an older population

19. EHC Protocol: Addressing Social Isolation To Improve Health of Older Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2023 - recognition and response to patients experiencing clinical deterioration outside of the intensive care unit … country (according to World Bank Criteria) AI = artificial intelligence; ICU = intensive care unit … Impact of pulse oximetry surveillance on rescue events and intensive care unit transfers: a before-and-after … Continuous monitoring in an inpatient medical-surgical unit: a controlled clinical trial. … Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria AI = artificial intelligence; ICU = intensive care unit; MHS = Making

20. Mrsa-Screening-2010 Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - .18 However, the fact that the study was conducted in the midst of a MRSA outbreak in the unit raises … Patients admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit. 2. … Patients admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. 3. … Patients admitted to an adult intensive care unit. 4. … Spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 in a neonatal intensive care unit.