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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/why-it-so-hard-reduce-harm-medicines
April 28, 2021 - December 20, 2017
Catastrophic medical malpractice payouts in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/recurrent-hypoglycemia-care-transition-failure
December 23, 2020 - Even in 2008, most practices in the United States continue to use paper-based discharge communication … Using this definition, I don't believe that a true EHR exists in the United States at this time. … Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/defensive-medicine-glowing-pain
November 01, 2012 - Product [GDP]) and rose by approximately twice the Consumer Price Index.( 1 ) Health care spending in the United … States is expected to continue to increase at similar levels, potentially reaching 20% of GDP by 2016 … scans has increased threefold since 1993 and estimated that the 72 million CT scans performed in the United … States in 2007 could lead to approximately 30,000 future cancers.( 11 ) Moreover, other research revealed … Projected cancer risks from computed tomographic scans performed in the United States in 2007.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/mistaken-dose-naloxone
March 21, 2009 - required to offer a prescription for naloxone hydrochloride, or another comparable drug approved by the United … States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to a patient when certain conditions that increase the risk … Drug and opioid-involved overdose deaths—United States, 2013–2017. … May 27, 2011
Vital signs: maternity care experiences — United States, April 2023.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prevention-quality-indicators-overview
December 24, 2008 - 2011
Preliminary assessment of pediatric health care quality and patient safety in the United … States using readily available administrative data.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/better-surgeons-notes-performance
February 06, 2018 - Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Quality and Safety of Health Care in the United … States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/pregnancy-related-deaths-saving-womens-lives-during-and-after-delivery
September 07, 2016 - November 16, 2011
CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain - United … States, 2022.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/antibiotics-urisinusitis-simple-decision-gone-bad
January 01, 2014 - to simultaneously target patients and clinicians, are underway in several European countries and US states … Treatment of acute and chronic rhinosinusitis in the United States, 1999-2002. … Trends in antibiotic prescribing for adults in the United States--1995 to 2002. … Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-safety-older-adults
April 10, 2024 - on whether relaxed visitation policies have impacted the numbers of COVID-19 cases or deaths in the United … States. … & Johnson) vaccine, the first single dose vaccine and the third vaccine to be made available in the United … States to adults age 18 years and older. 75 The federal government, states, and territories partnered … States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/unintended-consequences-florida-medical-liability-legislation
February 01, 2003 - news featured horrific patient safety problems in some of the most prestigious institutions in the United … States. … events might perhaps offer state preemption, but only time will tell its full impact.( 9 )
As other states … If these issues are not addressed soon, many other states facing similar dire circumstances will see … Washington, DC: United States General Accounting Office; June 2003. GAO-03-702.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/how-guides-improving-transitions-hospital-reduce-avoidable-rehospitalizations
November 18, 2011 - November 18, 2011
Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/power-predict-leveraging-medical-malpractice-data-reduce-patient-harm-and-financial-loss
July 18, 2018 - February 15, 2017
Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/toolkit-improve-antibiotic-use-ambulatory-care
December 24, 2008 - 2014
Preliminary assessment of pediatric health care quality and patient safety in the United … States using readily available administrative data.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ismp-medication-safety-alert-communityambulatory-care-edition
April 24, 2018 - August 10, 2016
Out-of-hospital medication errors among young children in the United … States, 2002–2012.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/case-shook-medicine
October 24, 2012 - October 3, 2007
Intravenous acetaminophen in the United States: iatrogenic dosing errors
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/malpractice-risks-communication-failures-2015-annual-benchmarking-report
July 18, 2018 - July 12, 2017
Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/ebola-are-we-ready
July 01, 2012 - "Tell us if you have traveled outside the United States in the past month." … individuals with 4950 deaths.( 1 ) With easy international mobility between West Africa and the United … States, American health care providers need to be ready for Ebola. … States. … ACGME Guidance statement on Ebola virus infection and resident/fellow training in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/pains-chronic-opioid-usage
April 04, 2018 - distribution of opioids per person, per year, show an increase from 96 mg of morphine equivalents in the United … States in 1997 to 710 mg in 2010—enough to supply every adult American with 5 mg of hydrocodone 3 times … Vital signs: overdoses of prescription opioid pain relievers—United States, 1999–2008. … Opioid epidemic in the United States. Pain Physician. 2012;15(3 suppl):ES9-ES38. … References
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/american-view-uks-patient-safety-enterprise-top-down-vs-bottom
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I was privileged to spend much of 2011 in the United … provide universal insurance and achieve good health outcomes at a level of spending about 60% of the United … States. … National Patient Safety Agency (United Kingdom). [Available at]
9. Vincent C. … Some examples of organizations that influenced the patient safety landscape in the United States.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/providing-safe-high-quality-maternity-care-rural-us-hospitals-ihi-innovation-report
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Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United … States.