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  1. The Next Step: Use of a Pre-Operative Checklist to Prevent Missteps | PSNet

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    April 24, 2018 - to have an invasive component upon full excision. 1,2 However even knowing the above data, in the United … States concurrent lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), without prior confirmation of invasive

  2. EMS Patient Safety in the Field | PSNet

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    July 28, 2021 - Individual states have responsibility for certifying personnel and designing the requirements of EMS … At the regional level, most states have developed some definitions and some quality measures. … Then in some states, they add on elements to the report that allow them to look at time-sensitive and … In many states, the Advanced EMTs also have a number of important medicines that they can deliver, like

  3. Spotlight (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2021 - Spotlight Spotlight Two Cases of Retained Vaginal Packing: When Writing an Order is Not Enough Source and Credits • This presentation is based on the April 2021 AHRQ WebM&M Spotlight Case o See the full article at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm o CME credit is available o Commentary by: Verna Gibbs, MD o AHRQ W…

  4. Hyperglycemia and Switching to Subcutaneous Insulin | PSNet

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    May 19, 2021 - the management of increasingly ubiquitous technologies in the management of many different disease states

  5. Code Status Confusion | PSNet

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    September 01, 2006 - SPOTLIGHT CASE Code Status Confusion Citation Text: Lo B, Tulsky JA. Code Status Confusion. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2003. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndN…

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2007 - Now, that being said, states that have gone down this path always worry that if they have a big event

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 01, 2005 - The Forgotten Med April 1, 2005 Cucina R. The Forgotten Med. PSNet [internet]. 2005. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/forgotten-med The Case A 78-year-old woman with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) came to the hospital with increasing shortness of breath and chest pain. Although she had no …

  8. Autopsy Revelation | PSNet

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    December 01, 2007 - In 1994, the last year for which United States data exist, the autopsy rate for all non-forensic deaths

  9. Patient Advocacy in Patient Safety: Have Things Changed? | PSNet

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    June 01, 2014 - As the history of patient safety in the United States begins to be written, the patient role remains … similar "Patients' Right to Know" bills languished in the legislatures of Florida, Illinois, and other states … Union, requirements for reporting of hospital-acquired infections were the law in more than half the states … significant advances is public reporting of quality data, at a federal level (Hospital Compare), in some states

  10. In Conversation With… Dave deBronkart | PSNet

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    June 01, 2014 - As the history of patient safety in the United States begins to be written, the patient role remains … similar "Patients' Right to Know" bills languished in the legislatures of Florida, Illinois, and other states … Union, requirements for reporting of hospital-acquired infections were the law in more than half the states … significant advances is public reporting of quality data, at a federal level (Hospital Compare), in some states

  11. Falling Through the Crack (in the Bedrails) | PSNet

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    February 19, 2020 - "( 3 ) Patient falls occur in approximately 2% of hospital stays, and in the United States up to 1 million

  12. Building a Safety Program Using Principles of Resilience Engineering | PSNet

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    October 23, 2013 - Building a Safety Program Using Principles of Resilience Engineering Sudeep Hegde, PhD; Ann M. Bisantz, PhD; and Rollin J. Fairbanks, MD, MS | June 1, 2019  View more articles from the same authors. Citation Text: Hegde S, Fairbanks RJ, Bisantz A. Building a Safety…

  13. Delay in Appropriate Diagnosis and Treatment Leading to Death from Pulmonary Embolism | PSNet

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    December 31, 2024 - In the United States, PE affects an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 people per year, with 200,000 to 300,000 … deaths per year. 1 150,000 to 200,000 PE-related hospitalizations occur annually in the United States

  14. Triple Handoff | PSNet

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    March 01, 2004 - SPOTLIGHT CASE Triple Handoff Citation Text: Vidyarthi A. Triple Handoff. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2006. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar BibTeX EndNote X3 XML EndNote 7 XML Endnote …

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2009 - In Conversation with... Charles Ornstein October 1, 2009 In Conversation with.. Charles Ornstein . PSNet [internet]. 2009. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-charles-ornstein Editor's note: Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization in New York. Formerly with th…

  16. What Makes a Good Checklist | PSNet

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    October 01, 2010 - doing to prevent health care–associated infections, and as part of that he planned to survey all the states … So they sent the survey, and not surprisingly all 50 states said, rah, rah, everybody's using the checklist

  17. In Conversation with...Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD | PSNet

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    October 01, 2010 - doing to prevent health care–associated infections, and as part of that he planned to survey all the states … So they sent the survey, and not surprisingly all 50 states said, rah, rah, everybody's using the checklist

  18. In Conversation with…Barbara A. Blakeney, MS, RN | PSNet

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    August 01, 2005 - minimum nurse staffing ratios have been enacted in California and are under consideration in other states

  19. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    September 01, 2008 - In Conversation with…Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH September 1, 2008 In Conversation with…Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH. PSNet [internet]. 2008. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-witheric-g-poon-md-mph Editor's note: Eric G. Poon, MD, MPH, is Director of Clinical Informatics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assi…

  20. Medication Handling and Compounding Errors in the Operating Room. | PSNet

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    May 16, 2022 - The FDA states that compounding is the act of combining, mixing, or altering ingredients to create a … During the pre-procedure huddle, the scrub technician states what medications are on their sterile back
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