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Start Over Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Publication Year 2012 to 2014 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="2012">2012</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="2014">2014</span>

501. Standardizing reporting of patient falls: a survey of Pennsylvania hospitals

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Accidental Falls -- prevention & control
Accidental Falls -- statistics & numerical data
Documentation -- standards
Interinstitutional Relations
Mandatory Reporting
Regional Medical Programs -- organization & administration
Data Collection -- methods
Health Care Surveys
Hospitals
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

502. Update on the prevention of retained surgical items

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Foreign Bodies -- prevention & control
Intraoperative Care -- methods
Intraoperative Complications -- prevention & control
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Patient Safety
Postoperative Complications -- prevention & control
Safety Management
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- adverse effects
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- methods
Documentation
Needles
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Factors
Surgical Instruments -- adverse effects
Surgical Sponges -- adverse effects
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

503. What keeps facilities from implementing best practices to prevent wrong-site surgery?: barriers and strategies for overcoming them

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Benchmarking
Health Facilities -- standards
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Task Performance and Analysis
Health Care Surveys
Organizational Policy
Process Assessment (Health Care)
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

504. Surgical fires: trends associated with prevention efforts

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Fires -- prevention & control
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- methods
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- trends
Academies and Institutes -- organization & administration
Databases, Factual
Disclosure
Fires -- statistics & numerical data
Guideline Adherence
Guidelines as Topic
Operating Rooms -- organization & administration
Risk Assessment
Safety Management
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- adverse effects
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

505. Wrong-patient medication errors: an analysis of event reports in Pennsylvania and strategies for prevention

Author(s):
Yang, Annie, author
Grissinger, Matthew, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
Subject(s):
Electronic Prescribing
Medical Order Entry Systems
Medication Errors -- prevention & control
Medication Errors -- statistics & numerical data
Medication Systems, Hospital
Patient Identification Systems
Prescriptions
Risk Assessment
Self-Assessment
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

506. Update: are influenza, pneumonia, and vaccination rates improving in nursing home residents?

Author(s):
Bradley, Sharon M., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
Subject(s):
Cross Infection -- epidemiology
Cross Infection -- prevention & control
Health Personnel
Influenza Vaccines -- therapeutic use
Influenza, Human -- epidemiology
Nursing Homes
Pneumococcal Vaccines -- therapeutic use
Pneumonia -- epidemiology
Vaccination -- statistics & numerical data
Bronchitis -- epidemiology
Bronchitis -- prevention & control
Forecasting
Long-Term Care
Respiratory Tract Infections -- epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Infections -- prevention & control
Vaccination -- trends
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

508. Training suggested when changing brands of enteral feeding tubes

Author(s):
Wallace, Susan C., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
Subject(s):
Enteral Nutrition -- adverse effects
Enteral Nutrition -- instrumentation
Inservice Training
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- adverse effects
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- instrumentation
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- methods
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

509. Successful strategies for prevention of bariatric and colectomy surgical site infections

Author(s):
Bradley, Sharon M., author
Hoffman, Regina M., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
Subject(s):
Bariatric Surgery
Colectomy
Surgical Wound Infection -- prevention & control
Hospitals
Outliers, DRG
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

510. Tracking ambulatory surgical facility cancellations and transfers: lessons learned from an 18-month collaboration

Author(s):
Gardner, Lea Anne, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, September 2014
Subject(s):
Appointments and Schedules
Interviews as Topic
Nursing Assessment
Patient Compliance
Patient Transfer -- statistics & numerical data
Preoperative Care -- nursing
Surgicenters -- statistics & numerical data
Ambulatory Care -- statistics & numerical data
Data Collection
Forecasting
Models, Statistical
Nurse's Role
Nursing Care
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Patient Care Planning
Patient Transfer -- economics
Patient Transfer -- trends
Quality Improvement
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- nursing
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States