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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicator for Postoperative Respiratory Failure (PSI 11) does not identify accurately patients who received unsafe care.
Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Strosberg DS, Puttmann KT, Pan YL, Eiferman DS. Surgery. 2016;160:858-868.
The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) rely on hospital administrative data to screen for patient safety problems. This study used independent physician chart review to assess the reliability of PSI 11 (postoperative respiratory failure) in identifying clinically significant patient safety events and found a positive predictive value of 38.3%. The authors argue that PSI 11 should not be used as a measure for hospital performance.
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Accidental iatrogenic pneumothorax in hospitalized patients.
Zhan C, Smith M, Stryer D. Med Care. 2006;44:182-186.
This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)–sponsored study looked at the incidence of accidental iatrogenic pneumothorax (AIP) in patients who underwent certain procedures. They found that AIP occurred most frequently after thoracentesis, but also during other procedures.
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Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: an evidence-based systematic review.
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Collard HR, Saint S, Matthay MA. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:494-501.
Health care–associated infections (HAIs) are a common adverse event in hospitalized patients and an increasing source of study for preventive strategies. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the four most common HAIs along with catheter-related bloodstream infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, and surgical site infection. This systematic review provides a series of recommendations to reduce the incidence of VAP, including use of semi-recumbent positioning, sucralfate rather than H2-antagonists, and aspiration of subglottic secretions in select patient populations. The authors point out that while many studies highlight the success of preventive strategies, no randomized trial has evaluated the effects of combining the preventive practices as an additive bundle or checklist.