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Fall Prevention
<p>Fall Prevention Abstract</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>According to the CDC, the medical cost for falls was approximately $30 billion in 2012. When a patient falls, and gets serious injury, these costs could sum up to $14,056 per patient. As a result, hospital stays per patient are …
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Smoke prevention
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Prevention in the prairies: tobacco prevention and sodium reduction initiatives in Kansas
… (KDHE). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awards millions of dollars each year in grants to health departments across the country and KDHE was among the top recipients of grants this past year. Specifically, I was involved with two grants given to the chronic disease …
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The Adolescent Smoking Prevention Project: A Web-Based Smoking Prevention for Adolescents
… a lack of evidence-based programs targeting prevention of adolescent smoking. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a novel web-based adolescent smoking prevention program, the Adolescent Smoking Prevention Project (ASPP), based on the sensitization-homeostasis theory of nicotine …
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Prevention of bovine mastitis
Mastitis in dairy cows has for many years received attention from Veterinary scientists, more so than any other if the common diseases of cattle. The less occasioned by infection of the mammary gland has cost the dairy industry an enormous amount through loss of milk, use of antibiotics and culling …
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mHealth for pneumonia prevention
… or managing illness with less emphasis on prevention. Additionally, the majority of these studies were not able to demonstrate behaviour change clearly. To explore caregivers’ care seeking practices, their perception of under-five pneumonia and to obtain their views on an mHealth …
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Fall Prevention in Palliative Care: Improving Fall Prevention and Management at Point of Admission
… and thus customization of patient specific fall prevention strategies at point of admission was the weakness and the greatest contributor to patient falls.</p> <p>It was decided that Morse Falls Risk Assessment (see Appendix B) is the best option for the organization and the patients it serves. …
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Prevention | Rescue | Resuscitation – The influence of New Zealand lifeguarding practice on global drowning prevention
… offers patients the best chance of survival. Prevention is the most important step in the Drowning Chain of Survival, and with drowning an ever-present risk at beaches and other aquatic locations, lifeguards play a critical role in this regard. The aim of this context statement is to …
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A drowning prevention policy framework
… challenge, at this time, there is no drowning prevention policy in Canada. Through a narrative-research-design, I conducted sixteen research interviews with aquatic professionals, Indigenous community members who live in aquatic contexts, and people working within Indigenous-health-leadership …
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Couples Eating Disorder Prevention Program
… today's society than ever. As a result, several prevention programs targeting the common eating disorder risk factors have been developed. The purpose of the current study was to investigate a new kind of prevention program that is based on the dual pathway model of eating disorders within the …
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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
Cardiovascular disease is a leading source of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Statins, or HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors, are efficacious in reducing major arterial vascular events and also may decrease risk of venous vascular events (venous thromboembolism) in women taking hormone …
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FALL PREVENTION IN THE ED
<p>This project focuses on the prevention of patient falls in the emergency department (ED). Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital is an academic medical facility in the heart of Silicon Valley. The facility has a 46 bed ED with an average daily census of 220, specializing in stroke, pediatrics, heart, and …
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N653 Fall Prevention Final Project
<p>N653 Fall Prevention Final Project</p> <p>by Samuel K. Clark, RN</p> <p>This project was done with patient safety in mind through the use of the most current EBP available.</p>
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VAP Prevention in the CTICU
… audit rounds to monitor compliance with VAP prevention guidelines. These audits successfully identified the deficits that required corrective action, and as a result, no reported cases of VAP in 2015 have occurred. Moving forward, ongoing staff education, adherence to evidence-based …
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Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting
… will summarize the quality improvement falls prevention project conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader student. Falls in the hospital setting are an ongoing problem in our healthcare system as they have great physical and financial impacts (Salamon, Victory, & Bobay, …
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Detection and Prevention of Predelinquency
That there has been definite progress in the education of the whole child must be recognized by those who have followed the development of the school's program for some years. This is particularly significant in the application of the preventive principles of mental hygiene dealing with …
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Proactive abuse prevention in clouds
Modern day commercial clouds are subject to various forms of infrastructural abuse. Whether it is SaaS, PaaS or IaaS model, attackers and cybercriminals are exploiting clouds to service their needs and using them as a platform to launch attacks and conduct illegal practices. Resultantly, instances …
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Identification of pollution prevention and accident prevention technology opportunities for use in supplemental environmental projects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1997.
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HIV/AIDS Prevention: Educating Future Generations
… Resources Development Institute’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program at Harper High School in Chicago, Illinois. The researcher administered questionnaires to the students at Harper High School. The researcher analyzed this data using descriptive statistics to explain the research phenomena of …
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