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It was previously maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but is currently maintained by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). Five-level acuity scales continue to remain pertinent due to their effectiveness of identifying patients in need of emergent treatment and categorizing patients in limited resource situations.
English: A rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Data source is the March 24, 2007 article: Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053.
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The CIWA scale is validated and has high inter-rater reliability. A randomized, double blind trial published in JAMA in 1994 [5] showed that management for alcohol withdrawal that was guided by the CIWA scale resulted in decreased treatment duration and total use of benzodiazepines. The goal of the CIWA scale is to provide an efficient and ...
AHRQ headquarters at 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland. The 2015 budget for AHRQ was US$440 million, [8] $24 million less than FY 2014. The budget includes $334 million in Public Health Service (PHS) Evaluation Funds, a decrease of $30 million from FY 2014, and $106 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, an ...
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No injury or disease. This category is often deleted or replaced by NACA I. NACA I Minor disturbance. No medical intervention is required. E.g. slight abrasion. NACA II Slight to moderate disturbance. Outpatient medical investigation, but usually no emergency medical measures necessary. for example, fracture of a finger bone, moderate cuts ...
Unlike the medical event-level files, which describe a solitary encounter with the U.S. healthcare system, records within the Medical Conditions files contain a distinct ICD-9 code, Clinical Classification Code, and describe only one ailment (illness or injury). In order to view all medical events during the calendar year associated with a ...