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61. AHRQ Toolkit Helps Engage Patients and Family Members in the Diagnostic Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2021 - Barriers to Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing Identified at Hospital Discharge . … Barriers to Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing Identified at Hospital Discharge An AHRQ-funded study … Not accounting for all antibiotics prescribed during the patient’s entire course of illness. … Access the study abstract as well as two AHRQ resources to improve antibiotic use: AHRQ Toolkits To … Improve Antibiotic Use and Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making .  

62. Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Newsroom Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic … Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic … funding innovative research proposals to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and combat antibiotic-resistant … CARB projects should address ways to promote appropriate antibiotic use, reduce the transmission of resistant … Internet Citation: Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic

63. AHRQ Views Blog: Asking the Hard Questions About Telehealth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Releases New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing . … start or revitalize an antibiotic stewardship program. … Using the  Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making , facilities can identify critical time periods … to help prescribers make decisions about antibiotic therapy. … stewardship teams to ensure antibiotics are used judiciously to prevent harm and keep residents safe

64. Staff-Safety-Assessment (doc file)
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    June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Staff Safety Assessment PURPOSE OF THIS FORM: … To discuss issues that may result in antibiotic-associated adverse events or have the potential to cause … you think the next resident at your facility will be harmed by an event related to administration of antibiotics

65. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2019 - Facilitator Guide ( Word , 292 KB; HTML )       Role-Play Worksheet ( Word , 283 KB; HTML ) Antibiotic … Stewardship Highlights reasons providers may prescribe antibiotics, explains why and how to document … signs and symptoms, and describes how to use communication strategies to address alternatives to antibiotic … case study and key accompany these materials to enhance knowledge and communication of the harms of antibiotic … overuse, as well as frequently asked questions and answers related to antibiotic stewardship.

66. Major Study Shows Significant Drop in In-Hospital Adverse Event Rates Pre-COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Ambulatory Care Clinics Participating in AHRQ-Funded Program Reduced Antibiotic Use . … Ambulatory Care Clinics Participating in AHRQ-Funded Program Reduced Antibiotic Use Antibiotic prescribing … 389 ambulatory clinics in establishing or improving antibiotic stewardship programs. … Antibiotic prescribing at participating clinics decreased overall by nearly 48 percent, while antibiotic … are medically inappropriate and may increase the risk of antibiotic resistance.

67. Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize their use of antibiotics … Choose the Right Antibiotic Three toolkits describe how to work with a lab and use an antibiogram. … Toolkits The toolkits cover a variety of interventions that nursing homes can use to improve antibiotic … Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics … Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Educate and Engage Residents and

68. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care March Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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    July 23, 2020 -  Updated Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. … Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Results tool is available to help increase the understanding of why antibiotic-resistant … safehealthcare/advancing-laboratory-diagnostic-stewardship-for-healthcare-associated-infections-hais-antibiotic-resistance-and-sepsis … / https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/healthcare/pdfs/hospital-core-elements-H.pdf https://www.cdc.gov … /antibiotic-use/healthcare/pdfs/selective-reporting.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-elements

69. AHRQ Releases Annual Update on U.S. Healthcare Quality, Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Researchers Apply New Method To Quantify Antibiotic Prescribing . … prescribing patterns, guide antibiotic stewardship programs and evaluate long-term impacts of antibiotic … AHRQ-funded researchers applied the metric, developed to gauge the impact of antibiotic medications, … Higher antibiotic global spectrum scores were associated with an increased risk for hospital mortality … The researchers concluded that Spectrum Score was effective in measuring the differences in antibiotic

70. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - Antimicrobial Stewardship Modules are field-tested, evidence-based modules that can help nursing homes develop antibiotic … stewardship programs to help them use and prescribe antibiotics appropriately. … Appropriate antibiotics use can reduce antimicrobial resistance and help retain the effectiveness of … Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care helps nursing homes improve antibiotic stewardship

71. AHRQ Views Blog: Unveiling a Research Agenda To Transform Care for People With Multiple Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2021 - VA Hospitals Step Up Antibiotic Care for Veterans With Sepsis . … VA Hospitals Step Up Antibiotic Care for Veterans With Sepsis Antibiotics are being administered more … than 111,000 patients at 130 Veterans Affairs hospitals showed that, on average, hospitals started antibiotics … However, the average antibiotic start time at a given hospital varied significantly, ranging from 3.1 … For most patients with sepsis, guidelines recommend starting antibiotics within three hours of diagnosis

72. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Toolkit to Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals provides presentations and tools for clinicians … to use to improve antibiotic prescribing in the hospital setting. … The toolkit explains how you can apply the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making, an innovative … approach to antibiotic stewardship that empowers clinicians to be stewards of their own antibiotic prescribing … a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing in your hospital, and learning and disseminating best

73. Collection of Microbiological Cultures (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2021 - obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, or upper respiratory tract infections • Prior to antibiotic … Collection of Microbiological Cultures AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Stewardship

74. Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - AHRQ Antibiotic Stewardship Program Led to Increased Activity, Openness to Change . … AHRQ Antibiotic Stewardship Program Led to Increased Activity, Openness to Change Clinicians reported … an increased understanding of the importance of antibiotic stewardship and more openness to change their … prescribing habits after participating in an AHRQ-sponsored collaborative to improve antibiotic stewardship … the Journal of Perinatology described how researchers interviewed participants in the Optimizing Antibiotic

75. AHRQ Views: New Guide Helps Developers and Users of Digital Healthcare Technologies Advance Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Researchers Identify Targets To Guide Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists . … Researchers Identify Targets To Guide Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists An AHRQ-funded study published … Journal of Public Health Dentistry identified key facilitators and barriers influencing dentists’ antibiotic … prescribing behaviors and found that dentists need improved access to antibiotic prescribing guidelines … Researchers found many areas for potential intervention to support appropriate and cautious dental antibiotic

76. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcarae Meeting (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - have been developed include: ▪ Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview for Infection Control and Antibiotic … Healthcare Quality Promotion o Core Elements: Based on the successful models of Core Elements of Antibiotic … https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-elements/pdfs/fs-bloodculture-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use … /core-elements/pdfs/fs-bloodculture-508.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-elements/pdfs/fs-bloodculture … /core-elements/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-elements/index.html https://www.cdc.gov

77. New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Barbara Trautner’s Work To Prevent Antibiotic Resistance . … Barbara Trautner’s Work To Prevent Antibiotic Resistance Using antibiotics excessively and unsafely … increases antibiotic-resistant infections, a serious public health risk. … Trautner’s work, including her research on the prevalence of people taking antibiotics without a prescription

78. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Interviewees expressed concerns about overuse of urine testing and antibiotics. … on sepsis mortality, antibiotic use, and adverse events. … Researchers estimated benefits and harms of shortened time-to-antibiotics for sepsis. … hospital types; however, even in worst-case scenarios, new antibiotic-associated adverse events were … Impact of reducing time-to-antibiotics on sepsis mortality, antibiotic use, and adverse events.

79. Guide-Infection-Prevention (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2017 - Antibiotic Use and Resistance KEY MESSAGES ▪ Antibiotics are medications that can save lives when … ▪ Used incorrectly, antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant infections. … for antibiotics. … and overuse of antibiotics can also lead to antibiotic-resistant organisms, which can threaten not … An antibiotic stewardship program is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antibiotics

80. AHRQ Signals Interest in Research To Improve Healthcare for People With Disabilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - Impact of Reducing Time to Antibiotics for Sepsis Patients Can Vary Widely . … Impact of Reducing Time to Antibiotics for Sepsis Patients Can Vary Widely Reducing the amount of time … to give antibiotics to sepsis patients should contribute to better health outcomes, but the broad impact … of reducing time-to-antibiotics may vary significantly, according to an AHRQ-funded study. … varies markedly across simulated hospital scenarios, but new antibiotic-associated adverse events were