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301. Identifying Delirium (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/identifying-delirium.pdf
     June 01, 2021 - Identifying Delirium IDENTIFYING DELIRIUM ABCs OF IDENTIFICATION Acute/subacute • Altered mental status with change in attention Behavioral disturbance • (Restless, agitated, combative) Changes in consciousness • (Jittery, drowsy, difficult to arouse) COMMON CAUSES OF DELIRIUM COMMON…

302. 2021: An AHRQ Year in Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2021-ahrq-year-in-review.html
     January 01, 2022 - Our AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use was evaluated in more than 400 acute care hospitals … long-term care facilities, and nearly 400 ambulatory care practices and found to significantly reduce antibiotic … Participating hospitals, for example, reduced total antibiotic use by an average of 30.3 days of antibiotic

303. Appendix A, Pt. 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - arthroscopic surgery, the systematic administration of antibiotics before arthroscopy of the knee does … initial procedure was performed for a follow-up; superficial infections can be treated empirically with antibiotics … Treatment with 2 weeks of intravenous antibiotics was successful in all but one patient. … Intraarticular infection requiring drainage and antibiotics was reported in 95 cases (10.2% of all complications … in <90° of motion in 18 of the 95 cases Once an infection is suspected, immediate drainage and IV antibiotics

304. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections – Patient and Family Member Handout (Spanish) (doc file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/skin-soft-tissue-handout-spanish.docx
     September 01, 2022 - Skin and Soft Tissue Infections – Patient and Family Member Handout (Spanish) Las infecciones de la piel y de los tejidos blandos AHRQ Pub. No. 17(22)-0030 September 2022 Directions for Adding Your Logo to Your Document If you chose to add a logo to this document, you can place it in the footer, below the art…

305. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … 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 … Heterogeneity of benefit from earlier time-to-antibiotics for sepsis.

306. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2021 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Combating Antibiotic-Resistant … infection prevention best practices (e.g., foundational infection prevention strategies, CAUTI prevention, antibiotic … RELATED CONTENT Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care Page last

307. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2016 - Evaluate compliance by using process measures such as door- to-antibiotic time; share reports regularly … o Administer antibiotics within 1 hour of sepsis recognition. … the start of antibiotics. … • Develop a systemwide antibiotic policy and/or procedure that includes type, dosing, initiation, … Quality and Safety 4 Tool D.4h o Evaluate compliance by using process measures such as door-to-antibiotic

308. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4v_combo_pdi10-sepsis-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - Evaluate compliance by using process measures such as door- to-antibiotic time; share reports regularly … o Administer antibiotics within 1 hour of sepsis recognition. … the start of antibiotics. … • Develop a systemwide antibiotic policy and/or procedure that includes type, dosing, initiation, … Quality and Safety 4 Tool D.4v o Evaluate compliance by using process measures such as door-to-antibiotic

309. Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/management-SSTI-8x10-pocket-cards.pdf
     June 01, 2021 - Tissue Infections * Patients who have severe sepsis or septic shock should receive broad- spectrum antibiotics

310. AHRQ Views: 20 Years of Innovation From the Digital Healthcare Research Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Topics by March 30 to Effective Health Care Program Webinar: How To Join an AHRQ Program on Improving Antibiotic … Webinar: How To Join an AHRQ Program on Improving Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine Register now to attend … informational webinar to get details on how to join the AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic … Use, a no-cost, 18-month national program to strengthen antibiotic prescribing practices. … Guideline concordance and antibiotic-associated adverse events between Veterans Administration and non-Veterans

311. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Combating Antibiotic-Resistant … Promoting antibiotic stewardship to improve antibiotic use and combat antibiotic-resistant HAIs.

312. Exhibit 9. Top five minimal cut sets for the basic case | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - BMI <40) Event 642 (0.2) Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics … Event 182 (0.2) Fail to administer indicated antibiotics Event 543 (0.0325) SSI risk for … BMI <40) Event 642 (0.2) Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics … Event 182 (0.2) Fail to administer indicated antibiotics Event 659 (0.18) Glove puncture … Event 182 (0.2) Fail to administer indicated antibiotics Event 138 (0.15) Fail to remove

313. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 12, 2024 - Significant National Patient Safety Improvement July 6, 2022 New Study Shows Reductions in Antibiotic … Innovative Training Videos to Improve Patient Care February 28, 2022 New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic … Prioritization May Effect Equity February 26, 2021 AHRQ Safety Program Helps Hospitals Decrease Antibiotic

314. Appendix A, Pt. 3 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - The length of hospital stay, preoperative length of stay, antibiotic prophylaxis, drainage, ASA score … Improvements in the surgical environment (e.g. clean-air operating rooms, prophylactic antibiotic therapy … All patients received prophylactic antibiotics, whereas 16 were on HAART. … Prophylactic antibiotics can offset but not entirely eliminate this deficiency. … than sixty minutes before the incision or any antibiotic(s) first given after the incision, was associated

315. Graphics for Section 5. Evidence or Other Justification for the Focus of the Measure (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-135-graphics-section-5.pdf
     November 26, 2013 - Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 2: Timeliness of Antibiotic … Evidence or Other Justification for the Focus of the Measure Table 4: Evidence Supporting Timely Antibiotic … Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children wih sickle cell disease

316. Appropriate Emergency Department Fever Management for Children With Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
     www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-216-fullreport.pdf
     February 01, 2018 - Acceptable antibiotics are listed in Table 2 (see Supporting Documents). … They may not be receiving prophylactic antibiotics to help prevent bacterial infections, and they … antibiotics work against a wider number of bacterial types and so may be used to treat a variety of … for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, 2013). … Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. About the Issue: Glossary; 2013.

317. Avoidance of Antibiotics To Treat Otitis Media With Effusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2021 - Home Pediatric Quality Measures Program PQMP Measures Avoidance of Antibiotics … Measure Implementation & Quality Improvement PQMP Grantees Avoidance of Antibiotics … reviewed August 2021 Page originally created August 2021 Internet Citation: Avoidance of Antibiotics

318. Respiratory Virus Infections (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Diagnosis • Most respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses, not bacteria, and do not require antibiotic … index.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic

319. Section 5.A, Table 4 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2013 - Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 3: Appropriate Antibiotic … Evidence or Other Justification for the Focus of the Measure Table 4: Evidence Supporting Appropriate Antibiotic … Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing pneumococcal infection in children with sickle cell disease

320. Identifying Delirium: ABCs of Identification_4x6 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Identifying Delirium: ABCs of Identification_4x6 AHRQ Pub. No. 17(21)-0029 June 2021 IDENTIFYING DELIRIUM ABCs OF IDENTIFICATION Acute/subacute • Altered mental status from baseline Behavioral disturbance • Restless, agitated, combative Changes in consciousness • Jittery, drowsy, difficult to aro…