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81. 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

82. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Home Antibiotic … SHARE: More topics in this section Antibiotic … For information on how the materials below can be integrated into institutional efforts to improve antibiotic … use, read the Implementation Guide for Long-Term Care Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (PDF, 401.5 … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/best-practices/index.html  

83. 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

84. Section 1, Basic Measurement Information (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 - Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 3: Appropriate Antibiotic … anemia) Hb F,S 282.6, 282.61, 282.62 Table 2: Penicillins and Erythromycins for Sickle Cell Disease Antibiotic … Erythromycin Erythromycin estolate Erythromycin ethylsuccinate Erythromycin stearate Miscellaneous antibiotics

85. Graphics for Section 1. Basic Measurement Information (pdf file)
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    November 26, 2013 - Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 2: Timeliness of Antibiotic … (unidentified variant) Hb FSV n/a Table 2: Penicillins and Erythromycins for Sickle Cell Disease Antibiotic … Erythromycin Erythromycin estolate Erythromycin ethylsuccinate Erythromycin stearate Miscellaneous antibiotics

86. Sustaining Stewardship Activities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Home Antibiotic … SHARE: More topics in this section Antibiotic … Acute Care Hospital Toolkit Four Moments Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Antibiotic … Stewardship Program (Part 1) Antibiotic Stewardship Program (Part 2) Effective Behavior … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/improve/sustain.html  

87. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Laboratory studies, viral testing, antibiotic use, and respiratory support were unchanged. … Interviewees expressed concerns about overuse of urine testing and antibiotics. … on sepsis mortality, antibiotic use, and adverse events. … 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.

88. 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

89. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - Administer timely and appropriate antibiotics preoperatively and postoperatively.1,2 Postoperative … techniques.1,9 o Hair removal with clippers, depilatory, or no hair removal at all • Prophylactic antibiotics … should be administered within 1 hour prior to surgical incision.1,2,9 • Administer appropriate antibiotic … • Surgeons • Perioperative and postoperative nursing Equipment • Dressing supplies • Appropriate antibiotics

90. Section 1, Tables 1 and 2 (pdf file)
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    February 12, 2018 - Suspected infection Infection is suspected when one of the following is documented: • Orders for antibiotics … OR • Antibiotics administered OR • Orders for urine, blood or spinal culture OR • Urine, blood or

91. Section 1, Tables 1 and 2 (pdf file)
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    April 26, 2018 - Suspected infection Infection is suspected when one of the following is documented: • Orders for antibiotics … OR • Antibiotics administered OR • Orders for urine, blood or spinal culture OR • Urine, blood or

92. Section 1, Tables 1 and 2 (pdf file)
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    February 09, 2018 - Suspected infection Infection is suspected when one of the following • Orders for antibiotics OR … is documented: • Antibiotics administered OR • Orders for urine, blood or spinal culture OR • Urine

93. Section 6, Tables 5 and 6 (pdf file)
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    February 26, 2018 - Numerator/ Eligibility Criteria Number of Records Reviewed N Agreed (%) Kappa Statistic Hospital #1 Antibiotic … Treatment 0 ‐ ‐ Hospital #1 Fever Criterion 3 100% 1.00 Hospital #2 Antibiotic Treatment 4 100% 1.00 … Hospital #2 Fever Criterion 7 100% 1.00 Hospital #3 Antibiotic Treatment 10 100% 1.00 Hospital #3 … Fever Criterion 19 84% 0.68 All Sites Antibiotic Treatment 14 100% 1.00 All Sites Fever Criterion

94. Section 6-B, Table 6 (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2013 -                         Q‐METRIC Sickle Cell Disease Measure 3: Appropriate Antibiotic … Medical Records) for Antibiotic Prescriptions for Children with Sickle Cell Disease Antibiotic Prescription … in Medicaid Claims Data Antibiotic Prescription in Medical Record (n=34) Yes No Total Yes

95. Appropriate Collection of Microbiological Specimens | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Home Antibiotic … SHARE: More topics in this section Antibiotic … Tracking and Measuring Appropriate Collection of Specimens Discussing Concerns with Antibiotic … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/collection.html  

96. Section 5, Table 3 (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2014 - Fluids were administered via syringe delivery; standardized laboratory studies and antibiotics were … time from triage to first bolus decreased from a median of 56 to 22 minutes and triage to first antibiotics … gains in care included more complete recording of triage vital signs, timely fluid resuscitation and antibiotic

97. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Home Antibiotic … SHARE: More topics in this section Antibiotic … For information on how the materials below can be integrated into institutional efforts to improve antibiotic … use, please read the Toolkit Implementation Guide for Acute Care Antibiotic Stewardship Programs  ( … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/diagnosis/index.html  

98. Appropriate Emergency Department Fever Management for Children With Sickle Cell Disease (pdf file)
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    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.

99. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - It is difficult to treat and to prevent because it's resistant to some antibiotics and is easily transmitted … In a project funded in 2010 ( Project CLEAR—Changing Lives by Eradicating Antibiotic Resistance ), Dr … Huang also has participated in AHRQ-funded research projects that advance the appropriate use of antibiotics

100. Graphics for Section 5. Evidence or Other Justification for the Focus of the Measure (pdf file)
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     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