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3521. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4g_pdi09-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
      May 17, 2016 - to minimize the following conditions that can contribute to respiratory failure9: o Appropriate antibiotic

3522. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4u_combo_pdi09-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
      May 17, 2016 - to minimize the following conditions that can contribute to respiratory failure9: o Appropriate antibiotic

3523. Clostridium Difficile Infections | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/health-topics/clostridium-difficile-infections

3524. Sustainability Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/fac-notes.html
      October 01, 2020 - Measure Say: This graph shows performance results for the percentage of patients whose intravenous antibiotics … provides an entire organizational or facility level view of how an implemented intervention to improve antibiotic … The surgical safety team’s family of measures shows improvement in antibiotic use and safety culture

3525. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-facnotes.docx
      May 01, 2017 - Slide 30 SAY: This graph shows performance results for the percentage of patients whose intravenous antibiotics … provides an entire organizational or facility level view of how an implemented intervention to improve antibiotic … The surgical safety team’s family of measures shows improvement in antibiotic use and safety culture

3526. Slide 1 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicaldata/FL20LOINCIntroductionHammond.pdf
      February 25, 2008 - parasitology and virology), toxicology • Drugs and cell counts for blood smears and cerebrospinal fluids • Antibiotic

3527. Statistical Brief Highlights Cost of Heart Disease | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/968.html
      July 01, 2025 - theoretical framework to quantify the tradeoff between individual and population benefits of expanded antibiotic

3528. AHRQ Views: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/920.html
      July 01, 2024 - Lessons learned from a National Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation Project.

3529. Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Facilitating Naturalistic Decision Making and Improving Blood Culture Utilization | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/development-clinical-decision-support-tool-facilitating-naturalistic-decision
      January 01, 2023 - sepsis; however, overuse of blood cultures may result in unnecessary laboratory tests, unnecessary antibiotic

3530. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Gonorrhea: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review40/gonorrhea-screening-2005
      May 15, 2005 - Also, non-culture techniques cannot be used for antibiotic resistance testing. … uncomplicated gonococcal infections of the cervix, urethra, and rectum include one of the following antibiotic … The CDC recommended antibiotics for pharyngeal gonococcal infections include ceftriaxone 125 mg IM in … Mass treatment of all patients aged 18 to 31 years with antibiotics (e.g., single dose of 1 gm azithromycin … white, 14% Latino, 13% Asian Excluded if not sexually active, not between 13-21 years old, or used antibiotics

3531. Talking Points for Patients: Chlorhexidine Bathing (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/071-dec-patient-talking-points-bathing.docx
      October 01, 2024 - decolonization,” and it has been proven to protect patients from infection and reduce the risk of having antibiotic-resistant

3532. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72616/psn-pdf
      December 22, 2020 - perspective/adverse-events-dentistry https://psnet.ahrq.gov//#_edn1 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/antibiotic-and-opioid-stewardship-dentistry

3533. New Dashboard Tracks Progress Toward 50 Percent Reduction in Patient and Workforce Harm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/941.html
      December 01, 2024 - Antibiotic use among extremely low birth-weight infants from 2009 to 2021: a retrospective observational

3534. Resources by the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure Domains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/resources/measure-domains.html
      April 01, 2025 - units (ICUs );  MRSA in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and non-intensive care units (non-ICUs) ;  antibiotic

3535. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33586/psn-pdf
      December 15, 2024 - prominent patient safety leader details how a hospitalized teenager received a 38-fold overdose of an antibiotic

3536. Clinical Decision Support Systems | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/clinical-decision-support-systems
      December 15, 2024 - decision support systems address activities ranging from the selection of medications (e.g., the optimal antibiotic

3537. Prologue -- Where the Rubber Meets the Road (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Leape.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - Problems ranging from implementing a surgical antibiotic prophylaxis program to team training to dealing

3538. 043-Vap-Prevention-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/043-vap-prevention-notes.docx
      October 01, 2024 - Recent guidelines on the treatment of VAP have focused on de-escalation and short-course antibiotic therapy … Intravenous antibiotic use within the past 90 days increases the risk of MRSA HAP and VAP for patients … significant reductions in hospital mortality associated with the use of topical, oral, and parenteral antibiotics

3539. Disposition of Comments for Screening of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mrsa-screening-2010_disposition-comments.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - “Some of the evidence for the effectiveness of active surveillance in controlling the spread of antibiotic … Only 43% of the patients who were known to be MRSA carriers before surgery received appropriate antibiotics … One has to wonder if not giving preoperative antibiotics effective against MRSA to patients known to … to improve patient safety) and to confounders (such as efforts to improve the appropriate use of antibiotics … intervention (i.e., turnaround time; (1) In the Harbarth study only 43% of carriers received appropriate antibiotics

3540. Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry with Decision Support - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rural-trial-clinic-order-entry-decision-support/annual-summary/2008
      January 01, 2008 - The program had several different entry points: 1) automated trigger when an antibiotic was chosen during