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401. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Under the Science of Safety
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand/understand-science-safety.pptx
     May 01, 2017 - urinary tract infections resulting in 13,000 deaths a year4 Nearly 100,000 patients die from health … care-associated infections (HAIs) each year, and the cost of HAIs is $28 billion to $33 billion per year5 … A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care. … The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. … Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002.

402. How To Manage Change
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/module2_managingchange_slides.pptx
     June 02, 2025 - process strategies can be applied to other quality improvement (QI) efforts: Hospital falls Catheter-associated … urinary tract infections Deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism after knee and hip replacement

403. Antibiotic-Targets-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/antibiotic-targets-facilitator-guide.docx
     June 01, 2021 - SAY: It is important to identify potential harm associated with antibiotic prescribing by seeking input … This is probably too long for an uncomplicated urinary tract infection, and should be shortened to 3– … tract infection or UTI and a prescription for an antibiotic. … tract infections. … Second-order problem solving and systematic changes are needed to decrease the potential harms associated

404. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
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     April 08, 2014 - And one of them would be urological or surgeries that are close to that urinary tract. … to the urinary tract. … So, the question is triggered: Does the patient have a urinary catheter? … Wound care nurses, we talked about, the pressure associated with the Foley catheter is helping. … So, an infection for that chance is, of course, a catheter-associated urinary tract infection, inappropriate

405. Team Functioning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - and Spreading CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Beyond the Unit (PDF, 347 KB) Making It Work – Managing Urinary … CLABSI and CAUTI (PDF, 429.7 KB) Making It Work – Engaging Senior Leaders in Preventing Healthcare Associated

406. 115-Daily-Goals-Icu-Checklist (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Completed on __________ Chlorhexidine treatment: Yes No Insert text Central Line-Associated … Continuous venovenous hemodialysis (CVVHD)/hemodialysis (HD) goal: __________ Insert text Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) · Discontinue foley catheter · Foley catheter day number _____ Insert … Nothing by mouth (NPO) · Bowel regimen Yes No Insert text Prophylaxis · Ventilator-Associated

407. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - tract infection   1   Cellulitis 10 Resident C 82     1   Anemia   1 …   Table (continued) Resident Name and Advance Directive Status High-Risk Diagnoses Associated … Tract Infection Sepsis or Fever or Infection Resident A 79     X           … Table (continued) Resident Name and Advance Directive Status High-Risk Diagnoses Associated … Tract Infection Sepsis or Fever or Infection Dehydration Resident A 79     1 1

408. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2024 - Overexposure to antibiotics allows drug-resistant strains of bacteria and health care-associated infections … At the same time, nursing home residents are at high risk for developing complications associated with … antibiotic treatment may be needed for the most common types of suspected infections in nursing homes: urinary … tract, respiratory, skin or soft tissue, and gastrointestinal infections Document which bacteria are

409. Reducing Unnecessary Urinary Catheter Use in the Emergency Department | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/reducing-urinary-catheter-use-ed-transcript.html
     December 01, 2017 - Reducing Unnecessary Urinary Catheter Use in the Emergency Department Webinar Transcript On … It is a pleasure to share with you our experience and success with reducing unnecessary urinary catheter … In order to accomplish this it's important to change the culture of urinary catheter placement in the … In this manner, indication for urinary catheter use has easy input to identify any indications beyond … Only about 50% of urinary catheters had a physician order documented.

410. PPE
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     March 01, 2017 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (or AHRQ’s) Safety Program for Long-term Care: Healthcare-associated … long-term care staff and will review the importance of personal protective equipment to prevent catheter-associated … urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and other HAIs. 1 Upon completion of this training, long-term care … conjunctival, rectal, genital Nonintact skin—wounds, surgical incisions Indwelling device insertion site—urinary … protection when emptying urine collection bags because of splashing, or when inserting and changing urinary

411. CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Catheter Removal  (PowerPoint, 4.3 MB;  Facilitator's Notes , Word, 62.4 MB) CAUTI: Indwelling Urinary … Catheter Indications  (PowerPoint, 1.4 MB;  Facilitator's Notes , Word, 465.6 KB) Indwelling Urinary … Catheter Alternatives  (PowerPoint, 5.2 MB;  Facilitator's Notes , Word, 1.8 MB) Indwelling Urinary … Catheter Insertion  (PowerPoint, 4.5 MB;  Facilitator's Notes , Word, 1 MB) Indwelling Urinary Catheter … PowerPoint, 4.6 MB;  Facilitator's Notes , Word, 556.2 KB) Prompting Removal of Unnecessary Indwelling Urinary

412. Using a Tiered Approach With CUSP Principles Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing Central Line-Associated … Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI). … The benefit of this program is that it is designed to improve care for patients who have indwelling urinary … These include interventions such as placing indwelling urinary catheters only for appropriate reasons … intervention also focuses on how to ensure proper aseptic insertion techniques and maintenance of indwelling urinary

413. Program-Dev-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2021 - only when necessary, thereby protecting residents from unnecessary antibiotic exposure and antibiotic-associated … scheduled regular team meetings and formed a mission statement, the next step is to identify problems associated … tract infection, and he asked the nurse to send a culture of the urine. … tract infection or UTI. … with urinary tract infections · No clinical assessment or diagnostic criteria were used to evaluate

414. Quality Indicators Sensitive to Nurse Staffing in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2004 - tract infections, surgical wound infections, blood stream infections or sepsis, and pneumonia. … tract infection (UTI) prevalence X X • Central line catheter associated blood stream infection … X • Urinary catheter associated UTI for ICU patients X • Surgical wound infection … certain expected outcomes appear on Advances in Patient Safety: Vol. 4 382 one list (e.g., urinary … tract infections on NQF) and not on another (e.g., urinary track infection on AHRQ PSIs).

415. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2025 - tract infections. … )/Inspire stories about using regressive partitioning* to look back historically for pneumonia and urinary … tract infection diagnoses to predict risk of resistant bacteria and optimize antibiotic selection … Tract Infection: The INSPIRE Randomized Clinical Trial * Regression partitioning is a decision tree … through data sharing for rapid and flexible collection, analysis, and dissemination of imaging and associated

416. Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Each year, 3 million healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) such as MRSA, bloodstream infections, and … urinary tract infections occur in U.S. nursing homes, causing 150,000 hospital admissions and 350,000

417. Catheter Care and Maintenance Quiz Key | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Gloves should always be worn when handling an indwelling urinary catheter, accessing the drainage system … should always be performed both before and after any contact with the resident, handling an indwelling urinary … Indwelling urinary catheters and drainage bags should not be changed at routine, fixed intervals. … ANSWER: Joe should always perform hand hygiene and wear gloves before touching and assessing indwelling urinary … Also, Joe should also always perform hand hygiene after touching and assessing indwelling urinary catheters

418. Toolkit 2. Common Suspected Infections: Communication and Decisionmaking for Four Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2016 - for the four infections for which antibiotics are most frequently prescribed in nursing homes: (1) urinary … tract infections (UTIs), (2) lower respiratory tract infections, (3) skin and soft tissue infections

419. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand-sci-slides.html
     July 01, 2023 - urinary tract infections resulting in 13,000 deaths a year. 4 Nearly 100,000 patients die from health … care-associated infections (HAIs) each year, and the cost of HAIs is $28 billion to $33 billion per … A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care. … The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. … Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals 2002.

420. 009-Antibiotic-Stewardship-Guide (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - It was also independently associated with MRSA infection in hospitalized patients. … bacteriuria and urinary tract infection, pneumonia, and suspected sepsis. … positive urine cultures should only lead to antibiotic therapy if the patient has signs and symptoms of a urinary … tract infection with two specific exceptions for asymptomatic patients—those who are pregnant and those … Even if a patient meets criteria for a urinary tract infection, there are often opportunities to improve