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561. What Is Patient Safety Culture? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/sops/about/patient-safety-culture.html
     June 01, 2024 - Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5 Lower risks of resident falls, long-stay urinary … tract infections, and short stay ulcers. 6 Learn more : Explore the SOPS bibliography to browse or

562. Quality Improvement in Action Facilitator Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/qi-action-notes.docx
     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). … Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) goal, the unit will … the story might include process audits, such as insertion and maintenance data for central lines and urinary … Their urinary catheter SUR is 1.1, which means it uses more indwelling urinary catheters than other comparable

563. Module 2: Senior Leader Engagement: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Reviews facility data (for example, the catheter-associated urinary tract infection or CAUTI rate) with … lack of a clinical background, facility safety team members can focus their appeal on the fiscal gains associated

564. Articles and Publications, 2010 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Length of intravenous antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in infants with urinary tract infections … National hospitalization trends for pediatric pneumonia and associated complications. … Male gender is associated with intraventricular hemorrhage. … Adult household smoking is associated with increased child emotional and behavioral problems.

565. Final Progress Report: Enhancing the Safety of Warfarin in the Nursing Home (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - a tool, as it could also serve as a model for improving the safety of other medication categories associated … One example is a telephone call to a covering physician about a resident with a urinary tract infection … residents on warfarin to report INR values, indicators of possible adverse events, infections such as urinary … tract infections, or medication issues. … Conclusion: Risk of potential and preventable AWEs is associated with RN/LPN nurse staff time.

566. CUSP Onboarding Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - CUSP Onboarding Modules The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) modules highlight effective strategies to implement a quality improvement project including engaging the team and obtaining leadership buy-in, identifying gaps, creating an action plan, monitoring progress, and identifying defects. These…

567. Team Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Team Engagement To make sustainable quality improvements, you need to recruit an enthusiastic team and keep members engaged by providing the relevant data, inviting team feedback, and creating necessary incentives. Accomplishing this will take time and frequent evaluation. Although the nuances of your approach …

568. Overcome Common Challenges | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Overcome Common Challenges This section helps teams discover actionable strategies to overcome four common challenges in making changes to patient safety culture. Tools are shown in various formats and located on several pages of the toolkit to flexibly support users in addressing their question. Making It Work…

569. 4-Overview-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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     January 01, 2019 - CUSP is a well-known model for sustainable safety improvement that has been associated with preventing … and reduce complications such as surgical site infections (SSI), venous thromboembolism (VTE), and urinary … tract infections (UTI).

570. Presentation: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Improvments
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     December 01, 2017 - North Carolina Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Collaborative.

571. Transcript: How To Create Team Buy-In and Motivation To Get to Zero Infections (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Today we're discussing prevention of healthcare-associated infections in hospital intensive care units … When we are looking at the practices around preventing CLABSI or preventing urinary tract infections

572. Module 5: Resident and Family Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - residents and family members in safety initiatives, especially in the area of reducing infections due to urinary … Slide 13: Importance of Resident and Family Engagement 1 Outcomes associated with enhanced resident

573. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults-references.html
     September 01, 2024 - Asthma in the elderly: mortality rate and associated risk factors for mortality. … between chaos and control: affect and hospital cliniciansʼ and older adult patientsʼ narratives of urinary … tract infections. … The scientific evidence for a potential link between confusion and urinary tract infection in the elderly … Current pyuria cutoffs promote inappropriate urinary tract infection diagnosis in older women.

574. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances/vol2/Hunt.pdf
     July 01, 2004 - knee replacement; postoperative pneumonia, postoperative venous thromboembolic events; postoperative urinary … tract infection; and ventilator associated pneumonia. … tract infection * Greatest impact and strength of evidence ** High impact and strength of … knee replacement; postoperative pneumonia, postoperative venous thromboembolic events; postoperative urinary … tract infection; and ventilator associated pneumonia), while in the implicit review arm, charts were

575. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Hunt.pdf
     July 01, 2004 - knee replacement; postoperative pneumonia, postoperative venous thromboembolic events; postoperative urinary … tract infection; and ventilator associated pneumonia. … tract infection * Greatest impact and strength of evidence ** High impact and strength of … knee replacement; postoperative pneumonia, postoperative venous thromboembolic events; postoperative urinary … tract infection; and ventilator associated pneumonia), while in the implicit review arm, charts were

576. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2003 - Project Report - Lean Sigma Guidelines to Prevent Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections … Problem Vascular access device-associated infections increase morbidity, mortality, hospital length … Education of health care workers decreases healthcare-associated infections. … CLABSIs are — Associated with increased morbidity Associated with mortality rates of 10 percent to … Infection elsewhere (remote, i.e., urinary tract infection or wound) — secondary source Colonization

577. Training Module 1—Skills Questions Answer Key | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - visibly soiled One should perform hand hygiene before and after wearing gloves when touching the urinary

578. Training Module 1—Skills Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/infection-prevention/hand-hygiene/skills-test.html
     March 01, 2017 - visibly soiled One should perform hand hygiene before and after wearing gloves when touching the urinary

579. PowerPoint Presentation
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T5-Minimum_Criteria_for_3_Infections_Training_Slides-final.pptx
     October 01, 2016 - informed decision Understand the minimum criteria for antibiotics for the three most common infections: Urinary … tract Skin and soft tissue Lower respiratory Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Determine … Stewardship Guide Determine Whether To Treat Toolkit 3/Tool 5 5 GI = gastrointestinal HAI = healthcare-associated … Antibiotic Use in Nursing Homes Creates Risks for Multiple Groups The most recent trend in healthcare-associated … More frightening is that prescribing antibiotics for urinary tract infections is much more difficult

580. Improving Antibiotic Use is a Patient Safety Issue
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     November 01, 2019 - Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care 1 Objectives Explain the potential harm associated … adverse events3 ~25% of these patients developed antibiotic-associated adverse events after hospital … otherwise feels well Her doctor sends a urinalysis and urine culture in case her symptoms are related to a urinary … tract infection (UTI) Has ≥100,000 CFU/mL of a pan-susceptible E. coli in urine culture Another clinician … Approximately 20% of hospitalized patients develop antibiotic-associated adverse events.