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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/esrd/resource/fostersafety.html
April 01, 2014 - Fostering a Culture of Safety
This video vignette shows a fictional scenario in which a positive culture of safety overcomes multiple commonly seen barriers to infection prevention in dialysis facilities.
Fostering a Culture of Safety
YouTube embedded video: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TLeHkU34_…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/partnering-executive-facilitator-guide.docx
June 01, 2021 - She is engaged in the community and previously served on a board to address reducing catheter-associated … urinary tract infections or UTIs in long-term care.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/wm-comm.html
September 01, 2015 - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration, diabetes, hypertension, and urinary … tract infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/communication-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - was started in the hospital for a UTI, but he has been on it for 3 weeks, and seems long to treat a urinary … tract infection. … There is also a black box warning on fluoroquinolones, and there are many side effects associated with
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/goldstein-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Children … Reduction of Nephrotoxic Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Children
PI: Stuart L. … urinary tract
infection18 rates, suggesting that NTMx-AKI is as important as these US hospital-acquired … hypotension or sepsis.41-44
Exclusion criteria: Patients with chronic kidney disease, kidney transplant, or urinary … tract infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/nielsen2-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 -
with advanced imaging for urinary stones and prostate cancer. … limited evidence of associated improvements in patient‐centered outcomes. … Radiation dose associated with common computed
tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable … Radiological imaging of patients with suspected
urinary tract stones: national trends, diagnoses, and … CT in detecting urinary tract calculi: influence on patient
imaging and clinical outcomes.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/nielsen-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 -
with advanced imaging for urinary stones and prostate cancer. … limited evidence of associated improvements in patient‐centered outcomes. … Radiation dose associated with common computed
tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable … Radiological imaging of patients with suspected
urinary tract stones: national trends, diagnoses, and … CT in detecting urinary tract calculi: influence on patient
imaging and clinical outcomes.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/smith-werner-carayon-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - We focused on older adults diagnosed with fall or suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) in the ED, … Overtreatment of presumed urinary tract infection in
older women presenting to the emergency department … Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infection and
underdiagnosis of sexually transmittediInfection in adult … Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of urinary tract infections in older people. … Potentially inappropriate treatment of urinary tract infections in two
rhode island nursing homes.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/overcome/engagement.html
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 …
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implement/cusp-modules.html
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…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/overcome/index.html
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…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/esrd/resource/infectionpx.html
November 01, 2014 - Patient Engagement in Infection Prevention
This video vignette illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention.
ESRD Toolkit Modules
The four modules are:
Creating a Culture of Safety
Clinical Care
Using Checklists and Audits
Patient and Family Engagement…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/strategy6a-openaccess.html
March 01, 2020 - . 2
The ability of patients to see their personal physician enhances continuity of care, which is associated … sources of unnecessary visits based on outdated clinical protocols, such as routine follow-up visits for urinary … tract infections or annual Pap smears.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/gore-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - that “improves the quality of life of
patients and that of their families who are facing challenges associated … incontinence associated with end of life to
showcase opportunities for providing primary palliative … symptom, controlling her pain, and minimizing her risk for further urinary tract infections. … Gore noted that palliative care is often associated with de-utilization of care. Dr. … Gore questioned how one might measure the different variables associated
with incontinence. Dr.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Bernard.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Whether financial disparities among hospitals are associated with
disparities in patient safety problems … 1996–99 (373,814 discharges at 188 hospitals) to examine whether
financial pressure at hospitals is associated … of the 14 PSIs), as well as aspiration pneumonia, atelectasis (i.e.,
iatrogenic lung collapse), and urinary … tract infections, which have been used in the
nursing literature.11, 15, 16, 17
Failure to rescue … with higher rates of urinary tract infection and “failure to
rescue” incidents following a complication11
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/integrating-teamwork-tools-cusp-efforts-transcript.html
December 01, 2017 - really briefly going over some of the critical [TeamSTEPPS 00:01:36] tools and how those tools can be associated … The ED physician is a family friend of the patient's daughter and orders a urinary catheter after the … with a chest CT for the nodules, but during the transport and tests, the care technician places the urinary … and two days later a urine specimen's collected and a culture shows that the patient has an E. coli urinary … tract infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/integrating-teamwork-tools-into-cusp-efforts-transcript.docx
April 07, 2015 - really briefly going over some of the critical [TeamSTEPPS 00:01:36] tools and how those tools can be associated … The ED physician is a family friend of the patient's daughter and orders a urinary catheter after the … with a chest CT for the nodules, but during the transport and tests, the care technician places the urinary … and two days later a urine specimen's collected and a culture shows that the patient has an E. coli urinary … tract infection.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Layde_34.pdf
March 14, 2008 - A given patient discharge could be associated with more than one type of
medical injury. … A given patient
discharge could be associated with more than one type of medical injury. … Catheter-related urinary tract infections (UTI):
• Infection/inflammation reaction to indwelling urinary … (996.64) or,
• As a cause of later complication (E8 79.6), plus any one of the
following:
• Urinary … tract infection, site not specified (599.0) or
• Acute cystitis (595.0) or
• Subacute and chronic
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/module1-transcript.pdf
June 01, 2017 - TJ: So, healthcare-acquired infections or hospital-associated infections, HAIs. … Michael: I would say healthcare-associated infections have been a challenge for some
time. … We've seen a tremendous impact on ventilator-
associated pneumonias. … Leadership
Engagement Matters | 4
Michael: CAUTI is a catheter-associated UTI. … That's a urinary tract infection that someone
gets as a result of a Foley catheter.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/stewardship-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - providers
Focused on a specific infection
3
Sustaining Stewardship
3
Intervention for Catheter-Associated … use protocols for UTIs and respiratory tract … Effectiveness of an antimicrobial stewardship approach for urinary catheter-related asymptomatic bacteriuria