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601. Scisafetynotes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/understand/scisafetynotes.docx
     June 02, 2025 - . · Over half a million patients develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections, resulting in 13,000 … deaths a year. · Nearly 100,000 patients die from healthcare-associated infections each year, and the … infections is $28 to $33 billion per year. · An estimated 30,000 to 62,000 deaths occur from central line-associated

602. Transcript: Senior Leadership Podcast – Why Senior Leadership Engagement Matters (pdf file)
     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.

603. Methods To Deploy Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Methods To Deploy Training In-Service Education . Use the content as part of monthly in-service training. Consider engaging the staff by assigning a section to each person and having them teach their peers. The educator can be present to clarify points or answer questions. Self-Guided Learning . If you …

604. Methods of Instruction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Methods of Instruction Review training materials, including notes and accompanying activity, to prepare for training. Determine how staff will be trained. See suggested ways to deploy education below. Giving a didactic presentation, then review and customize the slide set for staff and notes to prepare …

605. Long-Term Care Safety Toolkit Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Long-Term Care Safety Toolkit Modules Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities These modules (available in English and Spanish) describe how to apply the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) for long-term care resident safety. They support learning and implementation effor…

606. Improve Safety Culture | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Improve Safety Culture Long-Term-Care Safety Toolkit Modules Comprises six modules (available in English and Spanish) that describe how to apply CUSP for long-term care resident safety. They support learning and implementation efforts to improve safety culture and practices in long term care facilities. The…

607. Implement an Infection Prevention Quality Improvement Project | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Implement an Infection Prevention Quality Improvement Project Start with the Implementation Guide , and then consult the Sustainability Guide Long -Term Care Safety Toolkit Modules Comprises six modules (available in English and Spanish) that describe how to apply CUSP for long-term care resident safety…

608. How To Use Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - How To Use Educational Bundles Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The educational bundles are a curriculum that long-term care facility educators can use to educate. Each slide set includes facilitator notes and should take approximately 15 minutes to deliver. The training vid…

609. PowerPoint Presentation
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     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

610. Improving the Safety and Quality of Health Care: The Impact of the National Academy of Medicine on Research and Collaboration (pdf file)
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     September 28, 2016 - health care costs were saved from 2010 to 2014 Adverse Drug Events Pressure Ulcers Catheter Associated … Urinary Tract Infections Surgical Site Infections Falls 39.8% ↓ 28.0% ↓ 16.1% ↓ 2.9% ↓ 2.4% … Figures require alternate text Nested alternate text Passed Alternate text that will never be read Associated … with content Passed Alternate text must be associated with some content Hides annotation Passed Alternate

611. Making Health Care Safer II, Executive Summary (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2013 - Barrier precautions, patient isolation, and routine surveillance for the prevention of healthcare-associated … compliance; brief review Common/ Moderate Low Low Low Moderate/ Moderate Reducing unnecessary urinary … catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections; brief … review Common/ Moderate Moderate-to- high Low Low Moderate/ Moderate Prevention of central line-associated … bloodstream infections • Interventions to reduce urinary catheter use, including catheter reminders

612. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare: March 2024 Meeting (pdf file)
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     July 26, 2024 - including those at nursing homes, have been using urine multiplex molecular tests for the diagnosis of urinary … tract infection.

613. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module4/facilitator-notes.docx
     March 01, 2017 - These subtle changes may represent the beginning signs of an infection, like a catheter-associated urinary … tract infection, or CAUTI. … This can include a review of residents with an indwelling urinary catheter, the approved indication for

614. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Open Access Scheduling for Routine and Urgent Appointments (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-section-6a.pdf
     July 27, 2017 -  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.

615. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Open Access Scheduling for Routine and Urgent Appointments (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-strategy-6a.pdf
     July 27, 2017 -  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.

616. Prenatal Care Screening (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2016 - In pregnant women, GBS can cause clinical infections, but most women have no symptoms associated with … genital tract colonization. … Urinary tract infections caused by GBS complicate 2 to 4 percent of pregnancies. … tract infections in the mother and low birth weight in the offspring (U.S. … Research indicates the similarities between GDM and IGT, and both are associated with increased risks

617. Understand the Science of Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - Over half a million patients develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections, resulting in 13,000 … Nearly 100,000 patients die from healthcare-associated infections each year, and the cost of these infections … The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. … Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002. … Ending health care-associated infections, AHRQ, Rockville, MD, 2009.

618. Meeting Minutes, March 2023 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - CQuIPS completed its program on Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections and Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infections in intensive care units. … applications for research in diagnostic safety (10 grants) and three published toolkits in the healthcare-associated

619. Antibiotic Stewardship Program Development: Part 1 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - These might include community- acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection, asymptomatic bacteriuria … , hospital and ventilator- associated pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infection, and intra-abdominal

620. CUSP Toolkit Spread Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - Catheter-associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTIs, are an example of hospital-acquired infections