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1. Reduction in Hospital-Acquired Complications and Infections (pdf file)
   digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/reduction-in-hospital-acquired-complications-and-infections-quick-reference-guide.pdf
   January 01, 2010 - The cost of these nosocomial infections is estimated at $676 in direct costs per infection.11 As such … Depending on the type of complication or infection, it may be too difficult to identify and may warrant … Evaluators will also need to consider existing staff support for hospital complication and infection … Infection control: a problem for patient safety. N Engl J Med 2003;348(7):651-6. 2. … The impact of hospital- acquired bloodstream infections.

2. Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Facilitating Naturalistic Decision Making and Improving Blood Culture Utilization | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2023 - Decision Making Sociotechnical Aspects Technology Usability Sepsis is a life-threatening bloodstream … infection that affects 8 percent of infants in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and is responsible … optimizing blood culture utilization rely on analytic approaches to determine the pretest probability of bloodstream … infections. … distress syndrome, traumatic brain injury, ventilator management, and central line-associated blood stream infection

3. Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Facilitating Naturalistic Decision-Making and Improving Blood Culture Utilization - Final Report (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2020 - Background Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bloodstream infections, kills over 200,000 people … discipline-specific knowledge to analyze patient information from various sources, predict the presence of bloodstream … infections, and assess alternative diagnostic plans.7 Usually, this process involves not only the cognitive … These 41 items were grouped into four categories: (1) signs of systemic infection (e.g., temperature … ) risk factors (e.g., host immune status, central line present and concerns), (3) other sources of infection

4. Supporting Clinicians to Improve Decision Making and Patients’ Care | Digital Healthcare Research
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   January 01, 2020 - Blood cultures are the only way to diagnose sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection that can

5. CPOE Implementation in ICUs - Final Report (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2009 - We examined if CPOE/EHR implementation affected care in the ICUs, as measured by infection rates, protocol … ICU, two additional data series were collected: ventilator-associated pneumonia and blood stream infections … Several additional data series were collected in the Adult ICU: urinary tract infections, ventilator … : the rate of medication errors per patient-day, mortality rates, length of stay, catheter-related bloodstream … infections, self-extubations and several other measures of quality of care did not change after the