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1381. Understand the Science of Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - Applying Principles of Safe Design 12 Time Period Median Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection … 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. … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

1382. CAUTI Prevention Implementation in a Community Hospital
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      March 01, 2009 - resulting in 13,000 deaths a year6 Nearly 100,000 patients die from health care-associated infections … The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. … Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002. … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

1383. Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce Diagnostic Error | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2024 - Examples from infectious disease testing include: Using language that definitively rules out specific infections … Diagnostic stewardship has largely been evaluated in relation to infections. … efforts focused on diagnostic stewardship have observed a 30-60 percent reduction in C. difficile bloodstream … infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections and associated antibiotic use with these

1384. Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2024 - November 26, 2024 AHRQ Stats: Trends in Healthcare-Associated Infections Between 2020 and 2021, the … rate of inpatient stays with an associated central-line associated bloodstream infection increased by … 37.2 percent, and the rate of stays with an associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection … Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313, Prevalence and Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections … They summarized current antibiotic use metrics and reviewed evidence-based infection prevention practices

1385. Prompting Removal of Unnecessary Indwelling Urinary Catheters
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      April 01, 2022 - Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in adult ICUs. … Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in adult ICUs. … Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in adult patients.

1386. Improving Safety Using Teamwork and Patient Safety Norms (pdf file)
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      June 30, 2025 - with expectation that each unit would do one per month ► Expectation that every hospital-acquired infection … infections (CLABSI) • 41% ↓ in >1,000 ICUs Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) • 32% … MRSA Prevention The program sought to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection … hospital units (ICUs and non-ICUs) in the first of three 9-month programs ► Central line-associated bloodstream … infections (CLABSI)—enrolling through June 30, 2025 ► Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

1387. Strongyloides: A Hidden Traveler and Potentially Lethal Missed Diagnosis. | PSNet
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      August 25, 2021 - Summarize approaches to diagnosis and treatment of Strongyloides infection. … Identify patients who should be tested for Strongyloides infection. … It burrows through the skin, begins maturing to adulthood and travels through the bloodstream to the … reinfect the same person through the bowel mucosa or the perianal skin and undergo migration through the bloodstream … Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection.

1388. CVC Removal: A Procedure Like Any Other | PSNet
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      October 01, 2018 - air and the vascular system, and (ii) a pressure gradient that raises risk of this air entering the bloodstream … removal has not.( 12,13 ) Recently, CVC insertion technique has received renewed attention as part of infection … the movement of air into the CVC Open lumens provide a direct route through which air can enter the bloodstream … CVC tract Plain gauze dressings can permit air to pass through a persistent catheter tract into the bloodstream … Perspective Health Care–Acquired Urinary Tract Infection

1389. Health Care–Acquired Urinary Tract Infection: The Problem and Solutions | PSNet
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      November 01, 2008 - (UTI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection, accounting for 40% of all hospital-acquired infections … risks of symptomatic infection. … catheter–related infection. … September 11, 2023 Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections … May 25, 2011 Preventing catheter-related bloodstream infections: thinking outside the

1390. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2024 - Cost savings from reduced catheter-related bloodstream infection after simulation-based education for

1391. Addressing Questions Asked by Staff: Safety and Side Effects of Chlorhexidine and Iodophor (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2022 - hospital will be using chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and nasal iodophor to reduce bacteria that can cause infection … They are only used topically, and are not absorbed into the bloodstream during use.

1392. National Opportunity To Improve Infection Control in ESRD (NOTICE) Phase Two Final Report (pdf file)
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      September 29, 2014 - current knowledge of dialysis-related infections, in particular, vascular access infection causes and … The Medicare claims-based infection rate is defined as: Hemodialysis access-related infections per 100 … access site and bloodstream infection is not present) or an access-related bloodstream infection (positive … access site and bloodstream infection is not present) or an access-related bloodstream infection (positive … of infections) and a denominator (the number of persons who could have acquired an infection).

1393. 051-Top-10-Successful-Decolonization (doc file)
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      October 01, 2024 - Daily skin cleansing with chlorhexidine did not reduce the rate of central-line associated bloodstream … infection in a surgical intensive care unit. … Mupirocin ointment for preventing Staphylococcus aureus infections in nasal carriers.

1394. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Celebrating Success and Spreading CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Beyond the Unit (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2022 - ICU) team leaders implement effective strategies and achieve goals to reduce central line-associated bloodstream … infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and improve safety culture … • Define milestones of celebration at initiation of the project, such as “100 days without an infection … • AHRQ Impact Case Study: New Jersey Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce Urinary Tract Infections

1395. The Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - and Safety Tool B.3b Slide 5 • In this example, we will examine the rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection … 20Stream%20Infection%20Rate.pdf • Numerator: Discharges with ICD-10-CM codes for healthcare-associated bloodstream … infection, among cases meeting the inclusion and exclusion rules for the denominator • Denominator … A PDI Example: Neonatal Blood Stream Infection (NQI 03) http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/Downloads … 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 Pe r 1 ,0 00 C as es Examining Observed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection

1396. Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2023 - Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections   The Toolkit for Reducing … Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) can help your unit implement evidence-based … Reports Alternate Format Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections

1397. Team Functioning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2022 - Team Functioning From your first team convening where you set your unit's goals for preventing infections … Common challenges addressed by these tools are how to structure multidisciplinary rounds to support infection … CAUTI (PDF, 429.7 KB) Making It Work – Engaging Senior Leaders in Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections … 271 KB) Audio interview with Pat Posa – How To Have Difficult Conversations With Colleagues Around Infection … :30 minutes;  Transcript , PDF, 263.4 KB) Video – Having Difficult Conversations About Preventing Infections

1398. Critical care clinicians' experiences of patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. | PSNet
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      February 22, 2023 - June 22, 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated bloodstream … infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): the urgent need to refocus

1399. Exploring changes in patient safety incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Canadian regional hospital system: a retrospective time series analysis. | PSNet
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      March 18, 2020 - February 23, 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated bloodstream … infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): the urgent need to refocus

1400. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 21, 2019 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/estimating-hospital-costs-inpatient-harms Pressure ulcers, surgical site infections … tract infection. … A WebM&M commentary explored the cascade of events that can lead to a hospital-acquired bloodstream … infection and how to prevent them. … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/estimating-hospital-costs-inpatient-harms https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/surgical-site-infections