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  1. Early Mobility Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/early-mobility-mvpguide.pdf
    January 01, 2017 - infections (CLABSI) and VAP in more than 100 Michigan ICUs.21-23 The Michigan results were sustained … visits involving content experts, such as respiratory therapists, pharmacists, pulmonologists, or infection … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: … The Rhode Island ICU collaborative: A model for reducing central line-associated bloodstream infection

  2. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/062-protocol-training-decolonization-with-chg.pptx
    October 01, 2024 - Decolonization is proven in hospital settings to reduce the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and bloodstream … infections … Bacteria on a patient’s skin can progress to severe infection during hospital stays due to the heightened … “CHG serves as your protection to prevent infection.” … CHG should be used on all superficial wounds, to help prevent infections.

  3. Final Progress Report: Health Journalism 2010, national conference on healthcare journalism (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/bruzzese2-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Minnesota Spokesman‐ Recorder Charles Hallman Hospital Infection Rates, A Deadly Problem KSMU‐Springfield … Cover Them)  Assessing claims of functional foods and nutritional supplements  Prevention model for bloodstream … His current cause is to reduce catheter‐related bloodstream infections in their local hospitals, saying … the infections cause “31,000 needless deaths” in the United States each year. … Using his system of checklist, culture change and measurement, he virtually eliminated the infection

  4. Spinal Epidural Abscess | PSNet

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    November 13, 2019 - Spinal epidural abscesses can originate from bloodstream infections, local spread from another infection … result of inadequate recognition of red flag signs (fever, progressive neurological deficits, active infection … WebM&M Cases Delayed Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection

  5. CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implement/prevention-modules.html
    April 01, 2022 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Modules These modules offer simple steps ICU teams can take to ensure the evidence-based clinical changes that prevent CLABSI and CAUTI are sustained in your unit. The CLABSI prevention and CAUTI prevention modules provide information on how to disrupt the lifecycle of a catheter dev…

  6. Which End Is Which? | PSNet

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    February 09, 2011 - Listen to the Family June 1, 2004 Eliminating central line-associated bloodstream … infections: a national patient safety imperative.

  7. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.434_slideshow.ppt
    February 01, 2018 - patient safety successes involved implementing a bundle of interventions Key example: Catheter-related bloodstream … infections Preliminary study showed that a bundle of handoff-related interventions was associated with

  8. 025-Assessing-Evc-Webinar-Notes (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/025-assessing-evc-webinar-notes.docx
    October 01, 2024 - Slide 2 Key Strategies To Take Aim and Target MRSA Infections SAY: The AHRQ Toolkit for MRSA Prevention … Preventing device and procedure-associated infections such as central line-associated bloodstream infections … of the EVC team and associates to help control the spread of MDROs and reduce healthcare-associated infections … Slide 23 Infection Control Practitioner (ICP) SAY: The obvious first role to consider is the infection … • What impact did it have on the infection rates?

  9. 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-nhqdr-es.pdf
    January 01, 2023 - Quality and Disparities Report 7 • Healthcare professionals were especially vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection … ■ From 2016 to 2020, rates of sepsis after surgery decreased from 5.1 to 3.8 infections per 1,000 … ■ Rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections decreased from 0.13 to 0.09 infection … Rates of long-stay nursing home residents with urinary tract infections were 1.8% in 2019 and 1.9% in … • Similarly, hospital admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections—a common

  10. 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2023-nhqdr-es-rev.pdf
    January 01, 2023 - Quality and Disparities Report 7 • Healthcare professionals were especially vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection … ■ From 2016 to 2020, rates of sepsis after surgery decreased from 5.1 to 3.8 infections per 1,000 … ■ Rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections decreased from 0.13 to 0.09 infection … Rates of long-stay nursing home residents with urinary tract infections were 1.8% in 2019 and 1.9% in … • Similarly, hospital admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections—a common

  11. Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Facilitating Naturalistic Decision-Making and Improving Blood Culture Utilization - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs025238-xie-final-report-2020.pdf
    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

  12. Learn About CUSP, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/learn/fac-cusp.html
    December 01, 2012 - 2003, the Michigan Keystone Center launched an AHRQ-funded project to reduce central line-associated bloodstream … infections in select Michigan intensive care units. … extremely successful, and the participating Michigan ICUs continue to sustain central line-associated bloodstream … infections, or CLABSI, rates of zero percent, even today. … In 2008, AHRQ funded national projects to apply the CUSP model to reduce infections nationwide.

  13. Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/implementation-guide_0.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare- Associated Infections in U.S. … Sustaining reductions in catheter-related bloodstream infections in michigan intensive care units: observational … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Urinary Tract Infection (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [CAUTI] and Non-Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]) and Other Urinary System Infection [USI]) Events.

  14. Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare- Associated Infections in U.S. … Sustaining reductions in catheter-related bloodstream infections in michigan intensive care units: observational … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Urinary Tract Infection (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [CAUTI] and Non-Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]) and Other Urinary System Infection [USI]) Events.

  15. Understand the Science of Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/understand/science-safety-notes.html
    July 01, 2018 - Nearly 100,000 patients die from healthcare-associated infections each year, and the cost of these infections … Nearly 100,000 patients die from healthcare-associated infections each year, and the cost of these infections … Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality’s CRBSI (which stands for catheter-related blood stream infection … Executives, physicians, nurse managers, infection preventionists, bedside clinicians, and unit support … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

  16. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/es/sops/bibliography/index.html?page=7
    January 01, 2025 - On the CUSP: Stop BSI: Evaluating the relationship between central line-associated bloodstream infection

  17. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/sops/bibliography/index.html?page=7
    January 01, 2025 - On the CUSP: Stop BSI: Evaluating the relationship between central line-associated bloodstream infection

  18. Toolkit Prelaunch Activities (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/introduction/prelaunch-activities.pdf
    March 01, 2022 - As is the case with many infection prevention programs, it will take time to achieve culture change. … methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) burden and bloodstream … infections among patients with medical devices in that unit Provide adherence data on use of decolonizing … These processes will need to undergo usual hospital approval by relevant committees, which may include infection

  19. HSOPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp5a.html
    January 01, 2013 - Companion Guide Preface Methods Participation Outcomes Adult Non-ICUs Pediatric Units Infections

  20. Learn About CUSP | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/learn/sl-cusp.html
    December 01, 2012 - An infection reduction project of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational
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