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  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. Staff Training Videos | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/abate/training/videos.html
    March 01, 2022 - toolkit, videos provide background information about the A ctive Bat hing to E liminate (ABATE) Infection … Overview * This video discusses the importance of CHG cleaning during a bed bath or a shower to prevent infection

  4. 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.

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

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    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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    January 01, 2013 - Companion Guide Preface Methods Participation Outcomes Adult Non-ICUs Pediatric Units Infections … Some facilities submitted infection rate data directly into this database, while others contributed data

  9. Team Checkup Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    January 01, 2013 - Companion Guide Preface Methods Participation Outcomes Adult Non-ICUs Pediatric Units Infections

  10. Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting: Transcript (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-transcript.pdf
    September 01, 2015 - Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network, and are the leading cause of secondary bloodstream … infections. … Guideline for Prevention of Catheter- Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009. … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Journal. 2014 May;35(5):464-79. PMID: 24709715. 4. … one-quarter of the infections.

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. In Conversation With… Neel Shah, MD, MPP | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-neel-shah-md-mpp
    October 30, 2019 - interventions, purported to keep patients safe, in fact, carry significant risk (blood loss, pain, infections … Risks of overuse include the transfusion-related sequelae, infections, excessive antibiotics, and most … reduction in the length of stay for the most preterm infants, and the elimination of hospital-acquired infections … (central line–associated bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia). … Actual and Predicted Central Line–associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates Among All NICU Admissions

  14. 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

  15. 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?

  16. Final Progress Report: Detection, Education, Research, and Decolonization without Isolation in Long-term Care (DERAIL MRSA) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/peterson-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - For example, the mortality attributed to MRSA bloodstream infection has been estimated at 24%, and the … Our data on prevention of MRSA infection in acute care demonstrates that 60% of these infections are … During the baseline period, there were 44 MRSA infections and 365,809 patient-days, for an infection … infections per 10,000 patient- days) and 14 infections in the intervention units (129,113 patient days … Days 73,836 23,060‡ 36,067‡ 57,679 Total Number of MRSA Infections 16 2 5 4 MRSA Infections per 10,000

  17. First, Do No Harm: Value-driven Patient Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/first-do-no-harm-value-driven-patient-safety-neonatal-intensive-care-unit
    October 30, 2019 - interventions, purported to keep patients safe, in fact, carry significant risk (blood loss, pain, infections … Risks of overuse include the transfusion-related sequelae, infections, excessive antibiotics, and most … (central line–associated bloodstream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia). … Actual and Predicted Central Line–associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates Among All NICU Admissions … April 13, 2022 Health care-associated infections among critically ill children in the

  18. 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

  19. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States improving perinatal care? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/highlight12.html
    May 01, 2015 - data-driven, evidence-based quality improvement (QI) projects that improved rates of catheter-associated bloodstream … hands-on training, the FPQC helped hospitals establish and institutionalize practices proven to reduce infection … From December 2011 to August 2013, the 16 participating NICUs: Reduced the central line infection … rate by 58 percent, which is equivalent to 150 avoided infections. … Averted an estimated 18 deaths from central line infections.

  20. HCUP Statistical Brief #150: Infectious Enteritis and Foodborne Illness in the United States, 2010 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb150.pdf
    March 01, 2012 - In addition, more serious complications such as colitis, bloodstream infection, meningitis, joint infection … June 10, 2011 Vital Signs: Incidence and Trends of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through … Other infections with known agents were far less common. … (023.0–023.9; 027.0; 124; 130.0–130.9) 6 1.9 0.1 1.9 2.1 1.6 4,700 Campylobacter intestinal infection … x x Unspecified bacterial intestinal infection 008.5 x x Rotavirus enteritis 008.61 x x Other
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