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1741. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Summary of Findings, 2023-2024 (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2024 - operative and post-operative events • Bundles, including checklists to prevent central line- associated bloodstream … o Environmental decontamination may reduce MDRO infections (low SOE). … a small effect on MDRO infections in the endemic setting (low SOE). … Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on central-line–associated bloodstream infections during the early months … Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms 6a.

1742. Rapid Evidence Product: No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2022 - Environmental cleaning for the prevention of healthcare-associated Infections. … Search Strategy: ─ #1 cross infection[mh] OR hospital infection*[tiab] OR health care acquired infection … *[tiab] OR health care associated infection*[tiab] OR hospital acquired infection*[tiab] OR hospital … difficile infections (CDIs) decreased. … rate due to central-line- associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections

1743. Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 (pdf file)
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      June 03, 2021 - Could the prevention of health care–associated infections increase hospital cost? … The financial impact of health care–associated infections from a hospital management perspective. … A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream … infections in intensive care units. … A multimodal infection control and patient safety intervention to reduce surgical site infections in

1744. Leadership To Improve Diagnosis: A Call to Action - Issue Brief 5 (pdf file)
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      June 03, 2021 - Could the prevention of health care–associated infections increase hospital cost? … The financial impact of health care–associated infections from a hospital management perspective. … A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream … infections in intensive care units. … A multimodal infection control and patient safety intervention to reduce surgical site infections in

1745. Statistical Brief #150
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      March 01, 2013 - In addition, more serious complications such as colitis, bloodstream infection, meningitis, joint infection … Other infections with known agents were far less common. … and ED visits with a diagnosis code of 008.45, Clostridium difficile , were excluded because this infection … –008.49 x x Unspecified bacterial intestinal infection 008.5 x x Rotavirus enteritis … June 10, 2011 Vital Signs: Incidence and Trends of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through

1746. 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. … research in diagnostic safety (10 grants) and three published toolkits in the healthcare-associated infections

1747. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      August 28, 2024 - For example, if we had gone almost three years without a patient suffering a surgical site infection … We noticed that with hospital-acquired infection, it took some time for us to get to the point where … we would not do an ACA for every single central-line acquired bloodstream infection (CLABSI) patient

1748. Trends in Emergency Department Visits, 2006-2011 #179
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      September 01, 2014 - 100,000 ED visits in 2006, the most rapid increase (74 percent) by 2011 occurred for septicemia, a bloodstream … infection. … ED visits for two infection-related diagnoses increased substantially between 2006 and 2011. … (Influenza infection rates are known to vary considerably from year to year. ) 5 Visits to the ED … (11 percent), viral infections (11 percent), and eye infections (7 percent).

1749. African Partnerships for Patient Safety: Lessons Learned | PSNet
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      December 01, 2014 - Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. … Health care–associated infections 6. Health care worker protection 7. … former Minister of Health in Uganda said to me, "We cannot tell people that hospitals may be giving them infections … We have taken some elements of the CUSP approach around bloodstream infection and are trying to adapt … that for work in preventing surgical site infection in African hospitals.

1750. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2007 - err-human-building-safer-health-system https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intervention-decrease-catheter-related-bloodstream-infections-icu … thinking about the hospital in Pittsburgh that has managed to go close to 2 years without a wound infection

1751. Chapter-6 - Carbapenem-Resistant-Enterobacteriaceae (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2020 - Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) encompass a family of gram-negative bacteria that cause infections … Mortality among patients with CRE infections can be as high as 40 to 50 percent due to both the severity … of the infections and the lack of effective antibiotics with which to treat them.2 Because of their … An admission during the no-ASC period had no impact on the risk of ESBL infections (odds ratio, 1.16 … 1,420-bed teaching hospital in Italy Following the intervention, the incidence rate of CRE bloodstream

1752. Facilitator Guide: Overview of the Improvement Model (doc file)
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      December 01, 2017 - You will also be familiar and hopefully able to list the steps for developing a local surgical site infection … Yet, for the most part, these improvements have not translated into reduced infection rates or to improved … Is the quality of skin prep appropriate to prevent surgical site infections? … SAY: In contrast to the mature evidence for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections … Your team leader, surgeon, anesthesia, nurse, and infection preventionist specialist will need 2 to 4

1753. Program Overview: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Yet, for the most part, these improvements have not translated into reduced infection rates or to improved … Is the quality of skin prep appropriate to prevent surgical site infections? … Say: In contrast to the mature evidence for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections … Your team leader, surgeon, anesthesia, nurse, and infection preventionist specialist will need 2 to 4 … Infection rates and sepsis rates. Post-op hemorrhage. Respiratory failure.

1754. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States improving perinatal care? Evaluation Highlight No. 12 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2020 - data-driven, evidence-based quality improvement (QI) projects that improved rates of catheter-associated bloodstream … infections, delivery room management in the first hour after birth, and infant nutrition … Florida reported lower rates of health care–associated infections in newborns. … 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

1755. Overview of Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2011 (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2014 - ■ For adults aged 45–84 years, septicemia (infection in the bloodstream) was the most frequent … sexually transmitted diseases) 17,600 2 69,400 2 203,500 3 328,000 3 149,400 3 Urinary tract infections … and related conditions 266,200 2 1,266,500 2 Acute bronchitis 181,000 3 Viral infections … 1,770,000 5 Nonspecific chest pain 1,525,200 1 643,000 1 117,200 3 Urinary tract infections … Otitis media and related conditions (ear infections) was the second most frequent reason for ED visits

1756. Microsoft Word - POA Methods 11_01.doc (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2011 - 0.039967 574% PSI 06 Iatrogenic Pneumothorax 0.000664 0.00091 37% 0.000699 0.000937 34% PSI 07 CVC Bloodstream … and catheter-related blood stream infections. … Journal of Hospital Infection. 2003; 54(4): 258-266; quiz 321. … Cost of intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections. … Journal of Hospital Infection. 2006; 63(2): 124-132.

1757. Rapid Response: Efficacy of Dental Services for Reducing Adverse Events in Those Undergoing Insertion of Implantable Cardiovascular Devices (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2023 - of infection is an important clinical priority.1 Such infections are believed to be caused by seeding … , and vascular graft infections. … Vascular Graft Infections, Mycotic Aneurysms, and Endovascular Infections: A Scientific Statement … intensive care unit; CIED=cardiovascular implantable electronic device; CLABSI=central line–associated bloodstream … infection; ESC=European Society of Cardiology; HAI=healthcare-associated infections; HFSA=Heart Failure

1758. Preventing-Cauti-Icu-Setting-Facilitators-Guide (doc file)
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      September 01, 2015 - Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network, and are the leading cause of secondary bloodstream … infections. … For instance, ICU patients who are critically ill may be at high risk for infection due to underlying … Add an invasive device such as a urinary catheter, and you are increasing their risk for infection. … of the infections.

1759. S108 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - this study, we examine the use of IPW in the context of a significant problem in patient safety and infection … tract infections in non-surgical patients. … Quantifying excess length of postoperative stay attributable to infections: a comparison of methods. … Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients: excess length of stay, extra costs, and … Estimation of extra hospital stay attributable to nosocomial infections: heterogeneity and timing of

1760. Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - Reducing PICU central line-associated bloodstream infections: 3-year results. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Sexually transmitted infections and increased risk of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus … Risk behaviors, medical care, and chlamydial infection among young men in the United States. … Group A streptococcal throat infection - to treat or not to treat?