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1. Complications During Labor and Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2018 - FAQs Home Data & Analytics Data Infographics Complications … States Health Information Knowledgebase Data Sources Available from AHRQ Complications … During Labor and Delivery Complications During Labor and Delivery (PDF, 1.28 MB) Source … last reviewed September 2018 Page originally created September 2018 Internet Citation: Complications … https://www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/complications-in-labor-and-delivery.html  

2. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2017 - staff in intensive care units use Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) principles to reduce complications … Background Complications related to ventilator use in intensive care unit (ICU) patients are not uncommon … Complications such as VAP increase the likelihood of hospital readmission, long-term health problems … Many complications related to ventilator use, including VAP, are largely preventable. … address this problem, AHRQ funded a 3-year project to help staff in ICUs use CUSP principles to reduce complications

3. New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2023 - News Newsletter AHRQ News Now New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications … Today's Headlines: New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery … New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery The AHRQ Toolkit for … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery addresses common surgical complications such as surgical site … Page originally created June 2023 Internet Citation: New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications

4. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   December 01, 2017 - Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections and other complications … Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including … These complications place an enormous burden on patients, their families, employers, and society. … improvement, and evidence-based surgical care processes that other facilities can use to reduce surgical complications

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   June 01, 2023 - This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications … the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce complications … methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications … This toolkit helps surgical units improve safety culture and reduce surgical site infections and other complications

6. Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2017 - the proven principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce complications … Such complications include ventilator-associated pneumonia, which affects as many as 20 percent of patients … This project was developed to help staff in intensive care units use CUSP principles to reduce complications

7. AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2020 - These indicators reflect quality of care inside hospitals, such as potentially avoidable complications … Indicators (PQIs) are population-based indicators that capture all cases of potentially preventable complications … Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) help hospitals assess the incidence of adverse events and in-hospital complications … More specifically, they focus on potential in-hospital complications and adverse events following surgeries … PDIs focus on potentially preventable complications and iatrogenic events for pediatric patients treated

8. Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2023 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent surgical site infections (SSI) and other complications … facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical site infections and other complications … facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical site infections and other complications

9. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
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   January 01, 2010 - shows that three-quarters of these could have been prevented or ameliorated.1 Common post-discharge complications … include adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections, and procedural complications.1 Many of these … complications can be attributed to discharge planning problems, such as: [1: .

10. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2010 - shows that three-quarters of these could have been prevented or ameliorated.1 Common post-discharge complications … include adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections, and procedural complications.1 Many of … these complications can be attributed to discharge planning problems, such as: • Changes or discrepancies

11. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - patients with higher residual block were more than 3 times as likely to develop postoperative pulmonary complications … Development and validation of a score for prediction of postoperative respiratory complications. … Postoperative pulmonary complications: an update on risk assessment and reduction. … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

12. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - specific tools focused on the surgical setting to help hospitals reduce surgical site infections and other complications … Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections and other complications … was refined during the project and is made available for other facilities to use to reduce surgical complications

13. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - New This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications … This toolkit helps surgical units improve safety culture and reduce surgical site infections and other complications … Surgery Centers This toolkit helps ambulatory surgery centers reduce surgical site infections and other complications

14. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Slide 7: Impact on Mechanically Ventilated Patients Say: Many different complications from mechanical … Examples of short-term complications include: VAP, sepsis, progression to acute respiratory distress … Some long-term complications from mechanical ventilation include slower overall recovery time, debilitating … view about the therapies these patients should be receiving to decrease the short-term and long-term complications … Interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce complications focus on the importance of getting

15. Five hours in the PACU? MetroHealth Uses TeamSTEPPS to Improve Patient Transfer from OR to ICU
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    January 01, 2016 - : <40 (0 points) Lowest HR: 76-85 (1 point) Total: 3 Total APGAR Score: 0-2 75% risk of major complications … or death 3-4 56% risk of major complications or death 5-6 16% risk of major complications or death … 7-8 6% risk of major complications or death 9-10 4% risk of major complications or death

16. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 4) (pdf file)
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    May 22, 2013 - experience an adverse event within a month of discharge, of which ¾ could be prevented • Common complications … post-discharge are adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections, and procedural complications … • Many complications can be attributed to problems with discharge planning: – Changes in medicines … families that they know what to do and how do it, which lessens anxiety • Prevents post-discharge complications

17. With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - patient transfers from emergency department gurneys to inpatient hospital beds, and fewer surgical complications … improvement tools aimed at preventing diagnostic errors, healthcare associated infections, and surgical complications

18. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to reduce complications … methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications

19. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - When this occurs, it is harder to treat infections, and residents may develop complications. … At the same time, nursing home residents are at high risk for developing complications associated with

20. Antibiotic-Time-Out-Tool (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Antibiotic Time Out Tool Date: Patient Name or Identifier: Directions: This form should be completed by frontline clinicians on a daily basis for patients receiving antibiotics. Note: A table of commonly recommended durations of therapy can be found on the…