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1. Complications During Labor and Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2018 - 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. 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

4. 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

5. New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2023 - Newsletter AHRQ News Now Events 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

6. The safety and effectiveness of pediatric chiropractic: a survey of chiropractors and parents in a practice-based research network | Practice-Based Research Networks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 09, 2022 - MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Demographics, clinical presentations, treatment-associated aggravations, complications … Treatment-associated complications were not indicated by the chiropractic and parent responders. … Keywords:  Adolescent, Adult, adverse effects, Aged, Child, Child,Preschool, Chiropractic, clinical, complications

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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: .

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Comparative Reports on Surgical Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - The website reports on the number of times a surgeon has performed a procedure, the number of complications

15. 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

16. 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

17. Clinical inquiries. How should we follow athletes after a concussion? | Practice-Based Research Networks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 10, 2022 - Volume:  54 Pages:  902-904 Keywords:  Athletic Injuries, Brain Concussion, clinical, Cohort Studies, complications

18. The 10 Questions You Should Know | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - What are the possible complications? Which hospital is best for my needs?

19. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded a 4-year project to reduce HAIs and other surgical complications

20. 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