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1. Implementing Catheter Guidance to Improve Appropriate Use and Patient Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2022 - Developing protocols that enhance appropriate use and reduce complications is critical to ensuring patient … him to pursue this area of research and develop an expertise in the prevention of hospital-acquired complications … improve appropriateness of PICC use; evaluate whether these improvements are associated with fewer complications … ; and identify which aspects of implementation led to the greatest change in appropriateness and complications … In the 50 hospitals testing MAGIC, 98 percent of them are seeing a statistically significant drop in complications

2. 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

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. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

5. 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

6. 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

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. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2017 - Guide : It may be helpful to review this guide before starting a project to reduce infections and other complications … surgery center team in implementing a program to improve safety culture and reduce infections and other complications

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. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - 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

11. 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

12. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events Module 2
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    January 01, 2017 - Monitoring VAEs ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients 4 Possible Complications … Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. … Toward improved surveillance: the impact of ventilator-associated complications on length of stay and … Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. … Toward improved surveillance: the impact of ventilator-associated complications on length of stay and

13. Ventilator-Associated Event Surveillance: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Mike Klompas et al. published an article in 2011, evaluating the complications of mechanical ventilation … It concluded that the surveillance definitions for VAC capture a similar set of complications to traditional … Shifting the focus of surveillance from pneumonia alone helps us understand the importance of all these complications … It helps us focus on the importance of preventing all complications resulting from pneumonia, not just … The research showed that screening ventilator settings for VACs captures a similar set of complications

14. 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

15. 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

16. PowerPoint Presentation
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    November 01, 2019 - between both arms On presentation, 97% with abdominal pain, 90% with fever, mean WBC 12.5 cells/mL Complications

17. How To Use the Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Guides (Word): The two guides provide the structure for preventing surgical site infections and other complications

18. Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Postoperative pneumonia, among the most common complications following cardiac surgery, was associated … featured this week include: Validity of 16 AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to identify in-hospital complications

19. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Slide 5: Possible Complications of Mechanical Ventilation Say: Mechanical ventilation puts patients … at risk for a number of complications, including ventilator-associated events, acute respiratory distress … There is some overlap of categories, as some of these complications cause oxygenation changes that qualify … developed for Epic or other electronic medical records, and define a broad range of conditions and complications

20. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - Complications were rare in the two groups with 2 percent of patients in the group that did not receive