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1. Complications During Labor and Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/complications-in-labor-and-delivery.html
   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. Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   SHARE: Surgery Surgical complications … Yet a substantial proportion of those complications are preventable. … Recovery This toolkit helps hospitals implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes and prevent complications … methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections and other complications … ambulatory surgery with inpatient surgery can be useful in the evaluation of use patterns, post-surgical complications

4. Appendix E | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/environmental-scan-programs/envscan-program-ape.html
   April 01, 2018 - 0 445 Psychological and Social Complications 21 446  -- Privacy Violations 2 437 Surgical … Complications 25 439  -- Intraoperative Complications 12 440  ---- Retained Surgical Instruments … and Sponges 0 447  ---- Wrong-Site Surgery 12 441  -- Postoperative Surgical Complications … 9 453  ---- Surgical Site Infections 9 438  -- Preoperative Complications 0 442 Transfusion … Complications 4 630 Communication Improvement 179 631  -- Communication between Providers

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 - 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

6. 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

7. Surveillance of Surgery-related Adverse Events in Missouri Using ICD-9-CM Codes (pdf file)
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Tuinen.pdf
   March 01, 2004 - Efforts have been made to identify complications, complications due to medical care, complications due … to errors in medical care, complications resulting in harm, preventable complications, process errors … 59 64 61 03 32 18 Other complications of procedures 64 72 63 09 19 19 Complications of medical … The rate for six medical complications was 32 percent. … They found a PVP rate of 68 percent for 15 surgical complications and 27 percent for 5 medical complications

8. Ventilator-Associated Event Surveillance: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/surveillance-slides.html
   February 01, 2017 - Multicenter evaluation of a novel paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. … emphasizes the importance of preventing all complications of MV, not just pneumonia. … Complications of mechanical ventilation—the CDC’s new surveillance paradigm. … Avoid pulmonary complications through fluid conservation. … Complications of mechanical ventilation—the CDC’s new surveillance paradigm.

9. 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

10. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_to_Use_Guide_Ldr_Slide_508.pdf
    May 14, 2013 - allies in safe medication use, infection control initiatives, observing care processes, reporting complications … financial performance • Decreased litigation and malpractice claims • Lower costs per case due to complications … improve: – Patient safety and quality • Improved communication • Decrease in hospital-acquired complications … post-discharge are adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications … • Many complications can be attributed to problems with discharge planning – Changes in medicines

11. 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

12. Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/index.html
    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

13. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/vae/vae-tool.docx
    January 01, 2017 - ventilator-associated events (VAC + Total IVAC) ________ VAC Total number of ventilator-associated complications … ________ IVAC (excluding PVAP) Total number of infection-related ventilator-associated complications

14. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_to_Use_Guide_Ldr_Slide_508.pptx
    July 23, 2010 - as allies in safe medication use, infection control initiatives, observing care processes, reporting complications … post-discharge are adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications … Many complications can be attributed to problems with discharge planning Changes in medicines before … include adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications. … Many of these complications can be attributed to discharge planning problems, including medication changes

15. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.docx
    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: .

16. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.pdf
    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

17. 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

18. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4u_combo_pdi09-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
    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

19. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/index.html
    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

20. Ventilator-Associated Event Data Collection Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/tool.html
    January 01, 2017 - ventilator-associated events (VAC + Total IVAC) ________ VAC Total number of ventilator-associated complications … ________ IVAC (excluding PVAP) Total number of infection-related ventilator-associated complications