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21. 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/overview-ptsoffventilator-facguide.docx
    January 01, 2017 - Slide 6 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

22. Effective Treatment Trends and Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/trends.html
    June 01, 2018 - showed elimination of a Hispanic-Non-Hispanic White disparity: Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications … Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications per 100,000 population, age 18 and over. … Three measures showed widening of income-related disparities: Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications … Admissions for diabetes with long-term complications per 100,000 population, age 18 and over.

23. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/index.html
    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

24. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-fac-guide.html
    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

25. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Feeding Tubes (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-tubes.pdf
    December 13, 2013 - Complications ■ NG tubes: – Easily displaced. – Risk of malplacement/pulmonary aspiration.

26. Meddings, Jennifer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsummedd.html
    October 01, 2014 - Institution: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Grant Title: Targeting Hospital-Acquired Complications … Project Description: The proposed research has two main aims: Validate measures of hospital-acquired complications

27. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/ena-slides/conclusion.html
    October 01, 2015 - CAUTI reduction improves patient care and outcomes, limits complications, and prevents extended lengths … CAUTI reduction Improves patient care and outcomes Limits complications Prevents extended lengths

28. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events Module 2
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/vae/monitoring-vae-slides.pptx
    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

29. Goldman, L. Elizabeth | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsumgold.html
    October 01, 2014 - Improve the accuracy of hospital assessments of complications and performance by developing a methodology … using laboratory data to distinguish comorbidities present at admission from potential complications

30. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 4) (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_4_PPT_508.pdf
    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

31. Ventilator-Associated Event Surveillance: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/surveillance-fac-guide.html
    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

32. With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/teamstepps-30.html
    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

33. 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

34. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-overview.html
    May 01, 2017 - participating in the program included— Reduction in surgical site infections (SSIs) and other surgical complications … are (benchmark) and assist in guiding you to where you want to be (zero SSIs and reduction in other complications … communication strategies, providing standardization across patient care, and decreasing the likelihood of complications

35. Diabetes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/diabetes.html
    June 01, 2018 - , dilated eye exams, and flu shots help people keep their diabetes under control and avoid diabetic complications … for Uncontrolled Diabetes, by Race/Ethnicity Hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications … Trends: The rate of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications per 100,000 … Admissions for Uncontrolled Diabetes, by Area Income Hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications … Diabetes, by Race/Ethnicity, Stratified by Income Hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications

36. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Tracheostomies (pdf file)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-trache.pdf
    December 13, 2013 - Complications ■ Mortality directly associated with tracheostomy ranges between 0.5% and 3%. … ■ Imaging is not routinely required, only when complications develop.

37. AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Under the Science of Safety
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand/understand-science-safety.pptx
    May 01, 2017 - practice based on the unit’s acuity and rate of volume change, there is an increased risk of patient complications … A shift in authority led to a significant drop in the number of reported birth complications. 7 AHRQ

38. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/monitoring-fac-guide.html
    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

39. Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Pneumonia After Cardiac Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/896.html
    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

40. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 4)
    www.cpsi.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_4_PPT_508.pptx
    April 01, 2011 - 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 before and … include adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, and procedural complications. … Many of these complications can be attributed to discharge planning problems, including medication changes … and families that they know what to do and how do it, which lessens anxiety Prevents post-discharge complications