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461. LTC Data Collection Tool (xls file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Catheter Utilization Ratio (Number of catheter days / Number of resident days ) x 100 0 Urine Culture … Collection Rate (Cultures per 1,000 resident days) (Number of collected urine cultures / Number of resident … This should be collected at the same time each day. 0 Urine Cultures: Number of urine cultures collected … new events) Resident Catheter Days (# of residents w/catheters) Resident Days (# of residents) Urine Cultures

462. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide Overview … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Creating a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory … Improved patient safety culture. Improved ASC patient experience of care. … Program Elements The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) CUSP is a culture change model … CUSP can help ASCs move from a culture in which a punitive response to error prevails to a culture of

463. Faclearncusp (doc file)
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     January 01, 2009 - Improving culture within the health care setting requires the culture model to be based on the understanding … that all culture is local and that work to reform culture must be owned at the unit level. … Introduce Just Culture principles, 2. Learn how Just Culture principles can augment CUSP, and 3. … of error is widespread within a Just Culture. … Slide 28 SAY: Culture change is hard work.

464. Webcast: New AHRQ SOPS Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2018 - Summary On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, AHRQ hosted a webcast featuring the new Surveys on Patient Safety Culture … Hospitals can use the survey items as a supplement to the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture … to assess how organizational culture influences health IT and patient safety. … Project Director User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Westat Introduction … Public Health Service Overview of AHRQ's Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (PDF, 247 KB)   Tejal

465. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Material Use Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Topic: Implementing Change Method: During a leadership meeting, discuss your facility's safety culture … During the meeting, obtain a commitment from leaders to improve safety culture. … Materials: Slides 14–19 Audience: LTC administrators and leaders Topic: Just Culture Method: During … a meeting, use the slides and facilitator notes to define and discuss the principles of Just Culture … Through an open discussion or a written exercise, ask the team to reflect on what elements of Just Culture

466. 4 Tk2 T2-Antibiotic Pocket Cards (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - • Do not culture stool; only perform toxin assay. … How to Isolate Culture-positive Residents: • Limit time outside of room for C. difficile positive resident … Positive urine culture in an asymptomatic resident. 2. … Urine culture ordered solely because of change in urine appearance. 3. … Skin wound without cellulitis, sepsis, or osteomyelitis (regardless of culture result). 10.

467. 10 Patient Safety Tips for Hospitals (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2009 - Measure your hospital’s patient safety culture. … Survey hospital staff to assess your facility’s patient safety culture. … for improving the patient safety culture, evaluating the impact of interventions, and tracking changes … If your health system includes nursing homes or ambulatory care medical groups, share culture surveys … Free patient safety culture surveys for hospitals (AHRQ Publication No. 04-0041), nursing homes (AHRQ

468. Guide (doc file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Prevention Overview of Toolkit Modules · Slides 6–13 Implementing Change · Slides 14–16 Just Culture … During the meeting, obtain a commitment from leaders to improve safety culture. … Materials: Slides 14–19 Audience: LTC administrators and leaders Topic: Just Culture Method: During … a meeting, use the slides and facilitator notes to define and discuss the principles of Just Culture … Through an open discussion or a written exercise, ask the team to reflect on what elements of Just Culture

469. Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2018 - They enhance the reliability of laboratory testing in medical offices; establish a culture of patient … Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey on Patient Safety Culture is a survey in the suite of AHRQ Surveys … on Patient Safety Culture. … The survey, designed specifically for ASC staff, asks for opinions about the culture of patient safety … The survey can raise staff awareness about patient safety, assess the status of patient safety culture

470. Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Pilot Study Results (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2015 - Study Results Results From the 2014 AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture … Survey Development Patient safety culture can be defined as the set of values, beliefs, and norms about … to which their culture emphasizes the importance of patient safety. … Patient Safety Culture Composites and Definitions Patient Safety Culture Composite Definition: The extent … Patient Safety Culture Composites and Definitions Table 2.

471. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - His sputum culture grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa. … cultures). … cultures based on urinalysis results may lead to inappropriate urine culture and unnecessary antimicrobial … Urine Culture Use Appropriate Urine Culture Use Urine quality: color, smell, sediments, turbidity … Indications for Urine Cultures What Triggers Urine Cultures?

472. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - His sputum culture grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa. … cultures). … cultures based on urinalysis results may lead to inappropriate urine culture and unnecessary antimicrobial … Urine Culture Use Appropriate Urine Culture Use Urine quality: color, smell, sediments, turbidity … Indications for Urine Cultures What Triggers Urine Cultures?

473. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2015 - His sputum culture grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa. … cultures). … cultures based on urinalysis results may lead to inappropriate urine culture and unnecessary antimicrobial … Urine Culture Use Appropriate Urine Culture Use Urine quality: color, smell, sediments, turbidity … Indications for Urine Cultures What Triggers Urine Cultures?

474. Slide 1
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     March 01, 2017 - institutionalization or integration of programs into ongoing organizational systems Sustaining the ideas, beliefs … Prevent project fatigue Control processes Monitor progress Engage senior leaders Establish improvement culture … Are values, beliefs, and practices incorporated into the mission of your organization and/or are they … Modules Sustainability | ‹#› 8 Sustainability Embedding a successful improvement into the culture … Partners in Care: How the nation’s largest home health agency is transforming its culture.

475. 040-Mrsa-Surveillance-Notes (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Slide 13 Culture Collection Sites SAY: The sensitivity of surveillance specimens obtained from different … Slide 14 When To Collect Cultures SAY: Active surveillance cultures can be collected at predetermined … Admission surveillance cultures detect patients colonized with MRSA at admission. … hospital admission and the time of the weekly surveillance culture. … The MRSA rates, measured through passive surveillance of clinical culture results, decreased.

476. Recommended Infection Prevention Components of Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - All other positive culture results separated by location/site, including hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis … recorded for each occurrence, including patient identification, date of infection diagnosis (positive culture … Water and dialysate cultures and endotoxin levels b. … Reuse water source and reuse equipment cultures and endotoxins c.

477. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - should be considered when indicated · Enterococcus species and Candida species that grow in sputum cultures … are highly likely to be colonizers and do not require treatment · Obtain sputum Gram stain and culture … whenever possible · Obtain blood cultures for severely ill patients · Consider obtaining Legionella … pneumonia · In most cases, stop antibiotics if viral respiratory testing is positive · Use sputum culture … therapy was started and the beta-lactam is active against respiratory pathogen recovered · If no sputum cultures

478. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - A sputum Gram stain and culture is recommended whenever a patient is able to produce sputum. … If the sputum culture grows an amoxicillin or ampicillin- susceptible organism, if the streptococcal … Sputum Gram stain and culture is not needed in many cases of COPD exacerbations, but can be considered … Slide 28 Moment 2: To Culture or not To Culture? … Fluoroquinolone use should be generally avoided, unless prior or current culture data for a specific

479. Engaging the Nurse, Physician, Patient/Family, CUSP- Learn From Defects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2018 - Urine culture was 10,000 CFU/ml E. coli . … engaging physicians in quality and safety, which are: Discover a Common Purpose, Reframe Values and Beliefs … Outcomes Improved Efficiency Excellent Reputation Greater Cause Slide 26 Reframe Values and Beliefs … What can we do with our resources and culture? … Slide 55 Learn From a Defect Supporting a culture of safety Easy to use: Efficient

480. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Progress Report on the National 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2012 - Improve safety culture. … questions categorized into 3 sections: 7 questions in Knowledge/Skills, 7 6 questions in Attitudes/Beliefs … time of the initial culture (59.6 percent). … Five out of the six questions in the Attitudes/Beliefs section have shown improvement since baseline … nurses, physicians, etc.) in our unit can list at least three maintenance interventions Attitudes/Beliefs