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461. 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

462. 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?

463. 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?

464. 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?

465. 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

466. 2019 Community Pharmacy SOPS Database Report Executive Summary Infograpic (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - SURVEY DATABASE REPORT Community pharmacy staff perceptions of their organization's patient safety culture … : Findings from the 2019 Community Pharmacy survey on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Database part1c1patmg … Action planning for improving patient safety culture 0 Define your goals 2 Plan your initiatives 3 … Communicate your action plan The Action Planning Tool for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture … provides step-by-step instructions on how to develop an action plan to improve patient safety culture

467. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions
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     November 01, 2019 - Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Not To Culture?

468. 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.

469. 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.

470. 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.

471. 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

472. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/VAP-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - If cultures cannot be obtained with noninvasive sampling, invasive methods should be considered. … Respiratory specimens should be sent for Gram stain and bacterial culture. … Blood cultures may be positive in up to 15 percent of patients, so are reasonable to obtain when VAP … If VAP is the likely diagnosis, use respiratory culture results to direct therapy. … S. aureus and Gram-negative bacilli grow easily in culture.

473. Educational Bundles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2019 - of facility staff, and when appropriate, residents and families, on infection prevention and safety culture … Communication Strategies Describes how barriers to effective communication can impact the safety culture … Word , 282 KB; HTML ) Urine Culturing and Antibiotic Stewardship Know When To Order Urine Cultures … Summarizes reasons why more urine cultures lead to more CAUTI diagnoses, tools to use to appropriately … identify when to order a urine culture, and strategies to apply to communicate signs and symptoms effectively

474. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/respiratory-facilitator-guide.pdf
     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

475. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - DIRECTIONS: Use this form when a complete blood count (CBC), urinalysis/urine culture, or antibiotic … MOMENT 2 HAVE I ORDERED APPROPRIATE CULTURES … Were appropriate cultures ordered before antibiotics were started? … DIRECTIONS: Use this form when a complete blood count (CBC), urinalysis/urine culture, or antibiotic … MOMENT 2 HAVE I ORDERED APPROPRIATE CULTURES BEFORE STARTING ANTIBIOTICS?

476. 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

477. PowerPoint Presentation
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     November 01, 2019 - Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care 12 Narrow therapy based on available culture … data if available If no culture data, switch to oral therapy when the patient has clinical improvement … , use previous culture data to guide therapy Acute cholecystitis Lower yield for blood cultures Common … stone and/or stent placement Cholecystectomy or percutaneous drainage Narrow therapy based on available culture

478. 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

479. Slide 1
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     May 28, 2015 - Urine culture was 10,000 CFU/ml E. coli. … : Different Incentives and Goals from Physicians May See Physicians as Barriers Physician Culture : … 24 Engaging Physicians in Quality and Safety Discover a Common Purpose Reframe Values and Beliefs … Improved Efficiency Excellent Reputation Greater Cause 25 Reframe Values and Beliefs … What can we do with our resources and culture?

480. 162-Example-Completed-Learning-Defects-Tool (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - The nurse also found after they drew blood cultures that they had accessed the central line, leaving … The nurse saw the resident drawing a blood culture from the central line, leaving the stop cock without … Institutional Factors (related to institution’s culture and resources) The nurse was hesitant to speak … up as she did not feel supported when the cultures were drawn incorrectly. … Enter recurrence ranking The Infection Preventionist will hold an education session about the blood culture