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1. Collecting Bacterial Cultures (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/poster-bacterial-cultures.pdf
   June 01, 2021 - Collecting Bacterial Cultures AHRQ Pub. … No. 17(21)-0029 June 2021 • Only collect bacterial cultures from … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Collecting Bacterial Cultures

2. Collection of Microbiological Cultures (pdf file)
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   June 01, 2021 - Collection of Microbiological Cultures Only collect bacterial cultures in symptomatic patients … Urine Cultures Symptom-Free Pee Let It Be! … Respiratory Cultures When to collect a specimen • Only if pneumonia is suspected—not for chronic … Collection of Microbiological Cultures AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Stewardship … – Long-Term Care Culture Collection 2 References CDC Specimen Collection Guidelines.

3. 4 Things You Should Know about Urine Cultures (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2017 - 4 Things You Should Know about Urine Cultures 4 Things You Should Know About Urine Cultures 1. … Bacteriuria is the term used to describe a positive urine culture, the presence of bacteria in the urine … Inappropriate triggers for urine cultures include— ■ Urine color ■ Urine smell ■ Urine sediment ■ … Urine cultures should only be ordered if one or more CAUTI symptoms are present.

4. Final Progress Report: Creating Learning Cultures Around Mistakes for Residents (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Creating Learning Cultures Around Mistakes for Residents 1 Project Title: Creating … Learning Cultures Around Mistakes for Residents Timothy J. … mistake, not excusing one’s part in the incident but not letting the event create untrue or exaggerated beliefs … This need to integrate learning cultures into existing residency work cultures means mean that the development … Implementing safety cultures in medicine: What we learn by watching physicians.

5. The Culture of Culturing—The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2017 - The Culture of Culturing—The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures AHRQ Safety Program … Order Urine Cultures Welcome to today's educational session on The Culture of Culturing: The Importance … Determine when (or not) to order urine cultures. … If a urine culture is sent, and bacteria are found (in other words, a positive urine culture), that resident … Urinalysis Urine culture Urinalysis and antibiotics Culture and antibiotics Nothing Slide

6. The SHARE Approach: Cultural Competence and Getting To Know Your Patient (pdf file)
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   October 25, 2024 - Remember that each patient has a unique set of beliefs and values, and they may not share yours. … > Be aware of your own culture and how that may affect how you communicate with your patients. … > You won’t be able to learn about every aspect of every patient’s culture. … Don’t be afraid to let your patients know that you are unfamiliar with their culture. … > Recognize that in many cultures, family members are deeply involved in health decisions.

7. 012-Blood-Culture-Practices-Webinar (doc file)
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   October 01, 2024 - Slide 6 Importance of Blood Culture Stewardship SAY: Blood cultures are one of the most common microbiologic … Unfortunately, up to half of these positive blood cultures may represent blood culture contaminants rather … For example, one study of ICUs in Europe reported a blood culture utilization rate of 60 blood cultures … by blood culture contamination or S. aureus cases, which require repeated blood cultures. … Slide 16 Blood Culture Collection Process SAY: When collecting blood cultures, the number of sets

8. Urine Culturing Stewardship in the ICU Setting Facilitator Notes (doc file)
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   April 01, 2022 - This module will identify the situations in which urine cultures are appropriate or inappropriate. … It is needed because urine cultures can be harmful if they’re ordered in the wrong situation. … This includes how a culture is collected, what container is used and how transport time can impact culture … There are inaccurate beliefs and rote behaviors. … Beliefs can be corrected with stewardship education.

9. 014-Bcx-Algorithm-Decision-Support-Tool (doc file)
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   October 01, 2024 - Blood Culture Algorithm Decision Support Tool Originally published in “Does This Patient Need … Is the primary site of infection not readily available for culture? iii. … Assess if blood culture is to document clearance in three scenarios: i. … Assess if blood culture is needed for either: i. … Single positive blood culture with skin flora in a symptomatic patient ii.

10. The Culture of Culturing: The Importance of Knowing When to Order Urine Cultures
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    March 01, 2017 - The Culture of Culturing: The Importance of Knowing When to Order Urine Cultures The Culture of Culturing … — The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures AHRQ Pub. … Determine when (or not) to order urine cultures—sometimes a urine culture just isn’t needed. … If a urine culture is sent, and bacteria are found (in other words, a positive urine culture), that resident … Urinalysis Urine culture Urinalysis and antibiotics Culture and antibiotics Nothing Urine Culturing ׀

11. Preventing CAUTI: Focus on Culturing Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2023 - Obtaining any culture needs to be based on a suspicion of infection of the site cultured. … Indications for Urine Cultures Many clinicians order urine cultures in catheterized patients who are … What Triggers Urine Cultures? … cultures based on urinalysis results may lead to inappropriate urine culture and unnecessary antimicrobial … Discourage Urine Culture Use   Appropriate Urine Culture Use Urine quality: color, smell

12. PowerPoint Presentation
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    June 01, 2021 - Create an alert that requires prescribers to review and sign off on cultures when they return from the … and beliefs Identifies system opportunities to prevent them from occurring again Identifying Targets … Clinicians are not using appropriate criteria to order urine cultures. … Pocket guides with criteria for when to order urine cultures. … Identifying Targets 15 Adaptive Problems Adaptive solutions require a change in attitudes, beliefs,

13. 013-Strategies-Prevent-Bcc (doc file)
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    October 01, 2024 - ICU & Non-ICU Optimize Patient Selection for Blood Cultures.1 Use a Blood Culture Decision Support Tool … to guide ordering of blood cultures to limit inappropriate cultures. … Use Venipuncture To Draw Blood Cultures; Avoid Central Line Blood Draws.2 Peripherally drawn blood cultures … Don gloves prior to drawing blood cultures. … Draw At Least Two Sets of Blood Cultures.

14. Section 5, Table 3 (pdf file)
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    August 01, 2014 - Section 5, Table 3 Table 3: Evidence for Obtaining a Blood Culture for Treatment of Children with Sepsis … Q-METRIC Sepsis Measure 3, Timely Blood Culture for Sepsis Syndrome U18HS020516 Page 20 Submitted … should be considered in addition to routine aerobic cultures. … If antibiotics have already been given, blood culture should be obtained immediately prior to the next … Q-METRIC Sepsis Measure 3, Timely Blood Culture for Sepsis Syndrome U18HS020516 Page 21 Submitted

15. Identifying Targets for Improving Antibiotic Use
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    November 01, 2019 - Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care 4 Adaptive Problems Require a change in attitudes, beliefs … and beliefs Identifies system opportunities to prevent harm from occurring again 6 Identifying Targets … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Sputum cultures grow a pan-susceptible E. coli. Not necessary to continue broad-spectrum therapy. … A sputum culture is pending. In this case, the diagnosis is highly likely to be heart failure.

16. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
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    October 01, 2024 - Practices and Stewardship 6 Importance of Blood Culture Stewardship Blood cultures are one of the … Only 2 to 10 percent of blood cultures grow.3 Up to half of these positive results represent blood culture … Inappropriate blood culture ordering: Records show blood cultures are often ordered for cases that do … Obtaining blood cultures by venipuncture versus from central lines: impact on blood culture contamination … Does this patient need blood cultures?

17. Implementing Safety Cultures in Medicine: What We Learned by Watching Physicians (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2003 - Implementing Safety Cultures in Medicine: What We Learned by Watching Physicians 15 Implementing … Safety Cultures in Medicine: What We Learn by Watching Physicians Timothy J. … mistake, not excusing one’s part in the incident but not letting the event create untrue or exaggerated beliefs … Observing Safety Culture 17 Table 1. … The interpretation of cultures. New York: Basic Books; 1973. 36. Strauss AL.

18. 5 Tk2 T2-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Getting Started (doc file)
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    May 01, 2014 - You will need the results of diagnostic cultures—that is, cultures taken from residents suspected of … performed for each culture. … Request this data for diagnostic cultures (cultures from residents suspected of having an infection). … name · Culture date · Culture source · Culture results (organism(s)) · Antibiotic susceptibilities … You should record the culture information for every diagnostic culture result in the timeframe of interest

19. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - this presentation, participants will be able to:  Review recommendations for appropriate blood culture … SAY: Before we focus on specific organisms, it is important to review indications for blood culture … 24-hour period, 73 percent of bacteremic episodes were detected with one blood culture, 94 percent … In these cases, bacteria are usually growing in more than one blood culture set. … It is important that appropriate blood culture collection criteria are used.

20. Blood Culture Practices and Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2024 - Implementation of MRSA Prevention Fundamental Best Practices Up to half of all positive blood cultures … Discuss strategies to promote blood culture stewardship and reduce blood culture contamination. … Documents: Blood Culture Practices and Stewardship – Slides (PPTX, 11.2 MB) Blood Culture Practices … a decision-making algorithm for optimal use of blood cultures, with appropriate clinical indications … for initial and follow-up blood cultures in non-neutropenic populations.