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141. PowerPoint Presentation
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/manage-resident-RTI-slides.pptx
     June 01, 2021 - Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics? … Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics? … 8 Management RTI 8 Diagnostic Tests1,2 9 Gram stain and sputum culture Respiratory viral … Have we collected appropriate cultures and diagnostic tests before starting antibiotics? … Obtain a sputum culture, urine Legionella antigen, and urine pneumococcal antigen.

142. Choosing an Intervention and Measuring Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/intervention.html
     June 01, 2021 - The Monthly Data Collection Form can help track antibiotic use, urine cultures, and Clostridioides

143. 053-Dec-Guide-Readiness (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/053-dec-guide-readiness.docx
     October 01, 2024 - Two positive blood cultures should be required for skin commensals to be considered an infection. … difficult to obtain, a simplified method is to sum all unique patients on the unit with a positive blood culture … · MRSA Clinical Cultures: The total number of MRSA clinical cultures will help estimate your unit’s … Who and how you approach these key stakeholders will depend on the culture, standard processes, and existing … trial resulted in a reduction of 31 percent in all-cause bacteremia and 68 percent in VRE clinical culture

144. 3 Tk2 T3-Sample Monthly Summary Reports Final (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T3-Sample_Monthly_Summary_Reports_Final.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - of UTI SBAR Forms Used Number of UTIs That Met Diagnostic Criteria Number of Negative Cultures

145. 5 Tk2 P2T3-Antibiogram Specifications Phase 2 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T3-Antibiogram_specifications_Phase_2.doc
     June 02, 2025 - The antibiogram should only include culture results from specimens that were taken to diagnose clinical … Some patients receive multiple microbiological cultures during their stay in a nursing home. … Antimicrobial sensitivity results from clinical culture specimens are frequently reported in three categories … FORMCHECKBOX FORMCHECKBOX Include only diagnostic isolates (not surveillance cultures).

146. Introduction and Welcome | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-intro.html
     September 01, 2013 - Universal decolonization led to a 37 percent reduction in MRSA clinical cultures and a 44 percent reduction

147. Final Progress Report: Automated Lab Test Followup To Reduce Medical Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/greenes-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - The most common abnormal results for which follow-up was not completed were urine cultures (22), strep … throat cultures (22), Epstein-Barr virus titers (10), and stool cultures (9). … We chose three types of tests for study: Chlamydia cultures, blood lead levels, and urine pregnancy … culture 106 (9%) Blood culture 93 (8%) Serum protein analysis 34 (3%) Cerebrospinal fluid culture 33 … culture positive for Salmonella 1 Blood culture positive for Corynebacterium 1 Positive Clostridium

148. Introduction and Welcome | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-intro.html
     September 01, 2013 - Universal decolonization led to a 37 percent reduction in MRSA clinical cultures and a 44 percent reduction

149. 4 Tk1 T2-Clinician Letter Final 0 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T2-Clinician_letter_Final_0.pdf
     October 01, 2016 - and provide guidance regarding managing potential UTIs and indications for ordering urinalyses and cultures … Although residents with specific UTI symptoms like dysuria usually need treatment, urinalyses and cultures … mortality.1,2,3 Asymptomatic bacteriuria applies to a positive result from any routinely collected culture

150. 009-Antibiotic-Stewardship-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/009-antibiotic-stewardship-guide.docx
     October 01, 2024 - Fundamental Best Practices SAY: In addition to the four main strategies, Antibiotic Stewardship and Blood Culture … Urine cultures are often sent in the hospital, and often grow organisms. … However, positive urine cultures should only lead to antibiotic therapy if the patient has signs and … acute care setting on building and maintaining an antibiotic stewardship program, improving the safety culture … Sputum Gram-stain and cultures as well as blood cultures are negative, but his creatinine has increased

151. Antibiotic Stewardship FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/antibiotic-faqs.html
     July 01, 2017 - Are there certain species found in the urine culture that should be considered red flags and that will … antibiograms for urinary tract pathogens from the local hospital if you don't have antibiograms of cultures … Consider what factors or pressures may be driving the physician’s repeated rounds of cultures and antibiotics … How can I explain to a resident why we decided to not conduct a urinalysis or urine culture? … How do you start to change resident safety culture when the family asks for the patient to be sent to

152. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/antibiotic-faqs.docx
     March 01, 2017 - Are there certain species found in the urine culture that should be considered red flags and that will … antibiograms for urinary tract pathogens from the local hospital if you don’t have antibiograms of cultures … Consider what factors or pressures may be driving the physician’s repeated rounds of cultures and antibiotics … How can I explain to a resident why we decided to not conduct a urinalysis or urine culture? … How do you start to change resident safety culture when the family asks for the patient to be sent to

153. Final Progress Report: Implementing a Program of Patient Safety in Small, Rural Hospitals (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/jones-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - are based on the organizational psychology perspective, which views safety culture as shared beliefs … The organizational beliefs and practices associated with these components of culture are assessed by … Perceptions of organizational beliefs and practices that support a just culture, a flexible culture, … practices.6 Hospital leaders impact beliefs about organizational culture by supporting frontline workers … A typology of organizational cultures.

154. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/best-practices/uti.html
     September 01, 2022 - Discuss indications for sending urine cultures.

155. Final Progress Report: Detection, Education, Research, and Decolonization without Isolation in Long-term Care (DERAIL MRSA) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/peterson-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - Secondary outcomes included the number of MRSA infections, positive MRSA clinical cultures, antimicrobial … number of 63 culture positive body sites. … 16.83% 16.48% 11.61% 17.85% 12.84% 8.62% LTCF #1 Number of cultures tested 63 84 145 171 198 256 Positive … #2 Number of cultures tested 137 98 308 195 462 305 Positive Confirmed MRSA tests 34 16 37 29 60 14 … Culture prevalence 24.82% 16.33% 12.01% 14.87% 12.99% 4.59% LTCF #3 Number of cultures tested 115 176

156. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-transcript.doc
     June 10, 2014 - , and then when to treat and not treat those positive urine cultures. … those cultures the right way. … Have the cultures come back? … So, three quarters do not have guidelines for ordering urine cultures, a quarter do. … Changing culture is not an easy thing to do.

157. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs … Two tools specifically address CLAS: Address Language Differences (Tool #9) and Consider Culture, … Customs, and Beliefs (Tool #10) . … It fits with their cultural traditions and beliefs, making them feel respected and understood.

158. 4 Tk1 T2-Clinician Letter Final 0 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T2-Clinician_letter_Final_0.docx
     October 01, 2016 - and provide guidance regarding managing potential UTIs and indications for ordering urinalyses and cultures … Although residents with specific UTI symptoms like dysuria usually need treatment, urinalyses and cultures … ,[footnoteRef:3] Asymptomatic bacteriuria applies to a positive result from any routinely collected culture

159. 5 Tk2 P2T3-Antibiogram Specifications Phase 2 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T3-Antibiogram_Specifications_Phase_2.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - The antibiogram should only include culture results from specimens that were taken to diagnose clinical … Some patients receive multiple microbiological cultures during their stay in a nursing home. … Antimicrobial sensitivity results from clinical culture specimens are frequently reported in three categories … Include only diagnostic isolates (not surveillance cultures).

160. AHRQ_Brand_NameOnly (xls file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T3-Sample_Monthly_Summary_Reports_Final.xlsx
     October 01, 2016 - Repeats) Number of UTI SBAR Forms Used Number of UTIs That Met Diagnostic Criteria Number of Negative Cultures