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41. Tool 4: How To Deliver the Re-Engineered Discharge to Diverse Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2025 - and Its Relationship to Readmissions Culture is the learned, shared patterns of beliefs, values, attitudes … In cross-cultural clinical encounters, multiple cultural influences and health belief systems come into … play, such as the culture of the provider, the culture of the patient, and the culture of the health … Hiring Bilingual, Bicultural Discharge Educators Staff who share the language and cultural background … backgrounds has often been debated.    

42. Tool 4: How To Deliver the Re-Engineered Discharge to Diverse Populations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool4.html
    March 01, 2025 - and Its Relationship to Readmissions Culture is the learned, shared patterns of beliefs, values, attitudes … In cross-cultural clinical encounters, multiple cultural influences and health belief systems come into … play, such as the culture of the provider, the culture of the patient, and the culture of the health … Hiring Bilingual, Bicultural Discharge Educators Staff who share the language and cultural background … backgrounds has often been debated.    

43. Importance of Mupirocin Administration (doc file)
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    March 01, 2022 - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures … reduces MRSA clinical cultures and prevents infection · Therefore, we use mupirocin ointment to prevent … methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures … reduces MRSA clinical cultures and prevents infection · Therefore, we use mupirocin ointment to prevent

44. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia
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    November 01, 2019 - for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care 1 Objectives Review recommendations for appropriate blood culture … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … infectious process not meeting above criteria BC are not indicated since low yield If known source, culture … possible source (e.g., oral, gastrointestinal, endocarditis), signs of infection, & > 1 positive blood culture … of bacteremia6 77% had at least one followup blood culture Only eight cultures grew Gram-negative rods

45. Staff Huddle Reminder: Importance of Mupirocin Administration (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2022 - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures … reduces MRSA clinical cultures and prevents infection  Therefore, we use mupirocin ointment to … methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures … reduces MRSA clinical cultures and prevents infection  Therefore, we use mupirocin ointment to

46. Estimated Cost Implications of Reducing Bloodstream Infections in Patients With Medical Devices (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2022 - Second, identify all annual MRSA and VRE clinical cultures in non-ICU patients with central lines, midline … A 37 percent reduction in MRSA and VRE clinical cultures is expected if decolonization is implemented … patients with selected devices AA [AA * (1-0.32)] Annual non-ICU positive MRSA and VRE clinical cultures … The cost savings from prevented MRSA and VRE clinical cultures are not estimated here since the costs … averted bloodstream infections (C) [AA * (0.32)] * $32,0002 = C $ Saved from MRSA/VRE clinical cultures

47. PowerPoint Presentation
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    June 01, 2021 - For residents with a catheter, urine culture specimens should be obtained from freshly placed catheters … Collection of Specimens 17 Summary Bacterial cultures should only be collected from … Review the Collecting Bacterial Cultures and Urine Culture Collection posters and display them in common … Supporting Materials Collection of Microbiological Cultures Collecting Bacterial Cultures Poster Urine … Culture Collection Poster Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form Monthly Data Collection Form

48. Completion Guide_Team Antibiotic Review Form (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - should have been collected before antibiotics were started and all of those cultures were collected … • If the patient was suspected to have an infection for which cultures should have been collected … before antibiotics were started and all of those cultures were not collected, “No” should be marked … with suspected urosepsis who had blood cultures but not urine cultures collected would be marked “ … • If the patient was suspected to have an infection for which cultures were not indicated, “N/A”

49. 095-Mrsa-Surveillance (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - Surveillance Category Active Surveillance Passive Surveillance Definition Collection of nasal cultures … indicated samples such as reports of laboratory-identified (LabID) MRSA bacteremia or past clinical cultures … additional resources, including increased supplies and staff time to collect and process the surveillance cultures … · Misses cases of asymptomatic MRSA colonization not identified through review of existing culture … · Targeted decolonization requires review of available historical culture and risk-factor data.

50. PowerPoint Presentation
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/gastro-slides.pptx
    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

51. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
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    January 01, 2003 - C-VAD Line Cultures: Indications The utility of catheter cultures is controversial; nonetheless, proper … Routinely removed catheters should not be sent for culture. … Do not give antibiotics based on a positive catheter culture only. … C-VAD Line Cultures: Interpretation * Blood Cultures Patients with a new episode of suspected … Always send a second set of blood cultures from a separate venipuncture site.

52. 047-Evidence-Behind-Decolonization-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
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    October 01, 2024 - found that CHG bathing resulted in 87 percent reduction in CLABSI and a 41 percent decrease in blood culture … MRSA-positive cultures. … also received mupirocin for 5 days, twice a day, if they were known to be MRSA-positive by history, culture … dark purple line shows patients’ cumulative daily hazard of having a Staphylococcus aureus clinical culture … of MRSA clinical cultures.

53. Cholecystitis and Cholangitis (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - antibiotics · Microbiology: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus species · Blood cultures … should be obtained in all patients with cholangitis · Blood cultures should be obtained in patients … with cholecystitis that have concomitant sepsis · Bile cultures should be obtained if the biliary tree … P. aeruginosa, and anaerobes; consider coverage for Enterococcus species · Review any prior biliary cultures … here] · [Place local recommendations here] · Narrowing and oral therapy · Narrow based on available culture

54. Gap Analysis for MRSA Prevention (Unit-Level) (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - At what frequency are routine MRSA nasal surveillance cultures performed in the unit? … Is there a process for training unit staff about appropriate methods for blood culture collection? …  Yes  No  Blood cultures not collected by unit staff Question 39. … culture)? … Is feedback provided to the unit regarding blood culture contamination rates?

55. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - It is reasonable to obtain a urinalysis and urine cultures in febrile and irritable children in this … Urine cultures should only be obtained from patients with symptoms of a UTI. … Slide 12 Moment 2: Urinalysis and Urine Cultures SAY: Most adolescent and adult women with acute … Slide 14 Collecting Urine Samples SAY: How urine cultures are collected matters because improper … to determine whether it is able to provide you a local antibiogram from urine cultures.

56. 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?

57. 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?

58. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions_2.pdf
    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?

59. 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?

60. What are the results of your efforts to prevent CAUTI? Collect outcome data monthly to find out! | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Number of Urine Cultures This includes urine cultures collected for every resident (i.e., with or without