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101. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 14, 2022 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/organizational-factors-promote-error-reporting-healthcare-scoping-review Organizational cultures … promote psychological safety and error reporting (e.g., leadership support, nonpunitive and fair blame cultures … improvement processes) as well as organizational factors that serve as barriers to reporting (e.g., blame culture … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/emotional-fallout-culture-blame-and-shame https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ … emotional-fallout-culture-blame-and-shame

102. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     January 29, 2021 - Despite the fact that physicians and nurses reported an increased perception of a culture of safety … Yet, there is still hope that creating a better culture of safety will hopefully encourage more teamwork … on team-based approaches to care, we can minimize the “cross- cover mindset” and further promote a culture … Health systems may need to redesign the continuum of care for hospitalized patients to promote a culture … Contaminant blood cultures and resource utilization.

103. Examples of Patient Harm Related to Invasive Devices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - His blood cultures grew methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). … Blood and urine cultures grew Escherichia coli . … Blood cultures grew Staphylococcus aureus , and the catheter tip grew the same organism. … The patient’s bacteremia persisted, and his repeat blood cultures continued to be positive for more than … His sputum culture grew Pseudomonas aeruginosa .

104. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
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     October 01, 2024 - daily 2 percent CHG cloths Results: 87 percent reduction in CLABSI and 41 percent decrease in blood culture … Additional Decolonization Impact Additional benefits from subsequent analysis: Reduction of blood culture … leave-on CHG bed bath Twice-daily mupirocin for 5 days for patients who are MRSA-positive by history, culture … Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? … anatomical sites should be sampled for screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by culture

105. Returning to the roots of culture: a review and re-conceptualisation of safety culture. | PSNet
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     December 16, 2020 - culture. … Returning to the roots of culture: A review and re-conceptualisation of safety culture. … Returning to the roots of culture: A review and re-conceptualisation of safety culture. … January 7, 2015 Safety culture across cultures. … February 3, 2021 Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient

106. 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

107. Establishing a Safety Culture: Thinking Small | PSNet
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     December 01, 2006 - 7 XML Endnote tagged PubMedId RIS Download Citation Perspective Safety cultures … Normalizing Safety Cultures in Health Care Settings The field of organizational learning tells us the … kinds of attitudes and behaviors that need to be in place for safety cultures to emerge. … Implementing safety cultures in medicine: what we learn by watching physicians. … That is, the norms, the practices, the values, and the beliefs of the people working in a given unit,

108. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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     November 01, 2019 - Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care 7 Moment 2: Diagnostic Tests for VAP Noninvasive culture … recommended over invasive techniques like bronchoscopy1 Send respiratory specimen for Gram stain and culture … diagnosis is identified, stop VAP-targeted therapy 13 If VAP is the likely diagnosis, use respiratory culture

109. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2003 - At that time, a single blood culture grew vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), as did a … A repeat blood culture grew VRE, which necessitated removal and re-placement of yet another central … are clinically stable without any clear focus of infection usually are not harmed by waiting until culture … This is also true if a patient was pre-treated with antibiotics, which may render the culture results … If a bacterial infection is identified, the culture and susceptibility data should be used to narrow

110. Decision Making and Readiness for Implementation (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - clinical trials and adoption after definitive trials must be determined based upon local needs and culture … Choose a 1-year period and count the number of unique patients who have a positive blood culture from … Use your current processes for identifying MRSA carriers using reported history, prior culture result … The order of approaching these key stakeholders will depend on the culture, standard processes, and … cultures, and history of MRSA to target those with devices

111. Assessment and Management of the Resident With a Suspected Urinary Tract Infection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Poster – Collecting Bacterial Cultures (PDF, 202.3 KB) Poster – Urine Culture Collection (PDF, 178 … KB) One-Page Document – Collection of Microbiological Cultures (PDF, 159.2 KB)   The materials

112. Hawley-notes-151016 copy - Teresa (pdf file)
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     May 29, 2025 - , belief systems across cultures we  know vary. … because  of perceived   differences in  attitudes and  beliefs. 30                   … needed to  convey risk and  benefit information  to  those  from different cultural backgrounds. … Innovations and   interventions to  use  tailoring  has been  shown  to  engage patients from different cultural … backgrounds.

113. Tracking-Measuring-Data-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2021 - and reviews a data collection form designed to facilitate tracking antibiotic use, orders for urine cultures … Facilities can use data on antibiotic use, orders for urine cultures, and C. difficile LabID events to … The form can also be used to keep track of C. difficile LabID events and the number of urine cultures … Another data measure to consider tracking is the number of urine cultures collected. … All urine cultures should be collected, even if they are not positive.

114. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Always attempt to obtain a sputum Gram stain and culture. … Blood cultures should be considered for severely ill patients. … S. aureus and gram-negative bacilli pathogens grow easily in culture. … If HAP is the likely diagnosis, use sputum culture results to narrow therapy. … When cultures have not been obtained, directing therapy can be challenging, and the decision to de-

115. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making in Long Term Care_Questions (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - • Fever • Productive cough • Dysuria • Purulence from skin • Warm, red skin Moment 2 Cultures & Empiric … Have we collected appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

116. 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?

117. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making in Long-Term Care 4x6 Cards (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Have we collected appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have we collected appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

118. The Integration of Hospitalists into U.S. Academic Medical Centers
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     March 07, 2014 - and when and when not to treat positive urine cultures. … Combination Efforts at CAUTI prevention often entail: Improving urine culturing practices: Only send cultures … Send the cultures the right way Eliminating treatment of asymptomatic bacteruria. … Send U/A & urine culture   Document indication for sending urine culture   Start empiric therapy (see … down to oral quinolone if susceptible * Empiric choices should take into account recent previous cultures

119. Mindfulness: Engaging Frontline Providers in Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - and when and when not to treat positive urine cultures. … Efforts at CAUTI prevention often entail: Improving urine culturing practices: Only send cultures … Send the cultures the right way Eliminating treatment of asymptomatic bacteruria. … Question Does your hospital have guidelines that describe appropriate criteria for ordering urine cultures … * Empiric choices should take into account recent previous cultures* Follow culture results and de-escalate

120. Importance of Iodophor Administration (doc file)
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     March 01, 2022 - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures … methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers by history, screening tests, or clinical cultures