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121. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … diagnosis in diverticulitis is challenging unless the patient has an abscess that is drained and sent for culture … Commentary Slide Number and Slide Moment 3: Narrowing and Converting to Oral Therapy SAY: If culture … Cultures of bile during ERCP should also be obtained. … Remember to narrow therapy based on culture data, if available.

122. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
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     November 01, 2019 - Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … enteric bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa Atypical organisms are uncommon Obtain sputum Gram stain and culture … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

123. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - During operative process, culture collected. … Culture considered positive if > 30cfu of bacteria identified. … During the operative procedure, a semiquantitative culture was collected from subcutaneous fat in the … positive cultures had colony counts that were too numerous to count. … , compared with 82 of 1,576 patients (5.2%) with negative cultures.

124. Staff Huddle Reminder: Importance of Iodophor Administration (pdf 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

125. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Slide 7 Sepsis: Cultures SAY: Patients with suspected sepsis should have blood cultures drawn … Or, the patient can have evidence of an infection and culture data are not available. … have grown, narrow based on those cultures. … Of course, if the culture results show a resistant organism that is not adequately covered, adjust … If the patient remains ill and you have no culture data to work with, consider further evaluation to

126. 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.

127. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - Moment 2: Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … After the decision to initiate antibiotics is made, ensure appropriate cultures are collected. … Cultures obtained before antibiotics are initiated are the most useful for making clinical decisions

128. Technical Interventions To Prevent CAUTI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - The following are appropriate conditions for urine culture use: Evaluation of sepsis without a clear … , evaluate current processes for obtaining urine cultures (e.g., avoid urinalysis or urine cultures as … Have periodic audits on urine culture use in intensive care units to look for trends, especially if CAUTI … avoid inappropriate antimicrobial use in catheterized patients is to refrain from obtaining a urine culture … When a urine culture is positive in a catheterized patient who has no symptoms of infection, do not treat

129. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Explained (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - The resident should have appropriate cultures ordered and obtained before starting antibiotics. … Have we collected appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

130. 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

131. 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

132. Nurse leader perspectives and experiences on caregiver support following a serious medical error. | PSNet
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     March 06, 2024 - Nursing leadership plays an important role in establishing a culture of safety . … importance of formal support programs, including peer support, education, error analysis, and just culture … Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Nurse leader attitudes and beliefs … April 24, 2018 Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically … in Healthcare March 27, 2024 Nurse leader attitudes and beliefs regarding

133. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
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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? … cellulitis and skin and soft tissue infections can be challenging Some reasons may include frequent lack of culture

134. Organizational factors that promote error reporting in healthcare: a scoping review. | PSNet
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     June 01, 2022 - Organizational cultures encouraging psychological safety can increase safe healthcare practices such … 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

135. Leadership behaviors, attitudes and characteristics to support a culture of safety. | PSNet
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     August 03, 2022 - Study Leadership behaviors, attitudes and characteristics to support a culture of … Leadership behaviors, attitudes and characteristics to support a culture of safety. … Results reveal several behaviors (e.g., exhibiting patient safety behavior), beliefs (e.g., fair and … Leadership behaviors, attitudes and characteristics to support a culture of safety. … June 12, 2019 Hospitals as cultures of entrapment: a re-analysis of the Bristol Royal

136. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2021 - Have we collected appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … The resident should have appropriate cultures ordered and obtained before starting antibiotics. … Several actions can be taken to integrate the Four Moments into the culture of your institution.

137. CAUTI Outcome Data Definitions (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - CAUTI events in one month Catheter Days (30x3)+10+12+7+4 = 123 catheter days Number of Urine Cultures … This includes urine cultures collected for every resident (i.e., with or without catheters) each month

138. Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices_Toolkit Overview and Recommended Prelaunch Activities (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - 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 … As is the case with many infection prevention programs, it will take time to achieve culture change. … or history documented on transfer o MRSA-positive screening test (if performed) or clinical culture … Use your current processes for identifying MRSA-positive clinical cultures, screening cultures, and history

139. A cross-cultural survey of residents' perceived barriers in questioning/challenging authority. | PSNet
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     June 15, 2012 - They suggest that efforts to improve team communication focus on organizational and professional cultures … September 23, 2020 Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically … ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative … Physicians Organizational Behaviorists Educators Communication between Providers Culture

140. 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.