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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867450/psn-pdf
January 08, 2025 - The elements include promoting transparency, supporting safe cultures through
partnership, and encouraging
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/culture-safety
September 15, 2024 - Culture of Safety
Citation Text:
Culture of Safety. PSNet [internet]. … Background Patient safety culture is the extent to which an organization's culture supports and promotes … It refers to the values, beliefs, and norms that are shared by healthcare practitioners and other staff … Patient safety culture can be measured by determining the values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors related … Culture of Safety
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/safety/communication-facilitator-guide.pdf
November 01, 2019 - Communication and Teamwork
SAY:
Communication and teamwork are two key elements of
patient safety culture … Sputum Gram stain and cultures as well as
blood cultures are negative, but his creatinine has
increased … Since his cultures don’t show MRSA or
Pseudomonas, I think it would be reasonable to stop
the vancomycin … Sputum Gram stain is negative
and cultures grow normal respiratory flora. … The prescriber should ask two
questions, “Have I ordered appropriate cultures before
starting antibiotics
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/four-moments-residents.pdf
June 01, 2021 - Four Questions
To Ask Your Doctor or Nurse About
Antibiotics
Cultures and other
laboratory tests
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www.ahrq.gov/sdoh/clas/index.html
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.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/program-part2-slides.pptx
November 01, 2019 - antibiotics
Optimizes empiric antibiotic choices
Gives opportunity to advise about sending appropriate cultures … antibiotics
Optimizes empiric antibiotic choices
Gives opportunity to advise about sending appropriate cultures … antibiotics
Optimizes empiric antibiotic choices
Gives opportunity to advise about sending appropriate cultures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49778/psn-pdf
December 01, 2016 - The patient was intubated and treated with broad-
spectrum antibiotics while waiting for blood culture … A few hours into the admission, the microbiology
lab called the ICU to report that the blood cultures … She reviewed the laboratory data and was surprised to find that the
patient had no positive blood cultures … She called the microbiology
lab, who confirmed that the patient had not had any positive blood cultures … In the course of the discussion,
she came to a troubling realization: the positive yeast cultures were
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/38857/psn-pdf
July 31, 2012 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/name-and-shame
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospitals-cultures-entrapment-re-analysis-bristol-royal-infirmary
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/casalino/paper/idkeydsrapc.html
February 01, 2014 - Culture
Type of culture
How can organizational culture be measured in health care delivery organizations … What are the distinct types of organizational culture and their prevalence? … Leadership
Type of leadership
Analogous questions as for culture. … For example, what organizational structures and cultures are likely to result in the use of better processes … How do external incentives affect organizational structures, cultures, and processes?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T4-Letter_to_Prescribing_Clinicians.docx
October 01, 2016 - Urine cultures should not be performed on a scheduled basis (e.g., monthly).
1. … Urine cultures should not be used to identify UTIs in the absence of symptoms.
1. … Urine cultures should be used to identify the most appropriate antibiotic. … appropriate to initiate empirical antibiotic therapy; but for all other symptoms, wait for a urine culture
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-error-reduction-effect-employee-satisfaction-organizational-support
November 06, 2024 - survey conducted at four South Korean hospitals found that employees' satisfaction with organizational culture … August 23, 2007
Culture of resistance. … April 24, 2013
Evaluation of organizational culture among different levels of healthcare … February 29, 2012
AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: psychometric analyses … November 25, 2009
Identifying organizational cultures that promote patient safety.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/qi-action-slides.pptx
April 01, 2022 - (SIR) and standardized utilization ratio (SUR)
ICU Assessment
Additional data:
Unit patient safety culture … skill audits
CAUTI
Monthly adherence to skill audits
Multidisciplinary catheter rounds
Adaptive
Unit culture … staff; daily ICU goal sheet not used—it is old and needs revision to be actionable
All cases had blood cultures … documentation did not support
All 6 cases had fever; 2 cases had symptoms of UTI other than fever; all cultures … Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet
Video – Addressing Attitudes and Beliefs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/852805/psn-pdf
August 23, 2023 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/surgeon-so-bad-it-was-criminal
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospitals-cultures-entrapment-re-analysis-bristol-royal-infirmary
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nursing-home-administrators-opinions-resident-safety-culture-nursing-homes
April 06, 2011 - Study
Nursing home administrators' opinions of the resident safety culture in nursing … Nursing home administrators' opinions of the resident safety culture in nursing homes. … The researchers surveyed nursing home administrators and found that safety cultures were less developed … Nursing home administrators' opinions of the resident safety culture in nursing homes. … June 29, 2011
Safety culture of nursing homes: opinions of top managers.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/854259/psn-pdf
January 01, 2024 - following a clinical encounter included more important clinical information
(e.g., ordering blood cultures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73478/psn-pdf
July 07, 2021 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-malpractice-claims-members-uniformed-services
Organizations with safety cultures
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/urine-culturing/whento-order/urine-cultures-worksheet.docx
March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
National Content Series Discussion Guide
The Culture … of Culturing: The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures
Discussion Questions About the
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T2-Sample_Data_Request_Phase_2.doc
May 01, 2014 - guidelines recommend only using a single organism per resident, so that residents who have had multiple cultures … · Breakdown of source of culture. … If possible, please list the type of sample (urine, blood, sputum, wound culture) from which the microbiology … know the proportion of each type in the total (e.g., 60% urine, 10% blood, 20% sputum, and 10% wound culture
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/36504/psn-pdf
February 16, 2011 - a simulation-based medical education center and how it changed the educational and
patient safety cultures
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/cquips0804.html
October 01, 2014 - Illinois Hospitals Use AHRQ's Patient Safety Culture Survey to Improve Quality
Search All Impact … The tool—the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture —was used in the labor and delivery units at … allows hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory medical offices to assess their current patient safety cultures … addition, the survey allows hospitals and hospital units to compare their performance in creating a culture … and Fetal Health, expected that staff at the hospital system would rate the hospital's patient safety culture