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81. PowerPoint Presentation
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    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

82. 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.

83. 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.

84. 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

85. 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?

86. 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.

87. Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Facilitating Naturalistic Decision-Making and Improving Blood Culture Utilization - Final Report (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - liberally.4 The overuse of blood cultures has been shown to result in additional laboratory tests … Appropriate use of blood cultures may be achieved through an analytic decision-making process, during … We have been continuously collecting data on the use of blood cultures (e.g., blood cultures rate … DOes this adult patient with suspected bacteremia require blood cultures? … Contaminant blood cultures and resource utilization.

88. Inappropriate Antibiotic Use | PSNet
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    September 22, 2010 - 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 venous … 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

89. 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?

90. 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?

91. 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?

92. The role of organizational and professional cultures in medication safety: a scoping review of the literature. | PSNet
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    February 12, 2020 - Review The role of organizational and professional cultures in medication safety: … The role of organizational and professional cultures in medication safety: a scoping review of the literature … This scoping review discussed how organizational and professional culture influences medication safety … The role of organizational and professional cultures in medication safety: a scoping review of the literature … May 17, 2023 The barriers and enhancers to trust in a just culture in hospital settings

93. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    April 15, 2020 - Mistakes, Errors and Failures across Cultures. April 15, 2020 Vanderheiden E, Mayer C, eds. … ISBN 9783030355739 https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/mistakes-errors-and-failures-across-cultures-navigating-potentials … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/mistakes-errors-and-failures-across-cultures-navigating-potentials https

94. Telling cultures: 'cultural' issues for staff reporting concerns about colleagues in the UK National Health Service. | PSNet
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    July 08, 2015 - Commentary Telling cultures: 'cultural' issues for staff reporting concerns about … Telling cultures: 'cultural' issues for staff reporting concerns about colleagues in the UK National … social science perspective on organizational factors that influence peer reporting behavior and safety culture … Telling cultures: 'cultural' issues for staff reporting concerns about colleagues in the UK National … July 23, 2019 Enhancing safety culture through improved incident reporting: a case study

95. 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?

96. 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

97. Gap Analysis for MRSA Prevention (Hospital-Level) (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 -  Yes, cultures or tests positive for MRSA. …  Yes, cultures or tests positive for MRSA. … Does your laboratory have the capacity to process surveillance cultures either on-site or by sending … Is active surveillance for MRSA performed (e.g., obtaining nasal swabs for culture at regular intervals … : Off Yes, cultures or tests positive for MRSA: Off Yes, cultures or tests positive for other epidemiologically

98. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2006 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/establishing-safety-culture-thinking-small Perspective Safety cultures … Down of a ConceptA few years ago, I set out to study residency and academic medical center safety cultures … Normalizing Safety Cultures in Health Care SettingsThe 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.

99. Urinary Tract Infections
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    November 01, 2019 - 7 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care Sepsis Sepsis: Cultures Blood cultures … critical component of sepsis management8 Daily assessment of patient status, source of infection, and culture … Three scenarios: No evidence of infection and antibiotics can be stopped Evidence of infection and culture … data are available to guide narrowing of therapy Evidence of infection and no culture data are available … have grown, narrow based on culture results 22 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use

100. Acute Care Learning From Defects
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     November 01, 2019 - vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam On day 2, he undergoes ERCP and the stone is removed Blood cultures … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … daily briefing about antibiotic regimen with team Institutional factors are related to institution culture … revealed E. coli Develop guidelines for intra-abdominal infections that discuss culture-directed therapy … and feedback for patients on vancomycin Develop vancomycin auto-stops Educate nurses about reviewing culture