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1. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/topics/catheter-associated-urinary-tract-infection-cauti.html
   January 01, 2013 - The early data show a decrease in the overall rate of CAUTI, with a more striking decrease in non-intensive

2. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-rates_2019.html
   July 01, 2020 - Specific rates are: Adverse drug events: 28% decrease. CAUTI: 5% decrease. CLABSI: 6% decrease. … C diff : 37% decrease. Falls: 5% decrease. Obstetric events: 3% decrease. … Ventilator associated pneumonia: 13% decrease. Post-op VTE: 17% decrease. … All other HACs: 14% decrease. Total reductions: 13%.

3. Phase 2 “Deep Dive”: Practice participation to decrease ED rates for patients with asthma (based on using the PQMP asthma measure) (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/pqmp-data-process-flow.pdf
   June 02, 2025 - Phase 2 “Deep Dive”: Practice participation to decrease ED rates for patients with asthma (based on using … Phase 2 “Deep Dive”: Practice participation to decrease ED rates for patients with asthma (based on

4. 092-Evidence-Decolonization-One-Pager (doc file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/092-evidence-decolonization-one-pager.docx
   April 01, 2025 - Medical Journal, 20135 Effectiveness of a Bundled Intervention of Decolonization and Prophylaxis to Decrease … For patients colonized with S. aureus at hospital admission, CHG use was associated with 58 percent decrease … For the surgical population, there was a 79 percent decrease in risk of developing a deep SSI due to … , as well as strategies to optimize perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis. · Results: There was a decrease … SSIs. · A bundled approach using S. aureus screening, decolonization, and targeted prophylaxis, can decrease

5. Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/topics/antimicrobial-stewardship.html
   is a research-based resource that offers materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease

6. Buffalo Hospital Uses TeamSTEPPS® to Improve Pediatric Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201504.html
   March 01, 2015 - "While studying bronchiolitic intubated patients under two years of age, we saw a decrease in the number … Even more significant was the decrease in the amount of paralytic medication used with patients requiring … The chart below shows this decrease as well as the decrease in number of ventilator days and the decreased

7. A Future Vision for Better Diagnostic Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load5.html
   May 01, 2024 - Create more flexible and innovative clinician workforce structures to decrease cognitive overload (e.g … of patients seen by a physician, and explore how to best incorporate advanced practice providers to decrease … scores, and amount of time spent in individual patient charts) to help provide real-time support to decrease … Cognitively protected physical spaces decrease extrinsic cognitive load to allow more capacity for intrinsic

8. HAC National Scorecard 2014-16 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-scorecard-2014-16.html
   November 01, 2019 - 2014-16 Between 2014-2016, 350,000 fewer hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) occurred, an 8% decrease

9. HAC National Scorecard 2014-16 (pdf file)
   www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/hac-scorecard-2014-16.pdf
   January 01, 2014 - Scorecard 2014-16 Between 2014-2016, 350,000 fewer hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) occurred, an 8% decrease … Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions.” 350,000 8% Fewer Hospital- Acquired Conditions Decrease

10. New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/reduced-ltc-antibiotic-use.html
    February 01, 2022 - Human Services (HHS) through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) saw a significant decrease … appropriate use of antibiotic medications to improve patient outcomes, reduce antibiotic resistance, and decrease

11. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/ade.pdf
    November 11, 2019 - The intervention led to a 34.3-percent decrease in regular medications, a small but nonsignificant decrease … to 1.31 at followup and a decrease in the number of drugs prescribed. 2. … Not provided Intervention led to decrease in the number of medications per patient. … No significant decrease in readmissions or inpatient death rates for intervention vs. … The decrease in PIPs was significant (z=2.823; p<0.005).

12. 089-Or-Traffic-Fg (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/089-or-traffic-fg.docx
    April 01, 2025 - One way to decrease OR traffic is to communicate about the equipment needed before surgery. … Discussion before the case will decrease the number of OR entries and exits during the case. … Another way to decrease OR traffic is to minimize staff shift turnover and breaks until after the case … The CUSP team decided to try the following to help decrease the hourly door opening rates: · Place brightly … out for additional supplies. · Include frontline staff in conversations to get other ideas on how to decrease

13. Decolonization Strategies
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    April 01, 2025 - SSIs due to MRSA; 50 percent MSSA Surgery patients positive for S. aureus at admission7 79 percent decrease … in risk of S. aureus SSI STOP SSI study: Cardiac, hip, and knee surgery8 42 percent decrease in complex … SSIs due to S. aureus 39 percent adherence to intervention bundle Spinal surgery9 50 percent decrease … of MRSA colonization at admission 71 percent decreased incidence of ICU MRSA transmission 36 percent decrease … in CABG SSI rate 42 percent decrease in incidence of total SSIs Tenfold reduction in SSIs caused by

14. Maryland Hospitals Revise Medication Reconciliation Process With AHRQ Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcquips92.html
    October 01, 2014 - The MATCH toolkit's goal is to decrease the number of patients receiving potentially conflicting medications … During this same timeframe, the team noted a 20 percent decrease in the number of patients who were given … hospitals saw measureable improvement in the collection of accurate medication lists, as well as a decrease

15. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/reducing-adverse-drug-1.pdf
    March 01, 2020 - The intervention led to a 34.3-percent decrease in regular medications, a small but nonsignificant decrease … 1.31 at followup and a decrease in the number of drugs prescribed. 2. … Not provided Intervention led to decrease in the number of medications per patient. … Not provided Intervention led to a decrease in number of inappropriate medications filled. … The decrease in PIPs was significant (z=2.823; p<0.005).

16. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital Labor and Delivery Units | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/index.html
    July 01, 2023 - Perinatal Care – I aims to improve the patient safety culture of labor and delivery (L&D) units and decrease

17. Presentation: Program Overview
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/nursedr-early-mobility-protocols-slides.pptx
    January 01, 2017 - Burden to health care system Early exercise and progressive mobility introduced as an intervention to decrease … an evidence-based mobility program designed to maintain baseline mobility and functional capacity, decrease … incidence of delirium, decrease ventilator days, and decrease length of stay in hospitalized patients … Improve overall patient functions Promote early ventilator weaning Improve overall strength and endurance Decrease … length of stay (LOS) in ICU and hospital Decrease hospital costs Psychological benefits: positive outlook

18. Impact of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Tools: Challenge Competition | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - utilized AHRQ’s Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care to decrease … The "Fall Free Friday" activities resulted in a 31% decrease in acute care falls from 4th quarter 2022

19. Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/index.html
    March 01, 2023 - evidence-based practices, this toolkit provides the clinical and cultural guidance to make changes needed to decrease … last entry point, Overcome , acknowledges common challenges that ICU teams face when attempting to decrease

20. Close-Out Report: Improving Resuscitation Team Response to Inpatient Critical Events by Simulation (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/pliego-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Our ultimate aim is to decrease mortality rates in non-expectant (non-Do Not Resuscitate), non-intensive … mortality rates in non-expectant adult inpatients in non-intensive care unit settings, decrease the … number of Code Blue alerts, decrease the time to initiate appropriate treatments in Code and Rapid … coordination processes and teamwork knowledge, skills, and attitudes in resuscitation teams; ° Decrease … the number of Code Blue alerts; ° Decrease the time to initiate appropriate treatments in Code and