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181. Two Indiana Facilities Use AHRQ Toolkit to Revise Medication Reconciliation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - The MATCH toolkit's goal is to decrease the number of patients receiving potentially conflicting medications

182. Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/clabsi-tools/clabsi-tools-revised.pdf
     January 01, 2013 - ICUs.3,4,5 Efforts to decrease the rate of CLABSI and improve the quality of care are paramount. … To decrease the risk for infection, you should also develop a strategy to place tunneled catheters if … discontinuing central lines, discuss this situation with unit leaders and providers to find opportunities to decrease … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

183. Cost Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Program for Safe Patient Handling (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Siddharthan.pdf
     January 10, 2005 - When a similar policy was adopted in Britain in 1993, it resulted in a significant decrease in job- … For injuries that resulted in more than 45 days of absenteeism, RNs reflected the greatest decrease, … WC payments by facilities reflected this decrease by dropping from $173,763 to $86,881. … the estimated cost of lost productivity declined from $84,281 to $4,622 because of a substantial decrease … LPNs recorded the largest decrease in days of restricted duty, from 542 to 8 days.

184. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks? …  Decrease the likelihood that residents experience any harm, including C. diff infections and antibiotic … What is our nursing home doing to decrease the chance of these risks? VII.

185. Slide 1 (ppt file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/zero_clabsis-slides/Sustaining-Zero-CLABSIs-May-8-2012-508.ppt
     January 01, 2012 - While the slight, prolonged decrease is similar to trends across all of Cohort 3, Virginia's Cohort 3 … This echoed a similar nationwide decrease from 1.3 per 1,000 line days in the first quarter of 2011 to … 2012. * Challenge #2: Rate Up for 2 Quarters; Reducing CLABSI Rates Not Smooth * Alt Text The decrease

186. Final Progress Report: Adaptation and Pilot Implementation of a Validated, Electronic Real-Time Clinical Decision Support Tool for the Care of Pneumonia Patients in 12 Utah Urgent Care Centers (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/dean-report.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - ePneumonia will make patient disposition from the UCCs more consistent with severity of illness and decrease … of patients seen in an emergency department for further evaluation/treatment within 24 hours will decrease … attractive to scale electronic pneumonia clinical decision support to improve clinical outcomes and decrease … percent of UCC pneumonia patients transferred to an emergency department for further evaluation will decrease

187. Research Methods for Studying the Primary Care Workforce: Slide Presentation
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     August 01, 2024 - Care Physician-Staff Dyads (“Teamlets”): A Simple, Efficient Means to Improve Healthcare Quality and Decrease … Care Physician-Staff Dyads (“Teamlets”): A Simple, Efficient Means to Improve Healthcare Quality and Decrease … Care Physician-Staff Dyads (“Teamlets”): A Simple, Efficient Means to Improve Healthcare Quality and Decrease … care physician staff dyads or “teamlets” – a simple, efficient means to improve healthcare quality and decrease

188. Appendix P. Interpreting CAUTI Data Trends | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide Appendix P. Interpreting CAUTI Data Trends Previous Page   Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide Overview …

189. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - infection-reduction efforts, and provides the clinical and cultural guidance to make changes needed to decrease

190. Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2024 - The  study found that educating people on the appropriate use of antibiotics shows promise to decrease

191. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - Within only 6 months of implementing changes to care processes, the hospital experienced a 50 percent decrease … number of patient days) 0.37 as of project kickoff in June 2015 0.16 as of December 2015 57% decrease

192. Impact of a pediatric-focused medical home learning collaborative on preventable emergency department visits by publicly-insured children in Massachusetts (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/chipra-medical-home-academyhealth.pdf
     December 12, 2015 - (Question 1) • No difference between intervention and comparison groups in preventable ED use decrease … Results (Question 2) • No difference between intervention and comparison groups in preventable ED decrease

193. 2016 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Part I (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - positive score decrease. … Similarly, the average decrease was calculated by including only hospitals that had a decrease in their … Average Increase Average Decrease 1. … Average Increase Average Decrease 1. … Average Increase Average Decrease 4.

194. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2023 - review of the literature indicated that barriers and spatial separation (e.g., private rooms) can decrease … ■ Decrease HAI rates and adverse events (e.g., using spatial separation, hand-gesture recognition … Novel and best practice technologies, materials, and design strategies may directly decrease the risk … Optimal design may indirectly decrease the development of HAIs by influencing human behaviors to decrease

195. Appendix 2. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Fact Sheet | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/clabsi-tools/appendix-2.html
     March 01, 2018 - The following interventions decrease the risk for CLABSIs Use appropriate hand hygiene.

196. Sustainability Tool - Sustainability Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/tool.html
     June 01, 2017 - Can value be measured quantitatively (i.e., decrease in injurious fall rate or maintenance of low injurious

197. Using the Opportunity Estimator to Educate, Engage, and Evaluate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/opportunity-estimator/slides.html
     November 01, 2017 - and length of stay and then shows what the current burden is and what the potential savings are for a decrease

198. Measures of Cognitive Load | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-cognitive-load4.html
     May 01, 2024 - Similarly, improvement efforts that decrease the RAR rate should also decrease the number of wrong-patient

199. Early Mobility in the Intensive Care Unit: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/early-mobility-icu-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Significant decrease each of 5 years after QI. … Early rehab QI associated with substantial decrease in time to onset of active PT and was sustainable

200. 052-Sample-Script-Patient-Ed-Mupirocin (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/052-sample-script-patient-ed-mupirocin.docx
     April 01, 2025 - . · Reducing bacteria in the nose can decrease the chance of getting a severe infection following surgery