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Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit
CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention … Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI): Tools for Reducing CLABSI
Injuries and falls … from immobility: Preventing Falls in Hospitals
Intensive care units: Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI
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September 01, 2023 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention … Date Published: June 2016
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in Hospitals … Date Published: January 2013
Setting of Care: Hospital
Preventing Falls in
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March 01, 2024 - The toolkit has reduced falls by 25 percent in acute care hospitals and is used in more than 100 hospitals … Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care focuses on overcoming the challenges … associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a fall prevention program. … Includes an implementation guide to help put prevention strategies into practice. … AHRQ's Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit.
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August 24, 2017 - Members who influence the areas involved in fall prevention. … ASK: Do you currently assess staff knowledge related to falls? What tools do you currently use? … current policies and practices, you have an understanding of what your hospital currently does to prevent falls … You may already have a sense of what needs to change to decrease falls. … In addition, they assessed their staff knowledge of fall prevention.
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November 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention is designed to improve long-term … AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention provides a strategy for preventing adverse … Adverse Events
Pressure Ulcer Prevention .
Pressure Ulcer Healing . … Falls Prevention
For each topic, the Web site provides a description of the reports and suggested meetings … Related Content
Slide Presentation: On-Time Prevention Program for Long Term Care: Clinical Decision
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Prevention … Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention
Professor, Infectious Diseases, School of … More >>
Reducing Patient Falls with Evidence-based Tools
Patricia Dykes, Ph.D., R.N. … Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “Patient falls can result in traumatic and costly outcomes. … With AHRQ funding, I’ve been able to provide hospitals and primary care practices with falls prevention
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Prevention … Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities is an interdisciplinary … facilities to help them detect and communicate changes in a resident's condition and prevent and manage falls … Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention is a team training curriculum to
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October 01, 2020 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Patient Safety Research Summaries
Patient Safety Resources by Setting
Hospital
Fall Prevention … health care facilities can minimize such safety problems as health care-associated infections, patient falls … The toolkit:
Targets six areas of safety—infections, falls, medication errors, security, injuries of
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June 01, 2022 - Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. … Preventing Falls in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care focuses on overcoming the challenges … represent a patient safety problem, and they can be a signal that the resident is at increased risk for falling … condition, Module Two addresses communicating changes in a resident's condition, and Module Three Addresses Falls … Prevention and Management.
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September 01, 2021 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … represent a patient safety problem, and they can be a signal that the resident is at increased risk for falling … employ to improve patient safety, create a more resident-centered environment, and reduce the number of falls
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January 01, 2018 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
17,000
0.52
17,000
0.51
Falls … MPSMS
In-Hospital Patient Falls
260,000
7.80
230,000
7.16
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI
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June 01, 2014 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … 32,750,000
Discharges—
Based on 2010
Baseline)
2012 PFP
Measured
HACs per
1,000
Discharge
s
Falls … MPSMS In-Hospital Patient
Falls
260,000 7.80 230,000 7.16
Obstetric
Adverse
Events
PSI OB Trauma
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December 01, 2017 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … MPSMS
In-Hospital Patient Falls
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI
OB Trauma in Vaginal Delivery … 1.44
2.24
0.64
CAUTI
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
18.80
25.58
0.73
Falls … MPSMS
In-Hospital Patient Falls
262,317
32,750,000
8.010
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI
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November 01, 2021 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention … End of Life Care
Home and Community-based Services
Falls and Injury
Long-Term Care Facilities … and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities
Affiliated Centers, Portfolios & Initiatives
Prevention
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March 01, 2022 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Hospital units with more positive SOPS scores had:
Fewer hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and patient falls … Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5
Lower risks of resident falls
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December 01, 2016 - Events
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract
Infections
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream
Infections
Falls … Events
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract
Infections
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream
Infections
Falls … Events Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Falls … Prevention of approximately 87,000 deaths in the 2011 to 2014 period as a result of the decline in
HACs … MPSMS
(2014)
In-Hospital Patient
Falls
260,000 7.9
Obstetric
Adverse
Events
PSI (2014) OB
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December 01, 2016 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data for surgical site infections (SSIs) are also … MPSMS (2015)
In-Hospital Patient Falls
220,000
6.7
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI (2014) … [7] The AHRQ-developed pressure ulcer toolkit and falls toolkit are online.
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August 01, 2022 - Data & Measures
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Fall Prevention … Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients with Limited English Proficiency
NICU Toolkit
Preventing Falls
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Prevention … Emergency Preparedness
(26)
Evidence-Based Practice
(932)
Eye Disease and Health
(36)
Falls … comparison group information is necessary to establish evidence on how hospitals can successfully prevent falls … Keywords: Adverse Events, Falls, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Prevention
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July 01, 2018 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … diagnostic centers) or populations (e.g., mental health or substance abuse, emergency preparedness, patient falls … Products
The current AHRQ QI modules represent various aspects of quality: Prevention Quality Indicators