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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/workshop/module-2/guide.html
September 01, 2017 - in Hospitals Training Program
Fall Prevention Program Implementation Guide
Fall Prevention … in Hospitals—Webinars
Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit
Hospital Resources … 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.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/challenge-competition.html
February 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … impact story: Chesapeake Regional Healthcare
At Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, AHRQ’s Preventing Falls … The "Fall Free Friday" activities resulted in a 31% decrease in acute care falls from 4th quarter 2022 … Their experience using this tool is summarized in "Impact of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Tools: Preventing Falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/topics/long-term-care.html
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Prevention … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention
Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits … Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program
Preventing Falls … Hospital in Ohio
Shared Decisionmaking for Chronic Conditions and Long-Term Care Planning
The Falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/about.html
December 01, 2017 - Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
AHRQ developed the Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training … Program to support the training of hospital staff on how to implement AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals … Preventing Falls in Hospitals
Each year, somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 people in the United … Research shows that close to one-third of falls can be prevented. … Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
AHRQ developed the Pressure Injury Prevention
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/hac-rates_2019.html
July 01, 2020 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … National efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and injuries from falls … Falls: 5% decrease. Obstetric events: 3% decrease. Pressure ulcers: 6% increase.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/hac/tools.html
March 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … Universal and Targeted
Tools
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/tools/index.html?page=2
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_slides_fallprev.pptx
August 24, 2017 - (Tool 2C)
Present the assessment of current fall prevention policies and procedures. … .
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Expected Outcomes
Begin to write a draft fall prevention Action Plan, tailored to your hospital … Managers
Senior manager
Quality improvement/safety/risk manager
Reference: Developed by Falls … Determine how incidence data on fall rates and fall prevention care processes will be collected. … Challenges to good practice identified at organization and unit levels
Reference: Developed by Falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/index.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/fallprevention-training/module2/module2_fall-prevention.docx
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/chronic/chipra-201-asthma-section-5-table-3.pdf
February 19, 2016 - National
Asthma Education and Prevention
Program. … After training, inhaler technique falls
off with time, so checking and re-
training must be repeated … Global Strategy for Asthma
Management and Prevention. 2014.
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2013-appendix.html
October 01, 2015 - Data & Measures
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Prevention … MPSMS (2013)
Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters
9,200
0.28
Falls … MPSMS (2013)
In-Hospital Patient Falls
240,000
7.2
Obstetric Adverse Events
PSI (2013) … $106,000,000
2,470
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
.185
$170,000,000
1,850
Falls
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/index.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/index.html
April 01, 2024 - Data & Measures
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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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/index.html
September 01, 2021 - Data & Measures
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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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/safety-assess.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/makinghcsafer.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/facilities/index.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/hacrate2011-12.html
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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www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/updatedhacrateinfo.pdf
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