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41. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2020 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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.

42. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

43. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

44. How To Manage Change
    www.talkingquality.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. … . ‹#› 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

45. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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.

46. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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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.

47. Men: Stay Healthy at 50 (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2014 - Vitamin D to Avoid Falls. … If you are 65 or older and have a history of falls, mobility problems, or other risks for falling, … ask your doctor about taking a vitamin D supplement to help reduce your chances of falling. … The USPSTF is an independent group of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine.

48. CHIPRA 201: Section 5, Table 3 (pdf file)
    www.talkingquality.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.

49. Appendix | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

50. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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

51. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems 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

52. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

53. Health Care Facility Design Safety Risk Assessment Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

54. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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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.

55. Long-term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

56. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2018 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

57. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 (pdf file)
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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

58. Methods To Estimate the Baseline 2010 PFP National Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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

59. Patient Safety and Quality Areas | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Our areas of research and tools cover: Healthcare Infections Team Training Falls Pressure Ulcers … Diagnostic Safety Blood Clot Prevention and Treatment Adverse Drug Events AHRQ Quality Indicators

60. Long-term Care Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2021 - Data & Measures Digital Healthcare Research Education & Training Hospitals & Health Systems Prevention … Tools Featured Clinicians & Providers Hospitals & Health Systems 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