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1. Appendix P. Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products: Transcript/Facilitator Notes - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2017 - Slide 5: Understanding Hand Hygiene Product Evaluation Hand hygiene products are evaluated for their … hand sanitizers that reduce bacteria on the skin. … WHO method one protocol for evaluating hand hygiene products. … hygiene and hand hygiene improvement strategy. … Then the link to WHO method one and method two is available from World Health Organization Clean Hands

2. Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment
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   January 01, 2015 - Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Implementation … CIC Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Nursing Evaluating and Selecting Hand … Guide Appendix P Multimodal Strategies for Hand Hygiene Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products … Effectiveness Efficacy Effectiveness Benefit under ideal use In vitro testing Reduction of bacteria on the hands … Guide to Hand Hygiene Programs for Infection Prevention. 2015.

3. Appendix P. Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   May 01, 2017 - Slide 4: Multimodal Strategies for Hand Hygiene Image: multimodal strategies for hand hygiene diagram … Reduction of bacteria on the hands. Effectiveness Real-world conditions. In vivo testing. … “Hand sanitizer to help reduce bacteria on the skin.” “Surgical hand scrub product.” … for evaluation of hand hygiene products ©World Health Organization 2009. … Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products - Implementation Guide.

4. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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   April 13, 2017 - Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products Transcript/Facilitator Notes Tim: (Slide 1) Hello … hand sanitizers that reduce bacteria on the skin. … Importantly, there is an FDA label indication for a surgical hand scrub product. … and that also there is some persistence of effect for these surgical hand scrubs. … Then the link to WHO method one and method two is available from World Health Organization Clean Hands

5. Nursing Home Workplace Safety Resource List (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2023 - -(ihs)/hand- hygiene/monitoring/9789241598606_eng.pdf? … The How-To’s of Hand Hygiene: AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI https://www.ahrq.gov … /hand-hygiene-slides.html AHRQ created this training module for hand hygiene in long-term care facilities … of infections. • When and how to perform hand hygiene. • Key hand hygiene practices for the prevention … /hand-hygiene-slides.html https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2006-117/pdfs/2006-117.pdf?

6. It Takes a Team: Preventing Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
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   May 01, 2017 - . • Clean hands when moving from a dirty to a clean task on the same patient or after touching the patient … Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization Environment of Care Safe Injection Practices • Clean hands … Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent infections. … Health care personnel will clean their hands before and after patient care. … to prevent surgical site and other infections at ASCs are— ▶ ASK staff if they have washed their hands

7. Addressing Questions Asked by Staff: Targeted Decolonization (pdf file)
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   March 01, 2022 - Does targeted decolonization affect our hand hygiene products? No. … Use your usual routine hand hygiene products. … Does targeted decolonization affect our hand hygiene products?

8. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 17, 2016 - The following elements, at a minimum, should be found on the checklist: Date, start time, end time, hands … The checklist should have all of the following8-10:  Date, start time, end time, hands washed prior … o After inserting and dressing the catheter site, remove gown and gloves and then wash hands. …  Perform hand hygiene and put on clean gloves. …  Repeat hand hygiene and don sterile gloves.  Remove sutures.

9. FAQs (Staff): Targeted Decolonization (doc file)
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   March 01, 2022 - Does targeted decolonization affect our hand hygiene products? No. … Use your usual routine hand hygiene products.

10. Offer Information on How Healthcare Costs and Quality Relate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2019 - It is important to emphasize that high cost and high quality do not necessarily go hand in hand.

11. Shadowing (doc file)
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    August 08, 2012 - How would you assess: Hand-offs: During the hand-off, were verbal or written communications clear

12. Reporting Patient Narratives With Standardized Measures of Quality (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2015 - On the one hand, these narratives attracted consumers’ attention and increased their engagement with … On the other hand, their inclusion dramatically reduced consumers’ attention to standardized measures

13. Preventing Infections in Endoscopic Procedures (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Implementation Guide Empower patients and families to insist that all team members wash their hands … before providing care; encourage patients and families to perform hand hygiene as well.

14. AHRQ’s Medical Office Survey Helps Colorado Hospital Provide Better Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - Changes made as a result of the survey include improving patient hand-offs and hiring a "patient navigator … individual, we've been able to break down barriers between offices and departments and improve the patient hand-off

15. Tool: Task Assistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2023 - that assistance will be actively sought and offered to reduce the occurrence of error:  "I need a hand … "Can I give you a hand?"  

16. Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products This presentation reviews criteria for evaluating and … selecting the right hand hygiene products for your facility.

17. Facilitator-Notes (doc file)
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    March 01, 2017 - For instance, an example of a process measure could be tracking how often hand hygiene education is provided … to staff or how frequently alcohol-based hand rub is refilled in a facility’s dispenser. … An outcome measure for proper hand hygiene could be how often staff perform proper hand hygiene as measured

18. Shadowing Another Professional Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2012 - How would you assess:       Hand-offs: During the hand-off, were verbal or written communications

19. Distribute Your Health Care Quality Report to Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - comparative information to distribute, you need to be thinking about how and when to get it into the hands … What channels can you use to get the information into the hands of your audience?

20. Training-Tools-Material-Guide (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - administrators, managers, and project leads Topic: Barriers and Solutions to Sustaining Improvements Method: Hand