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161. Offer Information on How Healthcare Costs and Quality Relate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/explain/share-info/offer-info.html
     June 01, 2019 - It is important to emphasize that high cost and high quality do not necessarily go hand in hand.

162. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4k_nqi03-bsi-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - The checklist should have all of the following12-14:  Date, start time, end time, hands washed prior … ○ Providers (including any assistants) should wash their hands before and after palpating catheter … ○ 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.

163. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4y_combo_nqi03-bsi-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - The checklist should have all of the following12-14:  Date, start time, end time, hands washed prior … ○ Providers (including any assistants) should wash their hands before and after palpating catheter … ○ 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.

164. Understanding the Role of Health Care Facility Design in the Acquisition and Prevention of HAIs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - The transmission of pathogens is affected by variations and practices of human behaviors, such as hand … providing barriers to interrupt transmission events, and influencing human behavior, such as by promoting hand … A transmission event is direct or indirect contact, including transient carriage (e.g., hands of a health … Opportunities to interrupt transmission from a colonized or infected host include hand hygiene, other … hygiene through strategic placement of alcohol hand-rub dispensers in highly visible locations.

165. Prologue: The Shift toward Performance and Tools (pdf file)
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     July 22, 2008 - knowing the right thing to do and doing the right thing (i.e., performance) do not necessarily go hand-in-hand … model reflecting increased use of specialists, shorter hospital stays, limited work hours, multiple hand-offs

166. 4 Tk2 T2-Antibiotic Pocket Cards (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - • Perform hand hygiene with soap and water (alcohol does not kill C. difficile spores). … • Use appropriate hand hygiene before and after all resident contacts (soap and water, or waterless … • Use appropriate hand hygiene before and after all resident contacts (soap and water, or waterless

167. Training Module 3 Quiz Answer Key | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/infection-prevention/precautions/ppe-quiz-key.html
     March 01, 2017 - Personal protective equipment (PPE) can reduce contamination of health care personnel hands and clothes … Hand hygiene should be performed immediately before and after using PPE.

168. Training Module 3 Quiz | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Personal protective equipment (PPE) can reduce contamination of health care personnel hands and clothes … Hand hygiene should be performed immediately before and after using PPE.

169. Acute Bronchitis (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - over 1 year of age)4 Prevention • Viruses that cause colds and acute bronchitis are spread by hand … frequent handwashing, avoiding touching the face, coughing and sneezing into a tissue or arm rather than hand

170. Hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitationi (HYCR) Tools and Resources Guide (pdf file)
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     April 28, 2023 - your hands are at your chest, then lower them back down and repeat. … Now take a handle in each hand and stand up straight. … Grip a handle in each hand and stand up straight. … Now take a handle in each hand and stand up straight. … Place your inactive hand on your knee.

171. Structural Assessment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2017 - ___ ___ ___ ___ In your ICU, how often do health care providers perform hand hygiene … ___ ___ Perform hand hygiene before contact with respiratory equipment?

172. CVC Insertion Risk Factors: (doc file)
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     September 03, 2013 - location/room number(s) 2 Did all personnel involved in line care for this patient use proper hand … [ ] Yes [ ] No If no, explain: 15 What is hand hygiene compliance like for all units the patient

173. The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/key-strategies.html
     April 01, 2025 - Use of Preoperative Chlorhexidine Antisepsis Decolonization Resources Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Hand … Hand Hygiene in the Perioperative Setting Contact Precautions Operating Room Traffic Perioperative Infection

174. Part One: Traditional Practice and Recommendations for Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - A complete list of resources can be obtained by selecting the Resource tab in the upper right hand corner … A complete list of resources can be obtained by selecting the Resource tab in the upper right hand corner … A complete list of resources can be obtained by selecting on Resource tab in the upper right hand corner … A complete list of resources can be obtained by selecting the Resource tab in the upper right hand corner … A complete list of resources can be obtained by selecting the Resource tab in the upper right hand corner

175. Wichita State University Uses Task Force Recommendations for Physician Assistant Students | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - I know the students appreciate having an accessible, easy-to-have-on-hand resource to carry with them … "My students have found these hand-held resources, in the form of the book or the PDA resource, particularly

176. Infection Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-prevent.html
     May 01, 2017 - Evaluating and Selecting Hand Hygiene Products Hand hygiene products are only effective if staff use

177. Monthly Team Checkup Tool for MRSA Prevention (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2024 - In the past month, what was the percentage of hand hygiene adherence among healthcare personnel on the … (Estimate based on your standard assessment of hand hygiene. … assessment of cleaning procedures: ): Off Question 7: In the past month, what was the percentage of hand … (Estimate based on your standard assessment of hand hygiene: ): Off Question 8: In the past month

178. Tool: Structural Assessment (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/structuralasst-tool.docx
     January 01, 2017 - In your ICU, how often do health care providers perform hand hygiene before contact with respiratory … Perform hand hygiene before contact with respiratory equipment?

179. Gap Analysis for MRSA Prevention (Hospital-Level) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/167-hospital-level-gap-analysis.pdf
     September 26, 2024 - prevention bundles: Isolation precaution compliance: Other:  Yes  Yes  Yes  No  No  No Hand …  Weekly  Monthly  Quarterly  Other The next few questions are about hand hygiene and personal … Is feedback r egarding hand hygiene compliance provided t o units? [IF NO, SKIP TO QUESTION 42 … At what frequency is feedback regarding hand hygiene compliance provided to units? … The next few questions are about hand hygiene and personal protective equipment (PPE) surveillance.

180. Appendix 7. Central Venous Catheter-Associated Laboratory-Confirmed Blood Stream Infection Event Report Template for Defect Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2018 - location/room number(s)   2 Did all personnel involved in line care for this patient use proper hand … [  ] Yes [  ] No     If no, explain: 15 What is hand hygiene compliance like for all units