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421. How CUSP Enables Nurse Empowerment (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/empowerment.html
     April 01, 2013 - This is an example of a surgical unit huddle board dealing with hand hygiene, pain control, and discharging … But then hand-in-hand with that, we proposed that we would cohort a particular type of patient on each

422. Advancing Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/advancing/index.html
     July 01, 2022 - steps to the point of care; adjustable lighting; noise reduction materials; convenient placement of hand-hygiene

423. Using Rapid-Cycle Research to Reach Goals: Awareness, Assessment, Adaptation, Acceleration (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/ncepcr/resources/final-rapid-cycle-research-guidance.pdf
     June 01, 2015 - Many industries have hand-offs. … hand-offs. … What makes a football team have great success with hand-offs? … infection or colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with use of antimicrobial hand-hygiene … infection or colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with use of antimicrobial hand-hygiene

424. II. Hotline Design and Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/hotline/design2.html
     May 01, 2016 - We found none of the existing data collection tools to be completely satisfactory for the purpose at hand … The form also focused the participants’ attention on the matter at hand and essentially primed them for … entities could use to elicit patient safety information directly from patients and caregivers with first-hand … or advice from a doctor, nurse, or other health care provider Related to poor cleanliness or poor hygiene

425. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-transcript.doc
     June 10, 2014 - Patients, we are increasingly hearing about the engagement of patients with things such as hand hygiene … And I think the take-home message is that the procalcitonin is a useful tool if it’s in the hands of … this is important work, very complementary to your CAUTI work, and worth trying to tackle and get your hands

426. Mindfulness: Engaging Frontline Providers in Antimicrobial Stewardship (June 10, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/mindfulness-transcript.html
     December 01, 2017 - Patients, we are increasingly hearing about the engagement of patients with things such as hand hygiene … And I think the take-home message is that the procalcitonin is a useful tool if it's in the hands of … this is important work, very complementary to your CAUTI work, and worth trying to tackle and get your hands

427. Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/universalicu.pdf
     September 01, 2013 - preoperative bathing, and central line skin preparation, as well as its longstanding use in dental hygiene …  Cloth 2: Both arms, hands, web spaces, and axilla.  Cloth 3: Abdomen and then groin/perineum … Does Universal Decolonization affect our hand hygiene products? No. … Use your usual routine hand hygiene product. 11. … • Cloth 2: Both arms, both hands, web spaces, and axilla.

428. Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/advancing-patient-safety.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - steps to the point of care; adjustable lighting; noise reduction materials; convenient placement of hand-hygiene

429. Error Producing Conditions in the Intensive Care Unit (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Drews_15.pdf
     February 26, 2008 - • Violations of operating practices, procedures, or standards—for example, not performing hand hygiene … As a result, the device may not facilitate the task at hand as much as it increases the likelihood of

430. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CDI-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - occurred during this time period may have impacted outcomes, including the improved institutional hand … hygiene compliance over time.

431. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsicompanion.pdf
     October 18, 2012 - More than 80 percent of units consistently used the following CLABSI reduction steps over time: hand … hygiene, chlorhexidine skin preparation, full-barrier precautions during line insertion, avoidance … More than 80 percent of units consistently used hand hygiene, chlorhexidine skin preparation, full-barrier … =138) P e rc e n t o f P o s it iv e R e s p o n s e s Project Quarter Appropriate hand … hygiene Chlorhexidine skin preparation Full-barrier precautions Avoid femoral site for placement Daily

432. Systems-Based Practice: Improving the Safety and Quality of Patient Care by Recognizing and Improving the Systems in Which We Work (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Johnson_90.pdf
     June 10, 2008 - assuring medication accuracy at transitions in care, communicating during patient handovers, improving hand … hygiene to prevent infections associated with health care, and performing correct procedures at correct

433. Presenting Facts and Addressing Misinformation to Increase Nursing Home Staff Confidence in the COVID-19 Vaccine (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nursing-home/materials/covid19-vaccine-confidence-curriculum-learning-guide-staff.pdf
     March 01, 2021 - At this time, vaccinated persons should continue masking, social distancing, and hand washing to protect … CDC recommends that during the pandemic, everyone continue to continue to wear a mask, wash their hands … All answers are correct - Masking, 6-foot social distancing, hand hygiene, stay home when sick, avoid … CDC recommends that during the pandemic people continue to wear a mask, wash their hands and social

434. ASC, Report Output, Report: 'Fault Tree Diagram', Data Source File: 'ASC Fault Tree_with_change' (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapf.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - mitigate Q:0.02 Q:0 Q:0.016 Q:0.05 Q:0.05 Q:0.05 Q:0 Q:0.01 Q:0.01 Q:0 Event53 Pt hands … establish effective infec control Q:0 From Page 63 Q:0 Q:0 Q:0.45 Event136 Fail to wash hands … Gate337 Bug on pre-op staff Q:0.105 Q:0.15 Event353 Bug moves to pt Event203 Fail to wash hand … Q:0.1 Q:0.1 Event49 Site not cleansed appropriately Q:0.1 To Page 43,46 Event115 Poor hygiene

435. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2020 - Patients' feelings about hand washing, MRSA status and patient information. … Poster: hands 34 all. n.p.: The Department; n.d. 237 . King H, Battles J, Baker D, et al. … Evaluation of a patient-empowering hand hygiene programme in the UK.

436. IV. Evaluation Aims, Methods, and Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/hotline/eval4.html
     May 01, 2016 - * Process-related events include, for example, staff not washing their hands before examining a patient … diagnosis or advice from a doctor, nurse, or other health care provider (n=5); poor cleanliness or poor hygiene … circulating outreach materials, asserting that “there is too much stuff that doctors are trying to hand

437. AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/ereports.html
     December 01, 2014 - Having these dates at hand eliminates the need for the clinician to manually review the medical record … Dressing LA/set up EA/1 EA/1 EA/1 Eating LA/set up EA/1 EA/1 EA/1 Personal hygiene

438. Putoolssect7 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressureulcertoolkit/putoolssect7.docx
     February 16, 2011 - as needed Urinary Incontinence · Toileting plan · Wet checks · Treat causes · Assist with hygiene … To determine if a patient has bottomed out, the caregiver should place his or her outstretched hand … Do a hand check by placing palm up and feeling for a cushion of air under the heaviest areas of the body … Do a hand check by placing palm up and feeling for a cushion of air under the heaviest areas of the body … Skin Temperature Most clinicians use the back rather than the palm of their hand to assess the temperature

439. Envisioning Patient Safety in the Year 2025: Eight Perspectives (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Henriksen_104.pdf
     January 01, 2025 - environment of the future will play a role in improved safety by contributing to increased compliance with hand-hygiene

440. Appendix III (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/report/apiiib.html
     June 01, 2010 - Welfare Populations: Individuals with HIV/AIDS Developer: Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene