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  1. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39419/psn-pdf
    September 20, 2011 - health-care-consumers-inclination-engage-selected-patient-safety-practices-survey-adults https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/engaging-patient-observer-promote-hand-hygiene-compliance-ambulatory-care

  2. URINARY CATHETERIZATION – Sample Policy (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-b.docx
    April 24, 2015 - Standard Precautions: Use gloves when manipulating the catheter site and drainage system and practice hand … hygiene before and after. 1.8 A sterile, continuously closed drainage system should be maintained for … Use gloves and practice hand hygiene before and after handling the drainage device. 1.12 Patients with

  3. Toolkits | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/toolkits
    March 01, 2025 - Providers (28) Medication Reconciliation (8) SBAR (2) Structured Hand-offs … (9) Diagnostic Test Interpretation Error (1) Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off … Fact Sheet/FAQs Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings. … URL Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The hand … hygiene guidelines represent part of a U.S.

  4. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/facil-guide/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-module2-speaker-notes.html
    February 01, 2023 - Remember, it’s important to do this aseptically by using good hand hygiene practices and avoiding contamination … The nurse should hand the urinary catheter bag to the transporter so he can attach it to the side of

  5. Dental Care for People With Sickle Cell Disease: A Rapid Response Literature Review (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/sickle-cell-dental-rapid-response.pdf
    July 01, 2024 - hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=SCD&as_oq=dental+%22oral+care%22+%22oral+hygiene%22+periodontal+tooth+teeth&as_eq= … hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=SCD&as_oq=dental+%22oral+care%22+%22oral+hygiene%22+periodontal+tooth+teeth&as_eq= … hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=SCD&as_oq=dental+%22oral+care%22+%22oral+hygiene%22+periodontal+tooth+teeth&as_eq= … hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=SCD&as_oq=dental+%22oral+care%22+%22oral+hygiene%22+periodontal+tooth+teeth&as_eq= … in a community setting, but in a hospital dental department with a sickle cell haematology team on hand

  6. AHRQ_Brand_NameOnly (xls file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/sustainability/sustainability-assesment-tool.xlsx
    March 01, 2017 - My team follows proper hand hygiene protocols. … E.g., hand hygiene, isolation precautions, environment and equipment care 4. … See Training Modules on hand hygiene, isolation precautions, environment and equipment care The team

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49757/psn-pdf
    April 01, 2016 - threaten the safety of hospitalized patients, including catheter–associated urinary tract infections, hand … hygiene, medication errors, and inappropriate restraints, are visible, observable, tangible errors. … threaten safety of hospitalized patients, including catheter–associated urinary tract infections, hand … hygiene, and medication errors, are often visible and tangible errors, which are ideal for situational

  8. Creating a high-reliability health care system: improving performance on core processes of care at Johns Hopkins Medicine. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/creating-high-reliability-health-care-system-improving-performance-core-processes-care-johns
    January 27, 2016 - July 16, 2014 Status of the implementation of the World Health Organization multimodal hand … hygiene strategy in United States of America health care facilities.

  9. Effect of contextual factors on the prevalence of diagnostic errors among patients managed by physicians of the same specialty: a single-centre retrospective observational study. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-contextual-factors-prevalence-diagnostic-errors-among-patients-managed-physicians-same
    February 02, 2022 - out of mind: a prospective observational study to estimate the duration of the Hawthorne effect on hand … hygiene events.

  10. How To Integrate a CUSP Approach | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/integrate-cusp-approach.html
    October 01, 2024 - Patient Educational Resources MRSA Surveillance Environmental Cleaning Contact Precautions Hand … Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Prevention

  11. What Are The 4 Es? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/what-are-4e.html
    December 01, 2024 - Patient Educational Resources MRSA Surveillance Environmental Cleaning Contact Precautions Hand … Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Prevention

  12. Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: VAP & NV-HAP | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/vap.html
    October 01, 2024 - Patient Educational Resources MRSA Surveillance Environmental Cleaning Contact Precautions Hand … Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Prevention

  13. In Conversation with...David Marx, JD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-withdavid-marx-jd
    October 01, 2007 - For example, when hand hygiene compliance rates are just 60%, how do we get people to be compliant? … It might be doing a task by memory, not confirming two patient identifiers, or not doing hand hygiene … Let's go back to hand hygiene. … Hand hygiene noncompliance is accepted because the culture has accepted it. … One of those scenarios is hand hygiene noncompliance.

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46108/psn-pdf
    December 21, 2017 - as likely to speak up about this compared to a traditional patient safety threat such as inadequate hand … hygiene.

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42530/psn-pdf
    December 30, 2014 - patient-engagement-and-safety https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/parent-willingness-remind-health-care-workers-perform-hand-hygiene

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47401/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2019 - comparing-patient-reported-hospital-adverse-events-medical-record-review-do-patients-know https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/parent-willingness-remind-health-care-workers-perform-hand-hygiene

  17. Silence Kills: The Seven Crucial Conversations for Healthcare. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/silence-kills-seven-crucial-conversations-healthcare
    July 09, 2012 - a formative assessment of a video empowering patients to ask their health care providers to perform hand … hygiene. … Physicians Nurses Nurse Managers Critical Care Nursing Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off

  18. Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicine. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-safety-after-hours-telephone-medicine
    November 12, 2014 - October 19, 2022 Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand … hygiene. … Care Family Medicine Primary Care General Internal Medicine Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off

  19. Patient Notification Toolkit. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-notification-toolkit
    September 07, 2016 - May 20, 2015 Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43251/psn-pdf
    June 11, 2014 - speak up regarding medication safety, but they were not as comfortable voicing concerns related to hygiene
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