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  1. Final Progress Report: Cultural Competency and African Women’s Health Services (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/carroll-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Themes indicated the importance of maintaining good hygiene (70%), having an adequate source of safe … Hygiene/sanitation A common theme was practicing good personal and home hygiene and sanitation (n=24 … Responses discussing cleanliness, hygiene, and sanitation were especially common among more newly resettled … Women commonly spoke of the importance of hand washing and maintaining a clean home to prevent against … Health Promotion and Preventive Services among Somali Women.

  2. Accountability in Patient Safety | PSNet

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    January 01, 2018 - For example, failing to perform hand hygiene demonstrably leads to health care–associated infections, … yet clinicians frequently do not wash their hands, especially when they think nobody is looking. … A recent study found hygiene rates are about three times higher when an auditor is present. … professionals and patients believe clinicians should be held accountable for basic safety practices, such as hand … hygiene, fall risk assessments, and preoperative timeouts.

  3. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=11
    January 01, 2022 - Standard Precautions: Hand Hygiene This online course teaches health care workers about hand hygiene.

  4. Nursing Home Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/es/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=11
    January 01, 2022 - Standard Precautions: Hand Hygiene This online course teaches health care workers about hand hygiene.

  5. The evolving role of health educators in advancing patient safety: forging partnerships and leading change. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evolving-role-health-educators-advancing-patient-safety-forging-partnerships-and-leading
    July 22, 2020 - commentary in epidemiological studies: identifying what contributes to successful interventions to promote hand … hygiene in patient care.

  6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=219
    January 01, 2024 - hygiene at the bedside. … Beyond entry and exit: Hand hygiene at the bedside. … hygiene (HH) before gloving. … more often than was necessary, and generally used gloves for their own safety, and sanitized their hands … Hand hygiene before donning nonsterile gloves: healthcareworkers' beliefs and practices.

  7. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html?page=426
    January 01, 2024 - Quality Improvement Carter EJ , Cohen B , Murray MT Using workflow diagrams to address hand … hygiene in pediatric long-term care facilities. … hygiene (HH) practices during commonly performed patient-care activities. … Using workflow diagrams to address hand hygiene in pediatric long-term care facilities. … Keywords: Diabetes, Health Promotion, Lifestyle Changes, Obesity Pokorney SD , Miller AL ,

  8. Wisconsin Dialysis Centers Use AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201513.html
    June 01, 2015 - facilitators with four instructional modules to teach infection prevention techniques, such as adequate hand … hygiene, use of antiseptics, and proper connection and disconnection of catheters.

  9. Can positivity promote safety? Psychological capital development combats cynicism and unsafe behavior. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/can-positivity-promote-safety-psychological-capital-development-combats-cynicism-and-unsafe
    June 09, 2011 - 2014 Culture change in infection control: applying psychological principles to improve hand … hygiene.

  10. Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accountability-measures-using-measurement-promote-quality-improvement
    January 23, 2012 - April 20, 2011 Using the Targeted Solutions Tool to improve hand hygiene compliance is

  11. Resource List - AHRQ Nursing Home Survey (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursinghome-resourcelist.pdf
    April 01, 2023 - Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings provides healthcare workers and … Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care Facilities https://apps.who.int … Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care … Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings 2. … Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care Facilities Composite Measure

  12. Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/antimicrobial-stewardship-toolkit
    April 15, 2021 - Patient safety leader reflects on ‘To Err is Human’ report December 11, 2019 Hand … Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming

  13. Patient involvement in patient safety: the health-care professional's perspective. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-involvement-patient-safety-health-care-professionals-perspective
    July 06, 2012 - November 6, 2013 Parent willingness to remind health care workers to perform hand hygiene … August 14, 2013 Determining a patient's comfort in inquiring about healthcare providers' hand-washing

  14. Deploying Six Sigma in a health care system as a work in progress. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/deploying-six-sigma-health-care-system-work-progress
    March 04, 2011 - 2011 Utilizing improvement science methods to improve physician compliance with proper hand … hygiene. … October 6, 2016 Promoting patient safety with perioperative hand-off communication.

  15. The role of practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine in perioperative patient safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/role-practice-guidelines-and-evidence-based-medicine-perioperative-patient-safety
    June 26, 2024 - commentary in epidemiological studies: identifying what contributes to successful interventions to promote hand … hygiene in patient care.

  16. Building social capital in healthcare organizations: thinking ecologically for safer care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/building-social-capital-healthcare-organizations-thinking-ecologically-safer-care
    June 23, 2009 - March 2, 2016 An integrative review of the current evidence on the relationship between hand … hygiene interventions and the incidence of health care-associated infections.

  17. Attending work hour restrictions: is it time? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/attending-work-hour-restrictions-it-time
    November 28, 2012 - commentary in epidemiological studies: identifying what contributes to successful interventions to promote hand … hygiene in patient care.

  18. Implementation-Guide-Appendix-O (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-o.docx
    April 21, 2014 - Yes: ______ No: ______ If no, please explain why: 22 What is hand hygiene compliance like for the

  19. Organizational Behavior Management in Health Care: Applications for Large-Scale Improvements in Patient Safety (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Cunningham_11.pdf
    January 29, 2008 - Advances in infection control often have been addressed by increasing hand hygiene among caregivers. … Moreover, nonbehavioral attempts to increase hand washing among caregivers suggest that hand-hygiene … • Peer observational feedback Geller 17 Infection-control error • Hand washing • “Hands-free … Hand hygiene compliance in healthcare workers. J Hosp Infect 2006; 3: 205-209. 43. … Discrepancy between self-reported and observed hand hygiene behavior in healthcare professionals.

  20. Resource List - AHRQ Nursing Home Survey (pdf file)

    www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursinghome-resourcelist.pdf
    April 01, 2023 - Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings provides healthcare workers and … Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care Facilities https://apps.who.int … Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care … Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings 2. … Hand Hygiene in Outpatient Care, Home-Based Care, and Long-Term Care Facilities Composite Measure
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