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81. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia … Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections Clostridioides

82. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia … Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections Clostridioides

83. Best Practices in Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia … Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections Clostridioides

84. 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate and Estimates of Cost Savings and Deaths Averted From 2010 to 2013 (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2015 - .0015 Pressure Ulcers $17,000 .072 Surgical Site Infections $21,000 .028 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … NHSN (2013) SSIs for 17 selected procedures 79,000 2.4 VAPs MPSMS (2013) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … Cardiac Events for Cardiac and Non- cardiac Surgeries 35,000 1.1 MPSMS (2013) Postoperative Pneumonia … Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms (Baseline 2010 rate: .85 per 1,000 discharges) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias … Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator- associated pneumonia in the intensive

85. Presentation: Program Overview
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    January 01, 2017 - trials (SBTs) can reduce the length of mechanical ventilation and the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update.

86. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - Second, his vital signs and lung exam were normal, making pneumonia unlikely. … SAY: Third, even if there was a concern for community-acquired pneumonia, levofloxacin is not first-line … generally only be considered in cases of severe penicillin allergy for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia … Further, the duration of therapy for community-acquired pneumonia should be 5 days, not 10 or more days

87. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia … CUSP) principles to reduce complications from mechanical ventilation, including ventilator-associated pneumonia … Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one such complication, affecting as many as 20 percent of ICU

88. 5 Tk2 P4O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase4 Monitoring (doc file)
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    January 01, 2005 - Urinary tract infections and pneumonia are common nursing home infections, and they can be tracked readily … · Guidelines for the appropriate use of antibiotics for pneumonia need to be developed locally. … Nursing home staff can develop a list of appropriate and inappropriate antibiotics for pneumonia that … Pneumonia in older residents of long-term care facilities. … for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia

89. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    May 01, 2014 - PowerPoint Presentation Toolkit 3. How To Develop and Implement an Antibiogram Program Phase 3. Implementation Training Slides for Nursing Home Nurses Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic www.ahrq.gov/NH-ASPGuide ● May 2014 AHRQ Pub. No. 14-0023-6-EF Today we wi…

90. Urinary Tract Infections
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    November 01, 2019 - Empiric Choices Source of infection Vancomycin covers MRSA and is not always needed Community-acquired pneumonia … infections Nonpurulent cellulitis Anti-pseudomonal coverage is not always needed Community-acquired pneumonia … not improving, then additional evaluation is required Disease Process Duration Community-acquired pneumonia … 5-7 days Hospital/healthcare-acquired pneumonia 7 days Ventilator-associated pneumonia 7 days Urosepsis … combination antibiograms for improving the selection of appropriate empiric therapy for Gram-negative pneumonia

91. Presentation: Program Overview
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    January 01, 2017 - Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. … Interobserver variability in ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance. … Mucous plugging 1 (2%) 0 Abdominal compartment syndrome 1 (2%) 0 Pulmonary embolus 1 (2%) 0 Radiation pneumonitis … Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia. … Interobserver variability in ventilator-associated pneumonia surveillance.

92. Learn Best Practices for Diagnosing and Managing Common Infectious Syndromes and Antibiotic Allergies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Antibiotics: Sinusitis Sometimes Antibiotics: Pharyngitis Usually Antibiotics: Community-Acquired Pneumonia … Sometimes Antibiotics Diagnoses: Pharyngitis The Usually Antibiotics Diagnoses: Community-Acquired Pneumonia

93. Scientific Rationale | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2013 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia … and $10,000-$20,000 per surgical site infection, central line-associated bloodstream infection, or pneumonia … of health care-associated infections. 10 Also, it is the most common cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia

94. Resources and Tools on Patient and Healthcare Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - The Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Patient Safety Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit … implement and adopt the CAP clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia … Unit-based Safety Program to reduce complications for patients on ventilators, such as ventilator-associated pneumonia

95. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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    January 01, 2017 - In other words, it might or might not be pneumonia. … the pneumonia itself. … For pneumonia – was the head of the bed elevated? … Objecpneumonia. … Objec=ve surveillance defini=ons for ven=lator-associated pneumonia.

96. Ventilator-Associated Event Surveillance: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - The traditional VAP surveillance definition included radiological evidence of pneumonia. … In other words, it might or might not be pneumonia. … Say: Shifting the focus of surveillance from pneumonia alone helps us understand the importance of … the pneumonia itself. … For pneumonia—was the head of the bed elevated? For pulmonary edema—was there fluid conservation?

97. Ventilator-Associated Event Data Collection Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2017 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia … infection-related ventilator associated complication (IVAC) events, and possible ventilator-associated pneumonia … complications events, excluding PVAP ________ PVAP Total number of possible ventilator-associated pneumonia

98. Spontaneous Awakening Trials and Spontaneous Breathing Trials Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2017 - : Evidence-based, clinical practice guidelines for the prevention of healthcare-associated pneumonia, … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … ) and infection-related ventilator-associated complications (OR, 0.35; 95% CI 0.17 to 0.71) but not pneumonias … Effect of a nurse-implemented sedation protocol on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. … The incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia VAP was significantly lower in the nurse-implemented

99. Pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection Readmission Measure (pdf file)
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    April 05, 2017 - Readmissions for pneumonia are most prevalent in older children. … Local complications of pneumonia, such as empyema, lung abscess, and necrotizing pneumonia, are becoming … U.S. hospitalizations for pneumonia after a decade of pneumococcal vaccination. … National hospitalization trends for pediatric pneumonia and associated complications. … Adjunct corticosteroids in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.

100. AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2017 - mortality risk and include central line-associated blood stream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia