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21. Challenge Competition on the Impact of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit  is a resource to help … informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the community-acquired pneumonia … clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia.

22. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia | 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

23. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | 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

24. Approach to Patients Reporting Penicillin Allergies | 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

25. 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

26. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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?

32. Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - The Community-Acquired  Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit helps clinicians … informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the community-acquired pneumonia

33. Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2017 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia … Such complications include ventilator-associated pneumonia, which affects as many as 20 percent of patients … CUSP principles to reduce complications from mechanical ventilation, including ventilator-associated pneumonia

34. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit Helps clinicians … settings implement and adopt a clinical decision support alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia

35. AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2017 - high mortality risk and include central line-associated blood stream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia

36. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2017 - Slide 4: Impact of Mechanical Ventilation Say: Historically, ventilator-associated pneumonia, or … Five to 10 percent of ventilated patients suffer from some type of VAC, typically attributable to pneumonia … Ask: So, the first question you might ask is, "How should you define ventilator-associated pneumonia … Even clinicians have a lot of disagreement at the bedside over who does and does not have a pneumonia … Often, this combination would indicate a pneumonia, and an initial reaction would be to prescribe broad

37. AHRQ's 35th Anniversary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - for reducing inappropriate variations on topics such as diabetes, heart disease, hip replacement, and pneumonia … Hospital staff in Michigan intensive care units cut by more than 70 percent the rate of pneumonia in

38. Assessing the Impact of Value-Based Purchasing Programs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - unplanned readmissions for congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), and pneumonia

39. Comparative Reports on Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2022 - by angioplasty, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, mother and baby, patient experience, and pneumonia

40. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2018 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers Toolkit CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia