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241. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Pneumonia affects more than 250 000 nursing home (NH) residents annually. … A strategy to reduce pneumonia is to provide daily mouth care, especially to residents with dementia. … regarding oral hygiene, changes mouth care, and improves oral hygiene, in reducing the incidence of pneumonia … Effectiveness of a mouth care program provided by nursing home staff vs standard care on reducing pneumonia … Keywords: Pneumonia, Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care, Dental and Oral Health, Prevention, Patient Safety

242. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bacteremia (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - processes commonly associated with bacteremia, including: cholangitis, meningitis, pyelonephritis, severe pneumonia … above criteria (for example, a low-risk patient admitted to the general wards with community-acquired pneumonia

243. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - participants had positive reactions to the video but suggested reducing the intensity of messages about pneumonia … Keywords: Education: Patient and Caregiver, Health Promotion, Pneumonia, Vaccination Vyas A

244. Daily Goals During Interdisciplinary Rounds: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive … Understanding of patient care goals and plan. 11 Compliance with ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention … Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive

245. Module: Daily Goals During Interdisciplinary Rounds
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     January 01, 2017 - Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive … complex patients Understanding of patient care goals and plan11 Compliance with ventilator-associated pneumonia … Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive

246. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - PB , Guo N A risk model to identify Legionella among patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia … externally validate a model to predict a positive Legionella test among adult inpatients diagnosed with pneumonia … Of 166,689 patients hospitalized for pneumonia, out of 43,070 tested for Legionella 642 (1.5%) tested … A risk model to identify Legionella among patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia: a retrospective … Keywords: Pneumonia, Community-Acquired Infections, Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Conditions

247. Study of Privately Insured Patients Shows Nearly One in Four Antibiotic Prescriptions Were Unnecessary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2019 - Enhancing comparative effectiveness research with automated pediatric pneumonia detection in a multi-institutional

248. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - After HRRP's announcement, decreases were observed in home health (AMI: -2.43 ppt; CHF: -8.83 ppt; pneumonia … : -1.97 ppt) and skilled nursing facility referrals (AMI: -5.95 ppt; CHF: -3.19 ppt; pneumonia: -10.27 … Researchers sought to assess the costs of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) episodes with and without … Cost of pediatric pneumonia episodes with or without chest radiography. … Keywords: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Children/Adolescents, Pneumonia, Respiratory

249. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/pstools/patient-safety-tools-flyer-2021update.pdf
     April 01, 2021 - www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/omissions.html 7 The Community-Acquired Pneumonia … and adopt the CAP clinical decision support (CDS) alert for the management of community- acquired pneumonia

250. AHRQ Views Blog: At the American Society of Health Economists Conference, AHRQ Highlights Its Deep Dive Into COVID-19 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - featured this week include: Incidence and outcomes of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia

251. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2004 - Pre-production Developmental Bloodstream infections* CVC* Hip/knee replacement Postoperative pneumonia … Postoperative DVT/PE* Hospital acquired UTI** Ventilator associated pneumonia** Adverse drug … Our second topic not rated by AHRQ, postoperative pneumonia, is the second most frequent postoperative … Alternatively, the typical clinical history and diagnosis of postoperative pneumonia makes surveillance … early postoperative discharge (the typical SSI manifests between 7–10 days, whereas postoperative pneumonia

252. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Hunt.pdf
     July 01, 2004 - Pre-production Developmental Bloodstream infections* CVC* Hip/knee replacement Postoperative pneumonia … Postoperative DVT/PE* Hospital acquired UTI** Ventilator associated pneumonia** Adverse drug … Our second topic not rated by AHRQ, postoperative pneumonia, is the second most frequent postoperative … Alternatively, the typical clinical history and diagnosis of postoperative pneumonia makes surveillance … early postoperative discharge (the typical SSI manifests between 7–10 days, whereas postoperative pneumonia

253. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - plus macrolide with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) after treatment for community-acquired pneumonia … The researchers used data from 638 United States hospitals and included adults admitted with pneumonia … and discharged from July 2010 through June 2015 with a pneumonia diagnosis code who received 3 or more … plus macrolide with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) after treatment for community-acquired pneumonia … Keywords: Pneumonia, Clostridium difficile Infections, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Medication

254. AHRQ Views Blog: Healthcare, Climate Change, Environmental Justice and AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - Respiratory viral testing and antibacterial treatment in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia

255. PowerPoint Presentation
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     November 01, 2019 - PowerPoint Presentation Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections Acute Care AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use AHRQ Pub. No. 17(20)-0028-EF November 2019 Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care …

256. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - This study examined characteristics and outcomes of patients with positive cultures for pneumonia by … They studied adult patients discharged from July 2010 to June 2015 with principal diagnoses of pneumonia … Out of 138,651 hospitalizations of patients with pneumonia, 9.3% yielded positive cultures with 6438 … Blood cultures versus respiratory cultures: 2 different views of pneumonia. … Keywords: Pneumonia, Community-Acquired Infections, Respiratory Conditions, Infectious Diseases

257. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Schulte R Reducing antimicrobial overuse through targeted therapy for patients with community-acquired pneumonia … to reducing the use of extended-spectrum antibiotics (ESA) in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia … Reducing antimicrobial overuse through targeted therapy for patients with community-acquired pneumonia … Keywords: Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medication, Community-Acquired Infections, Pneumonia

258. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Allgaier J , Lagu T , Haessler S Risk factors, management, and outcomes of legionella pneumonia … The authors sought to describe testing, empiric treatment, and outcomes for patients with Legionella pneumonia … They found that LP was an uncommon cause of community-acquired pneumonia, occurring primarily from late … Risk factors, management, and outcomes of legionella pneumonia in a large, nationally representative … The authors included 14,170 adults admitted with pneumonia in 2010-2015 to 164 US hospitals if they had

259. Making the Case That Improving Antibiotic Use Is a Patient Safety Issue (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - He was initiated on piperacillin/tazobactam for presumed aspiration pneumonia. … However, his lack of purulent sputum and fevers makes pneumonia unlikely. … Aspiration pneumonitis is an acute chemical lung injury caused by inhalation of gastric contents. … A portion of patients with aspiration events (about 25%) develop bacterial pneumonia in the ensuing … It is unlikely for pneumonia to improve so rapidly, making aspiration pneumonitis much more likely.

260. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Deshpande A Treatment and outcomes among patients ≥85 years hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia … This retrospective cohort study’s objective was to describe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) among … Treatment and outcomes among patients ≥85 years hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. … Keywords: Elderly, Community-Acquired Infections, Pneumonia, Outcomes, Hospitalization Reeves