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81. CDC Uses AHRQ Data to Monitor Pneumonia Rates | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - CDC Uses AHRQ Data to Monitor Pneumonia Rates Search All Impact Case Studies July 2008 Research … The research is also helping the CDC update national pneumonia and acute respiratory infection hospitalization … routine immunization of children with the vaccine has had on the rate of all-cause and pneumococcal pneumonia … Among the findings were that national rates of pneumonia hospitalizations had declined substantially … In the lungs, these bacteria can cause the most common form of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia

82. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - 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.

83. Final Progress Report: Pneumonia Mortality Risk Index to Support Discussions of Care Options with Elders (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Pneumonia Mortality Risk Index to Support Discussions of Care Options with Elders … Progress Report for 1R03HS023656-01A1 FINAL REPORT Period: 08/01/2015 – 07-31/2017 Project Title: Pneumonia … , including the Pneumonia Severity Index (PSI), CURB-65, and CRB-65. … and hospital discharge (or in-hospital death) diagnosis of pneumonia. … Development of a Mortality Index for Elders Admitted to the ICU with Pneumonia.

84. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - Site Infections (SSI) 5 $11,778–$42,177 $28,219 ($18,237–$38,202) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … (SSI) 3 1.75–5.70 3.32 (1.79–6.18) 0.0114 0.026 (0.009–0.059) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … smallest estimate included a much larger population of surgical patients. 41 , 69 Ventilator Associated Pneumonia … for mortality varied and included two studies showing protective effects for ventilated patients with pneumonia … compared to those without pneumonia. 71 , 74 When these studies are excluded, the estimate for excess

85. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - Surgical Site Infections (SSI) 5 $11,778–$42,177 $28,219 ($18,237–$38,202) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … Infections (SSI) 3 1.75–5.70 3.32 (1.79–6.18) 0.0114 0.026 (0.009–0.059) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … smallest estimate included a much larger population of surgical patients. 41 , 69 Ventilator Associated Pneumonia … for mortality varied and included two studies showing protective effects for ventilated patients with pneumonia … compared to those without pneumonia. 71 , 74 When these studies are excluded, the estimate for excess

86. Measure: Pediatric Lower Respiratory Infection (LRI) Readmission Measure (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2015 - Importance Lower respiratory infections (defined as bronchiolitis, influenza, and community-acquired pneumonia … between 3.7 percent and 4.5 percent of all pediatric bronchiolitis hospitalizations and 4.5 percent of pneumonia … bronchiolitis can be as much as $9,063 per child.3 Similarly, the average cost of a hospitalization to treat pneumonia … Complications in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis or respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia. … Direct costs in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia after non-response to outpatient

87. Identifying Targets for Improvement in Antibiotic Decision Making (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - prescribers are unaware that the recommended duration of antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia … He is diagnosed with hospital-acquired pneumonia. … Ampicillin and cefazolin are not generally recommended as empiric therapy for hospital-acquired pneumonia … because over the years many organisms that are likely to cause hospital-acquired pneumonia have become … He is started on ceftriaxone and azithromycin for possible community-acquired pneumonia and furosemide

88. AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - funding from AHRQ.1 New Projects Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … Contract (ACTION II Task Order) Contractor: Johns Hopkins University Targeted HAI: Ventilator-associated pneumonia … health record ESRD—End-stage renal disease HAIs—Healthcare-associated infections KPC—Klebsiella pneumonia … SUSP—Surgical Unit-based Safety Program UTIs—Urinary tract infections VAP—Ventilator-associated pneumonia … Lives by Eradicating Antibiotic Resistance Quality of Care and Outcomes of Health Care-Associated Pneumonia

89. Final Progress Report: Evaluating and Improving Present-On-Admission for Performance Reporting (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2025 - report for the pneumonia sample, and the Agency Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient Quality Indicators … diagnosis or procedure, 298 patients had an acute myocardial infarction, 205 had community-acquired pneumonia … Reporting accuracy ranged from only 60.2% for septicemia in the setting of community-acquired pneumonia … , but POA reporting was only part of California’s risk adjustment model for community-acquired pneumonia … Report for the California hospital outcomes project community-acquired pneumonia, 1996; model development

90. National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Health Care Safer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2016 - MPSMS 4-condition sample (based on patients with acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, pneumonia … SSIs for 17 selected procedures 81,000 2.5 VAPs MPSMS (2015) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia … Cardiac Events for Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Surgeries 35,000 1.1 MPSMS (2015) Postoperative Pneumonia … 110,000 35% 20% 7% 7,700 $21,000 .028 $161,700,000 217 Ventilator- Associated Pneumonias

91. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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    January 01, 2017 - percent decrease in the incidence of gastric aspiration, a potential cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia … Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia through aspiration of subglottic secretions: A systematic … Subglottic secretion drainage for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: A systematic review … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: A compendium of strategies … Comprehensive evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for ventilator-associated pneumonia: Diagnosis

92. Head of Bed Elevation or Semirecumbent Positioning Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2017 - ZAP the VAP: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 2008—Canadian VAP Prevention Guidelines: Evidence-based … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … Ventilator-associated pneumonia. A multivariate analysis. JAMA 1993 Oct;270(16):1965-70. … Prevention of hospital-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. … Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: An evidence-based systematic review.

93. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2025 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit This toolkit is a resource … informaticians in primary care and other ambulatory settings implement and adopt the community-acquired pneumonia … (CAP) clinical decision support (CDS) alert for the management of community-acquired pneumonia.

94. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2019 - consider other causes of respiratory illness such as pulmonary embolism, asthma exacerbation, aspiration pneumonitis … Slide 23 Moment 1: Aspiration Event SAY: Pneumonitis is an abrupt chemical injury caused by … Slide 26 Antibiotics and Aspiration Pneumonitis Say: In an observational study of 200 patients … with aspiration pneumonitis, 38 percent received prophylactic antibiotics soon after the aspiration … And finally, regarding aspiration pneumonitis, for hemodynamically stable patients, antibiotics generally

95. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - and the quality of care it provided to patients with pneumonia. … of care was lower among hospitals with the highest rates of ICU admission for elderly patients with pneumonia … ; such hospitals were less likely to deliver pneumonia processes of care and had worse outcomes for patients … with pneumonia. … Hospitals with the highest intensive care utilization provide lower quality pneumonia care to the elderly

96. AHRQ Analysis Finds Hospital-Acquired Conditions Declined By Nearly 1 Million From 2014 to 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2019 - viral hepatitis (about 16 percent vs. 8 percent) and anemia (about 31 percent vs. 25 percent), but less pneumonia

97. Appendix C. Article Exclusion List with Reason for Exclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - Cost-effectiveness analysis of linezolid compared with vancomycin for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia … and cost burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in early onset ventilator-associated pneumonia … 2002 Effect of an education program aimed at reducing the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia

98. Tool: SSA (doc file)
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    January 01, 2017 - least 30 degrees) is associated with a decreased incidence of aspiration and ventilator-associated pneumonia … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. … Ventilator-associated pneumonia. A multivariate analysis. JAMA. 1993 Oct;270(16):1965-70. … Prevention of hospital-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. … Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: An evidence-based systematic review.

99. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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    January 01, 2017 - the length of mechanical ventilation, thereby reducing the risk for developing ventilator-associated pneumonia … Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acutecare hospitals: 2014 update. … for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia … Guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the healthcare

100. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia in neurologically impaired children. … etiology in patients hospitalized with pneumonia. … Researchers assessed the validity of ICD-9 organism-specific administrative codes for pneumonia using … They found that, in this study, ICD-9 codes did not reliably capture pneumonia etiology identified by … hospitalized with pneumonia.