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October 01, 2014 - Featured
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Hospitals … Of Maine's 42 hospitals, 37 participate in the network. … Barriers to wider use of telemedicine include hospital credentialing requirements. … meet Medicare, Medicaid, and JCAHO requirements, physicians must have admitting privileges at each hospital
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July 01, 2017 - Featured
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Hospitals … Clinicians & Providers Health Literacy Data & Measures Education & Training Health Information Technology Hospitals
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May 01, 2016 - Featured
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Hospitals … Clinicians & Providers Health Literacy Data & Measures Education & Training Health Information Technology Hospitals
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May 01, 2017 - Featured
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Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals … national project team included—
Health Research & Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital … Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Qualidigm
Society of Hospital
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July 01, 2011 - Featured
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Hospitals … Keep in mind that “providers” can include not only doctors and hospitals but also nurses; pharmacists
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September 01, 2017 - Featured
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Hospitals … CUSP reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates by
30 percent in more than 700 hospital … CUSP reduced surgical site infection rates in hospitals by 25 to 40 percent, depending on the type of
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August 01, 2016 - Featured
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Hospitals … disseminate reports to consumers on the quality of care provided by health care organizations (e.g., hospitals
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December 01, 2017 - Featured
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Hospitals … Prevention
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Reduce CAUTI in LTC Facilities
Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals … Safety Culture: Average percent positive scores for Safety Climate Domain from most recent Hospital Survey
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October 01, 2017 - Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Module 4: How To Implement the Fall … Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
Fall Prevention Program Implementation Guide … Fall Prevention in Hospitals—Webinars
Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit
Hospital … Slide 13
Say: All hospitals experience staff turnover. … This example comes from a hospital that implemented AHRQ’s Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit.
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March 01, 2017 - Featured
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April 01, 2011 - to help hospitals develop effective partnerships with patients and family members with the ultimate goal … Rehospitalization has become a focus of attention for hospitals, purchasers, hospital quality organizations … Two hospitals scheduled followup appointments for most of their patients prior to discharge. … All hospitals coordinated with home health agencies and connected patients to community resources. … Reducing hospital readmissions: lessons from top-performing hospitals.
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February 01, 2019 - Featured
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Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals … found that carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae prevalence was higher in long-term acute-care hospitals … than in acute-care hospitals (17.8% vs. 4.6%).
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May 01, 2016 - Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) is a
structured protocol and suite of implementation
tools that helps hospitals … Hospitals using
these tools have seen a 30 percent reduction in
hospital readmissions and emergency … Healthcare Providers and Systems, which
provide valid assessments of patients’ experience
of care in hospitals … The hospital industry, patients, and CMS
chose the hospital version of the AHRQ survey
to be the measure … for all of the patient experience
elements for CMS’ Hospital Quality Initiative.
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January 01, 2010 - A patient-centered model of care for hospital discharge. Clin Nurs Res. 2004;13(2):117–36.] … Hospital discharge planning for frail older people and their family. … Discharge planning from hospital to home. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;20;(1):CD000313.] … More and more, hospitals are focusing on transitions in care as a way to improve hospital quality and … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines in 2012 that reduce payment to hospitals
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January 01, 2010 - patient outcomes, reduce unplanned
readmissions, and increase patient satisfaction.6,7
More and more, hospitals … are focusing on transitions in
care as a way to improve hospital quality and safety. … Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines in 2012
that reduce payment to hospitals … Hospital
discharge planning for frail older people and their
family. … Discharge
planning from hospital to home. Cochrane Database
Syst Rev. 2010;20;(1):CD000313.
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March 01, 2017 - Infect Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2003 Mar;24(3):165-71. PMID: 12683506. … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2014 Jan;35(1):16–17. 9. … A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 … Infect Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2003 Mar;24(3):165-71. PMID: 12683506. … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology . 2014 Jan;35(1):16–17.
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June 05, 2016 - Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool
Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators
How To Improve Hospital … children when available, as well as information gathered from real-world experience in working
with hospitals … In addition, a more general best practices form addressing mortality review was developed,
which hospitals … related to preventable hospitalizations reflect the quality of
ambulatory care, not the quality of in-hospital … practices related to preventing transfusion reactions would not help readers, as
most, if not all, hospitals
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August 01, 2022 - Featured
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Hospital Resources
CANDOR
Family-Centered … Toolkit
MATCH Toolkit
NICU Toolkit
Pressure Injury
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals … The surgery is performed by a different surgical team at the same hospital.
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December 01, 2016 - not fully understood, the increase
in safety has occurred during a period of concerted attention by hospitals … (2010 -
2014)
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Final 2014 estimates indicate that more than 36,000 fewer patients died in hospitals … results, technical assistance offered by the QIO program to hospitals, and technical assistance and … years; for example, the widespread implementation and
improved use of electronic health records at hospitals … expanded its efforts in order to extend the success that hospitals have
achieved to all health care
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May 01, 2017 - Featured
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Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals