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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/143-cusp-tip-sheet-engaging-staff.docx
April 01, 2025 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Tip Sheet:
Engaging Staff in MRSA Prevention
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Purpose
Surgical service–based teams are the cornerstone for CUSP work in the perioperative environment. However, to be successful, CUS…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity/obpcp-intro.html
May 01, 2014 - Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity
Introduction
Previous Page Next Page
Table of Contents
Integrating Primary Care Practices and Community-based Resources to Manage Obesity
Acknowledgements
Support
Foreword
Oregon Rural Practice-based Research …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/131-ss-swiss-cheese.pptx
April 01, 2025 - PowerPoint Presentation
Learning From Defects: Applying the “Swiss Cheese Model” of System Failures
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
AHRQ Pub. No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevent…
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part4-comm2.html
October 01, 2015 - Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care
Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission (continued)
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Table of Contents
Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care
Acknowledgments
Health Care For Hispanics
National Quality Strategy Priorities: Patient Safety
National Q…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide5.html
August 01, 2022 - Communication Assessment Guide
AHRQ Communication and Optimal Resolution Toolkit
Purpose: To help you identify members of your organization who are effective at delivering disclosure communications.
Who should use this tool? Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) Implementation Team, Disclosure Lea…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/toolkits/whats-available.pdf
March 20, 2017 - What's Available for the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey
CAHPS® Child Hospital Survey and Instructions
What’s Available for the CAHPS Child Hospital Survey
Document No. 91
Updated 3/20/17
What’s Available for the CAHPS® Child
Hospital Survey
What Materials Are Available?..........................................…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T6-Managing_Resident_and_Family_Expectations_Final.docx
October 01, 2016 - Tool 6. Managing Resident and Family Expectations
Nurses, prescribing clinicians, and any other staff who discuss or dispense medication may experience pressure from residents and family members to prescribe antibiotics. This is a template for discussing this topic and introducing the talking points to use with residen…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T6-Managing_Resident_and_Family_Expectations_Final.pdf
October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home
Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Educate & Engage Residents, Family
Toolkit To Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members
Tool 6. Managing Resident and Family Expectations
Nurses, prescribing clinicians, and any other staff who discuss or dispense medication may
experience pressure from residen…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-229-section-5-table-3.pdf
August 01, 2014 - Section 5, Table 3
Table 3: Evidence for Obtaining a Blood Culture for Treatment of Children with Sepsis Syndrome
Type of
Evidence
Key Findings Level of
Evidence
(USPSTF
Ranking*)
Citations
Clinical
guidelines
Pediatric considerations in severe sepsis: Empiric
antibiotics should be administered with…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/apply/applycusp.pptx
August 18, 2011 - (“Apply CUSP” cover slide with CUSP Toolkit logo)
1
Learning Objectives
Review key steps of the CUSP Toolkit
Learn how Just Culture principles can augment CUSP
2
Introduce Just Culture principles
2
Introduction to Just Culture Principles
3
3
Understand Just Culture
4
4
Just Culture1
A system t…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/prevehosp-trans-intakenotes.pdf
June 02, 2025 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and ED Visits - Transfer Note and Intake Note
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time
Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits
Transfer Note and Intake Note
Transfer Notes and Intake Notes are not required, but the elemen…
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/facil-guide/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-module2-speaker-notes.html
February 01, 2023 - Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes
Preventing CAUTI in the ICU Setting
Slide 1
Say:
In Module 1, we discussed the indications for an indwelling urinary catheter, the causes of catheter-associated urinary tract infections or CAUTI in the intensive care unit or ICU, as well as metho…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/ssi_investigation.docx
January 01, 2017 - SSI Investigation Tool
Surgical Site Infection Investigation Tool
Introduction
Problem Statement
Your team cannot always predict which patients will develop a surgical site infection, but you can learn from them when they occur. To improve, perioperative teams need a structured approach to investigate infections at …
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-ehr-impact3.html
July 01, 2024 - Documenting Diagnosis: Exploring the Impact of Electronic Health Records on Diagnostic Safety
History of EHR Documentation Legislation
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Table of Contents
Documenting Diagnosis: Exploring the Impact of Electronic Health Records on Diagnostic Safety
Introduction on Diagnostic …
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-229-section-2-tech-specs.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Section 2, Technical Specifications
Sepsis
Measure 3: Timely Blood Culture for Children with Sepsis Syndrome
Description
The proportion of hospitalized children with sepsis syndrome who had blood culture drawn within 4 hours
of meeting diagnostic criteria for sepsis syndrome. A higher proportion indic…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/newman-toker-summit2016.pdf
September 28, 2016 - Use of Data and Measurement in Improving Diagnostic Safety
AHRQ Research Summit, September 28, 2016
Use of Data and Measurement in
Improving Diagnostic Safety
David E. Newman-Toker, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heal…
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/profile-p4-fung.html
April 01, 2024 - Investments in Primary Care Research for 2021 and 2022
P4: Impacts of Changes in Payment Policy on Access to Primary Care for People with Lower Incomes
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Table of Contents
Investments in Primary Care Research for 2021 and 2022
Acknowledgments and Authors
Message from the Ac…
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/health-information-technology-center-education-and-research-therapeutics/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Health Information Technology Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics - 2012
Project Name
Health Information Technology Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics
Principal Investigator
Bates, David
Organization
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Funding Me…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33591/psn-pdf
March 15, 2025 - Triggers and Trigger Tools
March 15, 2025
Triggers and Trigger Tools. PSNet [internet]. 2019.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/triggers-and-trigger-tools
PSNet primers are regularly reviewed and updated by the UC Davis PSNet Editorial Team to ensure that
they reflect current research and practice in the patient safet…
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/symptom-monitoring-and-reporting-system-pediatric-chronic-illness
January 01, 2023 - Symptom Monitoring and Reporting System for Pediatric Chronic Illness
Project Final Report ( PDF , 183.08 KB) Disclaimer
Disclaimer
The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent th…