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81. Nursing Home Workplace Safety Resource List (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2023 - CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings … CDC Train Module 4 – Infection Surveillance https://www.train.org/cdctrain/course/1081802/ (requires … Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit for Successful Hand Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment … module completion, staff will understand: • The importance of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of infections … how to perform hand hygiene. • Key hand hygiene practices for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections

82. AHRQ’s Unique Effort to Advance Care for People Living with Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - the CDC, in 2022, at least 9 million people throughout our country were struggling with post-COVID-19 infection … estimates and other studies suggest that 10 percent or more of the U.S. population may experience the post-infection … cardiovascular and cognitive impairment, that develop or continue for weeks, months, or even years after initial infection

83. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 17, 2016 - Infection prevention strategies include general infection control practices, hand washing, and strategies … to prevent nosocomial infections.4 Screen patients for sepsis. … • Reduce nosocomial infections by implementing the following: o Oral care and proper positioning … • Ensure that nurses assess patients with a history suggestive of a new infection for sepsis at … Targeting health care-associated infections: evidence-based strategies.In: Hughes RG, ed.

84. Toolkit To Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - Sustain an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection … provide basic information about antibiotics and their risks (tool 4). ( PDF ) Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection … particularly concerned about a UTI, the nurse could provide them with a copy of Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection … tool 5) to help answer questions Communicate with residents and families about antibiotic-resistant infections … The “Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection?

85. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Protocol explains that universal decolonization is the most effective intervention to reduce MRSA infections … Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices This toolkit can help hospital infection … prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections … aims to help hospital intensive care units (ICUs) reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection … (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). 

86. Funding HAI and Antibiotic Resistance Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2021 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Funding HAI and Antibiotic Resistance Research AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections … the Department of Health and Human Services'   National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections … Current research areas of interest are: Preventing the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections

87. Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    June 04, 2018 - Adverse Drug Events CAUTI* *CAUTI - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections CLABSI+ Clostridium … difficile Infections +CLABSI - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Falls Obstetric … Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical Site Infections Ventilator- Associated Pneumonias

88. 2017Qdr-Patsafchartbook (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2018 - Regional Variation in Standardized Infection Ratios for Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections … Regional Variation in Standardized Infection Ratios for Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … Regional Variation in Standardized Infection Ratios for Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … in Standardized Infection Ratios for Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Critical Care … difficile Infection Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Hospitals

89. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including … more than 150,000 surgical site infections each year.  … partners: Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality provided clinical, infection

90. About AHRQ's Nursing Home Network | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection … Recognizing AHRQ’s leadership in patient safety and infection control, as well as the Agency’s experience

91. URINARY CATHETERIZATION – Sample Policy (doc file)
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    April 24, 2015 - 40 percent of hospital infections. … patient with an indwelling catheter should be monitored for signs of catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, 2009. … Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters. … Preventing hospital-acquired urinary tract infection in the United States: a national study.

92. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections … Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections … Clostridioides difficile Infections Sepsis Bacteremia Penicillin Allergies … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections Best Practices

93. Personal Protective Equipment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study Toolkit & Implementation Guide . … Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study Toolkit & Implementation Guide . … Targeted Infection Prevention (TIP) Study Toolkit & Implementation Guide .

94. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection … Post-Vaccination Practices Series Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention … Administration in Nursing Homes Vaccination Tracking and Reporting Tools Auditing Strategies to Improve Infection

95. Major Study Shows Significant Drop in In-Hospital Adverse Event Rates Pre-COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - included adverse medication events such as those associated with the use of insulin or anticoagulants, infections … such as central line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … clinics decreased overall by nearly 48 percent, while antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infection … These modules illustrate how staff can protect themselves, other staff and residents from infection, … as well as strategies to prevent infection.

96. Special Edition – Patient Safety Awareness Week | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - AHRQ Seeking Participants in Projects To Reduce Infections and Improve Cancer Diagnosis . … Applying Statistical Process Control Methods Can Detect Increases in Rates of Surgical Site Infections … When compared with traditional surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance approaches alone, applying … process control, in addition to traditional surveillance, was more effective at detecting surgical site infection … the statistical process control method to detect SSIs and best practice deficiencies within a large infection

97. The Culture of Culturing—The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2017 - Explain why unnecessary urine cultures can lead to increases in catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Guidelines for the Prevention of … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009 . … Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Guidelines for the Prevention of … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009 .

98. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    May 20, 2016 - In 2008 the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) identified surgical site infections (a … hospitalists, respiratory therapists, dietitians, pharmacists, and certified nursing assistants from infection … related:  Anemia  Hypoproteinemia  Jaundice  Male gender  Overweight  Increasing age  Infection … Surgical Site Infection (SSI) http://www.cdc.gov/hai/ssi/ssi.html Policies/Protocols • World Health … Surgical Site Infection Toolkit http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/toolkits/SSI_toolkit021710SIBT_revised.pdf

99. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - Adverse Drug Events -28% CAUTI* -5% CLABSI+ -6% Clostridioides difficile Infections -37% … Falls -5% Obstetric Adverse Events -3% Pressure Ulcers Surgical Site Infections Ventilator … embolisms -17% All Other HACs -14% Totals -13% *CAUTI - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … +CLABSI - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections **The percent change numbers are compared

100. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Evidence of infection or inflammation. Laboratory evidence of respiratory infection. … IVAC = Infection-related ventilator-associated complication. 8. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infection in the ICU. … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan ICUs: observational study … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infection in the ICU.