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101. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Standardized Surveillance Definition May Help Reduce Infections From Home-Infusion Therapy . … Standardized Surveillance Definition May Help Reduce Infections From Home-Infusion Therapy An AHRQ-funded … study published in  Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology  found that a home-infusion central line-associated … bloodstream infection (CLABSI) surveillance definition is valid, feasible and acceptable. … Researchers sought to track infection reduction efforts in home infusion therapy as well as implement

102. After Hospital Care Plan for: Oscar Sanchez [Sample] (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - Blood pressure COZAAR LOSARTAN POTASSIUM 50 mg 1 pill By mouth Infection in eye VIGAMOX … ATENOLOL 75 mg 1 pill By mouth Blood pressure LISINOPRIL 40 m 1 pill By mouth Infection … Evening Infection in eye VIGAMOX MOXIFLOXACIN HCl 0.5 % solution 1 drop In your left eye

103. Winners Selected in Challenge Competition To Create TeamSTEPPS Training Videos | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - Apply by Sept. 12: AHRQ Seeks Director of Healthcare-Associated Infections Division . … Apply by Sept. 12: AHRQ Seeks Director of Healthcare-Associated Infections Division AHRQ is seeking … applicants to serve as the director of its Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Division and senior … Compliance with central line maintenance bundle and infection rates . … Reevaluating the significance of infection preventionists and infection prevention and control departments

104. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - Prescribing Best Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … 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

105. What Is Patient Safety Culture? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - scores had: Fewer hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and patient falls. 1 Lower surgical site infection … Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5 Lower risks of resident falls, long-stay urinary tract infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes.

106. Making Healthcare Safer IV | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - Failure To Rescue—Rapid Response Systems Report Protocol Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection … Caregivers Report Protocol Fatigue and Sleepiness of Clinicians Due to Hours of Service Protocol Infection

107. Appendix I. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition CAUTI Criteria Pocket Card | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … tool to help frontline and clinical long-term care staff identify catheter-associated urinary tract infections … References Adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI … Surveillance definitions of infections in long-term care facilities: Revisiting the McGeer criteria. … Slide 2: Pocket card side 1 Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Criteria for defining CAUTI

108. 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 .

109. 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

110. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical site infections … by providing specific tools focused on the surgical setting to help hospitals reduce surgical site infections … part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections … hospitals, implementation of the project was associated with a significant reduction in surgical site infections

111. SAHL-E Keys for Health Literacy Measurement Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - __soda __don’t know miscarriage __ loss __marriage __don’t know infection

112. 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.

113. Personal Protective Equipment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - 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 . … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/infection-prevention

114. Large-Scale Program To Reduce Heart Disease Risk Could Have Meaningful Health Benefits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Poorly Coordinated Healthcare Increases Infection Risk Following Ventricular Device Implantation, Study … Poorly Coordinated Healthcare Increases Infection Risk Following Ventricular Device Implantation, Study … failure patients who have durable ventricular assist devices (VADs) implanted, healthcare-associated infections … About 28 percent contracted infections within 90 days after VAD implantation. … relevant clinical areas may have few patients in common) is associated with higher in-hospital and 90-day infection

115. Breaking Down Barriers to Aseptic Catheter Insertion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Associate Professor University of Michigan School of Nursing Stacy Martin, RN, BSN, CIC Manager, Infection … Prevention Moffitt Cancer Center Stephanie Carraway, MPH candidate Infection Prevention Specialist … Infection Preventionist Physician Nurse leader or nurse educator Bedside nurse Other… Slide … Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

116. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … 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. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infection in the ICU.

117. What's New on the AHRQ Web Site | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - Practices Focused on Sepsis Prediction and Recognition  (4/15/24) Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection

118. The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - First, some encouraging news: According to the Leapfrog report, Clostridioides difficile infection … There was no change in surgical site infections following surgery.  … Rates increased for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections (37 percent), central-line … associated bloodstream infections (60 percent), and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (19 … published in JAMA showed that the Nation made slow but steady progress on a few hospital-acquired infections

119. Acute Care Learning Laboratory—Reducing Threats to Diagnostic Fidelity in Critical Illness | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Infection  2023 Feb;51(1):193-201. Epub 2022 Jul 1. Valik JK, et al. … of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 receiving organ support therapies: the International Viral Infection … From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal

120. Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2013 - More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … decolonization strategy to reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and bloodstream infections … This enhanced protocol provides a scientific foundation for hospital leaders of critical care and infection … hospital leaders in QI seeking a practical, evidence-based strategy to improve care, lower adult ICU infection