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161. AHRQ Tools Help Wisconsin Hospitals Post Big Quality, Safety Gains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2015 - Safety Program (CUSP) were "extensively" relied on to reduce readmissions and healthcare-associated infections … The hospitals' efforts included a 42 percent reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSIs) from 2008 to 2013; a 37 percent decrease in surgical site infections from 2012 to 2013; and … a 33 percent reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections from 2011 to 2013. … It subsequently helped hospitals use CUSP tools to address other infections.

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

163. HCA: How a Large Healthcare System Is Looking Beyond the Electronic Health Record (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2019 - program that uses predictive analytics to identify sepsis before a clinician typically can spot the infection … HCA to significantly reduce both its MRSA rates and the risk of all potentially life-threatening infections … For example, one HCA hospital set out to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections. … More importantly, fewer patients are at risk of urinary infections as a result. … A summit on infection prevention, for example, brought together 1,500 people from various facilities

164. Toolkit Sections | 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 … use the materials in each section in improvement efforts to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections … (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

165. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Blood Thinners (6) Cancer (2) Care Coordination (18) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection … (CAUTI) (2) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) (4) Children/Adolescents … Patient Safety Culture (2) TeamSTEPPS (1) Telehealth (2) Tobacco Use (1) Urinary Tract Infection … Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections … (CLABSI), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, Patient Experience, Patient

166. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Blood Thinners (6) Cancer (2) Care Coordination (18) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection … (CAUTI) (2) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) (4) Children/Adolescents … Patient Safety Culture (2) TeamSTEPPS (1) Telehealth (2) Tobacco Use (1) Urinary Tract Infection … Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections … (CLABSI), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, Patient Experience, Patient

167. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent complications such as surgical site infections … , venous thromboembolism, and urinary tract infection, and improve perioperative safety culture.

168. 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.

169. Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Infection Prevention. Planning for Sustainability. … for Implementation Once you're ready to implement a program to improve safety culture and reduce infections

170. Monitoring Ventilator-Associated Events: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Those categories are ventilator-associated conditions or VAC, infection-related ventilator-associated … The next tier is the infection/inflammation component. … Here, you will see generalized evidence of infection or inflammation which is considered the definition … just respiratory infections—included in this criteria. … included in the assessment of IVAC since they are not likely to be used to treat a lower respiratory infection

171. Communicating with Patients and Families around Antibiotic Decisions - Slides
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     September 01, 2022 - Patient satisfaction not impacted by antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory infections. … Delayed antibiotic prescription for children with respiratory infections: A randomized trial. … associated with increased patient satisfaction with emergency department visits for acute respiratory tract infections … Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections and encounter length: an observational study … Communication practices and antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections in children. 

172. Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical Environment
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     January 01, 2015 - Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Implementation Guide Appendix P Association for Professionals in Infection … Guide to Hand Hygiene Programs for Infection Prevention. 2015.

173. 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 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … about 23 percent from pressure ulcers, and about 15 percent from catheter-associated urinary tract infections … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data for surgical site infections (SSIs) are also … 270,000 8.2 CLABSIs MPSMS (2015) Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters

174. AHRQ's 35th Anniversary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - Similarly, Michigan hospitals’ ICUs stopped central line-associated bloodstream infections for up to … Researchers found that 60 percent of the 80 ICUs evaluated went 1 year or more without an infection, … and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators. 2013 Patient safety programs reduce neonatal ICU infections … Central line-associated bloodstream infections in newborns were reduced by 58 percent in less than a … The Network is established to provide free training on evidence-based infection prevention practices

175. Aurora Health Care Embraces AHRQ’s CUSP Method to Protect Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2015 - hospitals operated by Aurora Health Care in eastern Wisconsin reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections … "Keeping patients safe by preventing healthcare-associated infections is part of our patient safety program … CUSP concepts to other safety concerns, such as the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infections … The tools have focused on four patient goals: improving the culture of safety; medication safety; infection … Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Topic(s): Patient Safety, Healthcare-Associated Infections

176. AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery: Final Report (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery: Final Report HAIs Healthcare- Associated Infections PREVENT CUSP … What can be done to prevent this infection? … Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Fifty ways to cause surgical site infections. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2011;12(6):497-500.

177. Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement | 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 … AHRQ’s patient safety efforts , including its Healthcare-Associated Infections Program and implementation … CDC) work addressing gaps in the public health system and investments in data systems and sharing, infection

178. Using the Opportunity Estimator to Educate, Engage, and Evaluate | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … and then shows what the current burden is and what the potential savings are for a decrease in the infection … Activities Senior executive partnership & O/E to engage leadership Building a business case Infections … O/E in Action These data are the infections and central-line days for the baseline period for the

179. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2018 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … measures) 1,594,000 48.67 1,372,000 41.91 CAUTI MPSMS Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … 370,000 11.30 350,000 10.58 CLABSI MPSMS Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central … MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers 1,320,000 40.41 1,300,000 39.43 Surgical Site Infection

180. Register Now: August 22 Webinar by National Action Alliance Will Address Engaging Boards and Executive Leadership in Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2023 - Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant-Associated Infections Have Negative Impacts on Quality of Life … Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant-Associated Infections Have Negative Impacts on Quality of Life … A new AHRQ-funded study found that infections associated with left ventricular assist device (LVAD … percent) patients had multiple infections. … Researchers found that each additional infection was associated with an incremental negative effect on