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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33570/psn-pdf
June 15, 2024 - safety has chiefly addressed quantifiable problems such as
medication errors, health care–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33852/psn-pdf
January 01, 2017 - safety
experiences had no impact on a global measure of safety including outcomes like urinary tract infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33798/psn-pdf
January 01, 2015 - For example, failing to perform hand hygiene
demonstrably leads to health care–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.434_slideshow.ppt
February 01, 2018 - successes involved implementing a bundle of interventions
Key example: Catheter-related bloodstream infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
June 15, 2024 - safety has chiefly addressed quantifiable problems such as medication errors, health care–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49764/psn-pdf
June 01, 2016 - notable for a markedly elevated white blood cell count of 121,000
(normal is 5,000–10,000, and routine infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/Information/Panel
January 01, 2012 - many statewide quality initiatives, with focus areas such as surgery, obstetrics, hospital-associated infections … She also serves on the Washington State Healthcare-Associated Infection Advisory Committee, a member
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/false-assumptions-result-missed-pneumothorax-after-bronchoscopy-transbronchial-biopsy
March 15, 2023 - occurs commonly (up to 33% of cases), but typically resolves without intervention and post-procedural infection … clinical settings, for tasks such as identifying correct surgical sites in the operating room and reducing infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/novel-drug-misuse
September 30, 2010 - to placebo (24.7% vs. 30.8%, p=0.005).( 3 ) Patients included in PROWESS had a known or suspected infection … January 21, 2019
Compliance with guidelines to prevent surgical site infections: as simple
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49522/psn-pdf
November 01, 2006 - administrative data sources, more than half of the observed variation in risk-adjusted rates of postoperative
infections … in hospital
Smoking cessation advice/counseling
Appropriate Initial Antibiotic Selection
Surgical Infection
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49615/psn-pdf
December 01, 2010 - , increased length of stay, delay in transfer
to acute rehabilitation, increased caregiver burden, infection … where skin
tears, bruises, herpes simplex lesions, incontinence-associated dermatitis, and fungal infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/print/pdf/node/854855
January 01, 2024 - provider hand hygiene rates have escalated in the setting of increased attention to
health care–associated infections … provider hand hygiene rates have escalated in the setting of increased attention to
health care–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/curated-library/patient-team-member-clinical-care
March 15, 2025 - provider hand hygiene rates have escalated in the setting of increased attention to health care–associated infections … provider hand hygiene rates have escalated in the setting of increased attention to health care–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/classics
August 01, 2023 - Interruptions and distractions
(5)
Medical Complications
(93)
Nosocomial Infections … Surgery
(4)
Postoperative Surgical Complications
(18)
Surgical Site Infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/curated-library/implementation-patient-safety-projects
August 10, 2025 - multimodal interventions, the data-driven processes, and the reframing of catheter-related blood stream infections … remarkable successes achieved by this project include near-elimination of catheter-related bloodstream infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33792/psn-pdf
September 01, 2015 - the beginning because as we go
forward that same smartphone is a platform for doing labs, diagnosing infections … for example if you have an app that enables you to examine your child's
eardrum, it says there is an infection
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-dave-debronkart
June 01, 2014 - the support of patient advocates and Consumers Union, requirements for reporting of hospital-acquired infections … reporting of quality data, at a federal level (Hospital Compare), in some states (hospital-acquired infection … Summary of State Laws on Hospital-Acquired Infections. SafePatientProject.org.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50841/psn-pdf
January 29, 2020 - remarkable improvement in safety in terms of infectious agents.1 Rates of transfusion-transmitted viral
infections … Prevalence, incidence, and residual risk of human
immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33793/psn-pdf
November 01, 2015 - So you have surgical problems, medication problems, diagnostic problems, infections,
and so on. … If you've implemented the central line bundle, then you should measure central
line–associated infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-kaveh-shojania-md
February 26, 2025 - So you have surgical problems, medication problems, diagnostic problems, infections, and so on. … If you've implemented the central line bundle, then you should measure central line–associated infections