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2201. S10: Enhancing a Mobile Health App for Patient Asthma Symptom Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/spotlight-s10-rudin.html
      May 01, 2024 - First, the potential respiratory complications of a COVID-19 infection can be especially dangerous for

2202. Chapter 6. Conclusions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Infection Prevention Support Tool Appendix S. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … beneficial for the electronic identification of hospital-acquired wounds than bacteremias, UTIs, respiratory infections

2203. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2023 - Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections This tool, checklist, and

2204. Supplemental Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/guide-app-cusp.html
      December 01, 2017 - It standardizes your briefing and debriefing process to reduce the potential for surgical site infections

2205. 045-Ss-Tips-Patient-Ed (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/045-ss-tips-patient-ed.docx
      April 01, 2025 - preventive strategy used to target methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical site infections

2206. Examples of Home Health Care Quality Measures for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/home-health/examples.html
      November 01, 2018 - Patient Safety Measures: Percentage of patients needing emergent care for wound infections or deteriorating

2207. How To Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/how-to-use.html
      May 01, 2017 - use the materials in each section to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical site infections

2208. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults-references.html
      September 01, 2024 - Pitfalls in the diagnosis and therapy of infections in elderly patients--a mini-review. … and control: affect and hospital cliniciansʼ and older adult patientsʼ narratives of urinary tract infections … The scientific evidence for a potential link between confusion and urinary tract infection in the elderly … Current pyuria cutoffs promote inappropriate urinary tract infection diagnosis in older women. … Decision support-tools for early detection of infection in older people (aged> 65 years): a scoping review

2209. Video-Transcript-Spanish (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module5/video-transcript-spanish.docx
      June 02, 2025 - Matthews, if we would leave a catheter in your mother, she’d most likely get a urinary tract infection … KM: Infection? That would not be good, especially at her age. … But, aren’t there antibiotics to treat infections? ¿Infección? … They kill both good and bad bacteria, which would make your mother susceptible to other infections that … bacteria becoming resistant to the antibiotics if they are taken when they are not necessary, which makes infections

2210. Video-Transcript-Spanish (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module4/video-transcript-spanish.docx
      June 02, 2025 - Matthews, if we would leave a catheter in your mother, she’d most likely get a urinary tract infection … KM: Infection? That would not be good, especially at her age. … But, aren’t there antibiotics to treat infections? ¿Infección? … They kill both good and bad bacteria, which would make your mother susceptible to other infections that … bacteria becoming resistant to the antibiotics if they are taken when they are not necessary, which makes infections

2211. Engage Residents and Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2017 - resident and family engagement is and how to engage with long-term care facility staff as partners in infection-prevention … train local ombudsmen to educate and engage residents and families in catheter-associated urinary tract infection … and other infection prevention efforts.

2212. Faclearncusp (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/learn/faclearncusp.docx
      January 01, 2009 - An infection reduction project of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient … Michigan Keystone Center launched an AHRQ-funded project to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … successful, and the participating Michigan ICUs continue to sustain central line-associated bloodstream infections … In 2008, AHRQ funded national projects to apply the CUSP model to reduce infections nationwide. … Distributing pocket cards with information on necessary improvement areas, such as unit infection rates

2213. Low Tidal Volume Ventilation Guide for Reducing Ventilator-Associated Events in Mechanically Ventilated Patients (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-mvpguide.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - Among these harms are barotrauma, infection, and “volutrauma.”1 Patients who require mechanical ventilation … visits involving content experts, such as respiratory therapists, pharmacists, pulmonologists, and infection … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: … The Rhode Island ICU collaborative: A model for reducing central line-associated bloodstream infection

2214. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2013 - Healthcare Research and Quality funded a national effort to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections

2215. 3 Tk1 T5-Draft Policies And Procedures For The Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Final (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK1_T5-Draft_Policies_and_Procedures_for_the_Antimicrobial_Stewardship_Program_final.pdf
      October 01, 2016 - antibiotic use include adverse drug reactions or interactions, the development of Clostridium difficile infections … Records [List any records that will be kept in conjunction with the program (for example, the infection … Use in all situations when a resident has a new problem and infection may be suspected, and is being … Procedure Patients suspected of having an infection are assessed and referred to a prescribing clinician … The form is used on an as needed basis any time an infection is suspected, regardless of type of infection

2216. 5 Tk1 T6-Sample Distribution Plan For An Antibiogram Final (doc file)
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      October 01, 2016 - Nursing home prescribing clinicians: If a resident is suspected of having an infection, the nurse should … For phone notifications regarding a suspected infection, the nurse should fax a copy of the antibiogram … For example, near the fax machine or the infection log. … antibiogram in instructions related to communication with physicians about residents with suspected infections … : Antimicrobial stewardship policies and procedures Procedures for residents suspected of having an infection

2217. Opening Materials: Attribution, Objectives, Introduction, and Main Menu | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2015 - Slide 2 CAUTI: Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection Attribution Slide 3 Funded by … of nosocomial infections. … Avoiding unnecessary procedures will eliminate the risk of infection for those patients. … With decreased infection rates, costs for extended hospitalizations and additional treatments are also … Slide 7 Benefits of reducing inappropriate catheter placements: Reduced infection rates, costs

2218. Antibiotic Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/urine-culturing/antibiotic-stewardship/part-2-slides.html
      February 01, 2019 - Explain how overtreating urinary tract infections (UTI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … Every year 23,000 die from antibiotic-resistant infections. … Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States. N Engl J Med 2015; 372: 825-834. … Tracking infection prevention data has double value HAI prevention. … Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States.

2219. Final Progress Report: What About Mom? Using Administrative Data To Develop Measures for Monitoring Healthcare Quality in Pregnancy & Childbirth (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/gregory-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - #3: Decubitus ulcer, PSI #4: Failure to rescue, PSI #6: Iatrogenic pneumothorax, PSI #7: Selected infections … Using these criteria, two conditions were excluded (asthma and urinary tract infections); three remained … phototherapy; Subgroup Infection Potential MQI—Yes 0.00902 + 0.01241 0 (0-0.10511) MQI #36. … AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators: Time to include hemorrhage and infection during childbirth. … AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators: Time to include hemorrhage and infection during childbirth.

2220. Tk3 T5 Minimum Criteria Nursing Staff Training (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/TK3_T5_Minimum_Criteria_Nursing_Staff_Training.docx
      October 01, 2016 - Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit Tool 5. … by using the suspected infection SBAR forms. … Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit Tool 5. … Skin and Soft Tissue Infection SBAR. … Lower Respiratory Tract Infection SBAR.