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2321. Early Mobility 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/early-mobility-mvpguide.pdf
      January 01, 2017 - visits involving content experts, such as respiratory therapists, pharmacists, pulmonologists, or infection … Preventable proportion of severe infections acquired in intensive care units: case-mix adjusted estimations … 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

2322. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/index.html
      July 01, 2023 - Harms such as adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and obstetric adverse events

2323. Tools & Resources for Decolonization: Patient Educational Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/decolonization-patient.html
      October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions Hand Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

2324. Blood Culture Practices and Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/blood-culture.html
      October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions Hand Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

2325. Evaluating and Sustaining Progress | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/progress.html
      October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions Hand Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

2326. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Ostomy Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-ostomy.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - ■ Fungal infections: can occur in the warm, moist environment beneath the barrier and erode skin

2327. The Science of Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/science-safety.html
      October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions Hand Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

2328. 067-Cusp-Monthly-Meeting-Prework (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/067-cusp-monthly-meeting-prework.docx
      April 01, 2025 - monthly Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) meetings and the prevention of surgical site infections

2329. AHRQ Safety Program for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/3-program-overview.pptx
      June 01, 2023 - improve buy in, teamwork, and change management Technical Clinical elements to reduce surgical site infections … (SSI), venous thromboembolism (VTE), and urinary tract infections (UTI) AHRQ Safety Program for Improving

2330. State of the Science and Future Directions To Improve Diagnostic Safety in Older Adults (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/resources/issue-briefs/dx-safety-older-adults.pdf
      January 17, 2024 - Independent risk factors associated with atypical presentations were complicated urinary tract infection … adults when constructing a differential diagnosis for an older patient with an acute concern (e.g., infections … 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 … Current pyuria cutoffs promote inappropriate urinary tract infection diagnosis in older women.

2331. Learn About CUSP, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2012 - 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 … In 2008, AHRQ funded national projects to apply the CUSP model to reduce infections nationwide. … total number central-line days, percentage of case fatalities, total number of incidents, and cost per infection … Distributing pocket cards with information on necessary improvement areas, such as unit infection rates

2332. AHRQ Research Summit on Learning Health Systems: Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/events/ahrq-research-summit-learning-health-system-summary.html
      October 01, 2020 - Pronovost cited support for efforts to reduce central-line blood stream infections. Dr. … Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections

2333. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand/understand-facilitator-guide.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - Care Science of Safety 2 • Over half a million patients develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections … • Nearly 100,000 patients die from healthcare-associated infections each year, and the cost of these … infections is $28 to $33 billion per year.

2334. Maternal and Child Health Care: Effectiveness Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/mcheff-measures.html
      June 01, 2018 - made up 7.1%. 10 Youth ages 10-19 years are at risk of contracting meningitis, a possibly fatal 11 infection … Meningococcal diseases are infections caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis. 12 Neisseria … meningitidis causes various infections but is most important as a potential cause of meningitis. 12 … It can also cause meningococcemia, a bloodstream infection. 12 The meningococcal vaccine can

2335. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/f1_pdi_returnoninvestment.docx
      January 01, 2013 - For example, improvement actions might reduce hospital-associated infections, rates of pressure ulcers … For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control or … imposed penalties for occurrences of infections.

2336. INSTRUCTIONS: Return on Investment Estimation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/f1-returnoninvestment.pdf
      January 01, 2009 - For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control … or imposed penalties for occurrences of infections. … For example, reducing infections will affect costs to insurers from changes in payments made to the

2337. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/f1_combo_returnoninvestment.docx
      January 01, 2013 - For example, improvement actions might reduce hospital-associated infections, rates of pressure ulcers … For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control or … imposed penalties for occurrences of infections.

2338. Content Calls for the Nationwide Implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/index.html
      September 01, 2013 - That project focused on reducing central line-associated blood stream infections, Because these webinars

2339. Improving Care Delivery Through Lean: Implementation Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2014 - Sustainment        Dissemination and Spread of Findings     Lean Projects Studied        Urinary Tract Infection

2340. Benefits of Subglottic Secretion Drainage Endotracheal Tubes: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/subglottic-fac-guide.html
      January 01, 2017 - Control and Prevention’s definition of a VAC includes conditions that are not necessarily related to infection