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2421. Impact Case Studies on the SOPS Surveys | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/sops/resources/case-studies.html
      March 01, 2025 - Quality   Case Studies Published Between 2016–2020 ChristianaCare Used AHRQ Resources to Reduce Blood Infections

2422. Patient Safety Research Summaries | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/research-summaries/index.html
      August 01, 2025 - logistics, and technologies) can improve patient outcomes, reduce injuries and hospital-associated infections

2423. Quality and Patient Safety Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2022 - Sign up: National Health Care Quality and Disparities Email updates AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections

2424. Data Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      Topics include infections (CDI and MRSA), adverse drug events (ADEs), and potentially avoidable injuries

2425. Diagnostic Safety as a Challenge for Healthcare Leadership | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/leadership-1.html
      June 01, 2021 - Similar to other patient safety issues (e.g., healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs), 3 in addition

2426. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.pdf
      January 01, 2010 - ameliorated.1 Common post-discharge complications include adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections

2427. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety: Health Systems Reporting, Analysis and Safety Improvement Research Demonstrations (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/fraser-dunagan-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - BJC’s Center for Healthcare Quality and Effectiveness and the Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology … BJC and WUSM possess sophisticated information systems, including award-winning expert systems for infection … and positive predictive value of NLP to detect the three types of events: DVT/PE, surgical site infection … Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Accepted In Press. 7. Gallagher TH.

2428. Study Reveals Sharp Decline in Mothers’ Mental Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/960.html
      June 01, 2025 - Program for HAI Prevention: CLABSI—Webinar Recording Available Central-line associated bloodstream infections … To address this serious threat, the AHRQ Safety Program for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention

2429. Implementing the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/implementing-cms-measure-slides.pdf
      May 13, 2025 - • CUSP – Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program • AHRQ’s CANDOR Toolkit • CDC’s Infection Control … Communication Framework • IHI RCA Resources • Shared Decision-Making • Tools to Reduce Central Line Infections

2430. Introduce CUSP
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/modules/learn/learncusp.pptx
      April 01, 2011 - originally developed the CUSP model with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality An infection … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational

2431. Affordable Care Act Boosts Individual Health Insurance Enrollment and Stability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/944.html
      January 01, 2025 - hospital inpatient stays without COVID-19 in 2021, the median length of stay with a healthcare-associated infection … Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313,  Prevalence and Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections

2432. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4g_combo_psi10-postopmetaderangement-bestpractices.pdf
      May 20, 2016 - postoperative period not only reduced mortality among critically ill patients, but also reduced bloodstream infections … the care of postoperative patients7-10: o Identify patients at risk (e.g. older age, hypovolemia, infection

2433. Data Reveal Uneven Impact of COVID-19 on Urban, Rural Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/913.html
      May 01, 2024 - Antibiotic stewardship interventions for urinary tract infections in outpatient settings: a narrative

2434. Baylor Scott & White Health: Building a Foundation for Continuous Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/lhs/lhs_case_studies_bsw.pdf
      April 01, 2019 - The evidence base was clear that handwashing is essential to infection prevention. … return on investment can appear piecemeal at first, observed in the small changes such as reduced infection

2435. Tool 11: Community Resource Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool11_comm_resource.docx
      June 02, 2025 - Medicaid patients; will prioritize patients who presented to acute care for dental-related pain or infection … Medicaid patients; will prioritize patients who presented to acute care for dental-related pain or infection

2436. TeamSTEPPS Pocket Guide (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/teamstepps-program/teamstepps-pocket-guide.pdf
      May 01, 2023 - I am concerned he may have an infection and that his catheter may be clogged.” … When he arrives, would you like us to get labs, including blood cultures, to check for infection?”

2437. No More Cauti Preventing Cauti Transcript (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/No_More_CAUTI_Preventing_CAUTI_transcript.docx
      May 05, 2015 - Finally, Liz served as a national mentor to 2 fellows in the project protect infection prevention fellowship … While it may appear to be more convenient, the risk associated with a catheter acquired urinary tract infection

2438. Implications for Practice Improvement, Research, and Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults3.html
      August 01, 2024 - adults when constructing a differential diagnosis for an older patient with an acute concern (e.g., infections … diagnostic clinical decision support tools and technologies, such as those that support the detection of infection … 2021 found 17 papers where decision support tools improved the detection of several different types of infection

2439. Final Progress Report: Care and Safety Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Home-Based Long-Term Services and Supports (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/wendel-hummell-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Research on infection control and emergency management in home care is sparse. … emergency response in home care was sparse, with the former focusing primarily on isolated patient infections … conducted with a small portion of early interview participants (9%), to beter understand how changes in infections … Poster presented at: Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. 2022 Jun 13 … Infection control in home care.

2440. Reports from the States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2019 - Neonatal Catheter Associated Blood Stream Infection (NCASBI) Quality Improvement Initiative This presentation … demonstration, describes the results of a quality improvement initiative to reduce central line associated infections