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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/infection-prevention/environment-and-equipment/core-discussion-key.docx
March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for
Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Facilitator Notes
Training Module 2 — Core Team Discussion Guide
Clean Equipment and Environment: Knowledge and Practice
Directions
Answer the following questions to help reflect on how you can prepare to discuss cleaning and disinfection practices at your facility.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/infection-prevention/environment-and-equipment/all-staff-discussion.docx
March 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for
Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI
Training Module 2 — All-Staff Discussion Guide
Clean Equipment and Environment Promote Safe Resident Care
Directions
Answer the following questions to help reflect on how you can prepare to discuss cleaning and disinfection practices at your facility.
Discussion Quest…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/berry-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - The continuum of HIV care
(Figure 1) from initial infection to suppression
with ART has large stepdowns … /PowerSampleSize
The curriculum included didactic modules, similar to those used for central line infections … rates for six successive lines of HIV regimens; CD4 gain on ART; CD4 decline off ART
Opportunistic infection
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/measuring-safety-culture.pdf
May 13, 2025 - Infection Control
& Hospital Epidemiology. 2012;33(12):1280-1282. doi:10.1086/668432. … Teamwork in the NICU Setting and Its Association with Health
Care-Associated Infections in Very Low-Birth-Weight … available
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More Positive SOPS Patient Safety
Culture Scores Linked to…
Lower rates of surgical site infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T3-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Using_WHONET_to_Create_Your_Antibiogram.pdf
May 01, 2014 - the
first isolate found for each resident, so results are not biased by residents with
recurring infections … Uses
In addition to making and updating the antibiogram, you can use WHONET to answer more
specific infection
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/909.html
April 01, 2024 - Rapid Evidence Product: Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/forming-cusp-team-slides.html
February 01, 2017 - Infection preventionists.
Patient safety officers.
Chief quality officers.
Ancillary staff.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/engaging-srexec-slides.pptx
January 01, 2017 - the SSA responses grouped by commonly identified defect categories such as equipment, teamwork, and infection
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/engage/exec-slides.html
December 01, 2012 - Infection Preventionist Checklist.
Board Checklist.
Shadowing Another Professional Tool.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/927.html
August 01, 2024 - In 2020, the AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network provided free training for infection
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4m_combo_psi18-19-obstetriclaceration-bestpractices.pdf
May 20, 2016 - physicians and other providers, hospitalists, respiratory therapists,
dieticians, and pharmacists from infection
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final/clabsifinalap.html
January 01, 2013 - (Prompt: QIOs, State Department of Health, local chapters on infection prevention, State Medical Societies
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www.ahrq.gov/coronavirus/grants.html
March 01, 2022 - Location: Medstar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD
Award Amount: $499,569
Infection
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/changing-system-facilitator-guide.docx
June 01, 2021 - default stop date of 2 weeks or 30 days, far longer than is necessary to treat the most common bacterial infections … Moment 1: Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … There was no clear evidence of infection, or any purulence that would suggest the need to cover for methicillin-resistant
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/castro-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - anecdotal reports that some organizations still
restricted travel to reduce the likelihood of individual infection … at a robust ~$40 million per year, a level
comparable to the highly successful Healthcare-Associated Infections … Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims: The "Big Three" -
vascular events, infections
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3T6-Sample_Vignettes_Phase_3_final.pdf
May 01, 2014 - Health Care www.ahrq.gov
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality HAIs
Healthcare-
Associated
Infections
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/news-events/psaw-2024/index.html
March 01, 2024 - introduces new funding opportunities for research on diagnostic safety and combating healthcare-associated infections
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/ereports.html
December 01, 2017 - The criteria capture indicators of possible infection as well as delayed healing, as any sign of infection … includes descriptive details on the pressure ulcer, including:
Dimensions, stage, and signs of infection
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-electronic-reports.pdf
February 10, 2014 - The criteria capture
indicators of possible infection as well as delayed healing, as any sign of infection … includes descriptive details on the
pressure ulcer, including:
Dimensions, stage, and signs of infection
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/hripcsak-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Mention of a diagnosis (e.g., myocardial infarction, pneumothorax, aspiration pneumonia, nosocomial
infection … following discharge diagnoses—aspiration pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction,
catheter-related infection … discharged with (but not admitted for) aspiration
pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, catheter-related infection