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2461. Assemble the Team, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2012 - Additional members who would be helpful to involve in the initiative are: Infection preventionists … provide to the CUSP team members to educate them about the avoidance of catheter-associated urinary tract infections … Infection preventionists. … Key hospital departments, such as risk management, quality improvement, and infection prevention, that

2462. NPSD Data Spotlight - Patient Safety and COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis of Concerns During the Public Health Emergency (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2021 - Nearly all of these reports were submitted under the event type category of Healthcare-Associated Infection … descriptions that included references to COVID-19 fell into the Other event type, or Healthcare- Associate Infections … injury as a result of fall o Risk assessment prior to fall o At risk of fall • Healthcare-associated infection … Blood or blood product 12 12 Device of medical/surgical supply 35 8 Fall 69 17 Healthcare-associated infection

2463. 037-Ss-Bed-Bathing-Chg-Cloths-Protocol (doc file)
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      April 01, 2025 - following protocol details the process for performing skin decolonization to prevent surgical site infections

2464. Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Infection rates from hospital epidemiology and infection prevention also present known complications. … reminder, the two questions are listed: How will the next patient be harmed or get a surgical site infection … In the case of reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections or catheter-associated urinary … tract infections, measure the outcome rates of these events. … For example, if you want to measure how often patients maintain normothermia to prevent surgical-site infection

2465. AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report: Real-Time, Wireless, Networked Feedback for Bed-Tilt Compliance (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Bedside Feedback Structured Abstract Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia, a common nosocomial infection … Scope: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common infection acquired in intensive care units … papers shows crude VAP mortality rates of between 24% and 50%, reaching 76% for specific settings and infection … Trauma VAP SWAT team: A rapid response to infection prevention.

2466. Facilitator Guide: Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking (doc file)
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      December 01, 2017 - Infection rates from hospital epidemiology and infection prevention also present known complications. … reminder, the two questions are listed: 1) How will the next patient be harmed or get a surgical site infection … In the case of reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections or catheter-associated urinary … tract infections, measure the outcome rates of these events. … For example, if you want to measure how often patients maintain normothermia to prevent surgical-site infection

2467. 2019 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2020 - AIDS as HIV infection, stage 3. … HIV infection and AIDS data are nationally representative. … of 21 measures representing six types of adverse drug events (ADEs); six types of hospital-acquired infections … • Hospital-acquired infections. … Identification of hospital-acquired catheter- associated urinary tract infections from Medicare claims

2468. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2015 - specific practices and "success factors" for reducing and eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections

2469. Timely Fluid Bolus for Children With Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2018 - Sepsis is a potentially catastrophic condition that can escalate from infection to organ failure and … Children with infections often display the inflammatory triad of fever, tachycardia, and vasodilation … Other clinical signs of septic shock in children with a suspected infection include: (1) hypothermia … Age is an important determinant of risk of bacterial infection, whether related to maturation of the … Group B streptococci, Escherichia coli, Listeria, and herpes simplex virus commonly cause neonatal infections

2470. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2025 - Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) scores related to reduction of hospital-acquired infections … Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPS) measures and catheter-associated urinary tract infections

2471. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2025 - Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) scores related to reduction of hospital-acquired infections … Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture (NHSOPS) measures and catheter-associated urinary tract infections

2472. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
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      January 01, 2010 - or ameliorated.1 Common post-discharge complications include adverse drug events, hospital-acquired infections

2473. Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      November 01, 2024 - tackling the overprescribing of antibiotics from a different angle: the misdiagnoses of urinary tract infections

2474. Presentation: Tools for Sustainability: Premortem and Scorecard
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      January 01, 2017 - North Carolina Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Collaborative. 2010. … North Carolina Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Collaborative. 2010. Klein G.

2475. CAHPS® Moving Forward: Innovations in Tools and Research Webcast (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2010 - Better patient-reported cleanliness of hospital environment strongly related to lower prevalence of infections … patient-reported hospital staff responsiveness and decreased likelihood of central line-associated blood stream infections

2476. Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - Reducing PICU central line-associated bloodstream infections: 3-year results. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Sexually transmitted infections and increased risk of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus … Risk behaviors, medical care, and chlamydial infection among young men in the United States. … Group A streptococcal throat infection - to treat or not to treat?

2477. Meeting Minutes, March 2023 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2023 - CQuIPS completed its program on Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections and Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infections in intensive care units. … research in diagnostic safety (10 grants) and three published toolkits in the healthcare-associated infections

2478. References (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/factsheets/fullreports/chipra-131-references.pdf
      October 23, 2013 - Epidemiology, complications, and cost of hospitalization in children with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection … neuromuscular disease as a risk factor for respiratory failure in children hospitalized with influenza infection

2479. Final Progress Report: Brief, Risky, High-Benefit Procedures: Best Practice Model (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Three patients had recurrent empyema, and four patients died due to infection. 4 The authors … Empyema accounted for 10% of all nosocomial infections in multiple trauma patients in the Shock … Of the remaining 25 patients, three (12%) developed empyema (an infection between the lung and chest … The lack of use of many standard techniques for infection control was identified on video review of … =64) Nu mb er o f co nta min atio ns 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Fig. 3 Infection

2480. An Overview of the SOPS® Surveys for New Users - Kirchner (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2023 - initiatives 22 Higher SOPS Hospital Scores have been linked to… Lower rates of surgical site infections