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2641. Evidence in Use of Clinical Reasoning Checklists for Diagnostic Error Reduction (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/diagnostic-error-reduction.pdf
      September 04, 2020 - For example, the first step in the well-known checklist to reduce central-line infections is “Wash your … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

2642. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=6
      January 01, 2024 - Tools Publication Date: June 2018 National Claims-Based Quality Measures for Surgical Site Infections

2643. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=14
      January 01, 2024 - Engagement Publication Date: June 2009 Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model To Reduce Infections

2644. Urinary Incontinence EHR Materials (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/mui/ui-ehr-materials.docx
      June 02, 2025 - If prescribing vaginal estrogen:  Using estrogen in the vagina can help with incontinence, bladder infections

2645. Peer Review at AHRQ - Study Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/peerrev.html
      January 01, 2025 - identifying the root causes of threats to patient safety; research focused on healthcare associated infections

2646. Part 3: National Quality Strategy Priority—Effective Treatment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/blackhealth/part3-nqs5.html
      June 01, 2018 - more than a year before kidney failure are less likely to begin dialysis with a catheter, experience infections

2647. Practice and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-improvement.html
      May 01, 2024 - into four pediatric primary care clinics to help identify adolescents at-risk for sexually transmitted infections … Implementing Telemedicine to Improve Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for  Acute Respiratory Tract Infections … Center Examines if telehealth visits can be used to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections

2648. Established Child Health Care Quality Measures: AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/measures/measure-3.html
      November 01, 2017 - AHRQ QIs help identify: Potentially preventable complications such as infections due to medical care … Urinary Infection Admission Rate. Perforated Appendix Admission Rate.

2649. Preventing-Cauti-Icu-Setting-Module 3-Speaker-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-module_3-speaker-notes.docx
      September 01, 2015 - the indications for an indwelling urinary catheter, the causes of catheter-associated urinary tract infections

2650. Chartbook on Women's Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/womenh-slides.html
      March 01, 2020 - 27 Adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Graph shows adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … 2.8 3.3 2.1 Importance: The urinary tract is a common site of healthcare-associated infections … pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration, diabetes, hypertension, and urinary tract infection … Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 

2651. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/congdon-magilvy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - care, such as rate of restraint use (physical and chemical), pressure sore prevalence, urinary tract infections … Spearman rank correlation for each of 11 the five indicators were as follows: .626 for urinary tract infections … multivariate analyses indicated that NHs with higher total hours of care had higher rates of urinary tract infections … hours provided by licensed nurses had lower levels of new fractures and higher levels of urinary tract infections

2652. On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing: Facilitator Training Instructor's Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/facguide.html
      December 01, 2017 - facility's ability to identify changes in the characteristics of pressure ulcers that indicate probable infection … together the background information needed for staff to make better treatment decisions when a possible infection

2653. Falls Prevention Self-Assessment Worksheet - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/otimefallspx-implmatls.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - activities of daily living, including mobility and transfer   Bowel and bladder incontinence   Infection …   Orthopedic/joint disorders   Seizure disorder   Dehydration   Vertigo/dizziness   Infection

2654. Final Progress Report: Composite Measures of Surgical Performance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/dimick-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - purposes of this study, we limited our assessment to serious morbidity, which included organ space infection … Association of surgical care improvement project infection-related process measure compliance with risk-adjusted … Reliability of superficial surgical site infections as a hospital quality measure.

2655. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-facguide.docx
      January 01, 2017 - Infection rates from hospital epidemiology and infection prevention are also sources of data of known

2656. Preventablehospitalandedvisits-Implmatl (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/preventablehospitalandedvisits-implmatl.pdf
      June 03, 2025 -  Active high-risk diagnoses (e.g., CHF, MI/angina, pneumonia/bronchitis, COPD, dehydration, UTI, infection … Sepsis or infection Yes  No  P.

2657. Engage the Senior Executive Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/engage/exec-notes.html
      December 01, 2012 - This transparency can include distributing a hospital-wide publication, announcing current infection … Infection rate data, stories of recent near-misses, or instances of harm are imperative for the executive

2658. Module 4: Teamwork and Communication: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module4/mod4-facguide.html
      March 01, 2017 - These subtle changes may represent the beginning signs of an infection, like a catheter-associated urinary … tract infection, or CAUTI.

2659. Recommendations to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality Measures: Background Report on the 2012 Process (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/pubs/background-2012/backgrnd2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - The initial core set includes a measure of health-care associated infections for newborns and children … in intensive care units; this measure was compared to the submitted measure of newborn infection rates … Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are among the most common infections … in American youth, and HPV infection is the most common STD in the United States. … cervical cancer and 90 percent of cases of anogenital warts.17 Morbidity and deaths associated with HPV infections

2660. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Appendix A (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-appa4.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - population, adults age 18 and over 105.8 20.38 HCUP 2016 Hospital admissions for urinary tract infection … reasons 31.1 3.48 MEPS 2016 Hospital admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection … of care 10.1 0.75 MEPS 2016 Hospital admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection … (Tdap) since the age of 10 years 60.0 2.65 NIS_TEEN 2016 Hospital admissions for urinary tract infection … Score Data Source Data Year Hospital admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection