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2681. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/handouts.html
      September 01, 2017 - their familiar setting with our staff who know them well, and residents aren’t exposed to nosocomial infections … DON, nursing supervisors, nurse managers or charge nurses, MDS nurse, QI nurse, infection control nurse … Multidisciplinary team weekly review of residents with stage 2 or above pressure ulcers at risk for infection … shift nursing supervisors (A), Staff Development Coordinator (A), QAA Coordinator (A), MDS Nurse (V), infection … Her physician wanted to send her to the ED for evaluation of a possible infection.

2682. Final Progress Report: Safety Outcomes of Obese Residents in US Nursing Homes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/felix-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - in NHs with high and low rates of falls, falls with injuries, pressure injuries, and urinary tract infections … Per Patient Day, LPN=Licensed Practical Nurse, RN=Registered Nurse, Q=Quartile, UTI=Urinary Tract Infection … The impact of obesity on urinary tract infection risk. Urology. 2012;79(2):266-9. 25. … Association between body mass index and urinary tract infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis … Impact of obesity on urinary tract infections in Korean adults: Secondary data analysis using community-based

2683. Methods (continued, 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ptfamilyscan/ptfamily3a.html
      July 01, 2018 - Although reporting of hospital infection rates is currently occurring and soon will be the practice in … However, in Pennsylvania, an early leader in public reporting of hospital infections, infection rates … effectiveness of communication among caregivers, improving medication accuracy, reducing hospital-associated infections

2684. Special Considerations for Measurement of Diagnostic Safety (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-2b.html
      June 01, 2020 - learn about safety risks. 55-58 Prior work in other areas of patient safety (e.g., medication errors, infection

2685. Learn From Defects in Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-slides.html
      February 01, 2017 - Infection rates. Complications.

2686. Presentation: Program Overview
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/learn-from-defects-slides.pptx
      January 01, 2017 - safety culture Where To Find Defects Adverse event reporting systems Sentinel events Claims data Infection

2687. Section II: Detailed Measure Specifications (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/availability/chipra-0134-technicalspecs.pdf
      January 01, 2011 - (unspecified type of abortion) 638 (failed attempted abortion) 639 (genital tract and pelvic infection

2688. Presentation: Program Overview
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/nursedr-early-mobility-protocols-slides.pptx
      January 01, 2017 - You will also be familiar and hopefully able to list the steps for developing a local surgical site infection

2689. Measurement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/pre/measure.html
      January 01, 2024 - : handwashing (process), surgical site infection rates (outcomes)  What would be important to consider

2690. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/healthit-ed-7.html
      February 01, 2021 - Mobile phone text messaging for promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV infection

2691. Information to Help Hospitals Get Started (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/howtogetstarted/How_PFE_Benefits_Hosp_508.docx
      January 01, 2012 - They contribute through “informed choices, safe medication use, infection control initiatives, observing

2692. Hospital Expands Use of AHRQ’s QI Toolkit To Improve Patient Safety Measures Prioritized by Medicare (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/standalone_psi_casestudy.pdf
      June 02, 2025 - volume of cases: • PSI 03 Pressure Ulcer Rate • PSI 07 Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection

2693. Health Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-health-equity.html
      May 01, 2024 - at the highest risk of financial burden; then estimates the objective financial burden of a COVID-19 infection

2694. Improving the Safety and Quality of Health Care: The Impact of the National Academy of Medicine on Research and Collaboration (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/ahrq-research-summit/dzau-summit2016.pdf
      September 28, 2016 - from 2010 to 2014 Adverse Drug Events Pressure Ulcers Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections … Surgical Site Infections Falls 39.8% ↓ 28.0% ↓ 16.1% ↓ 2.9% ↓ 2.4% ↓ The IOM Quality Series

2695. Using Technology with a Fundamental Focus on the Patient | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-gustafson.html
      February 01, 2024 - Using Technology with a Fundamental Focus on the Patient David H. Gustafson, Ph.D. Professor and Researcher University of Wisconsin–Madison David H. Gustafson, Ph.D. “AHRQ has always been open to letting us see if we can do the impossible.” David H. Gustafson, Ph.D., has been conducting digita…

2696. Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/behavior-change-facilitator-guide.pdf
      November 01, 2019 - There were nonsignificant reductions in 30-day readmissions and Clostridioides difficile infections … days and the house staff narrowed therapy in even more cases. 30-day readmissions and C. difficile infections

2697. Supportive and Palliative Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/supportive.html
      June 01, 2018 - Weight loss also may lead to muscle wasting, infections, and increased risk of pressure ulcers.

2698. Racial Disparities in Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) Rates in the Veterans Health Administration (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Shimada_65.pdf
      April 04, 2008 - rescue (PSI 4), foreign body left during procedure (PSI 5), iatrogenic pneumothorax (PSI 6), selected infections … pneumothorax 2,149,966 1,838 0.85 1.08 1,561,928 1,407 0.90 1.13 415,555 298 0.72 0.95 (7) Selected infections … Iatrogenic pneumothorax 68,928 41 0.59 0.85 16,048 13 0.81 1.05 11,074 5 0.45 0.63 (7) Selected infections … during procedure 0.84 1.53 2.49 1.46 (6) Iatrogenic pneumothorax 0.88 0.75 0.95 0.56 (7) Selected infections

2699. Hospital Deaths for Common Heart Conditions Increased While Hospitalizations Decreased During the First Year of COVID-19 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/qdr-data-spotlight-heart-failure-hospital.pdf
      July 01, 2023 - For example, infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been linked to blood clotting and inflammatory

2700. Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 6 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight06.html
      January 01, 2014 - on periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment; immunizations; screening for sexually transmitted infections