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2741. AHRQ Grants Policy Notices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2025 - Transitions (R01)" Notice Number: NOT- HS-23-004 11/17/22 AHRQ Announces Interest in Healthcare Associated Infections … 8/21 Notice of Extension PA-17-008 "Large Research Projects for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections … Quality (AHRQ) Multiple Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy applied to Healthcare-Associated Infection

2742. Case 6. Horizon Hospital—Lakeview Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-case6.html
      November 01, 2014 - in the NICU is an example where the evidence showed potential benefits to the patient (e.g., reduced infections … LHC also explored with their architecture firm the most effective products to prevent spread of infections … managers expected that the use of private rooms, including the NICU rooms, would lead to a reduction in infection … However, in the first few months after opening, the NICU reported higher infection rates than expected … This practice may have led to the transmission of infections between patients.

2743. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 16. Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/venous-thromboembolism-1.pdf
      March 01, 2020 - between the two groups in the number of patients with the following outcomes: pulmonary embolus, deep infection … , superficial infection, readmission, or death.16 Three articles did not reach a conclusion as to whether … risk for pulmonary embolism (PE) and DVT, while rivaroxaban had the lowest risk for prosthetic joint infection … the two groups in the number of patients with the following outcomes: pulmonary embolus, deep infection … , superficial infection, readmission, or death.

2744. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache: Technical Specifications (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0206-technicalspecs.pdf
      May 01, 2016 - purposes of this measure, indications for CT imaging include thunderclap headache, vascular disease, infections … prior to imaging o Vascular disease (Table IMG8) on the day of or within 365 days prior to imaging o Infections … Overuse of CT for Atraumatic Headache U18HS020516 Page 47 Submitted May 2016 Table 5 [=IMG4]: Infection

2745. Articles and Publications, 2010 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - Length of intravenous antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in infants with urinary tract infections

2746. Engineering Safe Practices Affinity Group | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2025 - Tools AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program (contains multiple resources and toolkits). *

2747. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4l_combo_psi15-accidentalpuncturelaceration-bestpractices.pdf
      May 31, 2016 - Recommended practices for prevention of transmissible infections in the perioperative setting.

2748. Assess and Adapt: Understanding the Science of Safety and Reliability (June 3, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/assess-adapt-transcript.html
      December 01, 2017 - that in the bigger picture, nearly 100,000 patients die in our hospitals from healthcare-associated infections … about CLABSI, there's an estimated 30,000 to 62,000 deaths from central line-associated bloodstream infections … across a number of clinical problems now: CLABSI, we have a project that is to reduce surgical site infections … summarized, that we know are from the guidelines for how to prevent a catheter line-assosciated bloodstream infection

2749. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
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      June 03, 2014 - that in the bigger picture, nearly 100,000 patients die in our hospitals from healthcare-associated infections … about CLABSI, there’s an estimated 30,000 to 62,000 deaths from central line-associated bloodstream infections … across a number of clinical problems now: CLABSI, we have a project that is to reduce surgical site infections … summarized, that we know are from the guidelines for how to prevent a catheter line-assosciated bloodstream infection

2750. 5 Tk2 T4-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit How To Enter Data Manually Into An Antibiogram Template (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T4-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_How_to_Enter_Data_Manually_into_an_Antibiogram_Template.doc
      May 01, 2014 - Concise Antibiogram Toolkit How to Enter Data Manually Into an Antibiogram Template 5 Concise Antibiogram Toolkit How to Enter Data Manually Into an Antibiogram Template Once you’ve printed your results from WHONET, you’re ready to enter the percent (%) susceptibilities into the antibiogram template. First, find…

2751. AHRQ Research Priorities and Compliance Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2025 - Research on the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Determination of the

2752. Challenges in Approaching Diagnostic Safety Unique to Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-2.html
      August 01, 2023 - Emergency Medicine advocate for reducing testing for conditions ranging from lower respiratory tract infections

2753. Health Care Simulation to Advance Safety: AHRQ Issue Brief (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2015 - and on the front lines internationally, providing guidance and training to health care workers and infection

2754. CAUTI Sustainability: Embedding CAUTI Policies, Using Data to Monitor Progress and Hardwiring CUSP Principles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/cauti-sustainability-video.html
      December 01, 2017 - CAUTI Sustainability: Embedding CAUTI Policies, Using Data to Monitor Progress and Hardwiring CUSP Principles Video Presentation Return to CAUTI Toolkit Information for Specialty Audiences

2755. 5. Impacts of Federally Funded HSR and PCR | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/healthsystemsresearch/hspc-research-study/impacts.html
      June 01, 2020 - Healthcare–Associated Infections HAIs, particularly those developed during hospitalization, represent … publicly recognized as a major and ultimately preventable problem in health care, the epidemiological and infection … Within the realm of HAIs, central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) provide a clear example

2756. Connecting the Dots: Improving Unit Safety Culture to Stop HAI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-slides.html
      December 01, 2017 - how to measure safety culture Explain the relationship between prevention and healthcare-associated infections … Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

2757. Spotlight on New Mexico | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2015 - electronic health record (EHR) templates to help guide and document screening for sexually transmitted infections

2758. 4. How Do Existing Measures of Clinical-Community Relationships Align with the Measurement Framework? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-measures-atlas/ccrm-atlas4.html
      March 01, 2013 - X is developing a 6-month program to improve awareness of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among

2759. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/interimhacrate2014.html
      January 01, 2018 - about 28 percent from pressure ulcers, and about 16 percent from catheter-associated urinary tract infections

2760. Final progress report: Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mao-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - gynecologic/urologic: vaginal discharge, abdominal distention, gastrointestinal discomfort, genitourinary infection … , other allergies, taste change, anemia, nutritional deficiency • Nonspecific events: unspecified infection