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461. Background for AHRQ Quality Indicators
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     January 01, 2006 - Examining Observed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 3) Per 1,000 Cases Examining … Observed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 03) Observed Rate 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 … Comparing Observed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 03) to Expected Rates Observed … Risk-Adjusted and Smoothed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 03) Risk-Adjusted Rate … Comparing Expected Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate (NQI 3) to National Average Rates To

462. Chapter-6 - Carbapenem-Resistant-Enterobacteriaceae (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2020 - Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) encompass a family of gram-negative bacteria that cause infections … Mortality among patients with CRE infections can be as high as 40 to 50 percent due to both the severity … of the infections and the lack of effective antibiotics with which to treat them.2 Because of their … Making Healthcare Safer: Stop Infections from Lethal CRE Germs Now.CDC Vitals Signs.Centers for Disease … An admission during the no-ASC period had no impact on the risk of ESBL infections (odds ratio, 1.16

463. Appendix C. Data Dictionary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Appendix … Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Infection Prevention Support Tool Appendix S. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U.

464. Staff Huddle Documents | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - option of using either mupirocin, which was evaluated in the A ctive Bat hing to E liminate (ABATE) Infection … Chlorhexidine versus routine bathing to prevent multi drug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infection … in general medical and surgical units: the ABATE Infection Cluster Randomized Trial.

465. Appendix A. Team Roster | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - implementation of the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) at your facility. … Assist in developing, implementing, and/or monitoring infection control strategies. … Serve as the infection control expert/consultant. … Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide

466. PDI Charts for Presentations (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2006 - Remove the "Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate" part of the title and revise it to reflect your PDI … Remove the "Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate" part of the title and revise it to reflect your PDI … Remove the "Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate" part of the title and revise it to reflect your PDI … Remove the "Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate" part of the title and revise it to reflect your PDI … Remove the "Neonatal Blood Stream Infection Rate" part of the title and revise it to reflect your PDI

467. National Implementation Project Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2016 - 2012, discusses accomplishments and next steps to in the neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection … Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections . … infection prevention toolkit .  … Catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention toolkit .  Enrollment information .   … Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection Opportunity Estimator.

468. Nursing Intervention to Remove Non-necessary Urinary Catheters
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     January 01, 2013 - Mohamad Fakih, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine Wayne State University School of Medicine Medical Director, Infection … may be the person responsible for data collection and/or data entry Serve as the “content expert” or infection … prevention consultant to the team Help the team develop/implement/monitor appropriate infection prevention … strategies Communicate the project goals and progress as appropriate in infection prevention meetings … and other settings within the hospital 16 16 Building a Successful Team: Infection Preventionist

469. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2016 - Why focus on neonatal blood stream infection (BSI)? … Implement Standard Infection Prevention Techniques To Prevent Neonatal Bloodstream Infections General … the incidence of neonatal bloodstream infections. … prevention techniques to prevent neonatal bloodstream infections • Implement general infection prevention … Infection control. Nosocomial bloodstream infections in a neonatal intensive care unit.

470. Appendix H. Calculating Sensitivity and Specificity for Validation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Appendix … Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Infection Prevention Support Tool Appendix S. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U.

471. Chapter 1. Administration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Chapter … Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Infection Prevention Support Tool Appendix S. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U.

472. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
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     March 01, 2017 - implementation of the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) at your facility. … Infection Preventionist Data driven Collaborative Problem solver Advocate · Ensure data collection/ … control strategies. · Serve as the infection control expert/consultant. · Communicate goals and progress … Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide

473. Exhibit 11. Importance measures on events in rank order of criticality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers Exhibit 11. … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection … instructions for weight reduction 0.3042 0.0015 0.3043 Event 142 Staff not well-trained in infection … Event 241 Tourniquet time >60min 0.0956 0.0051 0.0956 Event 660 Patient fails to notice infection

474. Presentation: Building Your SSI Prevention Bundle
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     December 01, 2017 - The cost depends on the type of wound infection, whether it’s a superficial infection—which costs about … Superficial wound infections are infections of the skin, seen with the naked eye and diagnosed when assessing … Deeper space infections are less common and trickier to diagnose. … And finally, organ-space infections are located in the surgical cavity. … infection control practitioner.

475. Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - How will the next patient develop a surgical site infection on your unit? … What do you think can be done to prevent this surgical site infection? … ASSESS RISK FOR SURGICAL SITE INFECTION Please describe how you think the next patient in the … operating room will get a surgical site infection.     … Please describe what you think can be done to prevent this infection.    

476. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and improve their safety culture. … Antibiotic drugs are strong medicine that can save lives when used appropriately to treat bacterial infections … Antibiotics can help the body fight bacterial infections, but they are not miracle drugs for everything … You don’t have an infection but instead have some other medical problem (such as anemia). … Sometimes people can have bacteria in their urine without having an infection.

477. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and improve their safety culture. … Antibiotic drugs are strong medicine that can save lives when used appropriately to treat bacterial infections … Antibiotics can help the body fight bacterial infections, but they are not miracle drugs for everything … You don't have an infection but instead have some other medical problem (such as anemia). … Sometimes people can have bacteria in their urine without having an infection.

478. Transcript: Senior Leadership Podcast – Why Senior Leadership Engagement Matters (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2017 - But infection prevention, I have to say, is my passion. … TJ: So, healthcare-acquired infections or hospital-associated infections, HAIs. … Michael: I would say healthcare-associated infections have been a challenge for some time. … Now we've really got to work on CLABSI and CAUTI and C. diff, and some of these other infections. … And then a CLABSI is a central line-associated bloodstream infection, which would be an infection, a

479. Facilitator Guide: Building Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
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     December 01, 2017 - The cost depends on the type of wound infection, whether it’s a superficial infection—which costs about … Superficial wound infections are infections of the skin, seen with the naked eye and diagnosed when assessing … Deeper space infections are less common and trickier to diagnose. … Slide 26 Hypoglycemia and Infection SAY: Maintaining normoglycemia can reduce risk for wound infection … infection control practitioner.

480. Vascular Access Device (VAD) Policy, Adult (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2008 - Module #1: HEIC VAD Course; Prevention of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (includes required … Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control (HEIC) Determines infection prevention strategies … Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control (HEIC) will report catheter associated blood stream infections … using National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) definition. … Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter- related infections. MMRW(No.RR-10), 1-31.