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101. Toolkit To Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/educate-and-engage/index.html
     October 01, 2016 - Sustain an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection … provide basic information about antibiotics and their risks (tool 4). ( PDF ) Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection … particularly concerned about a UTI, the nurse could provide them with a copy of Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection … tool 5) to help answer questions Communicate with residents and families about antibiotic-resistant infections … The “Suspect a Urinary Tract Infection?

102. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … units in nine States have participated in a national, neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection … Healthcare Research and Quality-funded national effort to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections … Objectives Methods Data Collection and Analysis Results     Participation     Central Lines     Infections

103. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Protocol explains that universal decolonization is the most effective intervention to reduce MRSA infections … Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices This toolkit can help hospital infection … prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections … aims to help hospital intensive care units (ICUs) reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection … (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). 

104. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/nclabsisum.html
     January 01, 2013 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC), implemented a national, neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection … During the course of the study, an estimated 131 infections were prevented which translates to an estimated … Approximately $906,000 was invested in the national NCLABSI project resulting in infections prevented

105. Funding HAI and Antibiotic Resistance Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2021 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Funding HAI and Antibiotic Resistance Research AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections … the Department of Health and Human Services'   National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections … Current research areas of interest are: Preventing the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections

106. CHIPRA 209: Section 6, Tables 8 a-g, 9 a-g, 10, and 11 (pdf file)
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     May 10, 2019 - Risk Estimate Adjusted Model- Any infection Estimate Std Dev P-Value Estimate LCL Estimate UCL … Risk Estimate Adjusted Model with maternal medical conditions- Any infection Estimate Std Dev P-Value … Testing Unadjusted Adjusted Quartile BPD NEC ROP Surgica l ROP IVH IVH Grades 3/4 Any Infection … BPD NEC ROP Surgica l ROP IVH IVH Grades 3/4 Any Infection Lowest 0.152 0.053 0.125 0.024 … BPD NEC ROP Surgica l ROP IVH IVH Grades 3/4 Any Infection Lowest 0.168 0.040 0.097 0.018

107. Toolkit 1. Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/toolkit1-working-with-a-lab.html
     October 01, 2016 - Sustain an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection … shows the organisms present in specimens from nursing home residents who are suspected of having an infection … information on local susceptibility patterns, they may help to improve the selection of antibiotics to treat infections … The medical director should also work with the infection control team, staff and leadership at the nursing … pharmacist to figure out the best way to fit the antibiogram into the work flow for residents with suspected infections

108. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Effect of education and performance feedback on rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection … A multicenter qualitative study on preventing hospital-acquired urinary tract infection in U.S. hospitals … Reduction of urinary tract infection and antibiotic use after surgery: A controlled, prospective, before-after … infections—U.S. 2001, 2008, 2009. … VA healthcare-associated infections activities/initiatives.

109. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including … more than 150,000 surgical site infections each year.  … partners: Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality provided clinical, infection

110. URINARY CATHETERIZATION – Sample Policy (doc file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-b.docx
     April 24, 2015 - 40 percent of hospital infections. … patient with an indwelling catheter should be monitored for signs of catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, 2009. … Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters. … Preventing hospital-acquired urinary tract infection in the United States: a national study.

111. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections … Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections … Clostridioides difficile Infections Sepsis Bacteremia Penicillin Allergies … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections Best Practices

112. 5 Tk1 T4-Antibiogram Formats And Instructions Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - the lab can include only those organisms that were actually isolated in each year, or include common infection-causing … Full-page antibiograms may be best for faxing to a physician along with information about a suspected infection … been shown to improve the appropriate use of antibiotics by providing the actual susceptibilities of infection-causing … A resident’s individual characteristics, including infection history, past antimicrobial use, and other

113. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/coronavirus/practice-improvement.html
     July 01, 2022 - and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection … Post-Vaccination Practices Series Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention … Administration in Nursing Homes Vaccination Tracking and Reporting Tools Auditing Strategies to Improve Infection

114. Special Edition – Patient Safety Awareness Week | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - AHRQ Seeking Participants in Projects To Reduce Infections and Improve Cancer Diagnosis . … Applying Statistical Process Control Methods Can Detect Increases in Rates of Surgical Site Infections … When compared with traditional surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance approaches alone, applying … process control, in addition to traditional surveillance, was more effective at detecting surgical site infection … the statistical process control method to detect SSIs and best practice deficiencies within a large infection

115. The Culture of Culturing—The Importance of Knowing When To Order Urine Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/urine-culturing/when-to-order/cultures-slides.html
     April 01, 2017 - Explain why unnecessary urine cultures can lead to increases in catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Guidelines for the Prevention of … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009 . … Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Guidelines for the Prevention of … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009 .

116. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4k_combo_psi14-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
     May 20, 2016 - In 2008 the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) identified surgical site infections (a … hospitalists, respiratory therapists, dietitians, pharmacists, and certified nursing assistants from infection … related:  Anemia  Hypoproteinemia  Jaundice  Male gender  Overweight  Increasing age  Infection … Surgical Site Infection (SSI) http://www.cdc.gov/hai/ssi/ssi.html Policies/Protocols • World Health … Surgical Site Infection Toolkit http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/toolkits/SSI_toolkit021710SIBT_revised.pdf

117. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/hac-rates-2019-updated.pdf
     January 01, 2019 - Adverse Drug Events -28% CAUTI* -5% CLABSI+ -6% Clostridioides difficile Infections -37% … Falls -5% Obstetric Adverse Events -3% Pressure Ulcers Surgical Site Infections Ventilator … embolisms -17% All Other HACs -14% Totals -13% *CAUTI - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … +CLABSI - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections **The percent change numbers are compared

118. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Evidence of infection or inflammation. Laboratory evidence of respiratory infection. … IVAC = Infection-related ventilator-associated complication. 8. … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infection in the ICU. … Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan ICUs: observational study … An intervention to decrease catheter- related bloodstream infection in the ICU.

119. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation Catheter-associated urinary tract infection … (CAUTI): Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals Central line-associated blood stream infections … build the foundation to make care safer and tackle specific HACs, including healthcare-associated infections

120. Appendix | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … 290,000 8.8 CLABSis MPSMS (2013) Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters … 400,000 290,000 110,000 28% $110,000,000 2,563 Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections … 530,000 40% 50% 20% 106,000 $1,000 Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections 40,000 … .023 $106,000,000 2,470 Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections .185 $170,000,000