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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/ml-rover-machine-learning-reduce-laboratory-test-overutilization
August 01, 2024 - pediatric critical care, where frequent testing can lead to complications such as iatrogenic anemia, infections
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/integrate-cusp-approach.html
October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions
Hand Hygiene Promotion
Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/what-are-4e.html
December 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions
Hand Hygiene Promotion
Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-outcomes-related-patients-through-advanced-nursing-technology
March 31, 2023 - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has stopped reimbursing for patient falls, hospital-acquired infections
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/CgLQsDuh3LaDVGNWRX9CUP
April 01, 2025 - associated with both child health benefits (lower rates of asthma, respiratory and
gastrointestinal tract infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/increased-risk-burnout-physicians-and-nurses-involved-patient-safety-incident
September 21, 2016 - July 23, 2019
Fighting MRSA infections in hospital care: how organizational factors matter
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-hospital-performance-patient-safety-and-30-day-mortality-and-unplanned
June 22, 2022 - August 15, 2018
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Fighting MRSA infections
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nhs-learning-deaths-reports-qualitative-and-quantitative-document-analysis-first-year
February 22, 2023 - February 22, 2023
Long-term care healthcare-associated infections in 2021: an analysis
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/feeney-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Kuhn noted was CMS’s
decision to stop paying for hospital-acquired infections. … The study found that 87
percent of the surveyed hospitals did not follow guidelines for infection
prevention … MRSA infection has had rapidly increasing prominence in the
U.S. healthcare system since 2000. … Data
Program Director: Merilyn Francis, RN, MPP
Brief Description: Healthcare-associated infections … Experts generally believe that at least 20-30% of such infections are preventable.
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/hWPZYvUZJXUQghbFtSDC42
August 01, 2011 - complications that result from diagnostic cystos-
copy and biopsy (such as bladder perforation, bleeding,
and infection … carcinogens (e.g., rubber, chemical, and leather industries)
• Male sex
• Older age
• White race
• Infections … Other risk factors for bladder cancer in-
clude male sex, older age, white race, infections caused by … to cystoscopy, and complications related to
cystoscopy and biopsy (such as perforation, bleeding, or
infection
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2016-11-nac/nacmtg1116-minutes.html
August 01, 2017 - Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections … and an R01 grant for Large Research Projects for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections. … cancer, screening for lipid disorders in children and adolescents, screening for latent tuberculosis infection … Topics addressed in draft recommendations were screening for genital herpes infection, screening for
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866993/psn-pdf
October 30, 2024 - often need but have trouble
accessing, such as wound care, hepatitis C treatment, sexually transmitted infection … individuals with opioid
and methamphetamine use disorders, who are often hospitalized for injection-related infections … They also reduce soft tissue skin infections and things like infective endocarditis, yet uptake and legality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49604/psn-pdf
June 01, 2010 - Tacit Handover, Overt Mishap
June 1, 2010
Cooper JB, Kamdar BB. Tacit Handover, Overt Mishap. PSNet [internet]. 2010.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/tacit-handover-overt-mishap
The Case
A 61-year-old man was admitted for management of an infected aortic stent, which had been placed 3
years earlier to treat an abdo…
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/diabetes-foot-ulcer-amputation-economics_research.pdf
January 01, 2011 - Economic burden of diabetic foot ulcers and amputations
Data Points #3Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Beneficiaries with a diabetic foot
ulcer are seen by their outpatient
health care provider about 14 times
per year and are hospitalized about
1.5 times per year. The cost of care
for these beneficiaries is substantial,
at…
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/850361/psn-pdf
June 14, 2023 - developed fever and
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/critical-echocardiogram-result-lost-follow
overt infection
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2021-ahrq-year-in-review.html
January 01, 2022 - The program also demonstrated a 19.5 percent reduction in C. difficile infections over a one-year period
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship8.html
August 01, 2024 - quality measure to prevent blood culture contamination and improve laboratory diagnosis of bloodstream infections
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digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/anesthesiology-control-tower-air-traffic-control-operating-rooms
January 01, 2020 - undergo major inpatient surgery experience major complications such as heart attacks, unremitting pain, infections
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/why/index.html
June 01, 2020 - Examples :
Children's ear canals are shorter than those of adults, making them more susceptible to ear infections