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  1. Update on Safety Culture | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/update-safety-culture
    January 22, 2020 - Rhode Island intensive care unit (ICU) collaborative that worked on the prevention of central line infections … The units that did so showed significant improvements in safety culture and decreased infection rates

  2. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/853080/psn-pdf
    August 30, 2023 - National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators showed low incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections … , pressure injuries, deep vein thrombosis, and central-line associated blood stream infection.1 In terms

  3. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/references.html
    May 01, 2023 - Interventions to facilitate shared decision making to address antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections … continuing medical education program for optimizing decisions about antibiotics for acute respiratory infections … medical education program in shared decision-making on the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections … decision making to improve clinical decisions regarding the use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections … family physicians in shared decision making promote optimal use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections

  4. Section4 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2007/pdfs/section4.pdf
    January 01, 2007 -  The fastest increase in body system costs was for infections and parasitic diseases, more than doubling … AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH 1997 2007 1997-2007 Infectious and parasitic Septicemia (blood infection

  5. Denver Health: How a Safety Net System Maximizes Its Value (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/lhs/lhs_case_studies_denver_health.pdf
    April 01, 2019 - Denver Health went through a similar process to review its data on surgical site infections when leaders … system changed its preoperative procedures to take these patient limitations into account, and surgical infection

  6. Final Progress Report: Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/alpern-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - ethnicity was associated with differences in antibiotic prescribing for viral acute respiratory tract infections … (ARTI) without concurrent bacterial infection in the pediatric ED.

  7. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866846/psn-pdf
    September 24, 2024 - with falls, 37% fewer pressure injuries and a 34% reduction in central line-associated blood stream infections … not, and preventability is even harder to determine for non-fatal harms like healthcare associated infection

  8. Improving Communication Between Members of the Practice Around Antibiotic Decisions – Facilitator Guide (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/improving-communication-guide.docx
    September 01, 2022 - Let’s use patients presenting with concerns for viral upper respiratory tract infections or viral URIs … urgent callback should be scheduled for an acute same-day appointment to assess if he or she has an infection

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74242/psn-pdf
    January 07, 2022 - post-operative complications.10 Outside of the operating rooms, checklists are known to reduce central line infections … Statewide NICU central-line-associated bloodstream infection rates decline after bundles and checklists

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49851/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2019 - medicine.(1) Indications for bronchoscopy include (but are not restricted to) diagnosis of respiratory infections

  11. HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT — HCUP (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/Introduction_NRD_2010-2017.pdf
    January 01, 2017 - o Readmissions based on ICD-9-CM codes (e.g., post-surgical infection): Use discharge months of January … ; unspecified site 1,625 18.22 18.71 2.7 4: Mycoses 10,755 27.56 28.10 2.0 5: HIV infection … 7,495 26.99 27.66 2.5 6: Hepatitis 10,121 35.23 36.29 3.0 7: Viral infection 14,033 16.01 … caused by tuberculosis or sexually transmitted disease) 1,945 17.22 18.46 7.2 78: Other CNS infection … 18.94 19.54 3.1 134: Other upper respiratory disease 12,106 18.43 19.09 3.6 135: Intestinal infection

  12. THE HCUP NATIONWIDE READMISSIONS DATABASE (NRD), 2015

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/Introduction_NRD_2010-2015.jsp
    January 01, 2015 - Readmissions based on ICD-9-CM codes (e.g., post-surgical infection): Use discharge months of January … site 1,625 18.22 18.71 2.7 4: Mycoses 10,755 27.56 28.10 2.0 5: HIV infection … 7,495 26.99 27.66 2.5 6: Hepatitis 10,121 35.23 36.29 3.0 7: Viral infection … tuberculosis or sexually transmitted disease) 1,945 17.22 18.46 7.2 78: Other CNS infection … 2.8 89: Blindness and vision defects 1,943 12.30 13.02 5.9 90: Inflammation; infection

  13. HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT — HCUP (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/Introduction_NRD_2010-2016.pdf
    January 01, 2016 - o Readmissions based on ICD-9-CM codes (e.g., post-surgical infection): Use discharge months of January … ; unspecified site 1,625 18.22 18.71 2.7 4: Mycoses 10,755 27.56 28.10 2.0 5: HIV infection … 7,495 26.99 27.66 2.5 6: Hepatitis 10,121 35.23 36.29 3.0 7: Viral infection 14,033 16.01 … caused by tuberculosis or sexually transmitted disease) 1,945 17.22 18.46 7.2 78: Other CNS infection … 18.94 19.54 3.1 134: Other upper respiratory disease 12,106 18.43 19.09 3.6 135: Intestinal infection

  14. Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) Trigger Tool (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-143-fullreport.pdf
    April 01, 2018 - potential to cause harm or not—(Landrigan, 2005),surgical complications, and health care-associated infections … in reducing certain types of harms, such as surgical complications and catheter-related bloodstream infections … Making the CMS payment policy for healthcare- associated infections work: Organizational factors that … An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU. … Hospital-acquired infections in Belgian acute-care hospitals: Financial burden of disease and potential

  15. How To Manage Change

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/module2_managingchange_slides.pptx
    June 02, 2025 - applied to other quality improvement (QI) efforts: Hospital falls Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

  16. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-7.html
    September 01, 2020 - An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

  17. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/genitourinary-symptoms-protocol_0.pdf
    July 10, 2023 - Urinary symptoms include urgency, dysuria, and recurrent urinary infections. … another condition with similar presentation such as inflammatory dermatologic conditions, malignancy, infections … Genitourinary symptoms: urinary frequency, urinary urgency, nocturia, dysuria, recurrent urinary tract infections … Assess Systematic Reviews AUA American Urological Association CAUTI Catheter-associated urinary tract infection … or urethral caruncle or urethral prolapse or urethritis or incontinence or recurrent urinary tract infection

  18. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/musculoskeletal-complaints-tests-children_research-protocol.pdf
    September 29, 2010 - Recent infections PICO components: http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/� 6 Source: … the study population, population demographics (i.e., age, sex, ethnicity, comorbidities, and recent infections … , subgroup analyses will be conducted based on age, sex, race/ethnicity, co-morbities, and recent infections … of onset"/ 15 (JSLE or SLE or "lupus erythematosus").ti,ab. 75 sex factors/ 16 exp Pain/di, et 76 infection … / or infection*.ti,ab. 17 Growth/ph 77 anxiety/ or (anxious* or anxiety).ti,ab. 18 (grow* and (pain

  19. Index of CUSP Tools and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/cusp-tools-resources.html
    October 01, 2024 - Contact Precautions Hand Hygiene Promotion Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

  20. Implementation Change Management | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/curriculum/implement/activity/change.html
    June 01, 2023 - discharges, excessive wait times, substantial required staff overtime, ineffective scheduling, excessive infection … them (e.g., diagnostic errors subsequently discovered during care in another setting or organization, infections
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