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9761. In Pandemic’s Wake, We Must Recommit to Patient and Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/patient-workforce-safety.html
      March 01, 2023 - Healthcare-associated infections in hospitals, for example, were trending sharply downward in the years

9762. Using Digital Health Tools to Improve Patient Safety during Acute Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2024 - Potential problems include medication errors, falls, infections, procedural complications, management

9763. Ensuring Patient and Workforce Safety Culture in Healthcare | PSNet
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      March 27, 2024 - shown to significantly improve a number of patient outcomes, including lower rates of surgical site infections … highly, employees’ perceptions of safety culture and psychological safety improve, such as a study of infection … ratings of leadership were also shown to be negatively correlated to burnout, such as in a study among infection

9764. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 26, 2025 - They frequently close the chest before the completion of counts because of infection concerns. … sharps or small miscellaneous items may embolize, migrate within tissues, lead to thrombosis, site infection

9765. In Conversation With… J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, MA | PSNet
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      February 26, 2025 - what we need to do is instead of focusing on readmission rates, instead of focusing on bloodstream infection … In the replication we showed it wasn't the 66% reduction of bloodstream infections, it was 81.5%, which … I got this project done and our bloodstream infection rates are down, they're at zero, they've been at

9766. Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Era (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/telehealth-covid-19-disposition-comments.pdf
      January 03, 2023 - mucus that clogs the lungs and other organ systems, which results in lung damage, life-threatening infections … an alternate venue for synchronous, comprehensive visits with all team members without additional infection … In response to the immediate concerns around COVID-19 infection at the beginning of the pandemic, the

9767. 170-Cusp-Science-Safety-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/170-cusp-science-safety-notes.docx
      October 01, 2024 - Slide 3 Risks of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) SAY: The risk of healthcare-associated infections … One in 20 hospitalized patients will experience a healthcare-associated infection.

9768. Disposition of Comments for Technical Brief 27 Patient Safety (pdf file)
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      October 19, 2016 - epidemiologic/injury prevention perspective that has be the successful model for reducing healthcare acquired infections … For example, CDC Infection Prevention Resources for Outpatient Settings: http://www.cdc.gov/HAI … /settings/outpatient/outpatient- settings.html CDC's Guide to Infection Prevention in Outpatient … : http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/settings/outpatient/outpatient- settings.html CDC's Guide to Infection … Given earlier discharges home with urinary catheters and central lines in place, nosocomial infections

9769. Implementation Outcomes of a Health IT Program For Vulnerable Diabetes Patients - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2011 - Target Population: Acute Respiratory Infections, Adults, Chronic Care*, Diabetes, Elderly*, Low Literacy

9770. Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research Workshop - Materials Management and Production Processes Group Report (pdf file)
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      June 16, 2021 - improvement in safety, outcomes, and system performance (IT and health care), and measures of reduced infections

9771. Module 2: Urinary Catheter Maintenance Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2023 - the indications for an indwelling urinary catheter, the causes of catheter-associated urinary tract infections

9772. Let’s Talk About It: Preventing HIV with PrEP (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/inline-files/hiv-prep-prevention-discussion-guide.pdf
      August 22, 2023 - • PrEP does not prevent other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), so people who take PrEP should

9773. An Evaluation of an Interactive Social Media Web site for Parents who are Concerned about Immunizing their Children - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluation-interactive-social-media-web-site-parents-who-are-concerned-about/annual-summary/2012
      January 01, 2012 - increase their children’s risk of pertussis (whooping cough), varicella (chicken pox), and measles infections

9774. 5 Tk2 P3O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 3 Implementation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_3_Implementation.pdf
      May 01, 2014 - Health Care www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality HAIs Healthcare- Associated Infections … Presenters may include the nurse educator and/or the infection-control nurse to train the nursing staff

9775. EHC Research Protocol: Management of Colonic Diverticulitis (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2019 - events, side effects of interventions (any time frame) o Hospitalization comparison:  Hospital-based infections … Interventional radiology comparisons:  Adverse events related to procedures, including bleeding and catheter infections … Definition of Terms and Abbreviations C. diff Clostridioides difficile infection, a difficult-to-treat … bacterial infection that occurs in people on long-term (or repeated courses) of antibiotics. … Complicated diverticulitis a bout of diverticulitis with evidence of an abscess, other pericolonic infection

9776. PREGNANCY, INCLUDING PRETERM BIRTH #12 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/12_pregnancy_potential_high_impact_2012-12-11.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - Comments: Experts thought that human donor milk programs have potential to reduce rates of disease and infection … home. 5 Research indicates breast milk may reduce risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, urinary tract infections … Although experts agreed that providing human donor milk might result in reduced rates of disease and infection … patient health outcomes, pointing to its potential impact on reducing rates of asthma, diarrhea, ear infections

9777. Biosketches | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/events/ahrq-research-summit-diagnostic-safety-biosketches.html
      September 01, 2016 - She has led groundbreaking efforts to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units in Michigan … improvement projects in Spain, England, and Peru and to an AHRQ-funded initiative to reduce bloodstream infections … including patient engagement, response to adverse events, diagnostic error reduction, rapid response, and infection … chairs the measures and data sources sub-workgroup for the HHS Action Plan for Healthcare Associated Infection

9778. Randomized Controlled Trial Embedded in an Electronic Health Record - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/randomized-controlled-trial-embedded-electronic-health-record/annual-summary/2011
      January 01, 2011 - Randomized Controlled Trial Embedded in an Electronic Health Record - 2011 Project Name Randomized Controlled Trial Embedded in an Electronic Health Record Principal Investigator Kahn, James Organization University of California, San Francisco Funding Mechanism RFA:…

9779. Global drug shortages due to COVID-19: impact on patient care and mitigation strategies. | PSNet
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      November 04, 2020 - Commentary Global drug shortages due to COVID-19: impact on patient care and mitigation strategies. Citation Text: Badreldin HA, Atallah B. Global drug shortages due to COVID-19: Impact on patient care and mitigation strategies. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2020;17(1):1946-1949. doi:10.1016/j.s…

9780. Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric units: association with clinical and functional characteristics. | PSNet
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      April 21, 2021 - Study Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric units: association with clinical and functional characteristics. Citation Text: Fromm MF, Maas R, Tümena T, et al. Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric u…