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9881. Feasibility of a Touch Screen Computer Based Breastfeeding Educational Support | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/feasibility-touch-screen-computer-based-breastfeeding-educational-support
      January 01, 2023 - physical and mental development in the first months of life, it also protects against common childhood infections

9882. Practice and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-improvement.html
      May 01, 2024 - into four pediatric primary care clinics to help identify adolescents at-risk for sexually transmitted infections … Implementing Telemedicine to Improve Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for  Acute Respiratory Tract Infections … Center Examines if telehealth visits can be used to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections

9883. Spotlight (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/spotlight_case_missed_pneumothorax_10.09.2022_-_final.pdf
      January 01, 2022 - occurs commonly (up to 33% of cases), but typically resolves without intervention and post-procedural infection … settings, for tasks such as identifying correct surgical sites in the operating room and reducing infections

9884. Archived: Oral Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/oral-cancer-screening-1996
      January 01, 1996 - Head and neck malignancies associated with HIV infection.

9885. Periodic Issue | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-471
      December 31, 2024 - Study Becoming Hand Hygiene Heroes: implementation of an infection prevention and

9886. Established Child Health Care Quality Measures: AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/measures/measure-3.html
      November 01, 2017 - AHRQ QIs help identify: Potentially preventable complications such as infections due to medical care … Urinary Infection Admission Rate. Perforated Appendix Admission Rate.

9887. HCUP Statistical Brief #3: Hospitalizations Related to Pressure Sores, 2003 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb3.pdf
      April 01, 2006 - all cases also had pressure sores), pneumonia (2.7 percent also had pressure sores), urinary tract infection … except that caused by tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases) 35,500 2.7 3 Urinary tract infections

9888. Where's the Feeding Tube? | PSNet
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      September 01, 2003 - June 28, 2023 What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections

9889. Chartbook on Women's Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/womenh-slides.html
      March 01, 2020 - 27 Adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Graph shows adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … 2.8 3.3 2.1 Importance: The urinary tract is a common site of healthcare-associated infections … pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration, diabetes, hypertension, and urinary tract infection … Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 

9890. Facts and Figures 2005
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      January 01, 2005 - The most recent editions address issues of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections … dehydration or fluid overload) 468 555 574 1.4 1.4 1.5 13 13 14 Septicemia (blood infection … Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections moved from the twenty-fourth most frequent diagnosis in 1997 … Complications of medical device, skin and subcutaneous tissue infections, and back problems were common … medical device, implant or graft 5.3 8.4 8.9 3 3 3 6 7 7 Septicemia (blood infection

9891. Preventing-Cauti-Icu-Setting-Module 3-Speaker-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/cauti-tools/cauti-icu/preventing-cauti-icu-setting-module_3-speaker-notes.docx
      September 01, 2015 - the indications for an indwelling urinary catheter, the causes of catheter-associated urinary tract infections

9892. Disposition of Comments Report for Comparative Effectiveness Review No. 131 (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/crohns-disease_disposition-comments.pdf
      February 25, 2014 - Peer Reviewer-2 Results What does it mean that “prednisolone was favored over budesonide for infections … Does this mean that prednisolone causes more infections or fewer infections? … Infections were reported more frequently for subjects who received every 8-week as opposed to every … A graphic of risk for serious infections or opportunistic infections for steroids would be informative … These studies only exclude patients who had a history of active tuberculosis (Tb) infection.

9893. Final Progress Report: A National Report of Nursing Home Quality Measures and Information Technology (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/alexander-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - a chair; 10) whose ability to move in and around their room got worse; 11) who have a urinary tract infection … clinical support and the QM identifying the Percentage of Long-Stay Residents with a Urinary Tract Infection … relationship indicates that, as ITS scores increases, the percentage of residents with urinary tract infections … The exception was % Long Stay with Urinary Tract Infection, in which differences in IT capabilities … IT used for laboratory systems) was an important predictor of the % of residents with urinary tract infections

9894. Final Progress Report: Quality Factors in Nursing Home Choice (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/congdon-magilvy-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - care, such as rate of restraint use (physical and chemical), pressure sore prevalence, urinary tract infections … Spearman rank correlation for each of 11 the five indicators were as follows: .626 for urinary tract infections … multivariate analyses indicated that NHs with higher total hours of care had higher rates of urinary tract infections … hours provided by licensed nurses had lower levels of new fractures and higher levels of urinary tract infections

9895. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2007 - err-human-building-safer-health-system https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intervention-decrease-catheter-related-bloodstream-infections-icu … thinking about the hospital in Pittsburgh that has managed to go close to 2 years without a wound infection

9896. Recommendations to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality Measures: Background Report on the 2012 Process (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/pubs/background-2012/backgrnd2012.pdf
      January 01, 2012 - The initial core set includes a measure of health-care associated infections for newborns and children … in intensive care units; this measure was compared to the submitted measure of newborn infection rates … Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are among the most common infections … in American youth, and HPV infection is the most common STD in the United States. … cervical cancer and 90 percent of cases of anogenital warts.17 Morbidity and deaths associated with HPV infections

9897. Emergency Department Visits Involving Influenza and Influenza-Like Illnesses, 2016–2018 (pdf file)
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb269-Influenza-ED-Visits-2016-2018.pdf
      January 01, 2018 - Introduction Each year in the United States, influenza infections result in substantial hospital … novel influenza A virus with other manifestations Influenza-like illness J069 Acute upper respiratory infection … J129 Viral pneumonia, unspecified J440 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower resp infection … obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) exacerbation J470 Bronchiectasis with acute lower respiratory infection … market-area variation analyses, and to identify State-specific trends in injury surveillance, emerging infections

9898. Anthrax | CDS Connect
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9899. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/intro-dailycare-facguide.docx
      January 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number and Slide Title Slide Introduction to Daily Care Processes: Evidence Behind Spontaneous Awakening Trials, Spontaneous Breathing Trials, and Head of Bed Elevation SAY: In this module, you will be introduced to daily care pr…

9900. Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/corebackgrnd.pdf
      January 01, 2013 - Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection that causes pelvic inflammatory disease, a condition … Without the presence of a bacterial infection, antibiotics are ineffective in treating pharyngitis. … Pediatric catheter-associated blood stream infection rates (intensive care and high risk nursery patients … The data source for the measure is medical records; data are collected by hospital infection control … Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare- Associated Infections. Washington, DC: Author 51.