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181. Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections

182. Improving Your Laboratory Testing Process | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2018 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections

183. AHRQ Views: Commemorating 35 Years as an Independent Science Agency | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … Apply Now for Funding on Projects To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance … AHRQ is funding innovative research proposals to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and

184. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2024 - More >> Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home Susan … Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Professor, Infectious Diseases, School of … Medicine University of California, Irvine Medical Center "Understanding how to prevent infections in … More >> Focusing on Patients to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections During Transitions to Home

185. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2014 - above 5 measures) 1,594,000 48.67 1,372,000 41.91 CAUTI MPSMS Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … 370,000 11.30 350,000 10.58 CLABSI MPSMS Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous … Pressure Ulcer MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers 1,320,000 40.41 1,300,000 39.43 Surgical Site Infection

186. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Caregiving (223) Care Management (225) Case Study (101) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection … Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) (217) Uninsured (80) Urban Health (92) Urinary Tract Infection … early pandemic) using interrupted time series models on 11.8 million deliveries, stratified by COVID-19 infection … study described a 28-year-old woman presented to a community health clinic for sexually transmitted infection … Keywords: Nursing Homes, Antibiotics, Medication, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Watnick S ,

187. Working Together to Tackle Our Most Pressing Safety Issues | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - diagnostic safety, I’m reminded of the progress we’ve made with our successful Healthcare-Associated Infections … is dedicated to understanding the problems that can harm patients, identifying what works to prevent infections

188. New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - antibiotic medications to improve patient outcomes, reduce antibiotic resistance, and decrease the spread of infections … which are often ordered without clear indications and provide results that do not reliably indicate an infection … , M.D., M.S., who is a co-author of the study and a medical officer in AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections

189. AHRQ Releases Annual Update on U.S. Healthcare Quality, Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - stewardship programs and evaluate long-term impacts of antibiotic practice in patients with suspected infection … Of 364,506 emergency department admissions, about 44 percent had suspected infection and about 56 percent … Deaths were higher among those with sepsis compared with those with suspected infection (8.4 percent … and sepsis populations, over the course of hospitalization and across infection sources. … spending after durable left ventricular device implant: A mediation analysis of health care-associated infections

190. Resource List - AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2023 - Missed nursing care is linked to patient harm, including falls and infections. … (ASCs), preventing surgical site infections, using safe injection practices, and cleaning, sterilization … on the development and implementation of infection prevention programs that meet infection control standards … principles and methods of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent surgical site infections … Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet 10.

191. First-of-Its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Highlights Work of Amy Vogelsmeier To Improve Guidelines for Nursing Home-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections … Highlights Work of Amy Vogelsmeier To Improve Guidelines for Nursing Home-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections … to improve U.S. nursing homes’ ability to respond to high-risk respiratory and healthcare-associated infection … "An opportunity to minimize respiratory infections and the negative outcomes, not just from the illness

192. Download the CUSP Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections

193. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - Four Moments Questions Moment 1: Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … decide on the appropriate empiric antibiotic treatment regimen based on what you think the source of infection … relevant patient factors such as severity of illness, immunocompromised status, history of drug-resistant infections … If there is no evidence of a bacterial infection, stop antibiotics. … improvement is observed and oral antibiotic therapy can be tolerated and is appropriate for the type of infection

194. Gap Analysis for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - ☐ Urinary tract infection ☐ Asymptomatic bacteriuria ☐ Community-acquired pneumonia ☐ Healthcare-acquired … pneumonia ☐ Ventilator-associated pneumonia ☐ Intra-abdominal infections ☐ Skin and soft tissue infection … ☐ Bacteremia ☐ Sepsis ☐ Surgical prophylaxis ☐ Clostridioides difficile infection ☐ Other: ☐ Other: … pneumonia ☐ Intra-abdominal infections ☐ Skin and soft tissue infection ☐ Bacteremia ☐ Sepsis ☐ Surgical … prophylaxis ☐ Clostridioides difficile infection ☐ Neutropenic fever ☐ Other: ☐ Other: ☐ Other: ☐ N/

195. Communication-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Most of the time upper respiratory infections or common colds are caused by viruses. … In this scenario, a family member worries that her aunt has a urinary tract infection, or UTI. … · First, the resident has a fever, which is suggestive of infection and is important information to … In fact, for any residents with concern for an infection, all of the vital signs should be relayed to … , and also cannot tell which, if any, infection to treat.

196. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Implementation Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2018 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections

197. Toolkit to Engage High-Risk Patients In Safe Transitions Across Ambulatory Settings | 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

198. 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). 

199. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … , such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections. … Slide 4: Why Is Infection Prevention Important? … Say: Why is infection prevention and quality improvement important? … PLAY VIDEO: Video 2.1: Importance of Infection Prevention Ask: Why is infection prevention important

200. Leveraging Cultural Change to Reduce Urinary Catheter Use | 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 … 1 Leveraging Cultural Change to Reduce Urinary Catheter Use Linda Greene, RN,MPS,CIC Manager Infection … Slide 10 Clear Lessons and Culture Image: Screen shot of top of American Journal of Infection Control … Slide 37 Lessons Learned žWe all own this:  Infection Control, Nursing, Physicians …..