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21. APIC HAI Cost Calculator | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Protocol APIC HAI Cost Calculator The Association for Professionals in Infection … Control and Epidemiology (APIC) healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Calculator Tools help define … Utilize these tools to engage senior leaders or other staff in this work to reduce infections.

22. Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - News Newsroom Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections … Events Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections … Antibiotic Resistance AHRQ is funding innovative research proposals to prevent healthcare-associated infections … 2024 Internet Citation: Apply Now for Funding on Projects to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections

23. National Implementation Project Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2016 - 2012, discusses accomplishments and next steps to in the neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection … Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections . … infection prevention toolkit .  … Catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention toolkit .  Enrollment information .   … Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection Opportunity Estimator.

24. Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … AHRQ specifically supports this National Action Plan in three ways: Funding research on infection prevention … This work is part of AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program, which focuses on improving antibiotic … Every infection prevented is one less instance of antibiotic use, and using fewer antibiotics significantly … reduces the risk for resistant infections.

25. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - Toolkits To Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics A key … nursing homes: UTIs, lower respiratory infections, skin and soft tissue infections, and gastrointestinal … infections. … : UTIs, lower respiratory infections, and skin and soft tissue infections. … Toolkits To Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic for Treating an Infection Nursing

26. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - . 2 Background Infections that develop in health care settings are known as HAIs. … American Hospital Association University of Michigan Abt Associates Association of Professionals in Infection … Infections in residents of long-term care facilities: an agenda for research. … Impact of infection preventionists on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid quality measures in Maryland … SHEA/APIC Guideline: Infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility.

27. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - antibiotics appropriately—that is, using them only when truly needed and using the right antibiotic for each infection … , such as Clostridium difficile infections, to emerge in the nursing home. … homes are unnecessary. 3 Because it can be challenging to determine when a resident actually has an infection … for making clinical decisions about nursing home residents and choose the right antibiotic for each infection … Document which bacteria are present in a nursing home and which antibiotics are effective for treating an infection

28. Decolonization – Universal and Targeted | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Tools Decolonization – Universal and Targeted Decolonization is an infection … It can keep them from developing an infection themselves or passing the germs on to others. … MRSA infections. … nursing homes, the 14 who used universal decolonization reduced resident transfers to a hospital for infection … REDUCE-MRSA Trial In a cluster-randomized trial comparing universal decolonization to two routine infection

29. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated there were 323,000 cases of invasive MRSA infection … annually based on 2017 data, and over 10,000 deaths. 1 Unfortunately, MRSA infections increased 13 … participants in this 3-year project will be compiled into a toolkit, allowing other providers to reduce MRSA infection

30. Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2022 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections … vancomycin-resistant enterococcus positive clinical cultures, and a 32 percent reduction in all-cause bloodstream infections … in general medical and surgical units: the ABATE Infection Cluster Randomized Trial.

31. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - Adverse Drug Events -28% CAUTI* -5% CLABSI+ -6% Clostridioides difficile Infections -37% … Falls -5% Obstetric Adverse Events -3% Pressure Ulcers Surgical Site Infections Ventilator … embolisms -17% All Other HACs -14% Totals -13% *CAUTI - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … +CLABSI - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections **The percent change numbers are compared

32. 6 Tk1 T1-Talking With Residents Checklist Version Final (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2016 - • Antibiotics are medicines that fight infections caused by bacteria. …  How do people get bacterial infections? …  When are antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs)? … • A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection involving any party of the urinary system, including … Not all respiratory tract infections need to be treated with an antibiotic.

33. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation Catheter-associated urinary tract infection … (CAUTI): Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals Central line-associated blood stream infections … build the foundation to make care safer and tackle specific HACs, including healthcare-associated infections

34. Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent surgical site infections … sections that your facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical site infections … resources that your facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical site infections

35. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Prescribing Best Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections … Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections … Clostridioides difficile Infections Sepsis Bacteremia Penicillin Allergies

36. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2008 - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs … ) are among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … (CAUTIs), among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSI), are a type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity

37. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2008 - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs … ) are among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … (CAUTIs), among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSI), are a type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity

38. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2008 - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs … ) are among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … (CAUTIs), among the most common types of healthcare-associated infections. … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSI), are a type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity

39. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Final Results for 2014 Through 2017 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2020 - Instrument Pressure Ulcer MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers/Pressure Injuries Surgical Site Infection … In the 2010–2014 method, Clostridioides difficile Infection data were included in “All Other HACs” rather … 647,096 21.75 699,790 23.52 676,834 22.75 682,984 22.96 Ulcers/Pressure Injuries Surgical Site Infection … journals/jama/fullarticle/2583369 or risk-adjusted physician-diagnosed catheter-associated urinary tract infection … 0.730) 0.144 VTE $17,367 ($11,837–$22,898) $8,723 0.043 (0.040–0.078) 0.104 Clostridioides difficile Infection

40. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Infections Infection Control: Clostridioides difficile Infection Infection Control: Infections … Due to Other Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Infection Control: Miscellaneous Topics Infection Control … Control: Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Patient Safety Practices  MHS I (2001) … MHS II (2013) MHS III (2020) Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (Not … Control: Infections Due to Other Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Patient Safety Practices  MHS I (