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81. Implementing CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention | 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 … (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in the hospital setting, and introduces … new, tiered interventional approach designed to help overcome challenges with persistently elevated infection … This guide identifies groups of resources to utilize throughout your journey to lower infections in your

82. Tennessee Hospital Association Uses AHRQ Tools To Boost Patient Safety, Saving $17 Million | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). … Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI). Injuries from falls and immobility. … Surgical site infections. Venous thromboembolism (VTE). Ventilator-associated pneumonia. … The CUSP toolkit, meanwhile, helped the hospitals prevent infections that can lengthen hospital stays … Topic(s): Adverse Drug Events (ADE), Healthcare Costs, Healthcare-Associated Infections

83. Patient Safety Awareness Week 2023 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - in a number of timely areas, including improving diagnostic safety, reducing healthcare-associated infections … Special Emphasis Notice: AHRQ Announces Interest in Healthcare Associated Infections and Combating Antibiotic … safety-related funding opportunities: Large Research Projects for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections … AHRQ's proven  tools  and resources  for improving diagnostic safety, preventing healthcare-associated infections

84. Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2013 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … Staphylococcus aureus ) found that universal decolonization was the most effective intervention to reduce MRSA infections

85. National Scorecard on Rates of Hospital-Acquired Conditions 2010 to 2015: Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Health Care Safer | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2016 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … about 23 percent from pressure ulcers, and about 15 percent from catheter-associated urinary tract infections … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data for surgical site infections (SSIs) are also … 270,000 8.2 CLABSIs MPSMS (2015) Blood Stream Infections Associated With Central Venous Catheters

86. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Blood Thinners (6) Cancer (2) Care Coordination (18) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection … (CAUTI) (2) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) (4) Children/Adolescents … Patient Safety Culture (2) TeamSTEPPS (1) Telehealth (2) Tobacco Use (1) Urinary Tract Infection … Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections … (CLABSI), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, Patient Experience, Patient

87. AHRQ Impact Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Blood Thinners (6) Cancer (2) Care Coordination (18) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection … (CAUTI) (2) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) (4) Children/Adolescents … Patient Safety Culture (2) TeamSTEPPS (1) Telehealth (2) Tobacco Use (1) Urinary Tract Infection … Henry Ford Hospital's Hematology-Oncology Unit Uses AHRQ Safety Program to Lower Bloodstream Infections … (CLABSI), Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Healthcare Costs, Outcomes, Patient Experience, Patient

88. AHRQ Views Blog: Seizing the Opportunity To Improve Healthcare for All | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - Study Identifies Barriers to Surveillance of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Home Healthcare … All are at high risk for developing infections.  … The study, published in the American Journal of Infection Control , identified eight major steps in … facilitators, strategies and suggestions for improving CLABSI surveillance to better track and monitor infection … Readmission rates in stroke patients with and without infections: incidence and risk factors.

89. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Progra m (CUSP), a highly effective method of preventing healthcare-associated infections … nationwide projects that addressed various HAIs and produced CUSP toolkits to help clinicians prevent these infections … more than 1,000 U.S. intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent deadly central line-associated bloodstream infections … ICUs that used CUSP methods and tools were able to reduce these bloodstream infections by 41 percent, … greatest challenges, including: Reducing antibiotic overuse and eliminating health care-associated infections

90. Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2021 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … (CAUTI) and improve practices to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). … The toolkit includes instructional materials and resources in infection prevention best practices (e.g … ., foundational infection prevention strategies, CAUTI prevention, antibiotic stewardship), resident

91. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2023 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent complications such as surgical site infections … , venous thromboembolism, and urinary tract infection, and improve perioperative safety culture.

92. Applying COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Strategies in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network Resources Catalog Applying COVID-19 Infection … Resources Catalog News Best Practice Summaries Applying COVID-19 Infection … Prevention and Control Strategies in Nursing Homes Resource: Applying COVID-19 Infection Prevention … Source: CDC Topic(s): Infection Control & Prevention Audience(s): Clinical Leaders, Clinicians, Nursing … April 2022 Page originally created April 2022 Internet Citation: Applying COVID-19 Infection

93. Register Now: August 22 Webinar by National Action Alliance Will Address Engaging Boards and Executive Leadership in Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2023 - Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant-Associated Infections Have Negative Impacts on Quality of Life … Left Ventricular Assist Device Implant-Associated Infections Have Negative Impacts on Quality of Life … A new AHRQ-funded study found that infections associated with left ventricular assist device (LVAD … percent) patients had multiple infections. … Researchers found that each additional infection was associated with an incremental negative effect on

94. Talking Points (Patients) on CHG Bathing (doc file)
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    March 01, 2022 - medical devices where CHG reduced bloodstream infections and antibiotic resistant bacteria. … because, in large clinical trials in U.S. hospitals, it has been proven to get rid of germs and prevent infections … For patients with medical devices, CHG reduced bloodstream infections by over 30 percent, and it reduced … Since then, many large clinical trials have now shown that routine CHG bathing reduces serious infections … Our goal is to prevent infection and protect you while you are here. AHRQ Pub.

95. Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection in the US | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection … Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection … Resource: Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection … These differences were associated with factors such as larger nursing home size and higher infection … Source: JAMA Topic(s): Infection Control & Prevention Audience(s): Clinical Leaders Format: Webpage

96. AHRQ's 35th Anniversary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2024 - Similarly, Michigan hospitals’ ICUs stopped central line-associated bloodstream infections for up to … Researchers found that 60 percent of the 80 ICUs evaluated went 1 year or more without an infection, … and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators. 2013 Patient safety programs reduce neonatal ICU infections … Central line-associated bloodstream infections in newborns were reduced by 58 percent in less than a … The Network is established to provide free training on evidence-based infection prevention practices

97. Updated Information on the Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate: 2011 and 2012 | 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 … 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 … MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers 1,320,000 40.41 1,300,000 39.43 Surgical Site Infection

98. Aurora Health Care Embraces AHRQ’s CUSP Method to Protect Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2015 - hospitals operated by Aurora Health Care in eastern Wisconsin reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections … "Keeping patients safe by preventing healthcare-associated infections is part of our patient safety program … CUSP concepts to other safety concerns, such as the reduction of catheter-associated urinary tract infections … The tools have focused on four patient goals: improving the culture of safety; medication safety; infection … Surveys on Patient Safety Culture Topic(s): Patient Safety, Healthcare-Associated Infections

99. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2015 - Facilities Toolkit This toolkit helps dialysis center clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections … AHRQ toolkits build on the CUSP model to address problems such as central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), infections associated with ventilators

100. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2015 - Facilities Toolkit This toolkit helps dialysis center clinicians prevent healthcare-associated infections … AHRQ toolkits build on the CUSP model to address problems such as central line-associated bloodstream infections … (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), infections associated with ventilators