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181. Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2018 - Renal Disease Facilities Toolkit  helps end-stage renal disease clinics prevent healthcare-associated infections … the principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical site infections

182. Nursing Home Workplace Safety Resource List (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2023 - CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings … CDC Train Module 4 – Infection Surveillance https://www.train.org/cdctrain/course/1081802/ (requires … Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit for Successful Hand Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment … module completion, staff will understand: • The importance of hand hygiene in preventing the spread of infections … how to perform hand hygiene. • Key hand hygiene practices for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections

183. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … Historically, many researchers considered VAP to be perhaps the most deadly healthcare-associated infection … Evidence of infection or inflammation, and then, Adding in laboratory evidence of respiratory infection … : central line-associated blood stream infections, referred to as CLABSIs, and VAP. … which in turn was mirrored by substantial decreases in ventilator-associated conditions (VACs) and infection-related

184. Large-Scale Program To Reduce Heart Disease Risk Could Have Meaningful Health Benefits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Poorly Coordinated Healthcare Increases Infection Risk Following Ventricular Device Implantation, Study … Poorly Coordinated Healthcare Increases Infection Risk Following Ventricular Device Implantation, Study … failure patients who have durable ventricular assist devices (VADs) implanted, healthcare-associated infections … About 28 percent contracted infections within 90 days after VAD implantation. … relevant clinical areas may have few patients in common) is associated with higher in-hospital and 90-day infection

185. Breaking Down Barriers to Aseptic Catheter Insertion | 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 … Associate Professor University of Michigan School of Nursing Stacy Martin, RN, BSN, CIC Manager, Infection … Prevention Moffitt Cancer Center Stephanie Carraway, MPH candidate Infection Prevention Specialist … Infection Preventionist Physician Nurse leader or nurse educator Bedside nurse Other… Slide

186. Advancing Diagnostic Equity Through Clinician Engagement, Community Partnerships, and Connected Care (pdf file)
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     November 15, 2022 - For example, Black, His- panic, and Asian patients experience significantly higher rates of infection … COVID-19 racial disparities in testing, infection, hospitalization, and death: analysis of Epic data … 12, 2021. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue- brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death … dx.doi.org/https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death-analysis-epic-patient-data … dx.doi.org/https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-racial-disparities-testing-infection-hospitalization-death-analysis-epic-patient-data

187. Identifying Strategies to Improve Medication Safety at Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - goal of that 4-year project was to understand and reduce risks of central line-associated bloodstream infections … video clips that demonstrated proper placement and how to avoid central line-associated bloodstream infections

188. Healthcare Acquired Conditions (HAC) Annual Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2019 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections

189. AHRQ’s Unique Effort to Advance Care for People Living with Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - the CDC, in 2022, at least 9 million people throughout our country were struggling with post-COVID-19 infection … estimates and other studies suggest that 10 percent or more of the U.S. population may experience the post-infection … cardiovascular and cognitive impairment, that develop or continue for weeks, months, or even years after initial infection

190. Long-Term Care Safety Toolkit Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Contact Us Español FAQs Home Healthcare-Associated Infections … More topics in this section Healthcare-Associated Infections … (includes audio and video)   Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:        Importance of Infection … en español: Word , 2.39 MB)   Video clips embedded in PowerPoint slide set:        Importance of Infection

191. Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections. … improvements of UPEs, very low birth weight infant nutrition, and central line-associated blood stream infections

192. Assessing the Impact of Value-Based Purchasing Programs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2022 - Her study looked at rates of change for catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), central-line … bloodstream infections, (CLABSI) falls, and hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.

193. Human Factors in Surgery: Shifting the Paradigm on Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - Although surgical site infections account for nearly 1.7 million healthcare-acquired infections annually … Sterile processing departments directly affect productivity, efficiency, safety, and infection control

194. What Is Patient Safety Culture? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2022 - scores had: Fewer hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and patient falls. 1 Lower surgical site infection … Nursing Home Five-Star Quality ratings. 5 Lower risks of resident falls, long-stay urinary tract infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes.

195. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
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     June 05, 2016 - Count • PSI 06 Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Rate • PSI 07 Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection … Iatrogenic Pneumothorax Rate (bundled with the best practices for PDI 05) • NQI 03 Neonatal Blood Stream Infection … • PDI 11 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence Rate • PDI 12 Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection

196. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - and mentorship to nursing homes across the country to increase the implementation of evidence-based infection … Post-Vaccination Practices Series Best Practices Guide for COVID-19 Infection Control and Prevention … Administration in Nursing Homes Vaccination Tracking and Reporting Tools Auditing Strategies to Improve Infection

197. 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 … Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) (12) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections … (55) Colonoscopy (37) Communication (383) Community-Acquired Infections (59) Community-Based … ) Family Health and History (71) Genetics (96) Guidelines (364) Healthcare-Associated Infections … Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) (217) Uninsured (80) Urban Health (92) Urinary Tract Infection

198. AHRQ Views Blog: A Milestone Investment in Training for Learning Health Systems Scientists | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - An important element of this work is research on the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections … one percent increase in efficacy between 10 percent and 50 percent could avert an additional 395,000 infections

199. AHRQ Efforts To Address Long COVID | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - defined as signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after initial COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection … The signs, symptoms, and conditions are present for four weeks or more after the initial phase of infection … with the possibility of severe and life-threatening events or disability even months or years after infection

200. AHRQ Views Blog Post: With TeamSTEPPS 3.0, AHRQ Refreshes a Landmark Patient Safety Training Curriculum | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - safety efforts, including initiatives aimed at preventing diagnostic errors, healthcare-associated infections … Current vacancies include: Director of Healthcare-Associated Infections Division , Center for Quality