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241. AHRQ Evidence Reviews: Catalysts for Practice Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - It is difficult to find a ribbon that raises awareness about this intestinal infection, which often afflicts … includes adverse effects resulting from the unnecessary use of antibiotics, like Clostridium difficile infections

242. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care March Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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     July 23, 2020 - /blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/advancing-laboratory-diagnostic-stewardship-for-healthcare-associated-infections-hais-antibiotic-resistance-and-sepsis

243. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2012 - 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

244. Team-Antibiotic-Review-Form (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Antibiotic: Indication: Moment ONE Question 3: Does the patient have a suspected or confirmed infection

245. Patient Safety Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2022 - and was proven effective through a national project that reduced central line-associated blood stream infections … strategies can help prevent harmful events such as medication errors, bed sores, and healthcare-associated infections … effective antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) with the potential to reduce Clostridium difficile infection … can suffer adverse outcomes and even fatal complications, and clinicians can be exposed to injury or infection

246. Examples of Home Health Care Quality Measures for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2018 - Patient Safety Measures: Percentage of patients needing emergent care for wound infections or deteriorating

247. 26-Patient-Education-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - When they understood that these processes would help prevent infections, they wanted to make sure they

248. During National Hispanic Heritage Month, AHRQ Salutes Promotores de Salud | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - It includes important information for patients about healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic

249. AHRQ's Making Healthcare Safer Reports: Shaping Patient Safety Efforts in the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - Harms such as adverse drug events, healthcare-associated infections, falls, and obstetric adverse events

250. AHRQ News Now | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 05, 2022 - March 22, 2022 New AHRQ Toolkit Helps Clinical Teams Implement Decolonization To Prevent Infections … July 13, 2021 Medicare Payments for Device Implant Surgery Were Higher for Hospitals With High Infection

251. New Data Resources Provide Insights Into Patient Safety Risks | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Prevent Antibiotic Resistance Using antibiotics excessively and unsafely increases antibiotic-resistant infections

252. Types of Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2015 - The rate of surgical complications or hospital-acquired infections.

253. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2020 - Briefs Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Report Status: Final Sexually Transmitted Infections … Reviews Affiliation: Duke University Report Status: Final Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection

254. Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2024 - introduces new funding opportunities for research on diagnostic safety and combating healthcare-associated infections

255. Comparative Reports on Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - performed, childbirth practices, complication rates, use of recommended practices, hospital-acquired infection … Aspects of care covered by the website include cardiovascular, emergency department care, infections,

256. Study Finds Significant Racial Disparities in Pediatric Mental Health Rehospitalizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2021 - interviews, staff and patients expressed ongoing confusion regarding their roles, challenges identifying infections … Home care nurses' identification of patients at risk of infection and their risk mitigation strategies

257. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
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     January 01, 2013 - For example, improvement actions might reduce hospital-associated infections, rates of pressure ulcers … For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control or … imposed penalties for occurrences of infections.

258. Improving Workplace Safety in Hospitals: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2023 - Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus … Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/infection-control-recommendations.html … This interim guidance provides recommendations on infection prevention and control (IPC) practices … pandemic and recommended IPC practices when caring for a patient with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection … Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus

259. Search Evidence-Based Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2021 - Health & Science University Report Status: Final Antibody Response Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection … EPC—Oregon Health & Science University Report Status: Final Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection

260. Hospital Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - These skin lesions bring pain, associated risk for serious infection, and increased health care utilization … Staphylococcus aureus) found that universal decolonization was the most effective intervention to reduce MRSA infections