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2381. Appendix F. Urinary Catheter Decision-Making Algorithm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-f.html
      October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

2382. 7-Implementation-Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/7-implementation-guide.docx
      June 01, 2023 - ISCR pathway), you can evaluate whether there are improvements in outcomes such as: · Surgical site infections … (SSI) · Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) · Venous thromboembolism (VTE) events · … the areas that need improvement to help focus the meeting discussions (e.g., Mobility, surgical site infections

2383. Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group Environmental Scan (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/healthcare-safety-competency-environmental-scan.pdf
      March 27, 2025 - showed a marked increase in hospital-acquired conditions, including central line-associated bloodstream infections … events, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, patient falls, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … system lens rather than individual improvement efforts in specific areas such as healthcare-associated infections

2384. Practice and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-improvement.html
      May 01, 2024 - into four pediatric primary care clinics to help identify adolescents at-risk for sexually transmitted infections … Implementing Telemedicine to Improve Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for  Acute Respiratory Tract Infections … Center Examines if telehealth visits can be used to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections

2385. Implications for Practice Improvement, Research, and Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-older-adults3.html
      August 01, 2024 - adults when constructing a differential diagnosis for an older patient with an acute concern (e.g., infections … diagnostic clinical decision support tools and technologies, such as those that support the detection of infection … 2021 found 17 papers where decision support tools improved the detection of several different types of infection

2386. Final Progress Report: HIV/HCV Support Team to Improve Medication Safety and Engagement in Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/berry-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - The continuum of HIV care (Figure 1) from initial infection to suppression with ART has large stepdowns … /PowerSampleSize The curriculum included didactic modules, similar to those used for central line infections … rates for six successive lines of HIV regimens; CD4 gain on ART; CD4 decline off ART Opportunistic infection

2387. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/implement/team-roster.docx
      March 01, 2017 - implementation of the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … (CAUTI) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) at your facility. … Infection Preventionist Data driven Collaborative Problem solver Advocate · Ensure data collection/ … control strategies. · Serve as the infection control expert/consultant. · Communicate goals and progress … Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide

2388. Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Safety Series (Session 3): Measuring and Responding to Safety Culture Across Healthcare (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/measuring-safety-culture.pdf
      May 13, 2025 - Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2012;33(12):1280-1282. doi:10.1086/668432. … Teamwork in the NICU Setting and Its Association with Health Care-Associated Infections in Very Low-Birth-Weight … available 46 More Positive SOPS Patient Safety Culture Scores Linked to… Lower rates of surgical site infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes.

2389. 5 Tk2 T3-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Using Whonet To Create Your Antibiogram (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T3-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Using_WHONET_to_Create_Your_Antibiogram.pdf
      May 01, 2014 - the first isolate found for each resident, so results are not biased by residents with recurring infections … Uses In addition to making and updating the antibiogram, you can use WHONET to answer more specific infection

2390. Changing-System-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/changing-system-facilitator-guide.docx
      June 01, 2021 - default stop date of 2 weeks or 30 days, far longer than is necessary to treat the most common bacterial infections … Moment 1: Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … There was no clear evidence of infection, or any purulence that would suggest the need to cover for methicillin-resistant

2391. Final Progress Report: Diagnostic Error in Medicine Conference 2020-2022 (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/castro-report.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - anecdotal reports that some organizations still restricted travel to reduce the likelihood of individual infection … at a robust ~$40 million per year, a level comparable to the highly successful Healthcare-Associated Infections … Serious misdiagnosis-related harms in malpractice claims: The "Big Three" - vascular events, infections

2392. Patient Safety Action Alliance: Request for Information (RFI) Summary Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/action-alliance-rfi-report-040323_LOCKED.pdf
      March 01, 2023 - psychological safety issues, (i.e., burnout, mental health, workplace violence, verbal abuse) o Infection … o Innovations o Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (i.e., infection control) • Establishing … & psychological safety issues, (i.e., burnout, mental health, workplace violence, verbal abuse) o Infection … o Innovations o Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (i.e., infection control)  Establishing standards

2393. Final Progress Report: What About Mom? Using Administrative Data To Develop Measures for Monitoring Healthcare Quality in Pregnancy & Childbirth (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/gregory-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - #3: Decubitus ulcer, PSI #4: Failure to rescue, PSI #6: Iatrogenic pneumothorax, PSI #7: Selected infections … Using these criteria, two conditions were excluded (asthma and urinary tract infections); three remained … phototherapy; Subgroup Infection Potential MQI—Yes 0.00902 + 0.01241 0 (0-0.10511) MQI #36. … AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators: Time to include hemorrhage and infection during childbirth. … AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators: Time to include hemorrhage and infection during childbirth.

2394. Supplement to Evaluation Highlight No. 13 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/supplhighlight13.html
      June 01, 2015 - medical home PDSA cycle : Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle QI : Quality improvement URI : Upper respiratory infection

2395. Methods | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/nclabsi2.html
      January 01, 2013 - Impact Conclusion Next Steps The neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection

2396. 066-Dec-Staff-Faqs-Safety-Side-Effects (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/066-dec-staff-faqs-safety-side-effects.docx
      October 01, 2024 - methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) infection

2397. New Study Shows Reductions in Antibiotic Use at Ambulatory Care Clinics Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/antibiotic-prescribing.html
      July 01, 2022 - clinics decreased overall by nearly 48 percent, while antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infection

2398. Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/learn-from-defects-fac-notes.html
      December 01, 2017 - Infection rates from hospital epidemiology and infection prevention also present known complications. … reminder, the two questions are listed: How will the next patient be harmed or get a surgical site infection … In the case of reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections or catheter-associated urinary … tract infections, measure the outcome rates of these events. … For example, if you want to measure how often patients maintain normothermia to prevent surgical-site infection

2399. AHRQ Grant Final Progress Report: Real-Time, Wireless, Networked Feedback for Bed-Tilt Compliance (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/thomas1-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - Bedside Feedback Structured Abstract Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia, a common nosocomial infection … Scope: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common infection acquired in intensive care units … papers shows crude VAP mortality rates of between 24% and 50%, reaching 76% for specific settings and infection … Trauma VAP SWAT team: A rapid response to infection prevention.

2400. Scoring Different Kinds of Health Care Quality Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/translate/scores/scoring.html
      June 01, 2016 - captures a negative event, such as the percentage of hospital patients who acquired a central line infection