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2561. 170-Cusp-Science-Safety-Notes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/170-cusp-science-safety-notes.docx
      October 01, 2024 - Slide 3 Risks of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) SAY: The risk of healthcare-associated infections … One in 20 hospitalized patients will experience a healthcare-associated infection.

2562. 5 Tk2 P3O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 3 Implementation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_3_Implementation.pdf
      May 01, 2014 - Health Care www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality HAIs Healthcare- Associated Infections … Presenters may include the nurse educator and/or the infection-control nurse to train the nursing staff

2563. Biosketches | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/news/events/ahrq-research-summit-diagnostic-safety-biosketches.html
      September 01, 2016 - She has led groundbreaking efforts to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units in Michigan … improvement projects in Spain, England, and Peru and to an AHRQ-funded initiative to reduce bloodstream infections … including patient engagement, response to adverse events, diagnostic error reduction, rapid response, and infection … chairs the measures and data sources sub-workgroup for the HHS Action Plan for Healthcare Associated Infection

2564. Final Progress Report: Health Journalism 2011, national conference on healthcare journalism (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/bruzzese3-report.pdf
      January 01, 2024 - continues o Going mobile: The new telemedicine o Is enough being done about health care-associated infections … , Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder • Is Enough Being Done about Healthcare-Associated Infections … Ledger & Times • Infections: a stadium-sized problem, Chelsea Conaboy, The Boston Globe • Electronic … Eric Whitney, health reporter, Colorado Public Radio Is enough being done about health care-associated infections

2565. Connecting the Dots: Improving Unit Safety Culture to Stop HAI (October 8, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-transcript.html
      December 01, 2017 - this webinar, which is intended to help you improve unit safety culture to decrease hospital-acquired infections … the specific patient safety interventions that you want to implement to decrease healthcare-acquired infections … beliefs that are found in a safe, informed culture to engage frontline workers about healthcare-acquired infections … Do we believe that working in teams will result in fewer healthcare-acquired infections?

2566. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-transcript.doc
      October 08, 2013 - this webinar, which is intended to help you improve unit safety culture to decrease hospital-acquired infections … the specific patient safety interventions that you want to implement to decrease healthcare-acquired infections … beliefs that are found in a safe, informed culture to engage frontline workers about healthcare-acquired infections … Do we believe that working in teams will result in fewer healthcare-acquired infections?

2567. Views of Emergency Medicine Trainees on Adverse Events and Negligence: Survey Results from an Emergency Medicine Training Program in a Regional Health Care System Following the National Standard of Care (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Shah_99.pdf
      March 23, 2008 - residents on medical error and adverse events causes: “pneumothorax, retained objects, hospital-acquired infections … , decubitus ulcers, perioperative myocardial infarctions (MIs), line infections, and falls.” … A few examples include pneumothorax, retained objects, hospital-acquired infections, decubitus ulcers … , perioperative myocardial infarctions (MIs), line infections, and falls.

2568. Resource List - AHRQ Nursing Home Survey (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursinghome-resourcelist.pdf
      April 01, 2023 - living facilities to the principles of high reliability and how they can be applied to preventing infections … , diagnose and treat infection effectively, use antimicrobials wisely, and prevent transmission. 2. … Resources include guides to quality, useful websites, topic-specific resources, infection control resources … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention Applying High Reliability Principles to Infection … Applying High Reliability Principles to Infection Prevention and Control in Long Term Care 4.

2569. Facilitator Guide: Optimize Your Briefings and Debriefings (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_opt_briefings_facnotes.docx
      December 01, 2017 - Evidence supports that addressing cultural issues in conjunction with the technical work improves infection … Briefings and debriefings can improve communication and teamwork; reduce complications like surgical site infections … SAY: Include your surgical site infection intervention bundle on your briefing checklist. … Review those defects with your CUSP team or a surgical site infection quality improvement team.

2570. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
      January 01, 2003 - most focus on relatively few types of reportable events, such as adverse drug events or nosocomial infections … of ascertainment of adverse events is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection … Surveillance System, which is based on reports from hospital infection control practitioners, who … complications 3,771 6.8 1.14*** Nervous system comp 1,489 2.7 1.37*** GU complications 1,956 3.5 0.86*** Infection

2571. Sustainability Module: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/fac-notes.html
      October 01, 2020 - dynamics by using an example of implementing a checklist to prevent central-line associated blood stream infections … For example, using surgical site infections (SSI) as a focus area, the facility must decide who will … percentage of patients whose intravenous antibiotics were given for the prevention of surgical site infection … improvement in antibiotic use and safety culture and most importantly in the rate of surgical site infections

2572. Training-Tools-Facnotes (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-facnotes.docx
      May 01, 2017 - dynamics by using an example of implementing a checklist to prevent central-line associated blood stream infections … For example, using surgical site infections (SSI) as a focus area, the facility must decide who will … percentage of patients whose intravenous antibiotics were given for the prevention of surgical site infection … improvement in antibiotic use and safety culture and most importantly in the rate of surgical site infections

2573. CHIPRA - Spotlight on New Mexico (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/nm-statesum.pdf
      July 01, 2015 - electronic health record (EHR) templates to help guide and document screening for sexually transmitted infections

2574. Spotlight on New Mexico | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/statesummaries/nm-spotlight.html
      July 01, 2015 - electronic health record (EHR) templates to help guide and document screening for sexually transmitted infections

2575. 4. How Do Existing Measures of Clinical-Community Relationships Align with the Measurement Framework? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/chronic-care/clinical-community-relationships-measures-atlas/ccrm-atlas4.html
      March 01, 2013 - X is developing a 6-month program to improve awareness of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among

2576. AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® for New Users - Rose Tyler (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/03-sops-overview-webcast-tyler.pdf
      January 01, 2025 - Reliable Surveys 17 Higher SOPS Hospital Scores Have Been Linked to… Lower rates of surgical site infections

2577. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/interimhacrate2014.html
      January 01, 2018 - about 28 percent from pressure ulcers, and about 16 percent from catheter-associated urinary tract infections

2578. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=10
      January 01, 2024 - Development, Measure Implementation, Surgical Quality Improvement Publication Date: June 2013 Infection

2579. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4h_combo_psi11-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
      May 20, 2016 - physicians and other providers, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, dieticians, and pharmacists from infection

2580. Surveillance of Surgery-related Adverse Events in Missouri Using ICD-9-CM Codes (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Tuinen.pdf
      March 01, 2004 - laceration 27 56 52 15 30 4 Septicemia, bacteremia 41 22 05 15 63 5 Pneumonia 52 50 42 13 37 6 Other infections … 59 32 19 20 47 7 Acute myocardial infarction 43 47 37 14 40 8 Pulmonary embolism & infection 27 … 482.32, 482.39, 482.40, 482.41, 482.49, 482.81 - 482.84, 482.89, 482.9, 483.8, 485, 486 6 Other infections … The worst performers in this regard were Class 6, Other Infections; Class 13, Postoperative GI Disorders