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2621. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/intro-dailycare-facguide.docx
      January 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number and Slide Title Slide Introduction to Daily Care Processes: Evidence Behind Spontaneous Awakening Trials, Spontaneous Breathing Trials, and Head of Bed Elevation SAY: In this module, you will be introduced to daily care pr…

2622. Disseminating Evidence-based Strategies to Improve Primary Care Delivery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Disseminating Evidence-based Strategies to Improve Primary Care Delivery Abel Kho, M.D., M.S. Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Abel Kho, M.D., M.S. “With AHRQ funding, I have built infrastructure to provide primary care practices with effective …

2623. Overview of Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (PSLL) Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2025 - Decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections. … Conduct surveillance of healthcare-acquired infections in real time. … Further, the IDEA4PS Lab automated hospital-acquired infection surveillance to provide results in near … Network analysis of intra-hospital transfers and hospital onset clostridium difficile infection . … Increase the specificity of antibiotic treatment for patients with respiratory infection.

2624. Final Progress Report: Composite Measures of Surgical Performance (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - purposes of this study, we limited our assessment to serious morbidity, which included organ space infection … Association of surgical care improvement project infection-related process measure compliance with risk-adjusted … Reliability of superficial surgical site infections as a hospital quality measure.

2625. Final Progress Report: National Trends in Outpatient Quality Indicators (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - (e.g., warfarin in atrial fibrillation), 2) antibiotic use (e.g., antibiotics in viral respiratory infections … use by primary care physicians remained high, particularly for the treatment of upper respiratory infections … (Metlay 1998), prostatitis (Collins 1998), urinary tract infections (Linder 2005), and adult sore throat

2626. A Strategic Approach for Funding Research: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Initiative 2000–2004 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2004 - PSIs.7 Furthermore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that hospital acquired infections … • Using evidence-based practices to reduce hospital-acquired infections. … Implementation of interventions in intensive care units (ICU) that reduce catheter-related blood stream infections

2627. Development of the AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
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      June 02, 2025 - American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Marcia Patrick, MSN, RN, CIC Association for Professionals in Infection

2628. Safe Practices for Better Health Care (pdf file)
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      April 01, 2004 - Adhere to effective methods of preventing central venous catheter-associated blood stream infections … pre-operative patient in light of his or her planned surgical procedure for his or her risk of surgical site infection … Use of perioperative oxygen supplementation to reduce infection rates.

2629. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2020 - Deadly infections: hospitals can lower the risk, but many fail to act. … New Pennsylvania hospital report—hospital acquired infection rate drops 8%. … The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals: implications for infection preventionists.

2630. Appropriateness of Red Cell Transfusions in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (pdf file)
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      November 01, 2017 - There are many infectious transfusion risks, including: viral infections (such as cytomegalovirus [CMV … ], hepatitis B and C, HIV, West Nile Virus, Human Herpes Virus 8); bacterial infection; Prions (e.g … Secondary outcomes examined included sepsis, transfusion reactions, nosocomial respiratory infections … , catheter-related infections, adverse events, ICU and hospital LOS, mortality, and daily Pediatric … Blood transfusions are associated with risks such as hospital-associated infection, gut ischemia, transfusion

2631. Presentation: Program Overview
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      January 01, 2017 - the SSA responses grouped by commonly identified defect categories such as equipment, teamwork, and infection

2632. Appendix A: Interview Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2013 - (Prompt: QIOs, State Department of Health, local chapters on infection prevention, State Medical Societies

2633. Final Progress Report: Mining complex clinical data for patient safety research (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - Mention of a diagnosis (e.g., myocardial infarction, pneumothorax, aspiration pneumonia, nosocomial infection … following discharge diagnoses—aspiration pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, catheter-related infection … discharged with (but not admitted for) aspiration pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, catheter-related infection

2634. Operational-Adjustments-Event-Summary (pdf file)
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      July 02, 2020 - 1 Learning Community Affinity Group Summary-at-a-Glance: Operational Adjustments while Resuming In-Person Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs July 2, 2020 Event Purpose and Overview • Purpose: To share and acquire strategies for how to adjust operations while resuming in-person cardiac rehabilitation p…

2635. Tool 11: Community Resource Guide (doc file)
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      June 02, 2025 - Medicaid patients; will prioritize patients who presented to acute care for dental-related pain or infection … Medicaid patients; will prioritize patients who presented to acute care for dental-related pain or infection

2636. TeamSTEPPS Pocket Guide (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2023 - I am concerned he may have an infection and that his catheter may be clogged.” … When he arrives, would you like us to get labs, including blood cultures, to check for infection?”

2637. Methods (continued, 2) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2018 - Although reporting of hospital infection rates is currently occurring and soon will be the practice in … However, in Pennsylvania, an early leader in public reporting of hospital infections, infection rates … effectiveness of communication among caregivers, improving medication accuracy, reducing hospital-associated infections

2638. Using Technology with a Fundamental Focus on the Patient | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      February 01, 2024 - Using Technology with a Fundamental Focus on the Patient David H. Gustafson, Ph.D. Professor and Researcher University of Wisconsin–Madison David H. Gustafson, Ph.D. “AHRQ has always been open to letting us see if we can do the impossible.” David H. Gustafson, Ph.D., has been conducting digita…

2639. Final Progress Report: Improving Patient Safety: Health Systems Reporting, Analysis and Safety Improvement Research Demonstrations (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2025 - BJC’s Center for Healthcare Quality and Effectiveness and the Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology … BJC and WUSM possess sophisticated information systems, including award-winning expert systems for infection … and positive predictive value of NLP to detect the three types of events: DVT/PE, surgical site infection … Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Accepted In Press. 7. Gallagher TH.

2640. AHRQ Views: New Guide Helps Developers and Users of Digital Healthcare Technologies Advance Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2024 - Rapid Evidence Product: Prevention in Adults of Transmission of Infection With Multidrug-Resistant Organisms