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281. Catheter Care Do's and Don'ts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - urinary catheter is present, follow these guidelines to prevent a catheter-associated urinary tract infection … of catheter-associated urinary tract infections , 2009. 2. … Identifying Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) for NHSN Surveillance (online) . 3. … Long-term Care Facility (LTCF) Component Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance Module: UTI Event … Surveillance Definitions of Infections in Long‐Term Care Facilities: Revisiting the McGeer Criteria.

282. 4 Tk3 T1-Sample Policy Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit Tool 1. … : (1) urinary tract infections (UTIs), (2) lower respiratory tract infections, and (3) skin and soft … tissue infections. … Sample Policy Minimum Criteria for Initiating Antibiotics for a Urinary Tract Infection For residents … Minimum Criteria for Initiating Antibiotics for a Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

283. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
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     January 01, 2003 - Project Report - Lean Sigma Guidelines to Prevent Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections … Problem Vascular access device-associated infections increase morbidity, mortality, hospital length … Education of health care workers decreases healthcare-associated infections. … Infection elsewhere (remote, i.e., urinary tract infection or wound) — secondary source Colonization … Suspected C-VAD Infections (cont.)

284. Interim Update on 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate (pdf file)
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     October 27, 2014 - site infections (SSIs) dropped as much as 20 percent. … Effect of education and performance feedback on rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection … A multicenter qualitative study on preventing hospital-acquired urinary tract infection in U.S. hospitals … Reduction of urinary tract infection and antibiotic use after surgery: A controlled, prospective, before-after … VA healthcare-associated infections activities/initiatives.

285. Appendixes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2017 - "[mh] OR "nosocomial"[tiab] OR "hospital infection"[tiab] OR "hospital infections"[tiab] OR "healthcare … "[tiab] OR "bloodstream infections"[tiab] OR "blood stream infection"[tiab] OR "blood stream infections … OR "cross infections"[tiab] OR nosocomial[tiab] OR "hospital-acquired infection"[tiab] OR "hospital-acquired … infections"[tiab] OR "healthcare-associated infection"[tiab] OR "healthcare-associated infections"[tiab … ] OR "health care-associated infection"[tiab] OR "health care-associated infections"[tiab]) AND ("bloodstream

286. Module 1 Infection Prevention and Control Program—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Module 1 Infection Prevention and Control Program—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course … Resource: Module 1 Infection Prevention and Control Program—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist … Training Course This module provides an overview of infection prevention and control programs and … how to implement an infection prevention and control program at a long-term care facility. … a process for developing a facility infection prevention and control risk assessment.

287. Central Venous Catheter Removal Facilitator Notes (doc file)
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     April 01, 2022 - So, removal is indicated and decreases likelihood of a line-associated infection. … by the CDC to help determine best practices for prevention of infection. … Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Adult ICUs. … Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Adult ICUs. … Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections.

288. Integration | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - team at CCHMC also coordinated with the CEO’s office to understand how their work to reduce surgical infections … Through this partnership, the P2 team found that surgical infections lead to longer recovery times.  … lead to fewer overall surgeries, because infections lengthen patients’ recovery times, reducing the … In addition to the patient harm caused by infections, the P2 team showed that they are a major opportunity … Thus, the team created a business case for the program: reducing infections helped the hospital increase

289. Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - as healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). … (CAUTIs) and other healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). … Return to Contents Infection Prevention Failures in infection control was the most common type of … Infections in residents of long-term care facilities: an agenda for research. … Urinary tract infections in Long-term-care facilities.

290. 6 Tk1 T1-Talking With Residents Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - • Antibiotics are medicines that fight infections caused by bacteria. … How do people get bacterial infections? … When are antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs)? … • A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection involving any party of the urinary system, including … How do people get bacterial infections? III.

291. Hand Hygiene
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     March 01, 2017 - staff and will review important hand hygiene principles, basic technique and best practices to improve infection … S. aureus often doesn’t cause infection but can cause skin infections, respiratory disease and food poisoning … Boyce JM, Pittet D, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, et al. … Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/ … Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2014 Jan;35(1):16–17.

292. Results | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - To date, 166 infections have been reported. … Most patients with a positive infection also had a secondary culture noted as being obtained at the time … The types of catheters in use among patients with infections can be found in Table 4 .  … Patients with PICC lines had the greatest number of infections overall (50.6 percent); however, as a … Eight infections had no catheter type noted.

293. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update - Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
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     November 19, 2015 - Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs 5 … 400,000 250,000 150,000 38% $150,000,000 3,495 Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections

294. Interim Update on 2013 Annual Hospital-Acquired Condition Rate (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014finalhacreport-cx.pdf
     December 01, 2016 - Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … 400,000 250,000 150,000 38% $150,000,000 3,495 Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections

295. Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital-Acquired Conditions Update - Interim Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/interimhacrate2014_2.pdf
     November 19, 2015 - Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs 5 … 400,000 250,000 150,000 38% $150,000,000 3,495 Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections

296. Final Data From National Efforts To Make Care Safer, 2010-2014 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/2014FinalHACreport4Web-13Dec2016.pdf
     December 01, 2016 - Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical … Site Infections Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms All Other HACs … 400,000 250,000 150,000 38% $150,000,000 3,495 Central Line- Associated Bloodstream Infections

297. 4 Things You Should Know About Urine Cultures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, 2009. … Identifying Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) for NHSN Surveillance . … Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Event for Long-term Care Facilities . … NHSN Long-term Care Facility Component Urinary Tract Infection. … Surveillance definitions of infections in long‐term care facilities: Revisiting the McGeer criteria.

298. Antibiotic Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2019 - Explain how overtreating urinary tract infections (UTI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … Every year 23,000 die from antibiotic-resistant infections. … Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States. N Engl J Med 2015; 372: 825-834. … Tracking infection prevention data has double value HAI prevention. … Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States.

299. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Multidisciplinary Rounding for Patient Safety (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and improve safety culture at the … on the unit with the attending physician/ICU director and representatives from nursing, pharmacy, infection … therapies • Physical therapist – for ambulation discussions • Pharmacist – for adjusting medications • Infection … preventionist – healthcare-associated infection prevention efforts • Performance improvement specialist … in ICUs o Video – Speaking Up During Central Line Insertion To Prevent Infections o Audio interview

300. The End of the Public Health Emergency Refocuses the Urgency to Improve Healthcare Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - First, some encouraging news: According to the Leapfrog report, Clostridioides difficile infection … There was no change in surgical site infections following surgery.  … Rates increased for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections (37 percent), central-line … associated bloodstream infections (60 percent), and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (19 … published in JAMA showed that the Nation made slow but steady progress on a few hospital-acquired infections