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61. Chicago Hospital Reduces Catheter-Related Infections to Zero with AHRQ’s CUSP Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2018 - Chicago Hospital Reduces Catheter-Related Infections to Zero with AHRQ’s CUSP Tools Search All Impact … 2018 Saint Anthony Hospital, a 151-bed community hospital in Chicago, reduced catheter-related infections … Mena Lora, M.D., Saint Anthony’s medical director of infection control, attributes the reduced infection … , we also reduce the rate of infection,” Dr. … Due to its success in reducing catheter-related infections, Saint Anthony won an Illinois Health and

62. Tools To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2024 - Tools To Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections AHRQ offers free toolkits designed for clinicians … Surgery Centers Antibiotic use:  Toolkits To Improve Antibiotic Use Catheter-associated urinary tract infection … (CAUTI): Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals Central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSI … : Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol End-stage renal disease facilities: Reducing Infections … Devices Surgical care and recovery:  Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Surgical site infections

63. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections … presentation, viewers will be able to— Distinguish asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) from a urinary tract infection … Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections …   Patient Handouts These handouts can be given to your patients to help them understand their infection …  Infections – Patient and Family Member Handout (Spanish) (DOCX, 263 KB)

64. Appendix 9: Back to Basics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2018 - Most of these infections are preventable, and you are part of the cure. … There is no single therapy that wipes out these infections. … This means expecting unit leaders to present both infection rates and weeks without an infection to senior … Infection preventionists work closely with unit-level teams to train, monitor, investigate infections … units where infections are measured and report these data to senior leaders.

65. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. … Engineering out the risk for infection with urinary catheters. … Urinary tract infection in male veterans: treatment patterns and outcomes. … Urinary Tract Infection (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection [CAUTI] and Non-Catheter-Associated … Urinary Tract Infection [UTI]) and Other Urinary System Infection [USI]) Events.

66. Tracking Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) Using the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Tracking Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) Using the National Healthcare Safety Network … (NHSN) Overview Resource: Tracking Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs) Using the … will also describe how the National Healthcare Safety Network supports long-term care facilities and infection … Source: CDC Topic(s): Infection Prevention & Control Audience(s): Clinical Leaders, Clinicians

67. Estimated Cost Implications of Reducing Bloodstream Infections in Patients With Medical Devices (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2022 - the cost of the decolonization intervention and the expected cost savings associated with preventing infection … The ABATE Infection Trial1 showed that the use of decolonization in patients with select devices (central … MRSA and VRE clinical cultures are not estimated here since the costs saved depend on the type of infection … Difference (i.e., C-D=IS) aSince the cost of MRSA and VRE clinical cultures is dependent on the type of infection … cRepresents the 79 percent adherence in the ABATE Infection Trial that yielded the 32 percent reduction

68. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - Eliminating nosocomial infections at Ascension Health: preventing catheter-related blood stream infections … The risk of bloodstream infection in adults with different intravascular devices: a systematic review … Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection … outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Engaging healthcare workers to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection and avert patient

69. Impact | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - To estimate the number of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) prevented, the number … study by Donovan et al. 3 , $16,800 in excess costs were attributed to NICU-associated bloodstream infection … As such, preventing 131 infections is equivalent to $2,201,776 in excess costs averted.  … Decreasing central line associated bloodstream infection in neonatal intensive care. … The investment case for preventing NICU-associated infections.

70. Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2014 - Research: NICHE and the STOP CAUTI Workgroup Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection … Details Turning Unstructured Microbiology Culture Data Into Usable Information: Methods for Alerting Infection … Strengthening National Efforts to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Stephen C. … Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection: The Devil Is in the Details Katelin … Turning Unstructured Microbiology Culture Data Into Usable Information: Methods for Alerting Infection

71. It Takes a Team: Preventing Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Infection Prevention Infographic AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Implementation Guide … Surgical site infections are infections that can occur after surgery in the part of the body where … Surgical site infections are one of the most common healthcare-associated infections, but most of them … are preventable.2 * Because ASCs do not yet report surgical site infection data, these statistics … Learn more about infection prevention at ambulatory surgical centers at www.ahrq.gov/haiambsurgery.

72. CUSP Helps University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2014 - CUSP Helps University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Search … Department of Health and Human Services, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control, and … It recognized UWHC's work in preventing two common HAIs—catheter-associated urinary tract infections … Before implementing CUSP, UWHC's infection prevention interventions were "more sporadic and not as well … Meanwhile, UWHC had only two VAP infections on its 24-bed neuroscience unit between November 2011 and

73. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical site infections … Healthcare-associated infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including … more than 150,000 surgical site infections each year.  … The project aimed to— Reduce surgical site infections, and Improve safety culture using AHRQ’s … : Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality provided clinical, infection

74. Readmissions for Selected Infections Due to Medical Care: Expanding the Definition of a Patient Safety Indicator (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - /infection not present at admission). … Conclusions: The hospital-level estimate of cases of selected infection is an underestimate of infections … Infections due to intravascular devices can lead to local site infection, catheter-related blood stream … infection, septic thrombophlebitis, endocarditis, and other metastatic infections; they have been … .7, 8 Most bloodstream infections are related to a primary infection, the majority of which originate

75. Toolkit 3. Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - : (1) urinary tract infections (UTIs), (2) lower respiratory tract infections, and (3) skin and soft … tissue infections. …  ( PDF  |  Word ) Suspected infection SBAR forms to document information for prescribing clinicians … Incorporate the potential infection SBAR forms into daily practice. … For UTIs, lower respiratory tract infections, and skin and soft tissue infections, a form should be used

76. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - It broadly categorizes SSIs into incisional and organ/space infections. … of the infections were caused by gram-positive organisms and 30% of the infections were caused by MRSA … Results Over 80 % of all nosocomial infections are urinary tract infection, surgical wound infection … Bloodstream infections, IVDI (intravascular device infection) or IVDI-related bloodstream infections, … also observed was a 3.5-fold increase in IVDI-related bloodstream infections and surgical site infections

77. AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2011 - infections (HAIs) are infections that people acquire while they are receiving treatment for another … Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks CAUTI—Catheter-associated urinary tract infection … National Opportunity to Improve Infection Control in ESRD (NOTICE) Initiative (Previous name: Improving … Evaluating Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Patients Multidrug-Resistant Urinary Tract … Using an Infection Control Network Surgical Site and Clostridium difficile Infections after Ambulatory

78. California Hospital Reduced Infections, Improved Diabetes Care with AHRQ Safety Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - California Hospital Reduced Infections, Improved Diabetes Care with AHRQ Safety Program Search All … Medical Center, a 388-bed hospital in Oceanside, California, reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Topic(s): Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections … (CLABSI), Diabetes, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Quality of Care, Medication

79. AHRQ Final Progress Report: Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model to Reduce Infections in the ICU (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2007 - ventilator-associated pneumonia, respiratory virus infections, urinary tract infections, and rotavirus … infections in pediatric, cardiac, and neonatal ICUs. … Key Words: Systems modeling, simulation, risk analysis, infection transmission. … on a single infection affecting a limited patient population. … The development of an ICU-specific risk-of-infection score.

80. Overcoming Mindsets | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Mindsets It can be difficult to address your staff’s underlying attitudes and beliefs about infection … Many teams struggle to believe that reducing the number of infections to zero is possible or to find … 372.7 KB) Audio interview with Sam Watson – How To Create Team Buy-In and Motivation To Get to Zero Infections … PDF, 304.5 KB) Audio interview with David Thompson – How To Address Attitudes and Beliefs Around Infection … minutes;  Transcript , PDF, 249.7 KB) Video – Creating Team Buy-In To Work Toward Zero Preventable Infections