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61. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2015 - Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections AHRQ Safety Program for … Infection preventionists are considered content experts in infection prevention and play a role in … Eliminating nosocomial infections at Ascension Health: preventing catheter-related blood stream infections … Guidelines for the Prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. … Reporting catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Denominator matters.

62. Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections Fact Sheet Appendix 3. … You can eliminate infections, and any infection should be viewed as a defect. … Prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. … American Journal of Infection Control 1998;26:522-533. … Nosocomial bloodstream infections in the critically ill.

63. CLABSI Investigation: Walk the Process (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Infection Rate Above Zero? Slide 4. Spike in Infections? Slide 5. Process Auditing Slide 6. … Infrequent Infections? Slide 15. Infrequent Infections Slide 16. Conclusion Slide 17. … Infection Rate Above Zero? Or Were you at zero and then had a spike in your infections? … Spike in Infections? … Infrequent Infections Consider each infection a defect worthy of analysis?

64. AHRQ Final Progress Report: Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model to Reduce Infections in the ICU (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - 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.

65. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2025 - AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are among … HAI Bulletin: Subscribe for updates on Infection Prevention and Combating Antimicrobial Resistance … to help tackle the complex problems of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and surgical site infection … (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).  … Targeted versus Universal Decolonization to Prevent ICU Infection A June 2013 New England Journal of

66. 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.

67. 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.

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. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections … Identify options for empiric antibiotic therapy for diverticulitis and biliary tract infections … for antibiotic therapy for diverticulitis and biliary tract infections after additional clinical data … are known Describe the optimal duration of therapy for diverticulitis and biliary tract infections … Slides (PPTX) Facilitator Guide (PDF) One-Page Document — Biliary Tract Infections (DOCX

70. 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.

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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)

75. 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

76. North Carolina’s CaroMont Regional Medical Center Uses AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Urinary Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2018 - North Carolina’s CaroMont Regional Medical Center Uses AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Urinary Infections … not-for-profit hospital in Gastonia, North Carolina, significantly reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infections … According to CRMC Infection Prevention Director Vicki Allen, M.S.N., R.N., the hospital had 87 CAUTI … Infections are rare in the 218-bed medical/surgical units.  … 0.20 23 1.2 2015* 0.19 9 0.5 * CAUTI reporting changed in 2015; yeast infections

77. Module 4—Infection Surveillance—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2022 - Module 4—Infection Surveillance—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course Resource … : Module 4—Infection Surveillance—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course This guide … Source: CDC Topic(s): Infection Control and Prevention Audience(s): Managers, Clinical Leaders

78. 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

79. NICU Toolkit, Appendix A, Preventing Infection (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - NICU Toolkit, Appendix A, Preventing Infection Preventing Infection Everyone must wash their hands

80. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold Diagnosis • Upper respiratory tract … infections or “the common cold” are caused by viruses and present with symptoms such as rhinorrhea … • The color of nasal discharge does not differentiate a viral infection from a bacterial one. … Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (“the Common Cold”) Upper Respiratory Tract Infection AHRQ … Protective effect of antibiotics against serious complications of common respiratory tract infections