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101. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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102. Preventing surgical site infections: implementing strategies throughout the perioperative continuum. | PSNet
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     January 15, 2025 - and the roles that infection surveillance, infection prevention bundles , and a culture of safety play … a substantial role in decreasing the rate of surgical site infections. … August 31, 2024 WebM&M Cases Infection After Carpal Tunnel … December 8, 2021 Decreased incidence of cesarean surgical site infection rate with hospital-wide … February 6, 2019 Global Guidelines on the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection.

103. Wisconsin Dialysis Centers Use AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2015 - example for the other clinics after participating in an AHRQ-funded National Opportunity to Improve Infection … This project resulted in a toolkit that helps dialysis facilities reduce infection. … The toolkit provides facilitators with four instructional modules to teach infection prevention techniques … An AHRQ check list audit form, which helps monitor infection prevention activities among nursing staff … "We had been working on decreasing the high risk for infection from catheters before this project and

104. Infection preventionist checklist to improve culture and reduce central line–associated bloodstream infections. | PSNet
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     January 15, 2014 - Commentary Infection preventionist checklist to improve culture and reduce central … Infection preventionist checklist to improve culture and reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … This piece describes a checklist to support involving infection control professionals as leaders in this … Infection preventionist checklist to improve culture and reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … January 22, 2017 Statewide NICU central-line–associated bloodstream infection rates decline

105. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to … Medicine University of California, Irvine Medical Center "Understanding how to prevent infections … Keeping patients safe from harms such as healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is an AHRQ priority … Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which advises on infection prevention and surveillance … Related AHRQ Resources AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program .

106. Emerging infections: the contact precautions controversy. | PSNet
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     October 12, 2011 - Commentary Emerging infections: the contact precautions controversy. … Emerging infections: the contact precautions controversy. … Emerging infections: the contact precautions controversy. … June 16, 2019 Infection prevention in long-term care: re-evaluating the system using

107. Surgical site infection prevention: a review. | PSNet
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     February 15, 2023 - Review Surgical site infection prevention: a review. … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. … infection prevention measures. … Surgical Site Infections View More

108. Cost of health care-associated infections in the United States. | PSNet
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     November 02, 2022 - Study Cost of health care-associated infections in the United States. … Cost of health care-associated infections in the United States. … Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result in poorer patient outcomes and increased costs . … bloodstream infections, catheter-associate urinary tract infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia … Cost of health care-associated infections in the United States.

109. Preventing device-associated infections in US hospitals: national surveys from 2005 to 2013. | PSNet
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     June 21, 2023 - 2019 A national implementation project to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection … December 21, 2017 A program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in … June 8, 2016 Clostridium Difficile infection in the United States: a national study assessing … July 16, 2015 Comparing catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention programs … October 5, 2022 Barriers and facilitators to healthcare workers' adherence with infection

110. Economic-Evaluation-Interventions-Prevention-Hospital-Acquired-Infections-Systematic-Review
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111. Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on these Infections. | PSNet
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     October 15, 2008 - HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on these Infections. … Prevention Practices and Improve Data on these Infections. … 25, 2019 COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection … 9, 2024 COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection … Public reporting of health care–associated surveillance data: recommendations from the Healthcare Infection

112. American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update. | PSNet
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     October 23, 2018 - Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update. … American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 … Surgical site infections are a persistent and costly challenge to patient safety. … American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 … See More About The Topic Operating Room Health Care Providers Surgery Surgical Site Infections

113. Antibiotics-Respiratory-Infection Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2016 - For adults and children with an acute respiratory tract infection, what is the comparative effect of … For adults and children with an acute respiratory tract infection, what is the comparative effect of … For adults and children with an acute respiratory tract infection, what is the comparative effect of … , or to determine if an infection is more likely to be bacterial rather than viral. … Respiratory Tract Infections – Antibiotic Prescribing.

114. Infection prevention in the emergency department. | PSNet
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     July 13, 2016 - Review Infection prevention in the emergency department. … Infection prevention in the emergency department. … Infection prevention in the emergency department. … June 14, 2023 Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in … August 6, 2014 Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections.

115. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2015 - Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit. … An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. … Facilitating CLABSI prevention: a qualitative study comparing perspectives of infection control specialists … Getting to zero: goal commitment to reduce blood stream infections. … Using high-performance work practices to prevent blood stream infections: a qualitative study.

116. Respiratory Infection | Digital Healthcare Research
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     January 01, 2025 - Respiratory Infection Patient and care team perspectives on an app to … health record clinical decision support tool to improve antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections … health record clinical decision support tool to improve antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections

117. 10-State project to study methods to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in hospital ICUs. | PSNet
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     October 23, 2019 - 10-State project to study methods to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … Citation Text: 10-State project to study methods to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … May 19, 2021 AHRQ patient safety project reduces bloodstream infections by 40 percent … November 7, 2018 Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in … Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection

118. An exploratory analysis of the association between healthcare associated infections & hospital financial performance. | PSNet
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     June 12, 2024 - (CAUTI), and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) infection rates. … of the HAIs was positively associated with increased hospital costs, underscoring the importance of infection … 2024 Inter-hospital transfer is an independent risk factor for hospital-associated infection … A qualitative study of interprofessional dissonance in hospital infection prevention and control. … 2012 Effect of nonpayment for hospital-acquired, catheter–associated urinary tract infection

119. Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. | PSNet
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     October 01, 2024 - Toolkit Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. … Toolkit for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. March 2023. … 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated bloodstream infection … (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): the urgent need to refocus on hardwiring … August 1, 2017 A program to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in acute

120. Acute Care Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections
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     September 01, 2022 - Acute Care Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections Best Practices in the Management of … Is associated with more side effects Is more expensive Puts them at risk for future colonization or infection … Case 2 “I had a rash when I was given amoxicillin as a child for a throat infection.” … A throat infection in childhood could have been caused by a virus, and the rash was actually a viral … The impact of a reported penicillin allergy on surgical site infection risk.