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201. 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

202. Deadly infections: hospitals can lower the risk, but many fail to act. | PSNet
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     May 19, 2010 - Newspaper/Magazine Article Deadly infections: hospitals can lower the risk, but many … Citation Text: Deadly infections. Hospitals can lower the risks, but many fail to act. … Examining health care–associated infections in United States hospitals, this feature article discusses … how checklists and public reporting have affected rates of catheter-related bloodstream infections … 2010 Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection

203. 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

204. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     (CLABSI) Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), are a type … of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and … Research Studies Implementing and validating a home-infusion central-line-associated bloodstream infection … The need to expand the infection prevention workforce in home infusion therapy. … Effectiveness of ultraviolet-c disinfection on hospital-onset gram-negative rod bloodstream infection

205. Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). | PSNet
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     October 02, 2013 - Government Resource Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections … Citation Text: Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) … for continued monitoring of disinfection practices to reduce the spread of health care–associated infections … Citation Citation Text: Environmental Cleaning for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections … About The Topic Hospitals Health Care Executives and Administrators Medicine Nosocomial Infections

206. Partnering to Heal: Teaming-Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections. | PSNet
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     November 16, 2011 - Material/Curriculum Partnering to Heal: Teaming-Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections … Citation Text: Partnering to Heal: Teaming-Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections. … This training program explores how to create a culture of safety and prevent health care–associated infections … Citation Citation Text: Partnering to Heal: Teaming-Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections … Equity in Patient Safety March 27, 2024 Reducing three infections

207. A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. | PSNet
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     September 01, 2014 - However, applying patient safety techniques as well as traditional infection control methods has resulted … in significant successes in curbing these infections.  … , ventilator-associated pneumonia , catheter-associated urinary tract infection , and surgical site … infection).  … June 22, 2022 Clostridium Difficile infection in the United States: a national study

208. Statewide collaborative to reduce surgical site infections: results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program. | PSNet
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     March 21, 2012 - -related infection prevention measures. … January 11, 2017 The preventive surgical site infection bundle in colorectal surgery: … an effective approach to surgical site infection reduction and health care cost savings. … August 2, 2015 Readmission after delayed diagnosis of surgical site infection: a focus … August 13, 2014 Identifying opportunities for quality improvement in surgical site infection

209. AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/haify11.pdf
     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

210. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
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     January 01, 2020 - Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections … 19 made up 7.1%.10 Youth ages 10-19 years are at risk of contracting meningitis, a possibly fatal11 infection … Meningococcal diseases are infections caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis.12 The meningococcal … most important as a potential cause of meningitis.12 It can also cause meningococcemia, a bloodstream infection … Weight loss also may lead to muscle wasting, infections, and increased risk of pressure ulcers.

211. Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. | PSNet
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     July 03, 2014 - Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. … The guideline is one of the 2014 infection control compendium updates published in the journal. … Public reporting of health care–associated surveillance data: recommendations from the Healthcare Infection … April 22, 2020 Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations … Public reporting of health care–associated surveillance data: recommendations from the Healthcare Infection

212. Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates. | PSNet
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     August 20, 2018 - Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection … Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates. … Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates. … December 6, 2013 Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in … August 25, 2010 Preventing infections: how Portland hospitals compare.

213. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
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     October 01, 2015 - Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections

214. 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.

215. Management of Clostridiodes difficile Infection (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Management of Clostridiodes difficile Infection Diagnosis • Clinical spectrum of infection ranges … Management of Clostridioides difficile Infection 2 References Abbett SK, Yokoe DS … Meta- analysis of antibiotics and the risk of community- associated Clostridium difficile infection. … antibiotic stewardship intervention on the clinical and molecular epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections … Fidaxomicin versus vancomycin for Clostridium difficile infection.

216. A 7-year analysis of attributable costs of healthcare-associated infections in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States. | PSNet
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     April 24, 2018 - Study A 7-year analysis of attributable costs of healthcare-associated infections … A 7-year analysis of attributable costs of healthcare-associated infections in a network of community … infection (CDI-HO), and surgical site infections (SSI) across 45 hospitals between January 2016 and … September 1, 2016 Surgical site infection prevention: a review. … December 21, 2018 Zero tolerance for deadly hospital-acquired infections.

217. Doing well by doing good: assessing the cost savings of an intervention to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in a Hawaii hospital. | PSNet
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     March 21, 2012 - doing good: assessing the cost savings of an intervention to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … Central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) can be nearly eliminated through implementation … March 20, 2013 Eliminating central line-associated bloodstream infections: a national … 26, 2014 Implementing a national program to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Impact of a national multimodal intervention to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infection

218. Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study. | PSNet
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     May 25, 2011 - Classic Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections … This study demonstrated that reduced rates of catheter-related bloodstream infections persisted 18 … June 16, 2011 An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in … October 16, 2012 Eradicating central line–associated bloodstream infections statewide … Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection

219. Elimination of central-venous-catheter-related bloodstream infections from the intensive care unit. | PSNet
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     January 11, 2017 - Study Elimination of central-venous-catheter-related bloodstream infections from … Elimination of central-venous-catheter-related bloodstream infections from the intensive care unit. … Elimination of central-venous-catheter-related bloodstream infections from the intensive care unit. … December 31, 2014 Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in … Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection

220. Financial incentives to reduce hospital-acquired infections under alternative payment arrangements. | PSNet
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     September 29, 2017 - Study Financial incentives to reduce hospital-acquired infections under alternative … and catheter-associated urinary tract infections . … Receipt of antibiotics in hospitalized patients and risk for Clostridium difficile infection … January 9, 2011 Impact of patient safety climate on infection prevention practices and … July 10, 2008 Infection control hazards and near misses reported by nursing students.