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7701. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/f1_combo_returnoninvestment.docx
      January 01, 2013 - For example, improvement actions might reduce hospital-associated infections, rates of pressure ulcers … For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control or … imposed penalties for occurrences of infections.

7702. Becoming a Patient Safety Organization | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/becoming-patient-safety-organization
      July 01, 2011 - Common events (e.g., health care–associated infections, falls) may be so common that individual hospitals … 40% of those hospitals did the event reporting system receive any reports on health care-associated infections … , which meant that the patient safety team running the event reporting system wasn't talking to the infection … detailed information is standardized for the more common types of events, such as health care–associated infections … increasing requirement of CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) system for health care-associated infections

7703. Most Frequent Conditions in U.S. Hospitals, 2011 #162
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb162.jsp
      September 01, 2013 - failure, insufficiency, arrest (adult) 199 404 7 13 78 Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections … 330 652 12 21 73 Previous Cesarean Section 271 502 10 16 62 Intestinal infection … 504 343 -32 Septicemia (except in labor) 76 195 196 340 -32 Urinary tract infections … 88 percent, diabetes mellitus with complications doubled, and stays for skin and subcutaneous tissue infections … 137 11 7 -28 Mood disorders 55 103 3 5 88 Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections

7704. Return on Investment Tool (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/f1_pdi_returnoninvestment.docx
      January 01, 2013 - For example, improvement actions might reduce hospital-associated infections, rates of pressure ulcers … For example, by reducing its infection rates, a hospital could eliminate the costs it had been incurring … to provide the extra care required to treat infections. … It also could enhance or protect its revenues, if insurers offered incentives for infection control or … imposed penalties for occurrences of infections.

7705. An Untimely End Despite End-of-Life Care Planning | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/untimely-end-despite-end-life-care-planning
      February 01, 2012 - patients' goals in the ICU a preventable harm, in the same way a central line–associated bloodstream infection … ICU should be considered a preventable harm, in the same way as central line–associated bloodstream infections … August 17, 2017 Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections

7706. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50701/psn-pdf
      November 26, 2019 - underlie many of our hospital acquired conditions, (i.e., pressure ulcers and catheter associated infections … Pain is also a big medical factor in delirium, as are dehydration and acute infections.

7707. Telemedicine for Pediatric Primary Care: Satisfaction Survey (pdf file)
      digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/survey/telemedicine-pediatric-primary-care-satisfaction-survey.pdf
      June 16, 2021 - Telemedicine is perfect for common childhood illnesses and problems like rashes, colds, pinkeye and ear infections … It’s perfect for common childhood illnesses and problems like rashes, colds, pinkeye and ear infections

7708. Chronic Kidney Disease | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/effectivetreatment/kidney.html
      June 01, 2018 - more than a year before kidney failure are less likely to begin dialysis with a catheter, experience infections … more than a year before kidney failure are less likely to begin dialysis with a catheter, experience infections … hemodialysis patients, a usable arteriovenous fistula was associated with the lowest risk of death, infection

7709. Hip Fractures in Older Patients: the Case for Geriatrics Comanagement | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hip-fractures-older-patients-case-geriatrics-comanagement
      July 01, 2004 - had a 20% lower mortality within 12 months and fewer complications (such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections … functional outcomes and results in fewer medical complications, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections

7710. Patient Safety 101 | PSNet
      psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/patient-safety-101
      January 16, 2025 - decade, thousands of lives have been saved thanks to innovative efforts to reduce health care–associated infections … academic hospital may be at risk for medication errors, several different types of health care–associated infections

7711. Sample Hospital Report Card
      hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/raceethnicitytoolkit/nm1.jsp
      July 01, 2014 - indicators are measured by admission rates in the hospital: Bacterial pneumonia Urinary tract infections

7712. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=12
      January 01, 2024 - Implementation Publication Date: May 2011 Central Venous Catheter (CVC)–Related Bloodstream Infections

7713. Appendix D. Universal ICU Decolonization Nursing Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-apd.html
      September 01, 2013 - The REDUCE MRSA Trial found a 44 percent reduction in all-cause bloodstream infections and a 37 percent

7714. Appendix D. Universal ICU Decolonization Nursing Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-apd.html
      September 01, 2013 - The REDUCE MRSA Trial found a 44 percent reduction in all-cause bloodstream infections and a 37 percent

7715. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Health Care March Meeting Summary (pdf file)
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      July 23, 2020 - /blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/advancing-laboratory-diagnostic-stewardship-for-healthcare-associated-infections-hais-antibiotic-resistance-and-sepsis

7716. Peer Review: Study Section Descriptions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/peerdesc.html
      July 01, 2017 - identifying the root causes of threats to patient safety; research focused on healthcare associated infections

7717. A Machine Learning Health System to Integrate Care for Substance Misuse and HIV Treatment and Prevention Among Hospitalized Patients | Digital Healthcare Research
      digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/machine-learning-health-system-integrate-care-substance-misuse-and-hiv-treatment-and-prevention
      August 31, 2024 - Based only on the presence of sexually transmitted infections associated with HIV, retrospective data

7718. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Issues Final Recommendation Statement on Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults (pdf file)
      www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/ipv-screening-final-rec-bulletin.pdf
      June 24, 2025 - devastating health effects, such as bruises, broken bones, pain, anxiety, depression, sexually transmitted infections

7719. Topic Coming Back CER 28 DMARDs in Children with JIA NSD _SJ Clean (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/juvenile-arthritis-dmards_overview.pdf
      March 27, 2014 - f Because of the known risks associated with DMARDs, we focused primarily on serious infections and the

7720. Slide 1 (ppt file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/small_hospitals-slides/Small-and-Rural-Critical-Access-Hospitals-July-19-2011-508.ppt
      January 01, 2011 - Flook, RN, MPH, CIC Director, Workforce Development & Infection Prevention Lorna Martin, RN Patient … Flook, RN, MPH,CIC Director, Workforce Development/Infection Prevention 770-249-4518 dflook@gha.org.