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7781. PS Grantee | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2024 - Engagement Publication Date: June 2009 Developing an Integrated Engineering-Based Model To Reduce Infections

7782. AHRQ Quality Indicators Toolkit Facilitates Process Improvement Work at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - Cedars-Sinai has virtually eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) by implementing

7783. Using Digital Health Tools to Improve Patient Safety during Acute Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      January 01, 2024 - Potential problems include medication errors, falls, infections, procedural complications, management

7784. In Pandemic’s Wake, We Must Recommit to Patient and Workforce Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      March 01, 2023 - Healthcare-associated infections in hospitals, for example, were trending sharply downward in the years

7785. State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD)
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      May 01, 2018 - care Trends and correlations between emergency department use and environmental events Emerging infections

7786. AHRQ Study Highlights Caregiver Needs in Mobile Health App Adoption | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      June 01, 2024 - AHRQ in the Professional Literature Implementing nasal povidone-iodine decolonization to reduce infections

7787. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 20, 2011 - Entire UPMC transplant team missed hepatitis alert. July 20, 2011 Hamill SD. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/entire-upmc-transplant-team-missed-hepatitis-alert This newspaper article reports how a missed test result alert led to a disease-free transplant patient being infected with hepatitis. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/…

7788. Promoting Best Practice and Safety Through Preprinted Physician Orders (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Ehringer_17.pdf
      February 08, 2008 - Education regarding safety, “best practice,” infection control, and outpatient referrals might also … Is consideration given to infection control measures? Prep and clip hair of right groin area. … Infection Control Health care providers should be aware that determining if infections are present … For example, consider ruling out a urinary tract infection when a Foley catheter is first inserted, … Medication Safety Education Patient Safety “Best Practice” Referrals to Outpatient Services Infection

7789. Zero Harm: Striving to Reduce Preventable Harms – Point, Counterpoint, and Areas of Agreement | PSNet
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      September 24, 2024 - with falls, 37% fewer pressure injuries and a 34% reduction in central line-associated blood stream infections … not, and preventability is even harder to determine for non-fatal harms like healthcare associated infection … bloodstream infections; there are a variety of preventable harms that we already have the knowledge … go months or years without any ventilator-associated pneumonias or have no central line bloodstream infections … There can be a goal of zero for things we know how to prevent, like central line-associated bloodstream infections

7790. Co-occurrence of Physical Health Conditions and Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions Among Adult Inpatient Stays, 2010 Versus 2014 (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2018 - Pneumonia (N=794,200) Coronary atherosclerosis (N=397,700) Acute myocardial infarction (N=608,700) Skin infections … 900,000) Intestinal obstruction without hernia (N=329,700) Septicemia (N=1,491,100) Urinary tract infections … among stays for biliary tract disease (39.1 percent), osteoarthritis (40.6 percent), and urinary tract infections … ■ Over 10 percent of stays with a principal diagnosis of gastrointestinal hemorrhage, skin infections … co-occurring alcohol/substance-related condition were gastrointestinal hemorrhage (14.5 percent), skin infections

7791. Learn About CUSP, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2012 - An infection reduction project of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient … Michigan Keystone Center launched an AHRQ-funded project to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections … In 2008, AHRQ funded national projects to apply the CUSP model to reduce infections nationwide. … total number central-line days, percentage of case fatalities, total number of incidents, and cost per infection … Distributing pocket cards with information on necessary improvement areas, such as unit infection rates

7792. Recently Funded Career Development Award Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      July 01, 2019 - K08 HS020939 Children's Hospital of San Francisco Healthcare-associated Respiratory Infection in … Amy K08 HS018578 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Evaluating Clostridium Difficile Infection

7793. Small and Rural Critical Access Hospitals (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      October 01, 2014 - 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

7794. Staff Presentation Template PowerPoint- Pediatric Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators (pdf file)
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      July 01, 2004 - Safety Tool C.3 Slide 12 • In this example, we will examine the rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection … Improving] Over Time Pe r 1 ,0 00 C as es Examining Observed Rates of Neonatal Blood Stream Infection

7795. Trends in Potentially Preventable Inpatient Hospital Admissions and Emergency Department Visits (pdf file)
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      December 01, 2014 - Medical conditions such as asthma, urinary tract infections, and complications of diabetes are considered … ■ The rate of treat-and-release ED visits increased 17 percent for urinary tract infection and 23 … Dehydration 174 121 –30.5 171 179 4.9 Bacterial pneumonia 360 306 –15.0 218 223 2.1 Urinary tract infection … 2008 through 2012, the rate of potentially preventable treat-and-release ED visits for urinary tract infection … through 2012, the rate of treat-and-release ED visits increased by 16.7 percent for urinary tract infection

7796. In Conversation With... Elsabeth Kalenderian, DDS, MPH, PhD and Muhammad F. Walji, PhD | PSNet
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      December 22, 2020 - antibiotic and opioid stewardship in dentistry and one of the things that struck me was her description of infection … Whereas if you go to medical school, you don't necessarily get that infection control instruction. … KH : Going back to our discussion about specific adverse events, we had talked about infection control … EK: Yes, we weren’t really finding AEs around infections or aspiration, which all the dentists are worried … Infection control and aspiration prevention are already key components of dental education and top of

7797. Adverse Events in Dentistry | PSNet
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      December 22, 2020 - Infection control and aspiration prevention are already key components of dental education and top of … antibiotic and opioid stewardship in dentistry and one of the things that struck me was her description of infection … Whereas if you go to medical school, you don't necessarily get that infection control instruction. … KH : Going back to our discussion about specific adverse events, we had talked about infection control … EK: Yes, we weren’t really finding AEs around infections or aspiration, which all the dentists are worried

7798. Final Progress Report: Pursuing Perfection in Pediatric Therapeutics (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - OPQC has also improved infant outcomes by reducing bloodstream infections by 30% in infants hospitalized … falls by 81%, ventilator-associated pneumonias by 47%, adverse drug events by 42%, and surgical-site infections … LN Donovan EF, Sparling K, Lake MR, et al The investment case for preventing NICU- associated infections … ’Riordan M, Cunningham DJ, et al A Statewide Collaborative to Reduce Pediatric Surgical Site Infections … 25107545 2015 NPC-QIC Improvement/outcomes Schaffzin JK, Harte L, Marquette S, et al Surgical Site Infection

7799. Return on Investment Estimation (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2013 - 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. … For example, reducing infections will affect costs to insurers from changes in payments made to the

7800. Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits for Super-Utilizers by Payer, 2014 #221
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      February 01, 2017 - super-utilizers aged 65 years and older accounted for 19 percent of all ED visits for urinary tract infections …     14       Abdominal pain 3 1 1 1 21 34 15 24 Urinary tract infections … Other complications of pregnancy       2       22 Other upper respiratory infections … Urinary tract infection was the fourth most common first-listed diagnosis for ED visits among Medicare … Urinary tract infection ranked fourth among common first-listed diagnoses of ED visits for Medicare super-utilizers