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  1. The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care: Workshop Summary. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/role-human-factors-home-health-care-workshop-summary
    August 03, 2011 - June 7, 2023 Home health staff perspectives on infection prevention and control: implications

  2. Is employee discipline the solution for patient safety? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/employee-discipline-solution-patient-safety
    September 15, 2011 - 2011 In-hospital mortality associated with the misdiagnosis or unidentified site of infection

  3. Mitigating bias in AI at the point of care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/mitigating-bias-ai-point-care
    March 08, 2023 - October 7, 2020 Applying decision science to the prioritization of healthcare-associated infection

  4. Implementing a patient safety alert system. | PSNet

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    June 21, 2015 - 2017 A national implementation project to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection

  5. Physician resiliency and wellness for transforming a health system. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/physician-resiliency-and-wellness-transforming-health-system
    November 23, 2024 - November 23, 2024 Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification

  6. Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medications-transitions-and-clinical-handoffs-match-toolkit-medication-reconciliation
    October 02, 2013 - March 20, 2018 Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification

  7. 'Just culture': improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/just-culture-improving-safety-achieving-substantive-procedural-and-restorative-justice
    October 19, 2022 - December 18, 2014 Positive deviance: a new tool for infection prevention and patient

  8. Hospital Preparedness for a COVID-19 Surge: Assessment Tool. | PSNet

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    September 16, 2020 - The assessment tool helps organizations examine support structures, monitoring, infection control, supply

  9. Round-Trip Service | PSNet

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    April 26, 2023 - familiar with the patient, the type of implant used, technical aspects of the operation, perioperative infection … If the situation looks problematic due to the possibility of infection or excessive swelling, the patient … View More Related Resources WebM&M Cases Infection

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49621/psn-pdf
    March 01, 2011 - The Case A 22-month-old infant was admitted to the hospital in the late afternoon with a viral infection … He was given appropriate therapies for his viral infection. … His aunt assumed this was due to the viral infection, and the child was not evaluated by the nurse during

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 01, 2005 - rotating the antibiotics used in an intensive care unit was associated with a six-fold reduction in infection … We know little about other infection control programs introduced at the time, changes to ICU staffing … Infection Control Programme. Lancet. 2000;356:1307-1312. [ go to PubMed ] 9.

  12. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare July Meeting Summary (pdf file)

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    January 01, 2024 - Tools that have been developed include Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview for Infection Control … This video will also be used in CDC infection control and prevention training programs for rural hospitals … those at nursing homes, have been using urine multiplex molecular tests to diagnose urinary tract infection

  13. Join the IDEAS Project To Advance Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    July 01, 2025 - Prevention in adults of transmission of infection with multidrug-resistant organisms: an updated systematic

  14. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4e_pdi06-heartsurgery-bestpractices.pdf
    May 16, 2016 - CongenitalHeartDefects/Congenital-Heart- Defects_UCM_001090_SubHomePage.jsp • IHI How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection … echocardiography Communication • Education on policy/protocol of monitoring and treatment of bloodstream infections

  15. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4s_combo_pdi06-heartsurgery-bestpractices.pdf
    May 16, 2016 - CongenitalHeartDefects/Congenital-Heart- Defects_UCM_001090_SubHomePage.jsp • IHI How-to Guide: Prevent Surgical Site Infection … echocardiography Communication • Education on policy/protocol of monitoring and treatment of bloodstream infections

  16. BLADDER SCAN – POLICY #2202 12/11/06 (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/infection-prevention/environment-and-equipment/bath-basin-faqs.docx
    March 01, 2017 - studies found gram-positive and gram-negative organisms on bath basins after resident use, no direct, infection

  17. Premortem Assessment | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/premortem-assessment.html
    April 01, 2025 - the Perioperative Setting Contact Precautions Optimizing Environmental Cleaning Perioperative Infection

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    February 06, 2014 - Application of a theoretical framework for behavior change to hospital workers' real-time explanations for noncompliance with hand hygiene guidelines. February 6, 2014 Fuller C, Besser S, Savage J, et al. Application of a theoretical framework for behavior change to hospital workers' real-time explanations for non…

  19. Effective Health Care (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TND_0004_03-11-2008.pdf
    January 01, 2008 - emerging evidence of improved outcomes such as hypoxemic respiratory failure due to opportunistic infection

  20. Exhibit 4.2. Suntown Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-exhibit4-2.html
    November 01, 2014 - Two projects, Urinary Tract Infection Prevention and Redesigning the Process for Electronic Prescribing
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