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8561. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) NEDS Notes
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      May 01, 2015 - Assignment to MDC 24 (multiple trauma) and MDC 25 (patients with HIV infection) is based on BOTH principal … year 2001, the Iowa Hospital Association prohibits the release of two types of discharges: HIV Infections

8562. Improving the Delivery of Health Services at the Health Systems Level - Emerging Research | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2020 - nurse-sensitive patient outcomes such as patient falls, pressure ulcer injuries, and hospital-acquired infections

8563. Sustaining Change Webinar Transcript | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - We had no other source for infections, so we cultured the urine [inaudible 00:18:13]. … You might as well make sure we have something that prevents infection. Just leave it in." … It's really hard to get your first degree as whatever you are, a nurse, and infection preventionist, … Nursing, physicians, infection preventionists. … Again, for physicians, if you see for a surgeon, your perioperatives wound infection section rate is

8564. Sustaining-Change-Transcript (doc file)
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      April 14, 2015 - We had no other source for infections, so we cultured the urine [inaudible 00:18:13]. … You might as well make sure we have something that prevents infection. Just leave it in." … It's really hard to get your first degree as whatever you are, a nurse, and infection preventionist, … Nursing, physicians, infection preventionists. … Again, for physicians, if you see for a surgeon, your perioperatives wound infection section rate is

8565. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 01, 2014 - that is a threat to skin integrity (6); diarrhea also increases the risk of cross-contamination and infection … events may include loss of anal sphincter muscle tone, pressure necrosis of rectal or anal mucosa, infection

8566. 7-Implementation-Guide (doc file)
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      June 01, 2023 - ISCR pathway), you can evaluate whether there are improvements in outcomes such as: · Surgical site infections … (SSI) · Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) · Venous thromboembolism (VTE) events · … the areas that need improvement to help focus the meeting discussions (e.g., Mobility, surgical site infections

8567. Healthcare Safety Competencies Affinity Group Environmental Scan (pdf file)
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      March 27, 2025 - showed a marked increase in hospital-acquired conditions, including central line-associated bloodstream infections … events, hospital-acquired pressure injuries, patient falls, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections … system lens rather than individual improvement efforts in specific areas such as healthcare-associated infections

8568. Statistical Brief #113
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      May 01, 2011 - conditions occurred at a rate of 100 or more for every 1,000 hospital stays: early or threatened labor, infections … or more for every 1,000 hospital stays: early or threatened labor (208 per 1,000 stays) infections … 30.6 Other complications of pregnancy 280,900 593.1 26.7 1,708,600 432.5 27.5 Infections … 117.2 27.6 Premature rupture of membranes 6,800 14.4 27.5 152,100 38.5 27.7 Infection … 64321-late vomiting of pregnancy 64622-renal disease not otherwise specified 64661-genitourinary infection

8569. Statistical Brief #57: Meningitis-Related Hospitalizations in the United States, 2006 (pdf file)
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      July 09, 2008 - the meninges, the tissue surrounding the spinal cord and brain, becomes inflamed.1 Caused by an infection … The source of the infection can affect the progression, outcome, and spread of the disease. … Infections: Meningitis. From KidsHealth. … http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/lung/meningitis.html (Accessed July 9, 2008). 5 Fungal … detail_encephalitis_meningitis.htm http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/bacterial/faqs.htm http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections

8570. Practice and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      May 01, 2024 - into four pediatric primary care clinics to help identify adolescents at-risk for sexually transmitted infections … Implementing Telemedicine to Improve Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for  Acute Respiratory Tract Infections … Center Examines if telehealth visits can be used to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections

8571. Statistical Brief #131
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      May 01, 2012 - heart rate or rhythm, and problems of the amniotic cavity (such as premature rupture of membranes and infection … 31.1 Other complications of pregnancy 1,043,140 419.7 26.9 613,620 446.8 28.6 Infections … 126.4 28.3 Premature rupture of membranes 97,970 39.4 27.5 49,530 36.1 28.8 Infection … Major postpartum infection occurred nearly five times more often among C-section deliveries—5.5 stays … 64321-late vomiting of pregnancy 64622-renal disease not otherwise specified 64661-genitourinary infection

8572. Liver Biopsy: Proceed With Caution | PSNet
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      March 07, 2012 - Contraindications to liver biopsy Uncooperative patient Severe coagulopathy Infection … Perforation of viscous organs Inadvertent biopsy of the kidney Bile peritonitis Infection … October 9, 2021 Health care-associated infections among critically ill children in the

8573. Procedure Complications – Who is Responsible for Follow up? | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Perforation in this area can lead to deep neck infections. … surrounding structures by esophageal contents following perforation can result in chemical injury or infection … rapidly lead to systemic signs of sepsis and multisystem organ failure as a result of deep space neck infection

8574. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      February 26, 2020 - The patient did not manifest any signs or symptoms of infection one week and up to one month following … Case #1, if the microbiology sample were to have been positive, resulting delays in the treatment of infection … Studies have highlighted that every hour delay in treatment of severe infections, such as sepsis, exponentially

8575. Implications for Practice Improvement, Research, and Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      August 01, 2024 - adults when constructing a differential diagnosis for an older patient with an acute concern (e.g., infections … diagnostic clinical decision support tools and technologies, such as those that support the detection of infection … 2021 found 17 papers where decision support tools improved the detection of several different types of infection

8576. Final Progress Report: HIV/HCV Support Team to Improve Medication Safety and Engagement in Care (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2024 - The continuum of HIV care (Figure 1) from initial infection to suppression with ART has large stepdowns … /PowerSampleSize The curriculum included didactic modules, similar to those used for central line infections … rates for six successive lines of HIV regimens; CD4 gain on ART; CD4 decline off ART Opportunistic infection

8577. Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Safety Series (Session 3): Measuring and Responding to Safety Culture Across Healthcare (pdf file)
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      May 13, 2025 - Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2012;33(12):1280-1282. doi:10.1086/668432. … Teamwork in the NICU Setting and Its Association with Health Care-Associated Infections in Very Low-Birth-Weight … available 46 More Positive SOPS Patient Safety Culture Scores Linked to… Lower rates of surgical site infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes.

8578. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      October 21, 2015 - A prospective controlled trial of an electronic hand hygiene reminder system. October 21, 2015 Ellison RT, Barysauskas CM, Rundensteiner EA, et al. A Prospective Controlled Trial of an Electronic Hand Hygiene Reminder System. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015;2(4):ofv121. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofv121. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/…

8579. 5 Tk2 T3-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Using Whonet To Create Your Antibiogram (pdf file)
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      May 01, 2014 - the first isolate found for each resident, so results are not biased by residents with recurring infections … Uses In addition to making and updating the antibiogram, you can use WHONET to answer more specific infection

8580. National Web-Based Teleconference on Using Health IT for Chronic Disease Management (pdf file)
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      June 21, 2011 - hygiene and visits every 6 months • Monitor oral hygiene status periodontal, caries, and oral infection … visit Daily oral hygiene and visits every six months • Reduce periodontal, caries, and oral infection … and visits every six months problems at dental visit • Reduce periodontal, caries, and oral infection … • Reduce risk of compromised air flow and pneumonia • Reduce periodontal, caries, and oral infection