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  1. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865296/psn-pdf
    March 27, 2024 - safety, alarm safety, facilitating clinician communication, as well as preventing hospital-associated infections

  2. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33852/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2017 - safety experiences had no impact on a global measure of safety including outcomes like urinary tract infections

  3. Final Progress Report: Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaboration Conference: Venous Thromboembolism (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/eskandari-raval-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - initiatives and improved outcomes in patients undergoing colectomy, reducing incidence of surgical site infections

  4. Moderating Factors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final-companion/clabsicomp5.html
    January 01, 2013 - Companion Guide Preface Methods Participation Outcomes Adult Non-ICUs Pediatric Units Infections

  5. STATISTICAL BRIEF #78: Children's Usual Source of Care: United States, 2002

    meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st78/stat78.shtml
    May 01, 2005 - immunizations, medicine, and treatment for ordinary childhood conditions, such as sore throats, ear infections

  6. Engineering Safe Practices Affinity Group | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/index.html
    April 01, 2025 - Tools AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program (contains multiple resources and toolkits). *

  7. How Well Do You Know AHRQ? Quizzes (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cpi/about/how-well-do-you-know-ahrq-quizzes.pdf
    September 01, 2024 - Managing Allergies and Managing Ear Infections d.

  8. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33798/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2015 - For example, failing to perform hand hygiene demonstrably leads to health care–associated infections

  9. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.434_slideshow.ppt
    February 01, 2018 - successes involved implementing a bundle of interventions Key example: Catheter-related bloodstream infections

  10. Diagnostic Errors | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/diagnostic-errors
    June 15, 2024 - safety has chiefly addressed quantifiable problems such as medication errors, health care–associated infections

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

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4l_combo_psi15-accidentalpuncturelaceration-bestpractices.pdf
    May 31, 2016 - Recommended practices for prevention of transmissible infections in the perioperative setting.

  12. HCUP-US Tools & Software Page

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccsfactsheet.jsp
    July 01, 2025 - combine several less common, individual conditions, such as CCS category #3, which is "Other Bacterial Infections

  13. 109-Performing-Premortem-Project-Assessment-Fg (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/109-performing-premortem-project-assessment-fg.docx
    April 01, 2025 - overall approach to preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical site infections

  14. Final Progress Report: Engineering Safe Care Journeys for Vulnerable Older Adults (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/smith-werner-carayon-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - antibiotic medication error).23 Unnecessary use of antibiotics can lead to HAIs, such as C. difficile infections … We focused on older adults diagnosed with fall or suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) in the ED, … Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of urinary tract infections in older people. … Potentially inappropriate treatment of urinary tract infections in two rhode island nursing homes. … Challenges assessing nursing home residents with advanced dementia for suspected urinary tract infections

  15. Microsoft Word - CaseforPOAIndicator_final_060806 _2_.doc (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2007_03.pdf
    January 01, 2007 - 511 (17) 205** (13) 2.45 (0.02) 2.49 (0.25) 0.03 (0.00) 0.04 (0.00) 159: Urinary tract infections … ** (31) 4.47 (0.03) 4.54 (0.36) 1.37 (0.04) 1.67* (0.12) 197: Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections … 183** 1.49 (0.02) 1.46 6.28 (0.05) 6.26 7.62 (0.17) 7.52 $22,434 (573) $22,861 79: RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS … 9.54 (0.23) 9.69 0.06 (0.01) 0.09* $16,620 (810) $16,374 197: Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections … 0.09) 0.86 5.21 (0.09) 5.41* 2.28 (0.16) 2.44 $20,570 (1,321) $20,891 169: Debridement of wound; infection

  16. Kidney-Stones-Draft-Appendi-C (xls file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/kidney-stones-draft-appendi-c.xlsx
    January 01, 2024 - stones or fragments by baseline x-ray and abdominal ultrasound Severe diabetes, gout, urinary tract infection … A randomized trial of acetohydroxamic acid for the treatment and prevention of infection-induced urinary … with chronic urea-splitting bacterial infection recalcitrant to eradication by antimicrobial agents … A randomized trial of acetohydroxamic acid for the treatment and prevention of infection-induced urinary … A randomized trial of acetohydroxamic acid for the treatment and prevention of infection-induced urinary

  17. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/arthritis_hi_impact.pdf
    January 01, 2014 - injection and are associated with increased incidence of immunosuppression, resulting in serious infections … experts expressed strong concerns regarding its safety and tolerability due to safety concerns over infections … However, adverse events observed in clinical trials completed to date, such as infections, increases … in SLE and potentially other autoimmune diseases, without eliminating the body’s ability to fight infections … The rates of treatment-related death and infections were not significantly different between the placebo

  18. Chronic-urinary-retention-protocol (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/chronic-urinary-retention_research-protocol.pdf
    November 19, 2012 - postoperative complications and psychogenic.3 Patients with CUR may be at increased risk for urinary tract infections … the urge or effort to do so.1 AUR typically is associated with lower abdominal pain and may lead to infection … • CUR attributable to infection/inflammatory etiologies that resolves with antibiotic or antiviral … Post Void Residual; QoL – Quality of Life; TWOC – Trial Without Catheterization; UTI – Urinary Tract Infection

  19. Statistical Brief #134: Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Associated with Animal Injuries, 2009 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb134.pdf
    March 01, 2012 - Bite Wounds and Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 1992. 14(3): 633-638. … Inpatient stays were predominantly for skin and subcutaneous tissue infections (36.9 percent), poisoning … substance 217,100 16.9  4  Open wound of head and trunk  101,900 7.9  5  Skin and subcutaneous tissue infection …   Rank  Principal diagnosis  Stays (number)  Percentage of stays  1  Skin and subcutaneous tissue infection … first-listed diagnoses were defined as CCS diagnosis categories: 197: Skin and subcutaneous tissue infection

  20. Most Common Diagnoses and Procedures in U.S. Community Hospitals, 1996

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/natstats/commdx/table2h.htm
    February 11, 2011 - HIV infection [5] 128,760 100.00 0.37 … Intestinal infection [135] 120,768 100.00 0.35
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