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  1. Connecting the Dots: Improving Unit Safety Culture to Stop HAI (October 8, 2013) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-transcript.html
    December 01, 2017 - this webinar, which is intended to help you improve unit safety culture to decrease hospital-acquired infections … the specific patient safety interventions that you want to implement to decrease healthcare-acquired infections … beliefs that are found in a safe, informed culture to engage frontline workers about healthcare-acquired infections … Do we believe that working in teams will result in fewer healthcare-acquired infections?

  2. Paul Tedrick (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-transcript.doc
    October 08, 2013 - this webinar, which is intended to help you improve unit safety culture to decrease hospital-acquired infections … the specific patient safety interventions that you want to implement to decrease healthcare-acquired infections … beliefs that are found in a safe, informed culture to engage frontline workers about healthcare-acquired infections … Do we believe that working in teams will result in fewer healthcare-acquired infections?

  3. Views of Emergency Medicine Trainees on Adverse Events and Negligence: Survey Results from an Emergency Medicine Training Program in a Regional Health Care System Following the National Standard of Care (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Shah_99.pdf
    March 23, 2008 - residents on medical error and adverse events causes: “pneumothorax, retained objects, hospital-acquired infections … , decubitus ulcers, perioperative myocardial infarctions (MIs), line infections, and falls.” … A few examples include pneumothorax, retained objects, hospital-acquired infections, decubitus ulcers … , perioperative myocardial infarctions (MIs), line infections, and falls.

  4. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2004_07.pdf
    January 01, 2004 - PSI 7 Selected infections due to medical care per 1000 discharges* (excluding immunocompromised and cancer … patients and neonates) * Also excludes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases … sepsis per 1000 elective-surgery discharges of longer than 3 days (excluding patients admitted for infection … PSI 23 Selected infections due to medical care* per 100,000 population (excluding immunocompromised or … cancer patients and neonates) * Includes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases

  5. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60044/psn-pdf
    March 16, 2020 - Specific consideration for infection prevention and control practices. … competencies include those that focus on: Improving individual safety practices, such as practicing infection-control

  6. After-Visit Confusion | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/after-visit-confusion
    August 21, 2007 - The symptoms developed a few days following an upper respiratory infection. … Ultimately, the physician spoke with the patient's mother, confirmed that his diagnosis of a herpetic viral infection

  7. Resource List - AHRQ Nursing Home Survey (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/nursing-home/nursinghome-resourcelist.pdf
    April 01, 2023 - living facilities to the principles of high reliability and how they can be applied to preventing infections … , diagnose and treat infection effectively, use antimicrobials wisely, and prevent transmission. 2. … Resources include guides to quality, useful websites, topic-specific resources, infection control resources … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention Applying High Reliability Principles to Infection … Applying High Reliability Principles to Infection Prevention and Control in Long Term Care 4.

  8. Maternal Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/maternal-safety
    January 10, 2024 - An example of this is the risk for infection , hemorrhage , future cesarean birth, and future potentially … Maternal sepsis is defined as a life-threatening condition with organ dysfunction resulting from infection … sepsis related. 29 The AIM Sepsis in Obstetrical Care toolkit includes similar bundles and focuses on infection

  9. Missed Nursing Care: A Key Measure for Patient Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/missed-nursing-care-key-measure-patient-safety
    March 01, 2018 - One example would be care bundles for central line infection prevention. … And these differences line up very closely to the variation across hospitals in mortality, infection … Readmissions, infection rates, never events like poor glycemic control—they're all directly related to

  10. Archived: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-screening-2016
    April 05, 2016 - pollution, such as wood smoke and traffic pollutants; history of asthma or childhood respiratory tract infections … Nonmodifiable risk factors for COPD include history of asthma or childhood respiratory tract infections

  11. In Conversation With… Kaveh Shojania, MD | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-kaveh-shojania-md
    February 26, 2025 - So you have surgical problems, medication problems, diagnostic problems, infections, and so on. … If you've implemented the central line bundle, then you should measure central line–associated infections

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33748/psn-pdf
    April 01, 2013 - safety field has begun to make measurable inroads in some areas, such as reducing hospital-acquired infections … When there have been focused efforts in particular arenas, certainly catheter-related bloodstream infections

  13. “This is the wrong patient's blood!”: Evaluating a Near-Miss Wrong Transfusion Event | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/wrong-patients-blood-evaluating-near-miss-wrong-transfusion-event
    July 01, 2017 - remarkable improvement in safety in terms of infectious agents. 1 Rates of transfusion-transmitted viral infections … Prevalence, incidence, and residual risk of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infections

  14. Statistical Brief #46: Hospitalizations for Epilepsy and Convulsions, 2005 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb46.pdf
    January 16, 2008 - occur as a result of high fever (especially among young children), subdural hematoma, stroke, CNS infection … convulsions, other top 10 principal diagnoses included alcohol-related mental disorders, urinary tract infections … Urinary tract infections 2.1% 8. Sepsis 1.1% 8. Fluid and electrolyte disorders 2.1% 9.

  15. HCUP_methods_series_cover.ai (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2003_05.pdf
    January 01, 2003 - septicemia per 1000 elective-surgery discharges of longer than 3 days (excluding patients admitted for infection … for iatrogenic pneumothorax, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals) PSI 7 Infection … neonates; based on secondary diagnoses only) (PSI 7) (Note: Excludes admissions specifically for such infections … , such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings) PSI 23 Infection … diagnoses) per 100,000 population (PSI 23) (Note: Also, includes admissions specifically for such infections

  16. Microsoft Word - ehcrr#2toCSI.doc (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/atypical-antipsychotics-seniors-death_research.pdf
    August 01, 2007 - this magnitude of risk in perspective, all measured health conditions except heart failure and HIV infection … which its Public Health Advisory was based, heart- related events (heart failure, sudden death) and infections … .0001 Other cardiovascular disorders 4075 16.7% 2609 20.3% 1.3 <.0001 Cancer 0 0.0% 0 0.0% - - HIV infection … diabetes, myocardial infarction, other ischemic heart disease, other cardiovascular disorders, cancer, HIV infection

  17. Facilitator Guide: Optimize Your Briefings and Debriefings (doc file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_opt_briefings_facnotes.docx
    December 01, 2017 - Evidence supports that addressing cultural issues in conjunction with the technical work improves infection … Briefings and debriefings can improve communication and teamwork; reduce complications like surgical site infections … SAY: Include your surgical site infection intervention bundle on your briefing checklist. … Review those defects with your CUSP team or a surgical site infection quality improvement team.

  18. The Risks of a Malpositioned Gastrostomy Tube and Poor Communication | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/risks-malpositioned-gastrostomy-tube-and-poor-communication
    August 01, 2012 - time period for ascertainment. 11,14,17,18 The most common complications are wound problems such as infection … or gastric wall ulceration, 6,11,14 tube dislodgement with peritonitis or necrotizing soft tissue infection … When the PEG tube has complications, such as a skin or soft tissue infection, but feeding access is still

  19. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
    January 01, 2003 - most focus on relatively few types of reportable events, such as adverse drug events or nosocomial infections … of ascertainment of adverse events is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection … Surveillance System, which is based on reports from hospital infection control practitioners, who … complications 3,771 6.8 1.14*** Nervous system comp 1,489 2.7 1.37*** GU complications 1,956 3.5 0.86*** Infection

  20. Archived: Bladder Cancer in Adults: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/bladder-cancer-adults-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - trauma, menstrual bleeding) or of questionable importance (bladder stones, dysplasia, asymptomatic infection … benefit of early detection of many of these conditions (bladder stones, mild obstruction, urinary tract infection
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