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  1. Staff Presentation Template (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/c3_combo_staffpresentation.pdf
    July 01, 2004 - patients because improvement on this indicator may reduce: • Sepsis, cellulitis, and bone and joint infections

  2. Federal Interagency Workgroup on Improving Diagnostic Safety: July Meeting Summary (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-jul2023.pdf
    November 03, 2023 - Agency Update Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention to Optimize the Treatment of Respiratory Viral Infections

  3. Spotlight (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/spotlight_case_missed_pneumothorax_10.09.2022_-_final.pdf
    January 01, 2022 - occurs commonly (up to 33% of cases), but typically resolves without intervention and post-procedural infection … settings, for tasks such as identifying correct surgical sites in the operating room and reducing infections

  4. Archived: Oral Cancer: Screening, 1996 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/oral-cancer-screening-1996
    January 01, 1996 - Head and neck malignancies associated with HIV infection.

  5. Established Child Health Care Quality Measures: AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/measures/measure-3.html
    November 01, 2017 - AHRQ QIs help identify: Potentially preventable complications such as infections due to medical care … Urinary Infection Admission Rate. Perforated Appendix Admission Rate.

  6. Periodic Issue | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/periodic-issue/periodic-issue-471
    December 31, 2024 - Study Becoming Hand Hygiene Heroes: implementation of an infection prevention and

  7. HCUP Statistical Brief #3: Hospitalizations Related to Pressure Sores, 2003 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb3.pdf
    April 01, 2006 - all cases also had pressure sores), pneumonia (2.7 percent also had pressure sores), urinary tract infection … except that caused by tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases) 35,500 2.7 3 Urinary tract infections

  8. Where's the Feeding Tube? | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/wheres-feeding-tube
    September 01, 2003 - June 28, 2023 What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections

  9. Engage the Senior Executive | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/engage/exec-slides.html
    December 01, 2012 - Infection Preventionist Checklist. Board Checklist. Shadowing Another Professional Tool.

  10. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60174/psn-pdf
    March 30, 2020 - feedback.[4] New harm-specific PSPs have also been added to this report, including practices within infection

  11. Making Healthcare Safer IV: Active Infection Surveillance of Clostridioides difficile and Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), Candida auris | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/mhs4-active-infection/protocol

  12. Chartbook on Women's Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/womenh-slides.html
    March 01, 2020 - 27 Adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … Graph shows adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter-associated urinary tract infection … 2.8 3.3 2.1 Importance: The urinary tract is a common site of healthcare-associated infections … pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration, diabetes, hypertension, and urinary tract infection … Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 

  13. Final Progress Report: A National Report of Nursing Home Quality Measures and Information Technology (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/alexander-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - a chair; 10) whose ability to move in and around their room got worse; 11) who have a urinary tract infection … clinical support and the QM identifying the Percentage of Long-Stay Residents with a Urinary Tract Infection … relationship indicates that, as ITS scores increases, the percentage of residents with urinary tract infections … The exception was % Long Stay with Urinary Tract Infection, in which differences in IT capabilities … IT used for laboratory systems) was an important predictor of the % of residents with urinary tract infections

  14. Emergency Department Visits Involving Influenza and Influenza-Like Illnesses, 2016–2018 (pdf file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb269-Influenza-ED-Visits-2016-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - Introduction Each year in the United States, influenza infections result in substantial hospital … novel influenza A virus with other manifestations Influenza-like illness J069 Acute upper respiratory infection … J129 Viral pneumonia, unspecified J440 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower resp infection … obstructive pulmonary disease with (acute) exacerbation J470 Bronchiectasis with acute lower respiratory infection … market-area variation analyses, and to identify State-specific trends in injury surveillance, emerging infections

  15. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2021qdr-datasources.pdf
    December 31, 2021 - AIDS as HIV infection, stage 3. … HIV infection and AIDS data are nationally representative. … of 21 measures representing six types of adverse drug events (ADEs); six types of hospital-acquired infections … Report: Data Sources 83 • Adverse events associated with surgical procedures • Hospital-acquired infections … Identification of hospital-acquired catheter- associated urinary tract infections from Medicare claims

  16. Recommendations to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality Measures: Background Report on the 2012 Process (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/pubs/background-2012/backgrnd2012.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - The initial core set includes a measure of health-care associated infections for newborns and children … in intensive care units; this measure was compared to the submitted measure of newborn infection rates … Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are among the most common infections … in American youth, and HPV infection is the most common STD in the United States. … cervical cancer and 90 percent of cases of anogenital warts.17 Morbidity and deaths associated with HPV infections

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33656/psn-pdf
    September 01, 2007 - err-human-building-safer-health-system https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intervention-decrease-catheter-related-bloodstream-infections-icu … thinking about the hospital in Pittsburgh that has managed to go close to 2 years without a wound infection

  18. Background Report for the Request for Public Comment on Initial, Recommended Core Set of Children's Healthcare Quality Measures for Voluntary Use by Medicaid and CHIP Programs (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/overview/background/corebackgrnd.pdf
    January 01, 2013 - Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection that causes pelvic inflammatory disease, a condition … Without the presence of a bacterial infection, antibiotics are ineffective in treating pharyngitis. … Pediatric catheter-associated blood stream infection rates (intensive care and high risk nursery patients … The data source for the measure is medical records; data are collected by hospital infection control … Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare- Associated Infections. Washington, DC: Author 51.

  19. PRCCSR-ChangeLog-v20221-v20231 (xls file)

    hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccsr/PRCCSR-ChangeLog-v20221-v20231.xlsx
    November 01, 2022 - Notification, New Technology Group 8 MAM005 Measurement during cardiac catheterization XXE5X38 Measurement of Infection

  20. Evidence Summary: Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Therapies in Adult Patients With Exacerbation of COPD (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/cer-221-copd-evidence-summary_0.pdf
    October 01, 2019 - hastening the recovery from ECOPD by addressing precipitating factors (e.g. antibiotic treatment for infections
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