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9961. Planning for Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-planning.html
      May 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Measurement Implementing the Surgical Safety Checklist Infection

9962. Post-Exposure Prophylaxis | CDS Connect
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      August 06, 2020 - Search All AHRQ Sites Careers Contact Us Español FAQs Email Updates

9963. In Conversation with... Regina Hoffman about Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … amendment was made to the act that required long-term care facilities to report healthcare-acquired infections

9964. Building Capacity for Patient Safety | PSNet
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      July 31, 2023 - Every long-term care facility also has an infection prevention advisor from our team assigned to them … Our advisors have decades of experience in patient safety and infection prevention and come from varied … amendment was made to the act that required long-term care facilities to report healthcare-acquired infections

9965. Patient Safety in the United Kingdom: Evolution and Progress | PSNet
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      May 01, 2007 - devices, nearly 10,000 people known to have experienced adverse reactions to drugs, and hospital-acquired infections … range of initiatives targeted at critical safety issues such as medication error and surgical site infection … The first topic we chose was health care infections, and our first campaign is "clean care is safer care

9966. In Conversation with...Sir Liam Donaldson, MD, MSc | PSNet
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      May 01, 2007 - The first topic we chose was health care infections, and our first campaign is "clean care is safer care … devices, nearly 10,000 people known to have experienced adverse reactions to drugs, and hospital-acquired infections … range of initiatives targeted at critical safety issues such as medication error and surgical site infection

9967. Using Health IT: Eight Quality Improvement Stories (pdf file)
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      September 01, 2010 - patients received life-saving treatment, or lowering the frequency of a common type of hospital-acquired infection … FEWER POST-ELECTIVE-SURGERY URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS OCCUR AFTER WORKFLOW REDESIGN TO USE ELECTRONIC … UTIs account for nearly a third of all hospital-acquired infections. … Although catheters are a common source of infection, they are often needed among hospitalized patients … However, the longer a catheter is in place, the greater the risk of infection.

9968. Electronic Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      December 01, 2017 - The criteria capture indicators of possible infection as well as delayed healing, as any sign of infection … includes descriptive details on the pressure ulcer, including: Dimensions, stage, and signs of infection

9969. Puh-Electronic-Reports (pdf file)
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      February 10, 2014 - The criteria capture indicators of possible infection as well as delayed healing, as any sign of infection … includes descriptive details on the pressure ulcer, including:  Dimensions, stage, and signs of infection

9970. CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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      April 01, 2022 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention Modules These modules offer simple steps ICU teams can take to ensure the evidence-based clinical changes that prevent CLABSI and CAUTI are sustained in your unit. The CLABSI prevention and CAUTI prevention modules provide information on how to disrupt the lifecycle of a catheter dev…

9971. S89 (pdf file)
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      October 01, 2007 - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Real-Time Vaccine Safety Surveillance for the Early Detection of Adverse Events Tracy A. Lieu, MD, MPH,*† Martin Kulldorff, PhD,* Robert L. Davis, MD, MPH,‡ Edwin M. Lewis, MPH,§ Eric Weintraub, MPH,‡ Katherine Yih, PhD, MPH,* Ruihua Yin, MS,* Jeffrey S. Brown, PhD,* and Richard Platt, MD, MSc,* for…

9972. Chartbook #12: Outpatient Prescription Drug Expenses, 1999
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      April 01, 2001 - Chartbook #12: Outpatient Prescription Drug Expenses, 1999   Skip to main content An official website of the Department of Health & Human Services More Back Search ahr…

9973. 2014-Women-Chartbook (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/2014-women-chartbook.pdf
      January 01, 2014 - Postoperative Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection  Importance: The urinary tract is a common … site of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and an indicator of hospital patient safety. … Adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter- associated urinary tract infection … Adult surgery patients age 18 and over with postoperative catheter- associated urinary tract infection … Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals.

9974. Smoking-Pregnancy-Infants Research-Protocol (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/smoking-pregnancy-infants_research-protocol.pdf
      March 11, 2013 - higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)21, 22 and other conditions including respiratory infections … Recent global estimates suggest that 165,000 children under age 5 die annually from lower respiratory infection … NICU admission • Asthma exacerbation • Asthma hospitalization • Otitis media • Upper respiratory infection … birth • Neonatal death • NICU admission • Asthma hospitalization • Upper respiratory tract infection … Maternal smoking in prenatal and early postnatal life and the risk of respiratory tract infections in

9975. Comparing Patient Safety in Rural Hospitals by Bed Count (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol1/Loux.pdf
      January 01, 2004 - significantly lower than those of large rural hospitals for three of the 19 PSIs (iatrogenic pneumothorax, infection … the potential for various patient safety- related errors in clinical care, including hospital-caused infections … large rural hospitals varied significantly for three of the 19 PSIs studied: iatrogenic pneumothorax, infection … pneumothorax 0.004% (176) 0.05% (176)† 0.01% (72) 0.06% (72) 0.01% (54) 0.07% (54) Infection

9976. Retrospective | Digital Healthcare Research
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      January 01, 2025 - Retrospective Impact of a clinical decision support system on CT pulmonary angiography yield and utilization in hospitalized patients. Citation Sharma A, Isabelle M, Hunsaker A, Dutta S, Lucier D, Rosovsky RP, Saini S, Landman A, Raja AS, Khorasani R, Lacson R. Impact of a cli…

9977. Arthritis and Nontraumatic Joint Disease (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/arthritis-horizon-scan-high-impact-1412.pdf
      December 01, 2014 - reported adverse events were arthralgia, back pain, nasopharyngitis, and upper respiratory tract infection … allopurinol in the CLEAR1 and CLEAR2 studies were back pain, nasopharyngitis, and upper respiratory tract infection … febuxostat during the CRYSTAL trial were arthralgia, nasopharyngitis, and upper respiratory tract infection

9978. Evidence Report on the (pdf file)
      effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/kidney-disease-medicine_research-protocol.pdf
      November 01, 2010 - with an increased risk of mortality,7,8 cardiovascular disease,9 fractures,10 bone density loss,11 infections … e.g., phlebotomy-associated bruising; possible discomfort, bleeding with need for transfusion, and infection … e.g., phlebotomy-associated bruising; possible discomfort, bleeding with need for transfusion, and infection … e.g., phlebotomy-associated bruising; possible discomfort, bleeding with need for transfusion, and infection

9979. Overview of Clinical Conditions With Frequent and Costly Hospital Readmissions by Payer, 2018 (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2018 - * This includes complications, such as infection, for surgical or medical care other than those from … Three genitourinary conditions at index admission—acute and unspecified renal failure, urinary tract infections … † This includes complications, such as infection, for surgical or medical care other than those from … * This includes complications, such as infection, for surgical or medical care other than those from

9980. Kidney-Stone-Prevention Executive (pdf file)
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      March 01, 2013 - consequences include abdominal and flank pain, nausea and vomiting, urinary tract obstruction, infection … relevant to kidney stones may have included pain, urinary tract obstruction with acute renal failure, infection … reduce risk of radiographic recurrent stones in patients with chronic urea-splitting urinary tract infections … Placebo or Control 3 RCTs (fair) in patients with chronic urea- splitting urinary tract infections … A randomized trial of acetohydroxamic acid for the treatment and prevention of infection- induced urinary