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www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/patients-risk-of-falls.html
September 01, 2015 - New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls
For older adults, falls are serious, no matter the setting. These falls can cause bone fractures, disability, and even death. Among people 75 and older, falls are far more likely to cause admissions into a long term care facility than for adults 10…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-11b-environmental-cleaning.html
May 01, 2022 - Module 11B—Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 11B—Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
This module describes the role that environmental surfaces play in pathogen transmission an…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-11c-water-management-program.html
May 01, 2022 - Module 11C—Water Management Program—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 11C—Water Management Program—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
This module discusses the importance of a water management program in the prevention of the transmission of waterborne pa…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-15-infection-prevention.html
April 01, 2022 - Module 15—Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship Considerations During Care Transitions—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 15—Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship Considerations During Care Transitions—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course …
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-14-antibiotic-stewardship.html
April 01, 2022 - Module 14—Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 14—Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
This module discusses the importance of antibiotic stewardship and identifies strategies to …
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/cms-targeted-training.html
May 01, 2022 - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Targeted COVID-19 Training for Frontline Nursing Home Staff and Management
Resource: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Targeted COVID-19 Training for Frontline Nursing Home Staff and Management
These self-paced, scenario based modules are intended to provide ad…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-7-hand-hygiene.html
April 01, 2022 - Module 7—Hand Hygiene—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 7—Hand Hygiene—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
This module describes how hand hygiene prevents the spread of pathogens, including those that are resistant to antibiotics, and reduces the risk of i…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/module-12a-preventing-respiratory-infection.html
May 01, 2022 - Module 12A—Preventing Respiratory Infection—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
Resource: Module 12A—Preventing Respiratory Infection—Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
This module discusses strategies to diagnose, prevent, and control serious lower respiratory tract infec…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/learning-modules/vaccination-testing.html
December 01, 2022 - Vaccination and Testing series
This series of two learning modules focuses on considerations for when to test residents for COVID-19 and how the COVID-19 vaccine can protect nursing home staff and residents. The modules are about 5 minutes long.
Module 1: When to Test
It is important to know the signs and s…
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www.ahrq.gov/npsd/data/dashboard/perinatal.html
September 01, 2025 - Perinatal Dashboard
Learn more about how the dashboards are set up . This dashboard presents the distribution of incidents by the final mode of delivery. Selecting one of the options in the top table below will display a related figure and table. This information can also be downloaded as an Excel file from t…
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/plan/distribute-and-promote.html
May 01, 2019 - How Will You Distribute and Promote a Health Care Quality Report?
While you are in the early stages of the reporting process, it is important to plan how you will reach your audience. Pertinent decisions include:
Will your report be available in print, on the Web, or both?
How will you let people know i…
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/learning-modules/post-vaccination.html
December 01, 2022 - Post-Vaccination Practices Series
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
Module 1: Minimizing Infection Risk: Protect
The safety precautions that you take are just as important as the one-on-one care that you give to your…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/stories.html
July 01, 2023 - Success Stories of Five Labor and Delivery Units Using the Toolkit
Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety
"AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care: Experiences From the Frontline" describes the implementation experiences of five labor and delivery (L&D) units that successfully implemented the program.
This r…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Singh_69.pdf
April 04, 2008 - A Visual Computer Interface Concept for Making Error Reporting Useful at the Point of Care
A Visual Computer Interface Concept for Making
Error Reporting Useful at the Point of Care
Ranjit Singh, MA, MB, BChir (Cantab.), MBA; Wilson Pace, MD; Ashok Singh, MA, MB,
BChir (Cantab); Chester Fox, MD; Gurdev Singh, MSc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/003-clabsi-prevention-webinar-fg.docx
October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
ICU & Non-ICU
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
SAY:
Welcome to this presentation on the Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstrea…
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/3-are-you-ready/index.html
February 01, 2020 - Section 3: Are You Ready To Improve?
July 2015
Contents
3.A. Cultivating and Supporting QI Leaders
3.B. Organizing for Quality Improvement
3.C. Training Staff in QI Concepts and Techniques
3.D. Paying Attention to Customer Service
3.E. Recognizing and Rewarding Success
References
Download Se…
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/patients-families/consumer-exp/reporting/chapter3.html
August 01, 2022 - Some thought accountability meant making changes based on what was learned from consumer reports, through
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqr02/asthqwork.doc
April 01, 2006 - Disseminate lessons learned and best practices beyond the quality improvement team to spread improvements
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/impguide1.pdf
September 08, 2015 - • Use what you learned from your environmental scan (see Task 1.4) to help
determine which stakeholders … strategies for facilitating better engagement, methods for
building the necessary structure, and lessons learned … These parents and youth have reported back to others in the
groups and have used what they have learned
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn/learn-facilitator-guide.docx
May 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Perinatal Care
Learn About the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program for Perinatal Safety
Learn About the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program for Perinatal Safety
SAY:
This module introduces the comprehensive unit-based safety program, also called CUSP, that we will use as the foundation …