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101. Designing and Testing Novel Solutions To Make Labor and Delivery Safer for Moms and Newborns | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-halamek.html
     August 01, 2023 - Halamek, M.D., a neonatologist who works in a Level IV (most critically ill) neonatal intensive care … has worked to advance perinatal care, with a focus on events in labor and delivery and the neonatal intensive … grant was to find out whether use of his previously developed newborn resuscitation simulation-based medical

102. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4d_combo_psi07-crbsi-bestpractices.pdf
     May 20, 2016 - and preventing CLABSIs.1 • The prevalence of CLABSIs have been estimated to be around 80,000 in intensive … assessed.2 • Recent data reveal that central venous catheters are increasingly used outside the intensive … key nurses, physicians and other providers, hospitalists, and pharmacists from infection control, intensive …  Obtain informed consent from patient to insert the central line and put the consent in the medical … care unit, other medical units, ancillary departments, etc).

103. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Emergency Department | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/emergency-dept/index.html
     November 01, 2023 - Toolkit is a guide to train rural emergency department (ED) clinicians on how to integrate remote intensive … The toolkit could be used to integrate remote staff into any healthcare setting and applied to other medical

104. Appendix I. Catheter Care Pocket Card | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-i.html
     October 01, 2015 - Intensive Care Unit Infographic Poster Appendix M. … CAUTI Data Trends Interventions To Prevent CAUTI in Patients Who Have a Documented Medical

105. Program Overview: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/overview-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. … Quarter 3/2012: Implementation of SSI investigation tool; bowel prep kits; Electronic medical report … Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. … Intensive care unit safety culture and outcomes: a US multicenter study. … While it may be helpful to those interested in the results, it does not help the central figure in the medical

106. Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/clabsi.html
     November 01, 2024 - communication strategies and training exercises to help staff feel more comfortable speaking up in actual medical … and CAUTI in ICUs offers clinical and cultural guidance aimed at reducing CLABSI and CAUTI rates in intensive … More than 1,000 intensive care units across the country have used the tools in this toolkit, along with

107. Introduction and Welcome (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - prevention programs with instructions for implementing targeted decolonization in adult patients with medical … devices in hospital units outside of intensive care (i.e., non-ICUs). … and a 32 percent reduction in all- cause bloodstream infections among non-ICU patients with specific medical … rationale to help hospital leadership understand the evidence for targeted decolonization of adults with medical … routine bathing to prevent multi drug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infection in general medical

108. New Jersey Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Reduce Urinary Tract Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201701.html
     March 01, 2017 - Urinary Tract Infections Search All Impact Case Studies March 2017 Meadowlands Hospital Medical … Fifty nurses from Meadowland’s intensive care and medical/surgical units participated in a mandatory

109. 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 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2009 - NCQA data sources are administrative and medical records. … The data sources are administrative and medical records. … Pediatric catheter-associated blood stream infection rates (intensive care and high risk nursery patients … Children at risk are patients in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), neonatal intensive care units … (NICUs), and other intensive care units (ICUs).

110. Chapter-3 - Sepsis Recognition (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/sepsis-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - J Intensive Care Medicine. 2018;44(6):925-8. doi: 10.1007/s00134-018-5085-0. 3. … J Intensive Care Med. 2018;44(6):925-8. doi: 10.1007/s00134-018-5085-0. 3. … Two medical- surgical intensive care units; 32 total unit beds No adverse events were reported … medical ICU). … Tertiary academic medical center with 885 beds and over 180 adult intensive care unit (ICU) beds

111. AHRQ’s RED Toolkit Inspires Improved Patient Discharge at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201501.html
     March 01, 2015 - a positive impact, and it is ensuring interdisciplinary interaction with all the departments, from medical … RED was initially rolled out in the intermediate care and medical surgical units and then expanded to … the surgical, intensive care, and pediatric units. … also provides discharged patients in need with certain medicines and transportation to two follow-up medical

112. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
     December 01, 2015 - Lee Budin (medical director for the hospital’s Center for Excellence, the hospital’s group that works … Lead staff for improvement project Sangeeta Schroeder, M.D., hospitalist Lee Budin, M.D., medical … Schroeder, two CLABSI physician task force leads (the stem cell transplant director and the medical … director of the intensive care unit), and a patient safety analyst. … working members included representatives from hematology, oncology, stem cell transplant, pediatric intensive

113. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Decision Support Training: Primary Care
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     January 10, 2017 - decision after diagnosis is to determine the appropriate site of care.” c Outpatient Hospitalization on a medical … support resources.” i Strong recommendation Level II evidence “For patients with CURB-65 scores ≥2, more intensive … treatment —i.e., hospitalization or, where appropriate and available, intensive in-home health care … Demonstration CAP CDS alert for the primary care setting using CRB-65 Demonstration of the CAP CDS Alert Medical

114. Urinary Tract Infections
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     November 01, 2019 - . ©2017 Massachusetts Medical Society. … Reprinted with permission from Massachusetts Medical Society. … Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in the intensive care unit: can the adequacy of empirical beta-lactam … review of the definitions, determinants, and clinical outcomes of antimicrobial de-escalation in the intensive … Effect of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment on clinical outcomes in intensive care unit patients

115. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4g_combo_psi10-postopmetaderangement-bestpractices.pdf
     May 20, 2016 - Careful management of blood glucose and fluids after surgery, especially in patients who have underlying medical … reduced bloodstream infections, acute renal failure, blood transfusions, mechanical ventilation, and intensive … Glucose Monitoring Requirements • Ensure that all diabetic patients have diabetes documented in the medical … Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med 2001 Nov 8;345(19):1359-67. 3. … Executive summary: standards of medical care in diabetes position statement.

116. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-huang.html
     December 01, 2023 - Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Professor, Infectious Diseases, School of … Medicine University of California, Irvine Medical Center "Understanding how to prevent infections … grantee Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical … trial , which compared universal decolonization to standard infection prevention practices in hospital intensive … Principal Investigator: Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H., Institution: University of California, Irvine Medical

117. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4h_combo_psi11-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
     May 20, 2016 - providers, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, dieticians, and pharmacists from infection control, intensive … other staff involved in postoperative respiratory failure prevention and care (emergency department, intensive … feedback to all stakeholders (physicians and other providers, nursing, and ancillary staff; senior medical

118. 159-Which-Type-Decolonization-Work-Best (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - . · is recommended for use in intensive care units (ICUs). … · is sometimes appropriate for use in non-ICU units, such as stepdown units, medical, surgical, or

119. The Future of Pediatric Diagnostic Safety Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-pediatric-safety-5.html
     August 01, 2023 - clinical settings where pediatric care is provided (ambulatory care, EDs, general inpatient wards, intensive … Likewise, subspecialty-specific pediatric professional societies and medical journals should ensure that … American Board of Medical Specialties. Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). … Diagnostic reasoning curricula must be incorporated not only into medical school education but also into … Pediatric-specific graduate medical training programs must include didactic and practical education on

120. Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/cauti-hospitals/index.html
     March 01, 2018 - toolkit also contains additional information specific to certain audiences: emergency departments, intensive … care units, and resident physicians and graduate medical training programs.