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April 01, 2022 - Team Engagement
To make sustainable quality improvements, you need to recruit an enthusiastic team and keep members engaged by providing the relevant data, inviting team feedback, and creating necessary incentives. Accomplishing this will take time and frequent evaluation. Although the nuances of your approach …
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April 01, 2022 - Team Functioning
From your first team convening where you set your unit's goals for preventing infections, to celebrating and spreading successful strategies with other units, team functioning is essential to creating and sustaining a culture of safety. Common challenges addressed by these tools are how to stru…
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April 01, 2022 - Overcoming Mindsets
It can be difficult to address your staff’s underlying attitudes and beliefs about infection prevention practices. Many teams struggle to believe that reducing the number of infections to zero is possible or to find the passion to keep this work going. With time, effort, and shared understan…
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February 01, 2025 - Playbook for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in the ICU Setting
The playbook helps your intensive care unit (ICU) understand how to integrate the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and the tiered interventions introduced in the central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associat…
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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…
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April 01, 2022 - CUSP Onboarding Modules
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) modules highlight effective strategies to implement a quality improvement project including engaging the team and obtaining leadership buy-in, identifying gaps, creating an action plan, monitoring progress, and identifying defects. These…
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February 01, 2025 - CLABSI and CAUTI Learning Tools
This step identifies two types of tools that can be revisited any time a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) or catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) occurs on your unit. They both support a thorough review of the event to identify and address the…
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April 01, 2022 - APIC HAI Cost Calculator
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) Calculator Tools help define the costs associated with HAI, knowing that this can be a complex process with many points to consider. The APIC HAI Calculator Tools were …
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April 01, 2022 - Assessing Progress on CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention
For successful implementation, teams need to assess their progress on CLABSI and CAUTI prevention; you might be just starting this work, or doing a check-in after some time of implementation. Assessing the team’s work helps identify strengths and opportunities f…
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April 01, 2022 - Implementing CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention
The implementation guide will help your team be supported with resources to move through a program that enhances previous CUSP resources to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in the hospit…
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April 01, 2022 - Overcome Common Challenges
This section helps teams discover actionable strategies to overcome four common challenges in making changes to patient safety culture. Tools are shown in various formats and located on several pages of the toolkit to flexibly support users in addressing their question. Making It Work…
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November 01, 2017 - Quality Diagnostic Tools for States
The Quality Diagnostic Tools for States program consists of events and technical assistance opportunities that disseminate and encourage the use of Quality Improvement tools from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), created to support State policymakers with…
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July 01, 2016 - Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide
The Asthma Care Quality Improvement Workbook and Resource Guide help State leaders assess the quality of their State's asthma care and create quality improvement strategies.
What Do These Tools Do?
These tools help State leaders assess, design, and…