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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/115-how-to-randomly-order-high-touch.docx
April 01, 2025 - How To Randomly Order Lists of Rooms (Preoperative, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, and Operating Room) and … A systematic way to pick rooms for fluorescent gel placement is important, to ensure every operating … Determining high touch areas in the operating room with levels of contamination.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/index-clinical-topics.html
April 01, 2025 - Removal
Normothermia
Skin Preparation Prior to Incision
Supplemental Oxygen
Glycemic Control
Operating … Operating Room Traffic This section discusses the importance of minimizing operating room traffic to
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/089-or-traffic-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA
Prevention: Targeting SSI
Operating Room Traffic
Surgical Services
For: … Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Operating … continue the review of Perioperative Infection Prevention Strategies (IPS), with a specific focus on operating … room (OR) traffic and the best practices to target surgical site infections (SSIs) in the operating … When operating room practices were surveyed, it was discovered that minimizing OR traffic was associated
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/prevention-phases.html
April 01, 2025 - Removal
Normothermia
Skin Preparation Prior to Incision
Supplemental Oxygen
Glycemic Control
Operating … Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Optimizing Environmental Cleaning Glycemic Control Hand Hygiene Normothermia Operating
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www.ahrq.gov/es/research/publications/pubcomguide/pcguide2apb.html
March 01, 2021 - Include operating systems and authoring systems. … Require software and operating systems to interoperate with assistive technologies, such as screen magnification
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/practices.html
April 01, 2020 - MB)
Opioid Stewardship
Medication-Assisted Treatment
Patient Identification Errors in the Operating … Room ( PDF , 1.2 MB)
Operating Room/Surgery-Specific Practices
Infusion Pumps ( PDF , 1.5
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/app-a.html
May 01, 2017 - anesthesia technicians, nurses, scrub technicians, gastroenterologists, and all others who work in the operating
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www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/medadvcare.html
July 01, 2018 - Date: ____________ Location: _______________________ Team member: __________________________
Operating
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/surgical-skinprep-audit.html
September 01, 2024 - complex process that requires the coordination and responsiveness of individuals and systems in the operating … clinicians designed this tool to assess the adequacy and variability of surgical skin preparation in its operating
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/scott-report.pdf
September 29, 2008 - We successfully
enrolled 41 teams in the real operating room assessments (pre and post tests), with … This study was designed to address patient safety issues in the OR by enrolling
teams of operating room … This bench training outside of the operating
room was considered the CRAWL PHASE. … The standard operating room activities were
monitored by direct observation by the study nurse and team … The new ACS/APDS skills curriculum: moving the learning
curve out of the operating room.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm6.html
October 01, 2014 - Designing and Implementing Medicaid Disease and Care Management Programs
Section 6: Operating a Care … Selecting Care Management Interventions
Section 5: Selecting a Care Management Program Model
Section 6: Operating … programs in the initial AHRQ Learning Network and additional literature, this section of the Guide, Operating … States can use a variety of implementation strategies for their care management programs, including operating … Ongoing Program Monitoring
An important component of operating a care management program for both State-run
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/065-ssi-prevention-periop-roadmap-checklist.docx
April 01, 2025 - gathers information from multiple care locations: from the home and pre-op clinic to preoperative area to operating … with other
· No hair removal
Contact Precautions (per hospital policy)
Yes No
SURGERY (in the operating … Yes No
Normothermia maintained (temp>36 F)
Yes No
Glycemic control (< 180 mg/dl)
Yes No
Operating
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/ssi-bundle-slides.html
October 01, 2020 - Operating room technicians.
Perioperative nurses.
Executive partner.
Nurse leaders. … Operating room directors.
Patient safety officers.
Chief quality officers. … Same form used in all operating room departments, such as–
Neurosurgery.
Orthopedics. … Image: Briefing tool: Original briefing form used in all Hopkins operating room departments. … Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays: a preliminary report.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Gururaja_7.pdf
January 24, 2008 - Examining the Effectiveness of Debriefing at the Point of Care in Simulation-Based Operating Room Team … Training
Examining the Effectiveness of Debriefing at the
Point of Care in Simulation-Based Operating … The mobile
mock operating room: bringing team training to the
point of care. … Bridging the
communication gap in the operating room with
medical team training. … Teamwork in
the operating theatre: Cohesion or confusion?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/anderson-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - , and reliable tools for measuring surgical skill in the
operating room (OR). … Intraoperative picture of a resident operating (left) and camera view during wire navigation (right). … We have established this aim with respect to a mock operating environment, in which real
fluoroscopy … Assessing wire navigation performance in the operating
room. J Surg Educ 2016;73(5):780–787. … Long, Biomedical Engineering, The University of Iowa.
2016 Objective Measures of Operating Room Wire
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapa3.html
April 01, 2018 - Infectious Risk Factors Related to Operating Rooms. Didier Pittet, Georges Ducel. … , or from organisms shed by the operating room team. … Risk factors related to operating rooms include patient-associated risks, the operating room environment … , ventilation systems, cleansing and sterilization and operating room personnel. … The causative pathogens may originate from the operating room environment, from shedding by the operating
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/briefing-debriefing.html
December 01, 2017 - Then, follow the checklist outlined in “Before Patient Leaves Operating Room.” … Introduction of team
Confirmation:
Correct patient
Site
Procedure
Opening temperature ______(in operating … BG less than __________ mg/dL (plan)
Beta blockade
Before Patient Leaves Operating
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/briefing_debriefing.docx
December 01, 2017 - Then, follow the checklist outlined in “Before Patient Leaves Operating Room.” … Introduction of team
· Confirmation
· Correct patient
· Site
· Procedure
· Opening temperature ______(in operating … (BG)________ mg/dL
· BG less than __________ mg/dL (plan)
· Beta blockade
Before Patient Leaves Operating
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/anderson-thomas-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - It developed ground-breaking analysis
techniques for assessing wire navigation performance in the operating … refinements of both the simulators and training protocols, to
evaluation of surgical skills in the operating … Key Words: Orthopedic trauma, surgical skills training, operating room performance evaluation
3. … Surgical skills are not objectively or systematically assessed in the operating
room. … Measures of hip fracture wire
navigation performance in the operating room reflect surgical experience
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_opt_briefings.pptx
December 01, 2017 - Reduce traffic in the operating theater. … Impact of pre-operative briefings on operating room delays: A preliminary report. … It has 10 operating rooms and averages about 800 cases a month. … Previously, each operating room had a glitch book. … The operating room nurses appreciated the debriefing.