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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/guide-surg-comp.html
December 01, 2017 - safety program team understand how appropriately you are using briefings and debriefings throughout the perioperative … safety program team understand how appropriately you are using prophylactic antibiotics throughout the perioperative … your safety program team understand how consistently your patients maintain euglycemia throughout the perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/guide-appcusp.pdf
December 01, 2017 - The authors of this guide do not work in your
perioperative area. … Step 5: Tools To Improve
Use tools to improve teamwork and communication in the perioperative area. … Your team can
reassess perioperative safety culture on an annual basis. … Schedule time with your senior executive to discuss perioperative unit-specific information. … The senior executive can help prioritize your perioperative unit’s safety concerns.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/index.html
December 01, 2017 - Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
The Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery helps perioperative and … Approximately 200 hospitals and more than 370 perioperative teams participated in the project.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/58-frontline-presentation-template.docx
June 01, 2023 - resuscitation
Resumption of oral intake and mobility
An opportunity exists to improve collaboration in the perioperative … patient-centered protocol for the management of patients undergoing [specify procedures] that spans the perioperative … topics such as:
Best practices for preventable harms
Patient and family education and engagement in perioperative … care
Standardized perioperative anesthesia and multimodal analgesia
Early activity after surgery
Optimal … perioperative nutrition and early resumption of oral intake
Slide 7
Partnership: We Are All Part
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/ssi-investigation.html
December 01, 2017 - To improve, perioperative teams need a structured approach to investigate infections at a systems level … Please Adapt This Tool
A team of clinicians designed this tool to assess practice variability in its perioperative … Only you know the approach that will work best in your perioperative area.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/antibiotic_audit.docx
December 01, 2017 - Antibiotic Audit Tool
Antibiotic Audit Tool
Introduction
Problem Statement
Perioperative antimicrobial … There are often many opportunities to improve the use of perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis. … safety program team understand how appropriately you are using prophylactic antibiotics throughout the perioperative … Only your team knows the approach that will work best in your perioperative area. … If the data reveal defects in perioperative antimicrobial prophylaxis, your safety program team can design
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/9-senior-executives.pptx
June 01, 2023 - the AHRQ Safety Program for
Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR)
Review the current state of perioperative … for the ISCR initiative
ISCR at [Hospital Name] 4
ISCR Goals
Goals
Improve patient outcomes
Make perioperative … processes more efficient
Make perioperative care more collaborative
ISCR at [Hospital Name] 5 … resuscitation
Resumption of oral intake
Mobility
An opportunity exists to improve collaboration in the perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/surgery.html
Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
This toolkit from the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery helps perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety-fac-guide.html
July 01, 2023 - This perioperative process should be the standard approach used for ALL cesarean sections and should … Knowing which member of the surgical team member is responsible for leading each step of the perioperative … Defining acceptable variations in the perioperative process for emergency cesarean sections. … The key safety element is to use a checklist to guide the safe surgery perioperative process. … Efficient use of safe surgery checklists to guide the perioperative process using a perioperative briefing
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/c1_combo_prioritizationworksheet.xlsx
July 01, 2016 - Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
PSI 08 Postoperative Hip Fracture
PSI 09 Perioperative … Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement
PSI 11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure
PSI 12 Perioperative … RACHS-1 Pediatric Heart Surgery Mortality Rate
PDI 07 RACHS-1 Pediatric Heart Surgery Volume
PDI 08 Perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/challenge-competition.html
February 01, 2024 - of Chicago Medicine
UChicago Medicine reduced venous thromboembolism (VTE) incidence by 30% in the perioperative … Their experience using this tool is summarized in "UChicago Medicine Reduces Perioperative VTE With AHRQ
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-j.pdf
September 01, 2015 - ■Acute urinary retention or obstruction
■Perioperative use in selected surgeries
■Assistance in healing … urinary output
in critically ill patients (in intensive care)
■Acute urinary retention
or obstruction
■Perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/labor-delivery-unit/ldusafety_facguide.docx
May 01, 2017 - The key safety elements focus on the use of a standard perioperative process that includes—
Preoperative … briefing
Timeout
Signout
Studies have found that the use of a standardized perioperative process with … these three components reduces surgical mortality and complications.5,6 This perioperative process should … The key safety element is to use a checklist to guide the safe surgery perioperative process. … Studies have found that checklist tools can facilitate the three components of a safe perioperative process
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/about.html
December 01, 2017 - Approximately 200 hospitals and more than 370 perioperative teams participated in the project. … Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded a 3-year project to develop and implement resources that help hospital perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/healthcare-associated-infections-hais.html
May 12, 2015 - Iowa’s Waverly Health Center Uses AHRQ Tools to Improve Patient Safety
Learn From Defects Tool—Perioperative
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4f_pdi08-postophemorrhage-bestpractices.pdf
May 16, 2016 - Quality and Safety
1 Tool D.4f
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PDI 08: Perioperative … Hemorrhage or Hematoma
Why focus on perioperative hemorrhage and hematoma in children? … Best Processes/Systems of Care
Introduction: Essential First Steps
• Engage key preoperative/perioperative … bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/112/4/708.long
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PDI 08: Perioperative … Hemorrhage or Hematoma
Why focus on perioperative hemorrhage and hematoma in children?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4t_combo_pdi08-postophemorrhage-bestpractices.pdf
May 16, 2016 - Quality and Safety
1 Tool D.4t
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PDI 08: Perioperative … Hemorrhage or Hematoma
Why focus on perioperative hemorrhage and hematoma in children? … Best Processes/Systems of Care
Introduction: Essential First Steps
• Engage key preoperative/perioperative … bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/112/4/708.long
Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement
PDI 08: Perioperative … Hemorrhage or Hematoma
Why focus on perioperative hemorrhage and hematoma in children?
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/10-frontline-provider.pptx
June 01, 2023 - resuscitation
Resumption of oral intake and mobility
An opportunity exists to improve collaboration in the perioperative … collaborative approach
Best practices for preventable harms
Patient and family education and engagement in perioperative … care
Standardized perioperative anesthesia and multimodal analgesia
Early activity after surgery
Optimal … perioperative nutrition and early resumption of oral intake
ISCR at [Hospital Name] 7
Partnership:
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/science-of-safety-fac-notes.html
December 01, 2017 - Identify defects within your operating room by administering the Perioperative Safety Staff Assessment … Slide 21: PSSA Taps Wisdom of Frontline Providers
Say:
The Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment … Say:
The Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment asks providers to complete four questions about the … We know it can be difficult to reach the staff members who work in the perioperative area. … The Perioperative Staff Safety Assessment helps teams identify defects that the team can address, and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/glucose_control_factsheet.docx
December 01, 2017 - Surgical Site Infections
A 2017 guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends perioperative … for glucose control (e.g., less than 200 mg/dL on postoperative days 1 and 2).3
· Intraoperative and perioperative … equivocal.18, 19 A recent Cochrane review found that there was insufficient evidence to support strict perioperative … The Impact of Glycemic Control and Diabetes Mellitus on Perioperative Outcomes After Total Joint Arthroplasty