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1. Exhibit 7. Algorithm to identify deep and organ-space surgical site infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2018 - culture and postoperative antibiotics, and the maximum postoperative leukocyte count is not less than … postoperative neutrophil percentage is not less than 67.3 Absence of a postoperative culture and … one of the following criteria: Postoperative antibiotics given and any postoperative leukocyte … count test drawn Postoperative antibiotics not given, but the patient had a postoperative admission … a postoperative culture and postoperative antibiotics were given and the maximum postoperative leukocyte

2. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 17, 2016 - Respiratory Failure Why focus on postoperative respiratory failure in children? … • Even though there is debate regarding the definition of true postoperative respiratory failure, it … Why focus on postoperative respiratory failure? [PowerPoint]. … Postoperative pulmonary complications: an update on risk assessment and reduction. … Respiratory Failure Why focus on postoperative respiratory failure in children?

3. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 17, 2016 - Wound Dehiscence Why focus on postoperative wound dehiscence in children? … • Like adults, children can experience wound dehiscence as a postoperative complication; children under … • Postoperative wound dehiscence occurs in about 8 per 10,000 pediatric surgical discharges.1 • The … reported mortality rate for children with postoperative wound dehiscence is between 8 percent and … Be mindful that smoking poses an increased risk of postoperative wound dehiscence.

4. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 20, 2016 - Wound Dehiscence Why Focus on Postoperative Wound Dehiscence? … • Not only does postoperative wound dehiscence cause patient harm, it also significantly increases … • Educate patient about risk factors of noncompliance with postoperative instructions. … Postoperative Care. … Wound Dehiscence Why Focus on Postoperative Wound Dehiscence?

5. Exhibits 44 to 46 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2018 - hemoglobin 0.272209 0.822076 0.42317 Preop hemoglobin -0.0374 -0.0374 0.79751 Postop = postoperative … hemoglobin 0.310595 1.163695 0.24698 Preop hemoglobin -0.04081 -0.31694 0.75426 Postop = postoperative … hemoglobin 0.304609 1.439065 0.16263 Preop hemoglobin -0.07631 -0.6829 0.51247 Postop = postoperative

6. Exhibits 35 to 37 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2018 - rheumatism 1.80024 1.428812 0.15310 Wound class 0.812588 1.409284 0.15876 Postop = postoperative … rheumatism 0.632211 0.536855 0.59137 Wound class 0.407113 0.76837 0.44228 Postop = postoperative … of rheumatism 1.226935 1.51136 0.13070 Wound class 0.490776 1.44229 0.14923 Postop = postoperative

7. Exhibits 38 to 40 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2018 - hemoglobin 0.013404 0.231 0.82005 Surgery duration 0.007371 2.714224 0.00665 Postop = postoperative … hemoglobin 0.019021 0.361141 0.44228 Surgery duration 0.002467 1.890769 0.05866 Postop = postoperative … hemoglobin 0.014634 0.464605 0.64256 Surgery duration 0.003186 2.997669 0.00272 Postop = postoperative

8. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
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   July 01, 2016 - 06 Iatrogenic Pneumothorax PSI 07 Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections PSI 08 Postoperative … Hip Fracture   PSI 09 Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma   PSI 10 Postoperative Physiologic and … Metabolic Derangement PSI 11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure   PSI 12 Perioperative Pulmonary … Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis   PSI 13 Postoperative Sepsis PSI 14 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence … Respiratory Failure Rate PDI 10 Postoperative Sepsis Rate PDI 11 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence

9. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 20, 2016 - Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement Why Focus on Postoperative Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement … Manage Prevention Strategies for Postoperative Patients Avoid risk factors for acute renal failure … in postoperative patients. … strategies to prevent acute renal failure into the care of postoperative patients7-10: o Identify … Prevention of postoperative acute renal failure. J Postgrad Med 2002;48(1):64- 70. 8.

10. Exhibits 29 to 31 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … CABG = coronary artery bypass grafting; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative

11. Chapter 5. Project Expansion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Not only were history of MRSA infection and a postoperative admission within 30 days significant in all … As before, postoperative admission was indicative for admission due to a postoperative wound. … In this case, only postoperative admission within 30 days and BMI was significant in all three tests. … Only postoperative admission within 30 days was significant in all three tests. … Postop hematocrit along with postoperative admission within 30 days was significant in all three tests

12. Exhibits 41 to 43 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - hematocrit -0.03908 -1.20797 0.22750 MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … hematocrit -0.07291 -1.99583 0.04627 MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … hematocrit -0.05078 -2.00126 0.04697 MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative

13. Exhibits 32 to 34 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - 2.02865 0.04249 BMI = body mass index; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … 1.3105 0.19003 BMI = body mass index; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative … 2.36402 0.01809 BMI = body mass index; MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ; Postop = postoperative

14. Appendix A Tables from Matar (2010) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Joint Infection Following Total Joint Arthroplasty * Risk Factors Barbari et al. 3    Postoperative … Comorbidities (increased Charlson index)    Lack of use of antibiotic impregnated cement    Postoperative … Preoperative, Intraoperative, and Postoperative Strategies Used to Decrease the Rate of Periprosthetic … Personalized protection suit Surgical environment    Operating room traffic    Airflow Postoperative … further divided into an early period (prior to the day of surgery) and the day of surgery, whereas the postoperative

15. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
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    June 05, 2016 - Hip Fracture Rate • PSI 09 Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma Rate • PSI 10 Postoperative Physiologic … and Metabolic Derangement Rate • PSI 11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure Rate • PSI 12 Perioperative … Pulmonary Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis Rate • PSI 13 Postoperative Sepsis Rate • PSI 14 Postoperative … Pediatric Heart Surgery Mortality Rate • PDI 08 Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma Rate • PDI 09 Postoperative … Respiratory Failure Rate • PDI 10 Postoperative Sepsis Rate • PDI 11 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence

16. Chapter 3. Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - In many cases, postoperative admission was indicative for admission due to a postoperative wound. … For the derivation dataset, three factors (postoperative admission within 30 days, postoperative hematocrit … , and postoperative hemoglobin) remained significant in the model, and only postoperative admission remained … For the derivation dataset, only two (postoperative admission within 30 days and postoperative hematocrit … Again, only postoperative admission within 30 days was significant in all three tests.

17. Exhibit 12. Data for Algorithm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - integer [0,1] 0 if routine surveillance found no infection; 1 for + organ space SSI postopabx postoperative … 1 if any antibiotics given between postop day 3 and 30, but not day -1 to -7; else 0 postopcx postoperative … integer [0,1] 1 if any microbiology culture sent between postop day 3 and 30; else 0 postopadmit postoperative

18. C1 Prioritization Matrix (xls file)
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    July 01, 2016 - 9 Perioperative Hemorrhage or Hematoma   3.0 3.5 1 $59,727 $ 59,727 N 4 3 2 Y Y Y Y Y PSI 10 Postoperative … Physiologic and Metabolic Derangement 0.9 1.5 4 $120,629 $ 482,516 N 3 3 2 Y Y Y Y Y PSI 11 Postoperative … Sepsis 12.7 11.7 15 $49,215 $ 738,225 N 9 7 3 Y Y Y Y Y PSI 14 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence … Respiratory Failure Rate 0.0 11.0 0 $140,507 $ - 0 N 7 7 7 Y Y Y Y Y PDI 10 Postoperative Sepsis … Rate 0.0 16.2 0 $117,815 $ - 0 N 9 10 10 Y Y Y Y Y PDI 11 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence Rate

19. Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Hip Fracture PDF [126.7 KB] PSI09 Postoperative Hemorrhage PDF [76.1 KB] PSI10 Postoperative Derangement … PDF [86 KB] PSI11 Postoperative Respiratory Failure PDF [55.55 KB] PSI12 Perioperative Pulmonary Embolism … or DVT PDF [136.84 KB] PSI13 Postoperative Sepsis PDF [78.65 KB] PSI14 Postoperative Wound Dehiscence … KB] PDI06 Pediatric Heart Surgery PDF [74.18 KB] PDI08 Perioperative Hemorrhage PDF [81 KB] PDI09 Postoperative … Respiratory Failure PDF [270.5 KB] PDI10 Postoperative Sepsis PDF [286.81 KB] PDI11 Postoperative

20. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients. Emerg Infect Dis. … Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients. Emerg Infect Dis. … Part one: C-reactive protein and leukocyte count as an aid in diagnosing postoperative infection]. … The value of C-reactive protein for postoperative monitoring of lower limb arthroplasty. … Use of antibiotic exposure to detect postoperative infections. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol.