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161. Sustainability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - Sustainability Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities This section … Guide Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term … Care ( PDF , 241.1 KB; Text Version ) The Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated

162. Learn from Defects Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - Describe how you will reduce the likelihood of this defect from happening again by completing the tables … If it was involved, did it negatively contribute (increase harm) or positively contribute (reduce impact …                               How will you reduce … Interventions To Reduce the Risk of the Defect Ability To Mitigate the Contributing Factor, … Specific Interventions To Reduce the Risk of the Defect Who Will Lead This Effort?

163. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - The  Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit  helps hospitals re-design their discharge processes to reduce … Precautions Toolkit, 2nd edition  and  companion implementation guide  help adult and pediatric practices reduce … Its chapter on Cultivating Cultural Competence  describes strategies available to help reduce linguistic … Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities for Priority Populations The systematic … literature review Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities for Priority Populations

164. APIC HAI Cost Calculator | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2022 - Utilize these tools to engage senior leaders or other staff in this work to reduce infections.

165. Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - infographic ( PDF , 3.6 MB) This tool provides a visual guide on evidence-based clinical interventions to reduce … standardized tool to apply evidence-based practices for the insertion of an indwelling urinary catheter to reduce … apply evidence-based practices for the maintenance of and care for an indwelling urinary catheter to reduce

166. Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care … AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce … information, tools, and resources, to support LTC facilities in sustaining practices implemented to reduce … Additional tools and resources to engage residents and families in the program to reduce CAUTIs and … to engage leadership, staff, and residents and families in communicating and sharing strategies to reduce

167. Re-engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - Re-engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality … Final Report: Re-Engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity … Progress Report: Re-engineering Postnatal Unit Care and the Transition Home to Reduce Perinatal Morbidity

168. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     November 11, 2019 - We describe two approaches that inform how best to identify inappropriate medicines and reduce ADEs. … polypharmacy, reduce harm, and improve health. … Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults 9-6 9.2 Patient Safety Practice: Deprescribing To Reduce … inappropriate medications and reduce ADEs.21 Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults 9- … STOPP criteria to reduce PIMS are two approaches to consider.

169. Safe Practices for Better Health Care (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2004 - morbidity, or reduce the likelihood of a serious reportable event. … Use of specialized hospital flooring to reduce injury from patient falls. 3. … Use of CPOE compared to verbal orders to reduce transcription errors. 8. … Use of simulator-based training to reduce errors. 11. … Use of perioperative oxygen supplementation to reduce infection rates.

170. Scientific Rationale (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - are included.1 Since then, major efforts have been made at the national, State, and local level to reduce … It led to national programs and targeted strategies to reduce device and procedure- related HAIs, such … CHG and similar compounds reduce bacteria on the skin to prevent infection. … Decolonization to reduce post-discharge infection risk among MRSA carriers. … Intervention to reduce transmission of resistant bacteria in intensive care.

171. Webinar 5: Reach Out to Collaborate with Partners Across Settings: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - investing effort to identify Medicaid-relevant providers and agencies is core to effective efforts to reduce … Describe a step-wise approach to creating "effective referral pathways" to reduce barriers to linking … On the left is a box captioned "Reduce Medicaid Readmissions"; two lines connect this box to two boxes … Together over the years, the coalition had developed a shared understanding of the opportunity to reduce … Develop "referral pathways" to reduce barriers (time, knowledge, frustration) to linking patients with

172. Final Progress Report: Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care Pediatrics (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2025 - study seeks to identify these errors across a broad range of pediatric ambulatory clinics and then reduce … METHODS Project RedDE (Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Pediatric Primary Care) aimed to reduce three … In a prospective, stepped-wedge fashion, after 8 months, (June 2016) each group began to work to reduce … them, and all but one Wave 2 group had an ‘intervention phase,’ when they actively worked to reduce … Figure 1 presents the process flow for practices working to reduce BP errors.

173. Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2013 - (Prepared by The REDUCE MRSA Trial Working Group, under contract HHSA290201000008i). … The REDUCE MRSA Trial The REDUCE MRSA Trial (Randomized Evaluation of Decolonization vs. … to reduce MRSA and other pathogens in adult ICUs. … Formal cost effectiveness analyses are being pursued for the REDUCE MRSA Trial. … Rationale for Decolonization: The REDUCE MRSA Trial • The results of the REDUCE MRSA Trial provide

174. AHRQ's Healthcare Extension Service: State-Based Solutions to Healthcare Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2025 - delivery through improvements in healthcare policy, payment systems, and clinical practice, and to reduce … The project’s overall goal is to significantly reduce the time span between evidence generation and its … efforts to improve healthcare policy, align payment incentives, and advance clinical practice, and to reduce

175. Opportunities and Challenges Ahead | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - Introduction Background Diagnostic Error in the Testing Process Diagnostic Stewardship Interventions To Reduce … misinterpretation of antinuclear antibody (ANA) testing. 95 While interventions have been developed to reduce … inappropriate use of ANA testing and followup testing, 96,97 it is less clear whether they ultimately reduce … campaign was due in part to the engagement of medical societies in cocreating practice recommendations to reduce

176. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2016 - elective surgery.5 Initiate various treatments during the perioperative and postoperative period to reduce … Recommended Practice: Initiate various treatments during the perioperative and postoperative period to reduce … breathing exercises and smoking cessation (if applicable) to prevent atelectasis o Lifestyle changes to reduce … These exercises have been shown to reduce the likelihood of postoperative respiratory failure. … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

177. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2016 - elective surgery.5 Initiate various treatments during the perioperative and postoperative period to reduce … Recommended Practice: Initiate various treatments during the perioperative and postoperative period to reduce … breathing exercises and smoking cessation (if applicable) to prevent atelectasis o Lifestyle changes to reduce … These exercises have been shown to reduce the likelihood of postoperative respiratory failure. … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

178. AHRQ's RED Toolkit Leads to Lower Readmissions, Better Care Transitions in Two Texas Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2014 - Two Texas hospitals have used AHRQ's Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) toolkit to help significantly reduce … their medicines and schedule follow-up appointments with their primary care physicians, hospitals can reduce

179. Appendix B. Decisionmaking and Readiness for Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2013 - The results of the REDUCE MRSA Trial provide strong evidence in support of universal decolonization to … reduce MRSA and other pathogens in adult ICUs. … The REDUCE MRSA Trial has the following high quality features: Randomized controlled trial. … The REDUCE MRSA Trial showed a 44 percent reduction in all-cause bloodstream infections when baseline … Formal cost effectiveness analyses are being pursued for the REDUCE MRSA Trial.

180. 148-Investigating-Defect-Lfd-Worksheet (doc file)
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     June 02, 2025 - Prevention Investigating A Defect Worksheet ICU & Non-ICUTop Contributing Factors Interventions To Reduce … Enter status Owner: ____________________________ Revision Date: _________________________ How Can We Reduce