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181. Build a Business Case for Quality Improvement: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU. … Reduce complications. Get patients off the ventilator. … Slide 10: AHRQ Safety Program Goals To reduce risk of patient harms associated with mechanical … ventilation: Reduce VAEs, including VAP. … Reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay (LOS), and mortality.

182. 091-Decolonization-Implementation-Fg (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - The primary goal of decolonization for surgical patients is to reduce the amount of bacteria from the … Together, nasal decolonization and skin antisepsis have been shown to significantly reduce the risk of … The surgical team will explain how these decolonization steps help reduce the risk of SSIs. … These practices will reduce the bacterial load in the nasal passages and the skin. … Slide 16 Neuro Spine Surgery Case Example—2 SAY: To reduce the likelihood of this continuing, the

183. Digital Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2024 - Help Clinical Teams Prioritize and Manage Vulnerable Patients S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce … functionality that sends electronic prescription cancellations from the EHR to pharmacies, to help reduce … A Turn-Key EHR Simulation Program to Reduce Diagnostic Error in Ambulatory Care (R18) PIs: Jeffery A … and validate the use of the simulation activities as a training tool to change EHR use patterns and reduce … In addition, they will provide opportunities for peer learning to reduce interpretive errors and convene

184. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 20, 2016 - elective surgery.3 Initiate various treatments during the perioperative and postoperative period to reduce … Recommended Practice: Initiate Various Treatments During Perioperative and Postoperative Period 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 … Recommended Practice: Initiate Various Treatments During Perioperative and Postoperative Period To Reduce

185. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2014 - Medicaid Readmissions AHRQ commissioned this guide to identify ways evidence-based strategies to reduce … Publication Date: August 2014 Publication Number: 14-0054-EF Toolkit To Reduce … CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and other HAIs in … Long-Term Care Facilities helps long-term care facilities reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection

186. Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Now nursing homes have another tool to help them prevent infections, reduce transfers, and keep our older … However, proactively removing these potentially harmful bacteria can reduce the chance that a person … The REDUCE MRSA Trial found that decolonizing all intensive care unit (ICU) patients with chlorhexidine

187. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2015 - Control in ESRD (NOTICE), a 2-year project to develop and implement resources to help dialysis facilities reduce … The project had the following goals: Reduce vascular access infections Identify and enhance best … project to provide an ongoing resource for dialysis centers to use to create sustainable changes that can reduce

188. Reducing Disparities in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - prevention-for-all.org/ Center Location Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Center Focus Reduce

189. Upper Respiratory Tract Infection: The Common Cold (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - ≥ 6 years of age:2-5 ‒ Analgesics (acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs): help reduce … congestion ‒ Antihistamine/decongestant and antihistamine/decongestant/analgesic combinations: may reduce … congestion; combinations with analgesics may also reduce fever and pain ‒ Nasal decongestants: may … reduce rhinorrhea ‒ Honey: may soothe sore throat ‒ Beta-agonists: if airflow obstruction is present

190. 48-Prep-Colorectal-Facilitator (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - provide you with an overview of the use of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation to help reduce … Ron Nichols showed that mechanical bowel prep did not reduce the quantity of bacteria found on the mucosa … that mechanical bowel prep when administered with only intravenous prophylactic antibiotics does not reduce … Slide 6 Current ISCR Recommendation and Guidelines To reduce surgical site infections in patients … The first is a randomized controlled trial titled, Is Mechanical Bowel Preparation Necessary to Reduce

191. Learndefects (doc file)
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     June 02, 2025 - 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 the likelihood of this defect happening again? … Interventions To Reduce the Risk of the Defect Ability To Mitigate the Contributing Factor, 1 (Low to … Specific Interventions To Reduce the Risk of the Defect Who Will Lead This Effort?

192. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 9. Reducing Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2020 - chapter summarizes articles published from 2008 to 2018 that describe strategies that effectively reduce … We describe two approaches that inform how best to identify inappropriate medicines and reduce ADEs. … polypharmacy, reduce harm, and improve health. … inappropriate medications and reduce ADEs.21 Making Healthcare Safer III: A Critical Analysis … STOPP criteria to reduce PIMS are two approaches to consider.

193. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - patients and their families, and provide assessment and training tools to support local efforts to reduce … Care Pediatrics Toolkit aims to assist primary care practice teams with a systematic approach to reduce … Web: ahrq.gov/patient-safety/ settings/ambulatory/ reduce-readmissions.html The Re-Engineered … http://ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/reduce-readmissions.html http://ahrq.gov/patient-safety … /settings/ambulatory/reduce-readmissions.html https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red

194. Central Venous Catheter Maintenance
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     April 01, 2022 - Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI CVC Maintenance ׀ 9 CHG Bathing8-12 Consider incorporating CHG bathing to reduce … central line entries as much as possible Schedule medications to reduce the number of entries into the … Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … Chlorhexidine-based decolonization to reduce healthcare-associated infections and multidrug-resistant

195. AHRQ's Quality & Patient Safety Programs by Setting: Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2025 - Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition can help primary care practices reduce the … funded by AHRQ, includes resources for implementing a DOAC checklist for ambulatory care pharmacists to reduce … Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Potentially Preventable Readmissions addresses the role of primary

196. Transforming Hospitals: Designing for Safety and Quality (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2020 - Single-bed rooms and improved air filtration systems can reduce the transmission of hospital-acquired … to medication errors.13 3 Patient rooms that can be adapted for the acuity of a patient can also reduce … Acuity-adaptable rooms reduce the need to transfer patients around the hospital and lessen the burden … could be greatly reduced by lessening the physical demands of nursing.22,23 One example of how to reduce … Reducing stressful noise; improving light sources for surgical staff; and designing patient beds to reduce

197. 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.

198. Resources by Safety Topic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - patients and their families, and provide assessment and training tools to support local efforts to reduce … AHRQ Toolkit to Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities Based on the Comprehensive Unit-based … improvement, and sustainability to guide facilities through implementing an improvement project to reduce … Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions This resource provides evidence-based strategies to reduce … AHRQ Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Potentially Preventable Readmissions This resource supports

199. Clinical Inertia and Outpatient Medical Errors (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - its incidence across populations of patients and physicians; and (3) to propose future research to reduce … it may be a productive strategy to reduce passive errors that contribute to hundreds of thousands … Promising approaches to reduce clinical inertia Despite the need for effective strategies to reduce … A variety of practical approaches to reduce clinical inertia are possible. … A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80%.

200. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
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     October 01, 2024 - 19 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU The Evidence Behind Decolonization 19 REDUCE … Comparison of strategies to reduce meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rates in surgical patients … Decolonization to reduce postdischarge infection risk among MRSA carriers. … Effectiveness of chlorhexidine bathing to reduce catheter-associated bloodstream infections in medical … Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination?