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21. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/topics/catheter-associated-urinary-tract-infection-cauti.html
    January 01, 2013 - experiences of frontline providers and researchers who participated in a national implementation project to reduce … Toolkit to Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities This toolkit helps long-term care … facilities reduce CAUTI and improve practices to prevent HAIs. … improvement, and sustainability to guide a facility through implementing an improvement project to reduce

22. Reduce Cardiovascular Risk and Disease: Alabama Fax Campaign (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/evidencenow/tools-and-materials/119-alabama-alcc-fax-campaign.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Reduce Cardiovascular Risk and Disease: Alabama Fax Campaign Reduce Overall, Alabama has the highest

23. Improving Care Delivery Through Lean: Implementation Case Studies | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2014 - Type of Interviewee Aims of Lean (in order of most frequent mention) Senior leaders Reduce … Department leaders Reduce waste and increase efficiency. Staff engagement. … Providers (physicians and mid-level, non-department leaders) Reduce waste and increase efficiency … Nurses and other frontline staff Reduce waste and increase efficiency. … Analysts Reduce waste and increase efficiency. Return to Document

24. Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Resources Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities This section … Guides Implementation: Guide to Implementing a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract … This guide provides LTC facility teams with strategies to implement a quality improvement program to reduce … Sustainability: Guide to Sustaining a Program To Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections … Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance Reduce

25. Appendix C. Universal Decolonization in Adult ICUs Overview Statement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2013 - Safety and Adverse Events Overview Statement on Strategy to Reduce MRSA Burden and Bloodstream … Universal decolonization is the routine use of special soaps and nose ointments to reduce bacteria on … Rationale for Decolonization: The REDUCE MRSA Trial The results of the REDUCE MRSA Trial provide … strong evidence in support of universal decolonization to reduce MRSA and other pathogens in adult ICUs

26. The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Fried.pdf
    January 01, 2003 - The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors 165 The Use of Surgical Simulators to Reduce Errors … Simulation has the potential to improve patient safety and reduce surgical errors by screening would-be … training on the ES3 will improve the endoscopic sinus surgery performance of otolaryngology residents and reduce

27. Appendix C. Universal Decolonization in Adult ICUs Overview Statement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-apc.html
    September 01, 2013 - Safety and Adverse Events Overview Statement on Strategy to Reduce MRSA Burden and Bloodstream … Universal decolonization is the routine use of special soaps and nose ointments to reduce bacteria on … Rationale for Decolonization: The REDUCE MRSA Trial The results of the REDUCE MRSA Trial provide … strong evidence in support of universal decolonization to reduce MRSA and other pathogens in adult ICUs

28. Best Practices To Help Nursing Home Residents and Their Families To Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/best-practices-social-isolation.html
    August 01, 2022 - Best Practices To Help Nursing Home Residents and Their Families To Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation … Resource: Best Practices To Help Nursing Home Residents and Their Families To Reduce the Impact

29. Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Potentially Preventable Readmissions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/reduce-readmissions.html
    December 01, 2023 - Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Potentially Preventable Readmissions High rates of readmissions … Environmental Scan of Primary Care-Based Efforts To Reduce Readmissions  reviews the evidence-based literature

30. Exhibit 4.5. Organizational Goals of Lean | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2014 - (in order of most frequently mentioned) Senior leaders Improve organizational culture Reduce … waste Department leaders Reduce waste Improve organizational culture Improve quality … of care Improve patient safety Physicians, nurses, and other frontline staff Reduce

31. Pressure Ulcers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention This toolkit helps nursing homes with electronic medical records reduce … Research AHRQ Research Findings Support Effort to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in Virginia The results of

32. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/toolkit-sections.html
    March 01, 2017 - Toolkit Sections Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The toolkit … Your facility can use the materials in each section in improvement efforts to reduce catheter-associated … provides a step-by-step process to design, develop, and implement a quality improvement program to reduce

33. Exhibit 3.6. Organizational Goals of Lean | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-exhibit3-6.html
    November 01, 2014 - Type of Interviewee Aims of Lean (in order of most frequent mention) Senior leaders Reduce … Reduce costs. … Providers (physicians and mid-level, non-department leaders) Reduce waste. … Nurses and other frontline staff Goals focused on project level outcomes only (e.g., reduce costs … Systems & Procedures staff Reduce waste. Develop staff’s improvement  skills.

34. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - was developed as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce … ) funded a 3-year project to develop and implement resources that help hospital perioperative areas reduce … The project aimed to— Reduce surgical site infections, and Improve safety culture using AHRQ’s … safety, quality improvement, and evidence-based surgical care processes that other facilities can use to reduce

35. ChristianaCare Used AHRQ Resources to Reduce Blood Infections, Expedite Stroke Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2020 - ChristianaCare Used AHRQ Resources to Reduce Blood Infections, Expedite Stroke Care Search All Impact … 2020 ChristianaCare used AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to significantly reduce … from medical directors to clinicians to others, such as the cleaning staff—that focused on ways to reduce … "We were able to reduce infections systematically because our team members became more conscious about

36. New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-involvement/patients-risk-of-falls.html
    September 01, 2015 - New Tools Help Health Providers Reduce Patients' Risk of Falls For older adults, falls are serious … Reduce patient risk and learn about falls through these useful resources: Falls Among Older Adults

37. Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/transdisciplinary-learning-long-desc.html
    June 01, 2020 - Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste Long Description … ’ families, and others to eliminate preventable harm, optimize patient outcomes and experience, and reduce … via system interoperability. 2-4 The Smart Agent system dynamically controls insulin infusions to reduce … Final Report: Transdisciplinary Learning Lab To Eliminate Patient Harm and Reduce Waste.

38. Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship program with the potential to reduce … Interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use included guidelines for controlling Clostridium difficile

39. Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Case Studies Opinion Leaders: Effect on Healthcare Practice and Evidence Use Using Data to Reduce

40. AHRQ's RED Toolkit Helps Lower Readmissions in Dignity Health Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2015 - the San Francisco-based Dignity Health system using AHRQ's Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit to reduce … this population drop to 7.7 percent as of July 2014 from 22.2 percent in November 2013, helping to reduce … Mary’s Medical Center also introduced RED with heart failure patients, which helped the facility reduce … reconcile their medicines and schedule follow-up appointments with their physicians, hospitals can reduce … the high-risk patients—those who need extra resources before discharging them to the community—and reduce