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201. Transforming Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/transform.html
     December 01, 2017 - facilities that enhance patient safety, improve the quality of care, increase workforce satisfaction, and reduce … staff. 6 Return to Contents   Patient Safety Evidence-based design elements can help hospitals 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

202. Chapter 5. Information and Training for Staff, Primary Care Providers, and Residents and their Families | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man5.html
     December 01, 2017 - The goals of Inservice #2, " How to Reduce Falls ," are to explain specific strategies to reduce fall … Handout for inservice #2, How to Reduce Falls , a copy for each participant. Refreshments. … Handout, Ways Families Can Help Reduce Fall Risk . … Staff Strategies to Reduce Fall Risk Slide 12b. … Staff Strategies to Reduce Fall Risk (continued) Slide 13. How You Can Help Slide 14.

203. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/guides/resphys-champions.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Avoiding inappropriate use of the UC will reduce the risk. … How do we reduce the risk of a similar event happening? … The use of proper insertion technique and maintenance can reduce the risk. … Compliance with proper insertion technique is important to reduce the risk. 5. … How To Reduce Unnecessary Urine Cultures? We suggest doing the following: 1.

204. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Avoiding inappropriate use of the UC will reduce the risk. … How do we reduce the risk of a similar event happening? … The use of proper insertion technique and maintenance can reduce the risk. … Compliance with proper insertion technique is important to reduce the risk. 5. … How To Reduce Unnecessary Urine Cultures? We suggest doing the following: 1.

205. Resident Physicians as Champions in Preventing Device-Associated Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/resphys-champions_2.pdf
     September 01, 2015 - Avoiding inappropriate use of the UC will reduce the risk. … How do we reduce the risk of a similar event happening? … The use of proper insertion technique and maintenance can reduce the risk. … Compliance with proper insertion technique is important to reduce the risk. 5. … How To Reduce Unnecessary Urine Cultures? We suggest doing the following: 1.

206. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/pqmp/implementation-qi/toolkit/asthma/overview.html
     July 01, 2021 - ED, acute care, access to specialist, and community, many of which must be considered in trying to reduce … to develop and implement quality measurement and improvement strategies in primary care settings to reduce … collaboratives to improve adherence to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) guidelines and reduce

207. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Chlorhexidine Bathing and Perineal Cleaning (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/chlorhexidine-bathing.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - to help intensive care unit (ICU) team leaders implement effective strategies and achieve goals to reduce … ICU teams have an opportunity to significantly reduce patients’ chances of developing a CLABSI or CAUTI … CHG bathing is recommended in the ICUs to reduce CLABSI, but there were concerns regarding the safety … A sample script could be: Situation: Our ICU has worked diligently to reduce our CLABSI rates, but … Many of the staff said they were told to use CHG for bathing patients now to reduce infection but were

208. Long-term Care Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2021 - Toolkits, recommendations, and other resources for long-term care facilities to improve quality, reduce … Content Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care Topic: Long-Term Care Toolkit To Reduce

209. Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/cauti-hospitals/index.html
     March 01, 2018 - of the frontline providers and researchers who participated in a national implementation project to reduce … the Toolkit Development The toolkit was developed as part of a national implementation project to reduce

210. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - the core CUSP toolkit by providing specific tools focused on the surgical setting to help hospitals reduce … was developed as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce … The toolkit was refined during the project and is made available for other facilities to use to reduce

211. 111-Cusp-Learning-From-Defects-Worksheet (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-surgery/111-cusp-learning-from-defects-worksheet.docx
     April 01, 2025 - How Can We Reduce the Chance This Will Happen Again? … Top Contributing Factors Interventions To Reduce Risk Who Will Do It and By When Status Enter contributing

212. 111-Ss-Cusp-Lfd-Worksheet-A3 (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/111-ss-cusp-lfd-worksheet-a3.docx
     April 01, 2025 - How Can We Reduce the Chance This Will Happen Again? … Top Contributing Factors Interventions To Reduce Risk Who Will Do It and By When Status Enter contributing

213. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce … in ICUs This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help hospital intensive care units (ICUs) reduce … apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce

214. Ohio Veterans’ Facility Relied on AHRQ Resource to Develop Diabetes Initiative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - To reduce the risk of hypoglycemia in these patients, Dr. … providers, particularly clinical pharmacy specialists, to discuss reducing or changing their medication to reduce … But it really is the patient’s choice whether to reduce their medication.

215. AHRQ Tools Help Wisconsin Hospitals Post Big Quality, Safety Gains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201527.html
     September 01, 2015 - Discharge (RED) and Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) were "extensively" relied on to reduce … To reduce CLABSI rates, WHA began working with hospitals in 2009 to introduce CUSP, an evidence-based … Along with CUSP, AHRQ's RED Toolkit has helped many hospitals in Wisconsin reduce 30-day readmissions … Meanwhile, AHRQ's Preventing Falls in Hospitals Toolkit helped 38 Wisconsin hospitals reduce falls

216. 7.  Appendix C: Additional Tables by Topic Area | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/appendix-c.html
     May 01, 2024 - Help Clinical Teams Prioritize and Manage Vulnerable Patients S2: Using EHR-Based Simulations to Reduce … Implementing Personalized Cross-Sector Transitional Care Management to  Promote Care Continuity, Reduce … Low Value Utilization, and Reduce the Burden  of Treatment for High-Need, High-Cost Patients (R01) PI … The PROMIS Lab is intended to develop and test strategies to reduce medication-related harms in older … A Turn-Key EHR Simulation Program to Reduce Diagnostic Error in Ambulatory  Care (R18) PIs: Jeffery

217. Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/learn-from-defects-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - How will you reduce the risk of the defect happening again? … Slide 35: How Will You Reduce Risk of It Happening Again? … Slide 36: How Will You Reduce Risk of It Happening Again? … Slide 37: How Will You Reduce Risk of It Happening Again? … Slide 40: How Will You Reduce Risk of It Happening Again?

218. Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Breast Cancer Screening and Enhance Workflow | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2023 - The new AHRQ-funded project explores the deployment of AI to reduce unnecessary patient callbacks and … While breast cancer screening has helped reduce U.S. patient deaths by nearly 40 percent since 1990, … “Ultimately,” he said, “the hope is that AI, if implemented carefully, can reduce patient anxiety, unnecessary … Hsu, “Patients won’t have to come back at a later date, which will reduce the waiting period and improve

219. Learn From Defects - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/defects.html
     May 01, 2017 - What can we do to reduce the risk of it happening again? … Did the interventions reduce the likelihood of recurrence of the defect?

220. Identify Defects Through Sensemaking | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/identify/index.html
     July 01, 2018 - you identify recurring negative events in your system and apply CUSP and Sensemaking tools to help reduce … What Will You Do to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence? (40 sec.)