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201. AHRQ Announces Historic Funding Opportunities to Establish State-based Solutions to Accelerate Health Care Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2024 - into health care delivery through improvements in health care policy, payment, and practice, and to reduce … aims to use data, PCOR clinical evidence, and stakeholder input to align payment and other incentives, reduce … The three components of AHRQ’s Healthcare Extension Service should significantly reduce the time from

202. Index of Clinical Topics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2025 - Nasal Decolonization Decolonization is the reduction of bacteria on the patient’s body to reduce the … Use of Preoperative Chlorhexidine Antisepsis In surgery, skin antisepsis is an important practice to reduce … Bathing with CHG prior to surgery is a key strategy to reduce MRSA and SSIs and protect the surgical

203. Learn From Defects - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 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?

204. Learn From Defects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 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?

205. 047-Evidence-Behind-Decolonization-Strategies-Notes (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Slide 18 Huang et al., 2013: REDUCE MRSA Trial SAY: The REDUCE MRSA Trial, by Huang et al., running … Conducted in HCA Healthcare hospitals, REDUCE MRSA was a pragmatic, 3-armed cluster-randomized trial … Slide 20 REDUCE MRSA Results: MRSA BSI SAY: Similarly, for MRSA bloodstream infection, there was … Slide 22 REDUCE MRSA Results: Cost Savings of Universal ICU Decolonization SAY: The REDUCE MRSA Trial … This raises the question: could clearing S. aureus from the nose reduce infection risk?

206. PowerPoint Presentation
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     September 03, 2014 - hygiene is critical Explain practices that all staff members can follow during site access in order to reduce … risk Identify key points to share with staff on proper techniques and protocols List three ways to reduce … Model consists of the six interventions shown in studies to drastically reduce and prevent VAIs. … — Reduce and Remove Catheters Reduce and remove hemodialysis catheters to increase usage of the … model and its interventions to reduce vascular access infections in your dialysis center.

207. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - In doing so, you will effectively reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and other … Interventions to improve patient outcomes and reduce complications focus on the importance of getting … Slide 12: AHRQ Safety Program Goals Say: The two main safety program goals are: (1) reduce the … By getting patients off of the ventilator faster, you will reduce the risk of patient harms associated … Combining all six of these interventions can effectively reduce ventilator associated events, reduce

208. Learn From Defects in Care of Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - How will you reduce the risk of it happening again? How will you know the risk was reduced? … Slide 24: How Will You Reduce Risk Reoccurring? … Slide 25: How Will You Reduce Risk of Reoccurrence? … Slide 26: How Will You Reduce Risk of Reoccurrence? … Slide 27: How Will You Reduce Risk of Reoccurrence? Remember that engagement is hard!

209. Presentation: Program Overview
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     January 01, 2017 - Hierarchy First-Order Problem Solving Second-Order Problem Solving Recovers for one patient, but does not reduce … How will you reduce the risk of it happening again? … How Will You Reduce Risk Reoccurring? … Learn From Defects ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients 23 How Will You Reduce … Learn From Defects ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients 24 How Will You Reduce

210. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2024 - This program aims to adapt AHRQ's proven CUSP framework to develop and implement interventions to reduce … So other providers can reduce MRSA infection, tools and resources used and lessons learned by participants

211. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Managing Urinary Retention and Catheterization in Intensive Care Unit Patients With Primary Neurologic Disorders (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - to help intensive care unit (ICU) team leaders implement effective strategies and achieve goals to reduce … Recommendation: If we could reduce catheter utilization and engage the neurosurgeons in the process, … Conclusion Many strategies are available to reduce catheter utilization and CAUTI rates for ICU patients … Multistate programme to reduce catheter-associated infections in intensive care units with elevated … A multi-faceted program to reduce the rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

212. Build a Business Case for Quality Improvement: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Evidence-based care practices improve patient outcomes and reduce complications by getting patients off … First, we must reduce the risk of patient harms associated with mechanical ventilation. … By getting patients off of the ventilator faster, you will reduce the risk of patient harms associated … In addition, you will reduce the number of ventilator-associated events and the duration of mechanical … Your financial leaders will ask you how you can reduce your ICU LOS.

213. 129-Ss-Blank-Lfd (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - Describe how you will reduce the likelihood of this defect from happening again by completing the tables … If involved, did it negatively contribute (increase harm) or positively contribute (reduce impact of … 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 To address these factors, the following actions

214. Learning-From-Antibiotic-Adverse (doc file)
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     June 01, 2021 - This approach will reduce the likelihood that another patient will be harmed in the same way. … (What could you do to reduce risk?) Step 4. … (What could you do to reduce risk?)

215. Preventing CAUTI: Engaging Clinicians and Senior Leadership to Implement Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - CAUTI Reduce antibiotic use Reduce potential of increased resistance and Clostridium difficile … salaried physicians with incentives based on hospital-based quality and efficiency Urologists Reduce … placement is common in the ED Promoting appropriate placement of urinary catheters in the ED will reduce … Slide 44 Image: Screen shot of a table depicting the two-tier protocol implemented to reduce Catheter … through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce

216. Final progress Report: Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/kerfoot-conlin-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Purpose: To investigate whether an email-based intervention termed ‘Spaced Education’ (SE) could reduce … In our randomized trial, we investigated whether spaced education could be utilized to durably reduce … be identical in focus to the original set, except for minor alterations to the clinical contexts to reduce … patient anxiety, reduce patients’ loss of work, reduce the number of inappropriate referrals to the … urology service, reduce the rate of unnecessary prostate biopsies, and result in a substantial cost

217. Toolkit Overview (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - performance improvement committees that wish to initiate targeted decolonization as a strategy to reduce … suited for hospitals that have already successfully implemented universal decolonization in ICUs to reduce … as antiseptic soap for bathing and the application of mupirocin antibiotic ointment to the nares to reduce … strategy to improve care, lower infection rates for adult non-ICU patients with medical devices, and reduce

218. Defects (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module2/defects.docx
     March 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? Has it happened again?

219. Defects (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/defects.docx
     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? Has it happened again?

220. Reducing Unnecessary Urinary Catheter Use in the Emergency Department
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/reducing-unnecessary-urinary-catheter-use-ed.pptx
     June 02, 2025 - through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce