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241. Arm in Arm with AcademyHealth, AHRQ is Poised to Build on Successes in Health Services Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/arm-in-arm-with-academyhealth.html
     June 01, 2024 - For example: AHRQ’s research supported efforts to significantly reduce in-hospital adverse events in … In 2022, AHRQ released a primer to help healthcare organizations reduce their carbon footprint and protect … Actions to Mitigate Climate Change features a prioritized set of measures and potential interventions to reduce

242. Facilitator Guide: Build Your SSI Prevention Bundle (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/build-businesscase-facguide.docx
     January 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.

243. Final Progress Report: Safety Advancement in the Emergency Department (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/hall2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - STRUCTURED ABSTRACT Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a tool to reduce gaps in care … Scope: The project aimed to develop a checklist-based cognitive tool to reduce the risks of gaps in care … The intended goal was to implement and evaluate the tool to reduce the risks of information gaps in … the emergency department (Specific Aim 2); (c) Evaluate the ability of the status tracking tool to reduce … Specific Aim 3: The third aim involved evaluating the ability of the status tracking tool to reduce the

244. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking1.html
     September 01, 2022 - based on probability. 3 Thus, more accurate execution of probability-based diagnosis is needed to reduce … evidence-based methods for training on probabilistic thinking could improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce

245. Strategy 4: IDEA Discharge Planning (Tool 3) (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/engagingfamilies/strategy4/Strat4_Tool_3_Physician_HO_508.docx
     January 01, 2010 - outpatient providers3 Involving the patient and family in discharge planning can improve patient outcomes, reduce … indicator of this, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines in 2012 that reduce … To improve quality and reduce preventable readmissions, [insert hospital name] will use the Agency for

246. MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2025 - incorporate CUSP methodology with your current care team and use these methods to better prevent MRSA and reduce … Select to access CUSP materials for MRSA prevention and to reduce SSIs .    

247. Resources Related to Diagnostic Safety and Quality | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2025 - Improving Diagnosis: Patient Safety's Next Great Frontier (October 2016) New Coalition Broadens Efforts To Reduce … Diagnostic Errors  (September 2015) New Report Outlines Goals and Recommendations To Reduce Diagnostic

248. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/cauti-hospitals/toolkit-about.html
     March 01, 2018 - Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals The toolkit was developed as part of a national implementation project to reduce … Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI program, a 4-year initiative to reduce

249. 004-Cusp-Learning-From-Defects (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/004-cusp-learning-from-defects.docx
     October 01, 2024 - How will you reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again? 4. … , related to the institution’s policies, workflow, culture, and resources Slide 14 How Will You Reduce … Slide 15 Evaluating Contributing Factors: Cause-Frequency Grid SAY: When deciding how to reduce the … Slide 28 Case Example Using the Investigating a Defect Worksheet: How Can We Reduce the Chance This … · How will you reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again?

250. 023-Ss-Cusp-Learning-From-Defects-Fg (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/023-ss-cusp-learning-from-defects-fg.docx
     April 01, 2025 - How will you reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again? 4. … of the presentation will focus on the third of the four questions of the LFD process: “How Will You Reduce … Slide 15 Evaluating Contributing Factors: Cause-Frequency Grid SAY: When deciding how to reduce the … Slide 28 Case Example Using the Investigating a Defect Worksheet: How Can We Reduce the Chance This … · How will you reduce the likelihood of this defect happening again?

251. Appendix E. Training and Educational Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/hai/universal-icu-decolonization/universal-icu-ape.html
     September 01, 2013 - Decolonization, and it has been proven in research studies to protect ICU patients from infection and reduce … The REDUCE MRSA trial showed that universal decolonization is more effective than either screening and … In addition, by removing bacteria, decolonization has been shown to reduce 37 percent of clinical MRSA … A formal cost-effectiveness analysis is being conducted for the REDUCE MRSA trial. … We routinely use an antibiotic ointment in the nose to keep bacteria away to reduce the risk of infection

252. Nursing Intervention to Remove Non-necessary Urinary Catheters
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     January 01, 2013 - Hospital Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality Building a Team and a Process to Reduce … CAUTI Risk Learning Objectives Describe what is needed to build a team to reduce CAUTI risk Determine … the essential members State what is expected from them Explain the process to reduce CAUTI risk Know … Improve the culture of safety on your unit through the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Reduce … for facilitating the education of other nurses Develops and shares expertise in technical skills to reduce

253. Blood Culture Practices and Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - Blood Culture Stewardship aims to improve bacteremia detection, reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, … Discuss strategies to promote blood culture stewardship and reduce blood culture contamination.

254. Central Venous Catheter Removal
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/central-catheter-removal.pptx
     April 01, 2022 - Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … Review of strategies to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated … Implementation of a vascular access team to reduce central line usage and prevent central line-associated … A comprehensive vascular access service can reduce catheter-associated bloodstream infections and promote … Successful implementation of a unit-based quality nurse to reduce central line-associated bloodstream

255. UChicago Medicine Reduces Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism with AHRQ's Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - , including distribution to a system-wide weekly nursing newsletter, the message to prevent VTE and reduce … , including distribution to a system-wide weekly nursing newsletter, the message to prevent VTE and reduce

256. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - grant in 2022 to compare the use of targeted decolonization with routine post-discharge wound care to reduce … The Decrease SSI Trial (Decolonization to Reduce After-Surgery Events of Surgical Site Infection) project … Huang’s earlier AHRQ-funded work in the REDUCE-MRSA trial , which compared universal decolonization

257. Webinar 3: Review & Update Readmission Reduction Efforts: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/web3.html
     December 01, 2017 - On the left is a box captioned "Reduce Medicaid Readmissions"; two lines connect this box to two boxes … Are there opportunities to better serve the current target population and reduce readmissions even more … Baltimore Hospital Image: Flowchart shows the following steps taken by Baltimore Hospital: Reduce … Example 2: Chicago Hospital Image: Flowchart shows the following steps taken by Chicago Hospital: Reduce … Specify: what, for whom, by how much, when: Reduce readmissions for X population, by X%, by X date

258. Optimize Briefings and Debriefings: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/opt-briefings-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - Slide 13: Evidence Supports Briefings Reduce communication breakdowns and operating room delays … . 3 Reduce procedure and miscommunication-related disruptions and nursing time spent in core . 4 … Reduce missing equipment. Minimize team disruptions and reduce distractions. … Contribute to more than 70% of sentinel events. 5,6 Reduce hazards. … A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.

259. AHRQ Summit to Address Emergency Department Boarding (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/ed-boarding-summit-report.pdf
     March 01, 2025 - • Aligning payment and incentive policies could reduce boarding and would require minimizing any … • Diversion strategies that reduce the need for inpatient care among behavioral health patients may … help reduce ED boarding because patients with acute behavioral health needs may be more likely to be … In addition, programs designed to reconfigure EDs and their processes do not help reduce boarding. … This helped to decompress the ED and reduce boarding.

260. Rand, Cynthia | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - Develop and implement an health information technology (Health IT)-based intervention to reduce missed … opportunities, reduce intervals between doses, and increase completion of the HPV vaccination series