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421. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4w_combo_pdi11-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - Determine risk factors for postoperative wound dehiscence and identify pediatric patients at risk.2-5 Reduce … encourage elimination of tobacco products prior to surgery, where relevant.3,4 Recommended Practice: Reduce … Essential First Steps Recommended Practice: Assess for risk of wound dehiscence Recommended Practice: Reduce

422. 012-Blood-Culture-Practices-Webinar (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/012-blood-culture-practices-webinar.docx
     October 01, 2024 - associated with blood culture contamination; discuss strategies to promote blood culture stewardship and reduce … Culture Stewardship SAY: Blood culture stewardship is designed to optimize bacteremia detection and to reduce … particularly relevant to MRSA prevention because the main objective of blood culture stewardship is to reduce … There is very strong evidence that blood cultures drawn from venipuncture will reduce contamination in … The team continues to work to reduce contamination rates to the CLSI standard of 1%.

423. Making Effective Changes in Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/safety/changes.html
     November 01, 2019 - able to— Identify relevant factors that could improve antibiotic use  Identify interventions to reduce

424. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Reminder Systems for Immunizations and Preventive Services (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/health-promotion-education/cahps-strategy-6-r.pdf
     April 14, 2017 - Missed appointments contribute to discontinuity of care, reduce care opportunities for other patients … The higher levels of preventive services are likely to reduce morbidity and mortality from preventable … more patients come for their allotted appointments, the practice can increase its visit capacity and reduce … Systems to reduce no-shows employ some additional techniques, including:  Reducing perceived barriers … and recall systems are effective at improving immunization rates in adults and children.5 They also reduce

425. Strategies for Improving Patient Experience with Ambulatory Care: Reminder Systems for Immunizations and Preventive Services (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/access/cahps-strategy-6-r.pdf
     April 14, 2017 - Missed appointments contribute to discontinuity of care, reduce care opportunities for other patients … The higher levels of preventive services are likely to reduce morbidity and mortality from preventable … more patients come for their allotted appointments, the practice can increase its visit capacity and reduce … Systems to reduce no-shows employ some additional techniques, including:  Reducing perceived barriers … and recall systems are effective at improving immunization rates in adults and children.5 They also reduce

426. Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2010 - through an AHRQ-led task force, released Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce … The action plan is designed to: • Reduce MRSA infections through the use of novel interventions. … • Test methods to reduce hospitalization for treatment of community-acquired MRSA. … • Understand the role of nursing home transmission of MRSA and develop interventions to reduce … Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on all hospitals to reduce

427. Challenges to Real-Time Decision Support in Health Care (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Fitzgerald_108.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - decision support system for trauma patient resuscitation that is used to encourage consistency and reduce … environments and thereby lead to avoidable errors have been delineated by the airline industry.5, 6 To reduce … Studies have demonstrated that formal trauma patient algorithms encourage consistency, reduce error … Evidence-based clinical guidelines can reduce variability in practice and improve patient outcomes.8 … via visual and auditory displays in the resuscitation bay may enhance clinicians’ interactions and reduce

428. Central Venous Catheter Insertion Bundle Facilitator Notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/central-catheter-insertion-notes.docx
     April 01, 2022 - In addition, the use of bundles can help reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) by improving … This study demonstrates the importance of measuring and achieving bundle compliance to reduce CLABSIs … new physicians and nurses to help them understand their role in implementing the bundle elements to reduce … this case, the use of a central line checklist to improve compliance with the central line bundle and reduce … provide real time feedback and support changes that will promote proper CVC insertion practices and reduce

429. The Business Case for CUSP (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/business-case.html
     April 01, 2013 - Next slide, we look at if we reduce infections, we reduce length of stay. … So what you can do there is you can reduce your staffing level. … And so you take workload reduction – how much did you reduce? … You’re going to reduce the potential for case cancellations in the ORs. … Insurance companies love that, but you’re not going to reduce costs.

430. PowerPoint Presentation: Learn From Defects Through Sensemaking
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_learn_from_defects.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - How will you reduce the risk of it happening again? How will you know the risk is reduced? … How will you reduce the risk of it happening again? … How will you reduce the risk of it happening again? … 40 How Will You Reduce Risk of It Happening Again? Engagement is hard! … This continuous effort to reduce risk for patient harm improves your unit’s culture of safety.

431. TeamSTEPPS Additional Video: SBAR in Inpatient Medical Teams | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/resources/additional/sbar.html
     July 01, 2023 - Learn how this technique, one tool in the TeamSTEPPS training program, can improve communication, reduce

432. Final Progress Report: Proactive Risk Reduction in Medication Prescribing in the Ambulatory Setting (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/field2-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to reduce ADEs identified 38 studies including … interventions and calculated the potential reduction in this probability through system changes that reduce … Reduce office being too busy (probability reduced by 100%) b. … Interventions in primary care to reduce medication related adverse events and hospital admissions: systematic … Evidence on interventions to reduce medical errors: an overview and recommendations for future research

433. Appendix B. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/demo-program/grants/appb.html
     August 01, 2022 - Using a bundle approach to improve ventilator care processes and reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia … Integrated approach to reduce perinatal adverse events: Standardized processes, teamwork training, and

434. FAQs (Staff): Targeted Decolonization (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/faqs/faq-targeted-decolonization.docx
     March 01, 2022 - with medical devices, we routinely use special products in the nose to get rid of bacteria in order to reduce … Remember, decolonization has been proven to reduce bloodstream infections and MDROs including MRSA and

435. TeamSTEPPS Additional Video: Labor and Delivery: Successful Outcome Using TeamSTEPPS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/resources/additional/labor.html
     July 01, 2023 - TeamSTEPPS techniques used in labor and delivery units can help improve communication and collaboration and reduce

436. Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical Teams | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/resources/additional/check-back-team.html
     July 01, 2023 - TeamSTEPPS technique, part of an evidence-based approach to safer care, can improve communication and reduce

437. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2023 - Successful approaches to learn from diagnostic quality and develop strategies to reduce harm from diagnostic … and how patient feedback can enrich clinicians’ understanding of patient and family experience and reduce

438. The New York Model: Root Cause Analysis Driving Patient Safety Initiative to Ensure Correct Surgical and Invasive Procedures (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Faltz_56.pdf
     March 27, 2008 - In an effort to reduce these occurrences, a panel of experts was convened to update New York State’s … specificity of the New York State Surgical and Invasive Procedure Protocol (NYSSIPP) are expected to reduce … This paper provides a model for other agencies interested in establishing protocols to reduce these … mandatory reporting requirement was implemented in 1985 pursuant to State legislation designed to reduce … Can protocols substantially reduce (or eliminate) error?

439. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hcfd-rev.pdf
     November 01, 2023 - facilitiesi (e.g., units, rooms, equipment, logistics, and technologies) can improve patient outcomes, reduce … ■ Design details that can reduce the incidence of falls, infections, and operational inefficiencies … ■ An integrated engineering-based model developed to reduce infection rates in pediatric intensive … surgeons’ intentions to browse magnetic resonance images by examining their hand gestures, which may reduce … The paper also offers a proactive problem-solving approach to reduce STFs by patients in acute hospitals

440. AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Healthcare Safety by Enhancing Healthcare Facility Design (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/highlights/ps-project-highlights-hcfd.pdf
     November 01, 2023 - facilitiesi (e.g., units, rooms, equipment, logistics, and technologies) can improve patient outcomes, reduce … ■ Design details that can reduce the incidence of falls, infections, and operational inefficiencies … ■ An integrated engineering-based model developed to reduce infection rates in pediatric intensive … surgeons’ intentions to browse magnetic resonance images by examining their hand gestures, which may reduce … The paper also offers a proactive problem-solving approach to reduce STFs by patients in acute hospitals