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81. Toolkit Sections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections.html
    May 01, 2017 - Implementation Implementation Guide : It may be helpful to review this guide before starting a project to reduce … and guide your ambulatory surgery center team in implementing a program to improve safety culture and reduce

82. Tool Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/guide/tools.html
    October 01, 2016 - readmissions and a step-by-step process for designing a locally relevant portfolio of strategies to reduce … data review, hospital and community inventory, aim, target population, and data-informed strategy to reduce … Champion of efforts to reduce frequent utilization.

83. Upcoming Webinars: Hospitals Interested in Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/clabsi-webinars.html
    February 01, 2025 - seeking acute care hospitals to join a free 9-month program beginning in July to implement strategies to reduce

84. AHRQ Report Identifies Strategies To Reduce Emergency Department Boarding | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/951.html
    March 01, 2025 - AHRQ Report Identifies Strategies To Reduce Emergency Department Boarding Issue Number 951 … Today's Headlines: AHRQ Report Identifies Strategies To Reduce Emergency Department Boarding . … AHRQ Report Identifies Strategies To Reduce Emergency Department Boarding A new AHRQ report (PDF, 1.2 … pharmaceutical cost threshold, Medicare covers the cost of a comprehensive management program proven to reduce

85. A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Kline_32.pdf
    March 03, 2008 - A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce Falls in a Major Cancer Center A Model of Care Delivery to Reduce … demonstration project was initiated and consisted of implementing a new model of care delivery to reduce … an improvement in identifying patients at risk for falls, but this alone was not going to help reduce … Program content included the design and implementation of a new model of care delivery to reduce

86. Efficacy of Portable Air Cleaners and Masking for Reducing Indoor Exposure to Simulated Exhaled SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols—United States, 2021 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/portable-air-cleaners.html
    May 01, 2022 - 2021 ​This report discusses the use of portable high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) cleaners to reduce

87. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - help staff in intensive care units use Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) principles to reduce … To address this problem, AHRQ funded a 3-year project to help staff in ICUs use CUSP principles to reduce

88. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/about-toolkit.html
    May 01, 2017 - About the Toolkit Development Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities … participated in the AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: HAIs/CAUTI, a 3-year implementation project to reduce … Services National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections. 1 To help other nursing homes reduce

89. Cholesterol Management Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/evidence/cholesterol.html
    March 01, 2021 - Substantial evidence shows that taking a statin medication each day to manage blood cholesterol can reduce … Heart Association (AHA) developed an evidence-based guideline on treating high blood cholesterol to reduce … event risk of 7.5 percent or greater. 2013 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce … guideline, published in Circulation in 2011, outlines how to treat high blood cholesterol in adults to reduce

90. Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation … Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact … their vaccinations; discussing concerns about vaccinations if they have any; and using strategies to reduce … ENCOURAGING FAMILY PARTICIPATION Family members can help prevent and reduce social isolation. … search.html http://www.ahrq.gov/ Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce

91. New Study Shows Reduced Antibiotic Use at Long-term Care Facilities Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - are practical, evidence-based steps long-term care facilities can take to improve antibiotic use and reduce … address this by promoting the appropriate use of antibiotic medications to improve patient outcomes, reduce … As part of efforts to reduce threats posed by antibiotic-resistant organisms, the Centers for Medicare … Significantly reduce orders for urine cultures, which are often ordered without clear indications and … “These results suggest that long-term care facilities can successfully reduce inappropriate antibiotic

92. Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2025 - This practice has been shown to reduce the amount of germs on the body and reduce infections overall, … This toolkit’s decolonization materials are adapted from the REDUCE MRSA Enhanced Protocol and Toolkit … Universal ICU Decolonization: An Enhanced Protocol   This protocol was developed based on the REDUCE … Universal decolonization was found to reduce all-cause bloodstream infections by more than 40 percent … to two routine infection prevention practices, universal decolonization was found to reduce all-cause

93. Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/caregiver-nicu-long-desc.html
    April 01, 2022 - Caregiver Innovations to Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care Principal Investigator:  Eric … Implementing a robust process improvement program in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce harm … Progress Report:  Caregiver Innovations To Reduce Harm in Neonatal Intensive Care. … Implementing a robust process improvement program in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce harm

94. Reduce Unnecessary Urine Culturing and Overuse of Antibiotics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/reduce.html
    March 01, 2017 - Reduce Unnecessary Urine Culturing and Overuse of Antibiotics Know When To Order Urine Cultures … these frequently asked questions are intended to support facilities in the implementation of efforts to reduce

95. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/nclabsi7.html
    January 01, 2013 - bloodstream infection (NCLABSI) project progressed towards the achievement of its primary objective: to reduce … These State teams worked together to reduce neonatal infections in their State, and have developed State

96. Executive Summary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - Department of Health and Human Services' National Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections … focuses on the need to dramatically reduce these infections. … MHA Keystone originally applied this change package to dramatically reduce CLABSIs in Michigan, and the

97. Why Checklists for Diagnosis Are Not Performing as Expected | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxchecklists-5.html
    September 01, 2020 - because the face validity of checklist use is high and several experts have promoted checklist use to reduce … For example, the first step in the well-known checklist to reduce central-line infections is “Wash your

98. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/a4_pdi_casestudy.pdf
    December 01, 2015 - Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs … and Safety Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce … Lurie Children’s Hospital used the Pediatric QI Toolkit to reduce central line- associated bloodstream

99. Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/standalone_pdi_casestudy.pdf
    December 01, 2015 - Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs … Children’s Hospital Uses AHRQ’s Pediatric QI Toolkit To Bring Physicians Together To Reduce CLABSIs … used the tools from the Pediatric QI Toolkit – which are all included in the QI Toolkit as well - to reduce

100. Engage the Senior Executive | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - Engage the Senior Executive  To Reduce HAIs [6 min, 25 sec.]