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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/cellulitis-one-page.docx
November 01, 2019 - DiagnosisCellulitis
· Relatively sudden onset of redness, warmth, tenderness, and swelling of the skin
· Nonpurulent: no evidence of abscess/phlegmon; most cases caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci (usually group A strep but also B, C, or G) that are sucepti…
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/standard-protocol-iodophor.docx
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol for Iodophor
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are m…
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/standard-protocol-iodophor.pdf
March 01, 2022 - Standardized Nursing Protocol: Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
Decolonization of
Non-ICU Patients With Devices
Section 9-4 – Standardized Nursing Protocol:
Use of Nasal Iodophor (10% Povidone-Iodine)
The following is a standing order protocol for implementing nasal decolonization in adult non-
i…
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/data/npsd-chartbook-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - providers’ use of risk management data systems that do not include the same data
elements and the expense required … the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is required
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/implementing-stewardship-slides.pptx
September 01, 2022 - Improving Antibiotic Use is a Patient Safety Issue
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use
Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice
Ambulatory Care
AHRQ Pub. No. 17(22)-0030
September 2022
Implementing Stewardship
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care
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Objecti…
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/npsd/npsd-patient-safety-culture-brief.pdf
September 01, 2016 - PSOs inform their members
about the importance of having the infrastructure and
staffing that is required
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/framework.html
April 01, 2013 - it on the mannequin, but now -- and, again, most of the problems were with the aides -- is that we required … We even added a few things that are also now required by the Joint Commission to evaluate that we are
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/training-tools/training-tools-facnotes.docx
May 01, 2017 - of all of the organizational structures and systems (not just the primary unit doing the adopting) required … Knowledge Required To Use It
Skills are easy to acquire and able to be transferred to other projects. … Several critical success factors are required to sustain the interventions learned and continued gains
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/shadowing.doc
August 08, 2012 - Shadowing Another Professional Tool
Problem Statement: Health care delivery is a multidisciplinary practice that requires coordination of care among different professions and provider types. However, health care providers often do not understand other disciplines’ daily responsibilities, teamwork, and communication iss…
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/data/apcd/confrpt.html
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-prevention/toolkit/measure-fall-rates.html
January 01, 2013 - Major—resulted in surgery, casting, traction, required consultation for neurological (basilar skull fracture
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/sustainability/management/huddles/huddles-component-kit.docx
May 01, 2017 - Module 2: Component Kit
AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery
Management Practices for Sustainability
Module 2: Daily Huddles
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Ambulatory
Daily Huddle Component Kit
Contents
1. Why a Daily Huddle? 2
2. “Know What, Know How, Know Why” for Daily Huddle 4
3. Plan-Do-Study-Act “Ramp”: …
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dx-safety-workgroup-meeting-notes-mar2023.pdf
July 14, 2023 - Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
Federal Interagency Workgroup:
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare
March Meeting Summary
Workgroup Goal: Established in response to Senate Report 115-150. The Senate Committee on
Appropriations requested “AHRQ t…
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June 16, 2017 - Modifying interventions as appropriate.
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Sustainment
“Holding the gains and evolving as required