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421. The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/cusp-mrsa-prevention.html
     April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) for MRSA Prevention Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI MRSA and SSI Prevention Phases The Evidence f…

422. The Science of Safety:​ Principles in Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/surgery/science-of-safety.html
     April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI The Science of Safety:​ Principles in Practice Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents MRSA Prevention Toolkit: Targeting SSI The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI MRSA and SSI Prevention Phases The Evidence for MRSA Decolonization …

423. 20 Tips To Help Prevent Medical Errors (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/20tips/20tips.pdf
     September 01, 2011 - But medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system: In hospitals, clinics, surgery centers … Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment, or lab reports. … Having surgery at the wrong site (for example, operating on the left knee instead of the right) is … The good news is that wrong­site surgery is 100 percent preventable. … . 13 If you have a choice, choose a hospital where many patients have had the procedure or surgery

424. 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 - Although many risk factors are nonmodifiable (e.g., emergency surgery), some factors can be addressed … • Optimize nutrition before surgery, especially increased protein.3,4 • Eliminate smoking products … before surgery. … Therefore, particularly among adolescent patients, encourage elimination of tobacco products prior to surgery … postoperative wound assessment • Documentation of the surgical wound should occur 48 hours after surgery

425. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4i_pdi11-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - Although many risk factors are nonmodifiable (e.g., emergency surgery), some factors can be addressed … • Optimize nutrition before surgery, especially increased protein.3,4 • Eliminate smoking products … before surgery. … Therefore, particularly among adolescent patients, encourage elimination of tobacco products prior to surgery … postoperative wound assessment • Documentation of the surgical wound should occur 48 hours after surgery

426. Low Tidal Volume (Lung Protective) Ventilation Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-lit-review.html
     January 01, 2017 - Randomized 28 healthy knee replacement surgery patients prospectively to volume-controlled ventilation … RCT (Sundar, 2011) 7 PRO: Single-center RCT of 149 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. … A trial of intraoperative low-tidal-volume ventilation in abdominal surgery. … Evaluated the impact of low, traditional, and high tidal volumes on cardiac surgery outcomes. … Single-center trial with 149 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

427. References (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/mvp/modules/technical/ltvv-litreview.docx
     January 01, 2017 - Randomized 28 healthy knee replacement surgery patients prospectively to volume-controlled ventilation … RCT (Sundar, 2011)7 PRO: Single-center RCT of 149 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. … A trial of intraoperative low-tidal-volume ventilation in abdominal surgery. … Evaluated the impact of low, traditional, and high tidal volumes on cardiac surgery outcomes. … Single-center trial with 149 patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

428. Presentation: Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_sustscorecard.pptx
     December 01, 2017 - Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery … No. 16(18)-0004-15-EF December 2017 AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery – Sustainability SAY: The module … be able to– Assess objectively your unit’s current stage in implementing the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery … Your team enters the surgery ward every day intending to provide good care. … A few surgery-related indicators are also listed.

429. PowerPoint Presentation: Learn From Defects for Sustainability
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     December 01, 2017 - Learn From Defects for Sustainability Sustainability: Learning From Defects AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery … No. 16(18)-0004-15-EF December 2017 AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery – Sustainability SAY: This module … – Sustainability SAY: The AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery covers technical and adaptive elements. … SAY: Your safe surgery team will need to prioritize their efforts. … Learn From Defects ‹#› AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery – Sustainability 25

430. Exhibits 32 to 34 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh32-34.html
     April 01, 2018 - hematocrit 0.145933 1.881071 0.06342 Preop hemoglob -0.1963 -0.86847 0.39360 Surgery … hematocrit 0.027258 0.274814 0.78942 Preop hemoglob -0.20223 -0.70553 0.50265 Surgery … hematocrit 0.087034 1.579951 0.12344 Preop hemoglob -0.22319 -1.51617 0.14453 Surgery

431. CAHPS Supplemental Items | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Sort ascending P-SD5 Provider talked to patient about having surgery … P-SD7 Provider talked about reasons respondent might not want child to have surgery … P-SD6 Provider talked about reasons respondent might want child to have surgery … C-SD7 Provider talked to patient about reasons patient might not want to have the surgery … C-SD6 Provider talked to patient about reasons patient might want to have the surgery

432. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol: Short and Long Term Outcomes after Bariatric Therapies in the Medicare Population (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/bariatric-surgery-protocol.pdf
     November 09, 2016 - (more than 5 years after surgery) outcomes? … (more than 5 years after surgery). … Access to plastic surgery R. … or have not undergone bariatric surgery. … Surgery for weight loss in adults.

433. Haut, Elliott | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/grants/active/kawards/Kawdsumhaut.html
     October 01, 2014 - Haut is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, at … He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania and served his residency in General Surgery at

434. Overuse of Computed Tomography Scans for the Evaluation of Children with Atraumatic Headache: Technical Specifications (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0206-technicalspecs.pdf
     May 01, 2016 - 61537 Craniotomy with elevation of bone flap; for lobectomy with electrocorticography during surgery … , simple 61684 Surgery of intracranial arteriovenous malformation; infratentorial, complex 61686 … Surgery of intracranial arteriovenous malformation; dural, simple 61690 Surgery of intracranial arteriovenous … malformation; dural, complex 61692 Surgery of complex intracranial aneurysm, intracranial approach … Surgery of intracranial aneurysm, cervical approach by application of occluding clamp to cervical

435. Pillars of a Smart, Safe Operating Room (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Seagull_98.pdf
     April 07, 2008 - out potential complications through simulated surgery before the actual operation. … Acknowledgment This research and development program was conducted by the Division of General Surgery … Jacob Seagull, MD, Division of General Surgery, University of Maryland, 22 South Greene Street - Room … Integrating simulation in surgery as a teaching tool and credentialing standard. … Augmented reality visualization for laparoscopic surgery.

436. Final Progress Report: Effects of Physician Social Networks on Surgical Quality, Safety, and Costs (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/20927-Hollingsworth-draft-1.pdf
     September 29, 2016 - Key Words: coronary artery bypass graft surgery; health outcomes; team-based care II. … Surgery as a team sport However, there is growing recognition that surgery is not an “individual game … We designated each beneficiary’s treating surgeon as the surgeon who billed for cardiac surgery services … closest to the surgery date. … urologic surgery among Medicare beneficiaries.

437. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4u_combo_pdi09-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - postoperative respiratory failure is the failure to wean from mechanical ventilation within 48 hours of surgery … of risk factors for postoperative respiratory failure and screen all patients undergoing elective surgery … o Emergency surgery. … o High-risk surgery (e.g., emergent and prolonged procedures, open vs. laparoscopic). … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

438. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4g_pdi09-postoprespfailure-bestpractices.pdf
     May 17, 2016 - postoperative respiratory failure is the failure to wean from mechanical ventilation within 48 hours of surgery … of risk factors for postoperative respiratory failure and screen all patients undergoing elective surgery … o Emergency surgery. … o High-risk surgery (e.g., emergent and prolonged procedures, open vs. laparoscopic). … Strategies to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications after noncardiothoracic surgery: systematic

439. Final Topic Refinement Document - Therapeutic Options for Obesity in the Medicare Population (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/topicrefinement/obesity_topic-refinement.pdf
     May 22, 2014 - Obesity surgery has been approved for those with severe obesity (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2) or those with BMI at … illness, or those who cannot understand the risks and benefits of surgery. … We expect to consider several options for obesity surgery, including laparoscopic gastric bypass, gastric … The effectiveness and safety of obesity surgery, intragastric devices and other applications in the … Decision Memo for Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity (CAG-00250R).

440. Senior Leader Checklist - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/senior-leader.html
     May 01, 2017 - engaged in surgical safety work, and the patient and family perspectives concerning the ambulatory surgery … to help plan, implement, and evaluate patient and family engagement in safety projects in ambulatory surgery … Leaders (ambulatory surgery center administrator, director of nursing, medical director, etc.) and any