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cahps.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/surgical/index.html
February 01, 2018 - Care Survey
The CAHPS Surgical Care Survey asks adult patients to report on surgical care, surgeons … No CAHPS supplemental items were developed for the Surgical Care Survey. … assess and improve the experiences of surgical patients. … Get the Surgical Care Survey
The following documents are available for this survey:
CAHPS Surgical … Review CAHPS Surgical Care Survey Measures .
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/enhanced-recovery/index.html
June 01, 2023 - Home
Healthcare-Associated Infections Program
Tools
Improving Surgical … CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … Care and Recovery
The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) Toolkit … helps hospitals improve patients' surgical experience by adopting enhanced recovery practices. … customizable resources that your hospital’s perioperative team can download and use to standardize surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/index.html
December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery
The Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery helps perioperative and surgical … setting to help hospitals reduce surgical site infections and other complications. … Technical work changes procedural aspects of care that can be explicitly defined, such as surgical skin … Guides
Applying CUSP To Promote Safe Surgery
Supplemental tools
Surgical Complication Prevention
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/joseph3-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Surgical
site infections and errors are key concerns in ORs. … site infections and surgical errors. … Scope
The incidence of adverse events, such as surgical site infections and surgical errors, is an
immense … less prone to
intrusion of other surgical team members. … , surgical lights, and other ceiling-mounted items.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/videos/ts_ISHandoff/INPTSURG-768.html
November 01, 2017 - Home
TeamSTEPPS®
Curriculum Materials
Inpatient Surgical … Trainer Course
Research/Evidence Base
TeamSTEPPS® Webinars
Inpatient Surgical … Inpatient Surgical: Handoff [1 min., 36 sec.] … reviewed November 2017
Page originally created September 2012
Internet Citation: Inpatient Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/about.html
December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … developed as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery, a national implementation project to reduce surgical … infections are among the most common complications in surgery patients, including more than 150,000 surgical … care processes that other facilities can use to reduce surgical complications. … American College of Surgeons provided clinical National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data collection
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Data-Dictionary.xlsx
March 16, 2023 - Surgical Specialty Flag X 3P-RD Physician APCD/ CMS Claims X X X X X X SURG_SPEC_FLAG Surgical Specialty … Common Surgical Specialties: 1 X 3P-RD Physician APCD/ CMS Claims X X X X X X COMMON_SPEC_SURG1 Surgical … Common Surgical Specialties: 2 X 3P-RD Physician APCD/ CMS Claims X X X X X X COMMON_SPEC_SURG2 Surgical … Common Surgical Specialties: 3 X 3P-RD Physician APCD/ CMS Claims X X X X X X COMMON_SPEC_SURG3 Surgical … Common Surgical Specialties: 4 X 3P-RD Physician APCD/ CMS Claims X X X X X X COMMON_SPEC_SURG4 Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/resources/additional/check-back-team.html
July 01, 2023 - TeamSTEPPS Program
Tools and Resources
Additional Videos
Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical … Call-Outs in Labor and Delivery
Check Back (Long-Term Care)
Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical … Research/Evidence Base
Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical … embedded video: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ekX289e3-Uo
TeamSTEPPS: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical … created July 2023
Internet Citation: Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/mrsa-prevention/index.html
November 01, 2023 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … This ongoing implementation project aims to help intensive care units, non-intensive care units, surgical … AHRQ’s proven CUSP framework to develop and implement interventions to reduce MRSA in hospitals, surgical … Surgical services teams and long-term care facilities that want to learn more about the project can visit
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cahps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/videos/ts_checkback/checkback.html
November 01, 2017 - Home
TeamSTEPPS®
Curriculum Materials
Inpatient Surgical … Trainer Course
Research/Evidence Base
TeamSTEPPS® Webinars
Inpatient Surgical … Inpatient Surgical: Check-Back [15 sec.] … reviewed November 2017
Page originally created September 2012
Internet Citation: Inpatient Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-hernandez-boussard.html
April 01, 2024 - With funding from AHRQ, I’ve analyzed these datasets to provide clinicians with knowledge to improve surgical … AHRQ grant in 2010 to research and design Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) for a wide range of surgical … Hernandez-Boussard was concerned that PSI benchmarks often were not used by surgical subgroups and that … national trends for surgical subgroups often were not available, putting patient safety at risk. … Hernandez-Boussard also examined factors that could contribute to adverse events such as hospital surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-catchpole.html
December 01, 2022 - Surgical errors contribute to more than 4,000 annual “never events”—shocking medical errors, such as … His work involves analyzing how staff work within existing processes and redesigning them to help surgical … instruments by reviewing the work systems within which surgical teams operate. … Although surgical site infections account for nearly 1.7 million healthcare-acquired infections annually … Catchpole, about 15 percent of surgical instrument trays have missing, broken, or dirty instruments.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/guide-surg-comp.html
December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … Telemedicine
Universal ICU Decolonization Protocol
Supplemental Tools
Surgical … Care Audit Tools
Surgical Site Infection Investigation Tool ( Word , 1.8 MB)
This tool will help … safety program team understand lapses in infection prevention processes that may have contributed to the surgical … Surgical Skin Preparation Audit Tool ( Word , 1.57 MB)
This tool will help your team understand how
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/26-patient-education-guide.docx
June 01, 2023 - Guide to Using the Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Patient Education BookletsAHRQ Safety Program … for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
Purpose of Booklets
The booklets were developed for patients … Patients and caregivers need to know what they can do and what to avoid to have as safe a surgical and … ISCR is a collaborative program designed to enhance the perioperative care of surgical patients. … The content of the booklets is based on the program’s evidence-based pathways for improving surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/videos/ts_vig003a/vig003a.html
December 01, 2017 - Home
TeamSTEPPS®
Curriculum Materials
Inpatient Surgical … Trainer Course
Research/Evidence Base
TeamSTEPPS® Webinars
Inpatient Surgical … Inpatient Surgical: Opportunity to apply TeamSTEPPS technique to improve outcome [3 min., 26 sec.] … reviewed December 2017
Page originally created September 2012
Internet Citation: Inpatient Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/teamstepps/instructor/videos/ts_vig003b/vig003b.html
November 01, 2017 - Home
TeamSTEPPS®
Curriculum Materials
Inpatient Surgical … Trainer Course
Research/Evidence Base
TeamSTEPPS® Webinars
Inpatient Surgical … Inpatient Surgical: Successful outcome with TeamSTEPPS techniques [6 min., 59 sec.] … reviewed November 2017
Page originally created September 2012
Internet Citation: Inpatient Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/index.html
December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … These modules focus on the surgical setting. … ( PowerPoint , 2 MB) Facilitator notes ( Word , 3.88 MB)
Turn Data Into Action: Using HSOPS & Surgical … Data
Slide Presentation ( PowerPoint , 4.34 MB) Facilitator notes ( Word ,4.1 MB)
Build Your Surgical … Bundle
Slide Presentation ( PowerPoint , 3,45 MB) Facilitator notes ( Word , 6.97 MB)
Perform a Surgical
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cahps.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/ripchdor-long-desc.html
April 01, 2022 - OR, numerous OR design elements (e.g., OR size and layout, lighting, design and positioning of the surgical … Comparing user perceptions of surgical environments: simulations in a high-fidelity physical mock-up … Impact of surgical table orientation on flow disruptions and movement patterns during pediatric outpatient … The fit between spatial configuration and idealized flows: mapping flows in surgical facilities as part … Reimaging and reinventing surgical workspaces.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4k_combo_psi14-dehiscence-bestpractices.pdf
May 20, 2016 - site infections, and appropriate
post-surgical wound assessment and help decrease the incidence of … In 2008 the Centers for
Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) identified surgical site infections (a … Assess the surgical wound postoperatively and document any
findings of wound dehiscence.1,2,7
Best … Best practice recommendation: prevention and
management of open surgical wounds. … Surgical wound dehiscence. Medsurg Nurs 2006 Oct;15(5):296-301.
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cahps.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201537.html
January 01, 2016 - TeamSTEPPS was expanded hospital-wide after its successful introduction in the facility's 28 surgical … training at the San Antonio facility, preoperative briefings are conducted in operating rooms with all surgical … Surgical teams also attend a postoperative briefing before leaving the operating room after each procedure … While TeamSTEPPS was implemented throughout the surgical unit, officials conducted an evaluation of operating … time in minutes, on-time start rates for procedures, and the average time for a surgical case.