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101. Exhibits 53 to 55 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … Results of logistic regression using the 40% validation set, and including each of the five surgical

102. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Retained surgical items. No Thing Left Behind. … A National Surgical Patient Safety Project to Prevent Retained Surgical Items. http://www.nothingleftbehind.org … AORN recommended practices on retained surgical items. … Radiofrequency identification (RFID) applied to surgical sponges. … Barcoding surgical sponges to improve safety: a randomized controlled trial.

103. Human Factors in Surgery: Shifting the Paradigm on Patient Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

104. Exhibit 47. Surgeon specialties and health system affiliations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … JAMIA Draft Manuscript Surgeon ID Surgical Specialty Health System Type Surgeon

105. 43-Pathway-Worksheet (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Surgical Care and Recovery. … Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.

106. 48-Prep-Colorectal-Facilitator (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Prep for SSI Prevention for Colorectal Surgery: Facilitator Guide AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … you with an overview of the use of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation to help reduce surgical … patients and highly reliable data such as the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative, the Veterans … Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program, and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program consistently … Slide 6 Current ISCR Recommendation and Guidelines To reduce surgical site infections in patients

107. Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Program Tools Safe Surgery Toolkit Modules Sustaining and Spreading Surgical … CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … for Surgery Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery—Sustainability Sustaining and Spreading Surgical … When you apply the process for improving surgical safety to new challenges. … Include active surgical champions who partner with others. Have executive leadership support.

108. It Takes a Team: Preventing Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2017 - Surgical site infections are infections that can occur after surgery in the part of the body where … to— Dangerous Each year in the U.S., there are about 300,000 surgical site infections. … year in the U.S., surgical site infections cost between $3.5 million and $1 billion.2 Preventable … Frequently asked questions about surgical site infections: Patient guide. … Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update.

109. Exhibit 6. Demonstration that algorithm positives can be identified by compact logic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … SSI = surgical site infection.

110. Exhibit 4. Evolution of C-reactive protein values among individuals who NEVER develop an SSI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … JAMIA Draft Manuscript CRP = C-reactive protein; SSI = surgical site infection; THA

111. Building Your SSI Prevention Bundle: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - surgical patient. … Image: Drawing of a surgical site infection. … Implementation of a Surgical Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program (CUSP) to Reduce Surgical Site infections … Time of surgical incision? … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections

112. Normothermia Audit Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Normothermia enables adequate immune functioning and perfusion to surgical site tissue. … We recommend that you collect data from 10 surgical patents, but there is no right or wrong number of … You can use the materials in the AHRQ Toolkit to Promote Safe Surgery, such as the Surgical Complication … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/normothermia-audit.html

113. Antibiotic Audit Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Appropriate selection, dosing, and redosing ensure that the antibiotic concentration in surgical site … Question 17: Document the time of the surgical incision. … Yes ___        No ___ Time of surgical incision.   … Question 16: Document the time of the surgical incision. … Yes ___        No ___ Yes ___        No ___ Time of surgical incision.  

114. Optimize Briefings and Debriefings: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Ask: What can we do to improve communication among our surgical teams? … briefings were conducted in only 62 percent of surgical cases. … It does not take much time for the surgical team to run through relevant items. … The surgical audit tools will also identify system flaws. … Tailor the tools to fit your intervention bundle and surgical area.

115. Program Overview: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Say: For many patients, surgical care is a risky endeavor. … specific measures to improve surgical care and reduce surgical-site infection, like giving the right … These individuals should lead the surgical safety team. … Slide 31: Engage Surgeons on the Surgical Safety Team Say: When developing a surgical safety team … the Surgical Team Roles and Responsibilities tool.

116. Exhibits 29 to 31 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection

117. Barrier Identification and Mitigation Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … This BIM team should be a subcommittee of the surgical safety program team. … https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/bim.html  

118. Supplemental Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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

119. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2012 - Retained surgical items. … NoThing Left Behind: A National Surgical Patient Safety Project to Prevent Retained Surgical Items. … Recommended practices for prevention of retained surgical items. … Radiofrequency identification (RFID) applied to surgical sponges. … Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety: a randomized controlled trial.

120. Appendix Q. Surgeon Focus Group Content Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections Chapter 4. … Surgeons' Acceptance of Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment Models Appendix T. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract Appendix U. … Surgeon Specialties and Health System Affiliations Surgeon ID Surgical Specialty Health System