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321. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections (pdf file)
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     September 28, 2017 - infections in intensive care units with persistently elevated rates of these infections • Improving surgical … safety by promoting implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance surgical care and recovery … and reduce complications, including reduction in surgical site infections and catheter-associated urinary … catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates by 54 percent in more than 400 nursing homes • CUSP reduced surgical

322. Special Edition – Patient Safety Awareness Week | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Applying Statistical Process Control Methods Can Detect Increases in Rates of Surgical Site Infections … Applying Statistical Process Control Methods Can Detect Increases in Rates of Surgical Site Infections … When compared with traditional surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance approaches alone, applying … statistical process control, in addition to traditional surveillance, was more effective at detecting surgical … within a large infection control network of 29 U.S. community hospitals in the Southeast for 13 common surgical

323. New Toolkit Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - Can Improve Post-Surgery Complications and Enhance Patient Recovery The AHRQ Toolkit for Improving Surgical … Care and Recovery addresses common surgical complications such as surgical site and urinary tract infections … The toolkit, created for surgical teams by surgeons, was tested in more than 300 hospitals nationwide … International perspectives on modifications to the surgical safety checklist.

324. Tool: Briefing and Debriefing Tool (doc file)
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     December 01, 2017 - Tool: Briefing and Debriefing Tool Briefing and Debriefing Tool Introduction Problem Statement Surgical … Patients in acute care hospitals underwent more than 16 million surgical procedures in the United States … Consent · hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone complete (if female) · Share names and roles of the surgical … Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Event.

325. Case Scenarios: Handling Challenging Communications | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - The medical team attributes the pain to the surgical incision. … An X-ray of the abdomen reveals a surgical sponge. … The surgery is performed by a different surgical team at the same hospital. … The anesthesiologist received training on the equipment and has used it in six surgical cases to date … The equipment is being used in this surgical case.

326. Prompting Removal of Unnecessary Indwelling Urinary Catheters
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     April 01, 2022 - Jones, a 57-year-old male, has been in the surgical ICU for 24 hours status post an esophagectomy with … Discuss OR catheter removal during the third surgical timeout/debrief before that patient leaves the … Surgical checklists include a “Procedure Time Out” of tasks to perform before the patient leaves the … Prevalence and risk factors of inappropriate use of intravenous and urinary catheters in surgical and … WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

327. Chapter 4. Choose the Model To Assess VTE and Bleeding Risk | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2022 - Bleeding risk tools and guidance for the timing of administering anticoagulant prophylaxis around surgical … Moderate Risk (most general medical/surgical patients): Most general, thoracic, open gynecologic, or … The Caprini model is embedded in AT9 recommendations for VTE prophylaxis in the nonorthopedic surgical … Prevention of VTE in nonorthopedic surgical patients: antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis … Design Prospective Retrospective Prospective Retrospective Participants Surgical Medical

328. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 16, 2016 - concerning complication of tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy, which is one of the most common surgical … preoperative/perioperative/procedure personnel, including nurses, physicians and other providers, and surgical … /postoperative-care http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/special-subjects/care-of-the-surgical-patient … Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 4 Tool D.4t • WHO Surgical … Policies/Protocols • Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents: Care of the Surgical

329. Resource List - AHRQ Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2023 - Ambulatory Surgery Surgical Checklist http://www.scoap.org/downloads/SCOAP-Surgical-Checklist_v3_4.pdf … Care Quality, provides a free, downloadable surgical checklist for ambulatory surgery. … Ambulatory Surgery Surgical Checklist 3. Gastroenterology Safe Surgery Checklist 4. … Ophthalmic Surgical Checklist - Ambulatory Surgery Center Association 6. … Infection Prevention Training for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Composite Measure 6.

330. Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections, 2009–2012
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     January 01, 2014 - Standardized infection ratios for central line-associated bloodstream infections and surgical site infections … 0.83 0.62 1.36 1.00 Mental health/substance abuse 0.73 0.79 1.05 1.14 Injury 0.63 0.62 1.19 1.18 Surgical … Surgical and medical splits are based on the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). … Hispanics had lower rates of surgical stays, both in border and non-border counties. 30 Surgical Hispanic … Surgical: Surgical diagnosis-related group. Medical: All other discharges.

331. Performing an SSI Investigation: Facilitator Notes | 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 … Slide 1: Performing an SSI Investigation Say: In this module, you’ll learn about performing a surgical … The outcome data is your surgical site infection rate. … Ask: What practices did you put in place to prevent your surgical-site infections? … For instance, what did the PSSA responses indicate would cause the next surgical site infection?

332. TeamSTEPPS®: Research/Evidence Base | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2015 - A surgical simulation curriculum for senior medical students based on TeamSTEPPS. … A human factors analysis of technical and team skills among surgical trainees during procedural simulations … In situ simulation-based team training for post-cardiac surgical emergency chest reopen in the intensive … Simulated laparoscopic operating room crisis: An approach to enhance the surgical team performance. … Surgical Endoscopy 22(4), 885-900. Select to access the abstract .

333. CAHPS Child Hospital Survey: The CAHPS Program (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2024 - Experience with Providers • Clinicians and Medical Groups • Hospices • Home Health Care • Surgical … Hospitals (adult and pediatric) • Dialysis Centers • Nursing Homes • Outpatient Ambulatory Surgical

334. Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - Ask: Have you established your surgical quality team? … Say: The core surgical quality team guides the use of the Learning from Defects tool. … Present your finds to surgical department leadership. … Your surgical quality team will need to balance the scope of the intervention effort. … With your surgical quality team, document all ideas for intervention.

335. TeamSTEPPS Research/Evidence Base: Safety Culture and Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - Errors and the burden of errors: attitudes, perceptions, and the culture of safety in pediatric cardiac surgical … Association between hospital safety culture and surgical outcomes in a statewide surgical quality improvement … Impact of the comprehensive unit-based safety program (CUSP) on safety culture in a surgical inpatient

336. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - For patients admitted to medicine services, it is important to recognize when surgical consultation … If the abscess is large and cannot be drained, surgical intervention is generally required. … Prolonged durations of antibiotics while patients are awaiting surgical procedures are not advised. … For patients undergoing surgical management of uncomplicated acute cholecystitis, no antibiotics are … In patients undergoing surgical management of complicated disease (e.g., perforation, fistula), based

337. Outpatient Surgery and Patient Safety—The Patient’s Voice (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - As a result, we added surgical-site bleeding and signs of infection to the symptom list, and listed … We obtained the total annual volume of surgical procedures from the centers. … From these surgical volume data, we determined the number of each of the procedure classes performed … more proactive in their surgical care. … are indeed critical issues as the volume of outpatient surgical procedures continues to grow.

338. Material Use Guide - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Centers Toolkit Sections Material Use Guide - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical … CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Decolonization Protocol Material Use Guide - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical … April 2017 Internet Citation: Material Use Guide - Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical

339. 3P-Rd-Data-Dictionary-Geographic-Level (xls file)
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     February 02, 2023 - Percent of practices in the ZIP code with a surgical specialty Num 8 Most common surgical specialty … APCD/CMS Claims 3P-RD Physician COMMON_SPEC_SURG1 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X SURG_SPEC_1 Surgical … Second Most common surgical specialty APCD/CMS Claims 3P-RD Physician COMMON_SPEC_SURG1 X X X X X X X … Third Most common surgical specialty APCD/CMS Claims 3P-RD Physician COMMON_SPEC_SURG1 X X X X X X X … X X X X X X X X SURG_SPEC_3 Surgical specialty third most common among the ZIP code's practices Char

340. Antibiotic Audit Tool (doc file)
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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. … Time of surgical incision 18. … Question 16: Document the time of the surgical incision. … Time of surgical incision 17.