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October 01, 2022 - Surgical patients and patients with trauma
If total anaesthetic + surgical time >90 minutes or
If … Can be used for medical, surgical, and orthopedic patients. … Surgical patients
LMWH or UFH.
AND
Mechanical prophylaxis. … Surgical
Consider mechanical prophylaxis.
Medical
No prophylaxis. … Surgical Patients
LMWH or UFH.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/communication-material-guide.html
May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … Team Communication With Briefings *
Slides 12-17
Example Briefing * (2 min 14)
Improving Surgical … Team Communication With Debriefings *
Slides 18-25
Example Debriefing * (1 min 24)
The Surgical … Checklist as a Communication and Teamwork Tool
Slides 26-32
Customizing the Surgical Checklist* … of checklists
Audience: Administration, surgeons, anesthesia, all nurses
Topic: Customizing the Surgical
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/4-overview-facilitator-guide.docx
January 01, 2019 - The laparoscopic surgical technique resulted in decreased surgical site infections, decreased postoperative … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpraapamattabs.html
April 01, 2018 - Healthcare Safer Reports
AHRQ Research Studies
Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … Matar (2010)
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Table of Contents
Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … insufficiency
Smoking cessation
MRSA ‡ decolonization
Day of surgery
Surgical … Betadine shower
Chlorhexidine wipes/showers
Prophylactic antibiotics
Intraoperative
Surgical … team
Gloves
Personalized protection suit
Surgical environment
Operating room
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ce.effectivehealthcare.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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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/applying-cusp/perioperative-asst.html
December 01, 2017 - The Safety Program for Surgery has modified that tool for the surgical setting into the Perioperative … How will the next patient develop a surgical site infection on your unit? … What do you think can be done to prevent this surgical site infection? … If the investigation reveals variability in surgical care, your safety program team can use additional … room will get a surgical site infection.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiref.html
April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates
Chapter 3. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract
Appendix U. … Surveillance for surgical site infections: the uses of antibiotic exposure. … Validation of surgical wound surveillance. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. … Validation of surgical site infection surveillance in the Netherlands.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.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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May 01, 2017 - Centers Toolkit
Sections
CUS Tool - Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical … CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs
Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit
Improving Surgical … Decolonization Protocol
CUS Tool - Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical … created April 2017
Internet Citation: CUS Tool - Improving Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Geographic-Physician-Practice-PUF-Codebook.pdf
February 01, 2023 - Description (Label): Percentage of practices in the ZIP Code with a surgical specialty
Variable … Specialty
Description (Label): Surgical specialty most common among the ZIP Code's practices … Specialty
Description (Label): Surgical specialty second most common among the ZIP Code's practices … Specialty
Description (Label): Surgical specialty third most common among the ZIP Code's practices … Most common surgical specialty
Second Most common surgical specialty
Third Most common surgical specialty
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April 01, 2018 - basic case
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Table of Contents
Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … )
Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics admin, shaving surgical … )
Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics admin, shaving surgical … )
Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics admin, shaving surgical … )
Fail to protect patient effectively (failure related to skin prep, antibiotics admin, shaving surgical
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/2-overview-guide.docx
June 01, 2023 - overview of the entire Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Surgical … What Is the Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery? … Why Use the Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery? … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
3
The Program for Improving Surgical … for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Overview Guide 2
What does the Program for Improving Surgical
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ce.effectivehealthcare.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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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/about/uni-chicago-medicine.html
February 01, 2024 - Nursing units and surgical services with the largest volume of PSI #12 cases were selected to implement … awareness on the importance of adhering to all ordered anticoagulation doses for patients scheduled for a surgical … reduction in general surgery, a 57% reduction in orthopedic surgery, and an 80% reduction in the medical surgical … nursing unit serving the orthopedic, gynecological, and specialty surgical population. … and mechanical prophylaxis and ambulation processes.
08/18/22–10/20/22
Nursing units and surgical
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-implement.html
November 01, 2017 - It is important that your culture survey captures responses from a representative sample of surgical … The team should include representatives from each role on the surgical team. … If you ask surgical teams to use the checklist in an operating/procedure room before they are ready, … Watch and coach (randomly, across the full range of surgical practices in your facility). … Administer an annual culture survey to surgical team members.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_sr-execs_facnotes.docx
December 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Engage Senior Executives in Surgical Site Infection Prevention Work
Engaging Senior … progress nationwide in specific measures to improve surgical care and reduce surgical-site infection … Is the quality of skin prep appropriate to prevent surgical site infections? … The colorectal data was based on the NSQIP definitions for surgical site infections, or SSIs. … and efficiencies, some not directly related to surgical site infections.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/stpra/stpra3.html
April 01, 2018 - Prevention of intraoperative infection transmission (e.g., surgical disinfection and antisepsis, skin … preparation, disinfection in the surgical environment). … Another important example is surgical preparation and draping, a longstanding surgical technique. … elements of this procedure should be ensured by the team as they prepare for the performance of the surgical … As a result, the quality and consistency by which ASCs perform surgical preparation and draping is unknown
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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
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/on-boarding/overview-slides.html
December 01, 2017 - CMS Surgical Care Improvement Project Infection Measures. … American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. … Slide 9: Shared Program Goals
To achieve significant reductions in surgical site infection and surgical … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections … Slide 26: Surgical Safety Team Logistics
Meets regularly:
Weekly ideal.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiexh12.html
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