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41. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - 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 … CUSP reduced surgical site infection rates in hospitals by 25 to 40 percent, depending on the type of

42. Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability: Slide Presentation | 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 … Consider participating in surgical morbidity and mortality conferences. … Is your surgical site infection rate trending down? … Identify surgical measures relevant to your clinicians.

43. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded a 4-year project to reduce HAIs and other surgical

44. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
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    July 01, 2016 - Trauma-Vaginal Delivery Without Instrument   Death PSI 02 Death in Low-Mortality DRGs   PSI 04 Death Among Surgical … Inpatients   Sentinel Events (Adults) PSI 05 Retained Surgical Item or Unretrieved Device Fragment … Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection Rate Sentinel Events (Pediatric) PDI 03 Retained Surgical

45. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Version 2.0 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2021 - Multiple Units, No specific unit 1 Many different hospital units, No specific unit Medical/Surgical … Units 2 Combined Medical/Surgical Unit 3 Medical Unit (Non-Surgical) 4 Surgical Unit … , Behavioral Health 13 Pulmonology 14 Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine 15 Telemetry Surgical

46. Open Communication, Involvement in Quality Improvement Reduces Burnout Among Nurses, Study Finds | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - AHRQ Grantee Prevents Harm by Analyzing and Redesigning Surgical Staff Workflows . … AHRQ Grantee Prevents Harm by Analyzing and Redesigning Surgical Staff Workflows AHRQ’s latest grantee … His research focuses primarily on developing evidence-based strategies to prevent surgical harm using … Catchpole identified 30 sources of potential harm in surgical sterilization processes.

47. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - the use of targeted decolonization with routine post-discharge wound care to reduce post-discharge surgical … The Decrease SSI Trial (Decolonization to Reduce After-Surgery Events of Surgical Site Infection) project … advance the appropriate use of antibiotics for children and the use of claims data for surveillance of surgical

48. Implementing TeamSTEPPS to the Perioperative Service Area
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    January 01, 2017 - on the benefits of TeamSTEPPS & get their support Socialize TeamSTEPPS with Perioperative Leaders: Surgical … Chiefs of Service Surgical Service Managers Anesthesia Leaders Develop an interdisciplinary core team … Monthly Webinar Establish the Training Mission Train the entire service line at one time Include all surgical … specialties & departments Train surgeons, residents, nurses, surgical techs, and support staff together

49. Antibiotic-Time-Out-Tool (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - sputum ☐ Coagulase-negative staphylococci in a single blood culture ☐ Candida in sputum or urine ☐ Surgical … medical management* 5–10 days based on clinical response15,19 Uncomplicated acute cholecystitis, surgical … management No antibiotics after surgery23 Complicated acute cholecystitis (e.g., perforation, fistula), surgical … The Surgical Infection Society revised guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection.

50. How To Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Your facility can use the materials in each section to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical

51. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Version 2.0 (doc file)
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    June 09, 2016 - Multiple Units, No specific unit 1 Many different hospital units, No specific unit Medical/Surgical … Units 2 Combined Medical/Surgical Unit 3 Medical Unit (Non-Surgical) 4 Surgical Unit Patient Care … Psychiatry, Behavioral Health 13 Pulmonology 14 Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine 15 Telemetry Surgical

52. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - This study evaluated best methods to assess surgical wire navigation skill, which can be objectively … This study investigated variability in surgical approaches to hernias in patients with ascites. … The primary outcome observed was incidence and surgical approach for both ventral and inguinal hernia … Open repair was the most common surgical approach (ventral: 86%, open: 77%). … Variability in surgical approaches to hernias in patients with ascites.

53. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Summary of Evidence (Not reviewed) (Not reviewed) Prevention of Surgical … Guidance of Central Vein Catheterization Summary of Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Prevention of Surgical … Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve Safety of Surgical … Care: American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (Not reviewed) … 2020) Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism Summary of Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Post-Surgical

54. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Updated Baseline Rates and Preliminary Results 2014-2016 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2016 - conditions (acute myocardial infarction [AMI], congestive heart failure [CHF], pneumonia [PN], and Surgical … Clostridium difficile Infections Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers/Pressure Injuries Surgical … Rate of 21 MPSMS adverse events in the MPSMS sample provided by CMS, including those in the Surgical … National number of selected surgical site infections computed in a special calculation for CDC. … Data for the six Patient Safety Indicators and the Surgical Site Infection data from CDC are also wholly

55. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
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    March 03, 2014 - injections versus epidural nonsteroid injection, nonepidural injection, no injection, surgery or non-surgical … therapies (e.g., epidural nonsteroid injection, nonepidural injection, no injection, surgery, or non-surgical … saline epidural, epidural with local anesthetic, nonepidural injection, no injection, surgery, non-surgical … injection compared to epidural nonsteroid injection, nonepidural injection, no injection, surgery, or non-surgical … potential modifier of treatment effect, and the Analytic Framework was revised to be clear that non-surgical

56. Declines in Hospital-Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2019 - Clostridioides difficile Infections -37% Falls -5% Obstetric Adverse Events -3% Pressure Ulcers Surgical

57. Introduction to the Quality Indicators Best Practices Tool (pdf file)
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    June 05, 2016 - practices forms exist for the following 14 PSIs: • PSI 03 Pressure Ulcer Rate • PSI 05 Retained Surgical … Rate • PDI 01 Accidental Puncture or Laceration Rate • PDI 02 Pressure Ulcer Rate • PDI 03 Retained Surgical … • PSI 04 Death Rate Among Surgical Inpatients With Serious Treatable Conditions: This PSI calculates

58. AHRQ National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Final Results for 2014 Through 2017 (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2020 - 239,000 8.0 Obstetric Adverse Events 67,000 2.3 Pressure Ulcers/Pressure Injuries 647,000 21.8 Surgical … The other comprised major surgery patients, as described by the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP … 2015 2016 2017 All Other HACs (Post-op) Venous Thromboembolisms Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias Surgical … and Without Instrument Pressure Ulcer MPSMS Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers/Pressure Injuries Surgical … National number of selected surgical site infections computed in a special calculation for CDC.

59. Declines in Hospital Acquired Conditions (pdf file)
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    June 04, 2018 - Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Falls Obstetric Adverse Events Pressure Ulcers Surgical

60. Strategy 3: Nurse Bedside Shift Report Implementation Handbook (doc file)
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    August 01, 2010 - Trinity Hospital successfully implemented bedside shift report on a 29-bed post-operative medical-surgical … Helpful Link Anne Arundel Medical Center implemented bedside shift report on a single medical-surgical … Anne Arundel Medical Center's video featured nurses on the medical-surgical unit demonstrating a successful … This was followed by an hour-long mandatory lunch-and-learn training session for medical-surgical unit … The experiences of staff, patients, and families on the medical-surgical unit were featured prominently