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1. CAHPS Surgical Care Survey | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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 .

2. Comparative Reports on Surgical Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Key Quality Initiatives About TalkingQuality Comparative Reports on Surgical … Care The following reports are examples of comparative information on the quality of surgical … Surgeon Scorecard uses two measures to identify harm to elective surgical patients: in-hospital mortality … 2022 Page originally created December 2016 Internet Citation: Comparative Reports on Surgical … https://www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/surgical-care.html  

3. Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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

4. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | 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 … 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

5. Final report: Realizing Improved Patient Care through Human-centered Design in the OR (pdf file)
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   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.

6. About the Toolkit Development | 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 … 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

7. 3P_RD_AHRQ_PUF_Data_Dictionary (xls file)
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   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

8. Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical Teams | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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

9. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   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

10. Analyzing Big Datasets to Improve Healthcare Quality, Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 26-Patient-Education-Guide (doc file)
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    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

15. Instructional Modules | 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 … 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

16. Realizing Improved Patient Care Through Human-Centered Design in the Operating Room (RIPCHD.OR) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

17. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
    patientregistry.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. 3.

18. AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS® Boosts Patient Safety, Efficiency for Texas Military Hospital's Operating Rooms | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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.

19. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery This toolkit helps surgical units improve safety culture and reduce … surgical site infections and other complications. … Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers This toolkit helps ambulatory surgery centers reduce surgical … This ongoing implementation project aims to help intensive care units, non-intensive care units, surgical … Newest Releases Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use

20. AHRQ Tools To Reduce Hospital-Acquired Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Pressure ulcers: Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care Surgical … care and recovery:  Toolkit for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Surgical site infections: Toolkit