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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/121-importance-mrsa-prevention-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Facts
SSIs account for 20 percent of all healthcare-associated infections … American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: surgical site infection guidelines, 2016 … The effects of surgical hand scrubbing protocols on skin integrity and surgical site infection rates: … Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, Second Edition. … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update.
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/mrsa-prevention/index.html
November 01, 2023 - 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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/14-engaging-stakeholders.pptx
June 01, 2023 - PowerPoint Presentation
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
Engaging Stakeholders … Developing a Vision for Your Improving Surgical Care
and Recovery Program
AHRQ Pub. … No. 23-0052
June 2023
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery
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Visit AHRQ’ … …surgical care on the unit where nurses spend more time with patients. … patients
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Thank You!
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/014-ss-cleaning.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
Surgical … No. 25-0029
April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Optimizing Environmental … Cleaning
1
Educational Objectives
Discuss why environmental cleaning is critical in surgical site … | 7
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning … | 13
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
Optimizing Environmental Cleaning
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/134-translating-research-into-practice.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Translating Practice into Practice (TRiP)
Translating Research into Practice (TRiP)
Surgical Services … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … through evaluation of the impact of implementation
| 2
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … Effect of a preoperative decontamination protocol on surgical site infections in patients undergoing … Preventing surgical-site infections in nasal carriers of Staphylococcus aureus.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/028-ss-cusp-program-sustainability.pptx
April 01, 2025 - CUSP Program Sustainability
CUSP Program Sustainability
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … | 3
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
CUSP Program Sustainability
3 … If hair removal is needed, are surgical clippers used?
Are resources still available? … | 10
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
CUSP Program Sustainability
The
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/026-why-choose-cusp.pptx
April 01, 2025 - Surgical Services
AHRQ Pub. … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections … Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes. … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Savino.pdf
July 01, 2003 - Implementation of an Evidence-based Protocol for Surgical Infection Prophylaxis
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Implementation … of an Evidence-based
Protocol for Surgical Infection Prophylaxis
John A. … Risucci
Abstract
Objective: An evidence-based surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (AMP) protocol
was … procedures
by surgical wound classification. … In other instances, the volume and type of specific
surgical services changed.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/075-antibiotic-prophylaxis-summary-table.pdf
April 01, 2025 - Safety Program for MRSA Prevention:
Targeting SSI
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Recommendations
Surgical … pathogens most likely to be found at the surgical site and/or found in
surgical site infections (SSIs … Strategies to prevent
surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … /documents/clinic
alpathways/SHC-Surgical-Prophylaxis-ABX-Guideline.pdf. … aureus surgical site infections: report from Australian Surveillance Data
(VICNISS).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/099-ss-supplemental-o2-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Supplemental Oxygen
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion … World Health Organization SSI Prevention Guidelines
· Surgical patients with tracheal intubation and … The effects of high perioperative inspiratory oxygen fraction for adult surgical patients. … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, second edition. Geneva: WHO; 2018.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/131-ss-swiss-cheese.pptx
April 01, 2025 - PowerPoint Presentation
Learning From Defects: Applying the “Swiss Cheese Model” of System Failures
Surgical … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … | 2
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
The Swiss Cheese Model
2
What … Defect: Anything You Do Not Want To Happen Again
| 3
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … | 17
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
The Swiss Cheese Model
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiaps.html
April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection
Appendix … 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.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiapv.html
April 01, 2018 - Determining Surgical Site Infection Rates
Chapter 3. … Designing and Testing Methods to Stratify Risk of Surgical Site Infections
Chapter 4. … Surgical Infection Society Abstract
Appendix U. … Automated methods for surveillance of surgical site infections. … Validation of surgical site infection surveillance in the Netherlands.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/platt-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Final Progress Report: National Claims-Based Quality Measures for Surgical Site Infections
TITLE PAGE … This applies to both major surgical centers and hospitals
with lower procedure volumes. … Aim #4: Assess the impact of surgical procedure volume on hospital-specific SSI risk. … Aim #4: Assess the impact of surgical procedure volume on hospital-specific SSI risk. … Hospitals with Low Surgical Volume are
Excluded from Public Reporting but have Higher Rates of Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/076-antimicrobial-prophylaxis-duration-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Duration
Surgical Services … For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Use Surgical Prophylaxis for … the Shortest Effective Period1
Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis should be used for the shortest effective … Recommendation: Discontinue Surgical Prophylaxis After Incisional Closure1-2
Discontinuing surgical … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/097-ss-normothermia-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Normothermia
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries … Services Normothermia | 1
References
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update. … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 … Effects of preoperative warming on the occurrence of surgical site infection: A systematic review and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/096-ss-glycemic-control-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - Glycemic Control
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement, and Spinal Fusion Surgeries … 1,2
Surgical patients, even without diabetes, are at risk for hyperglycemia
Hyperglycemia is associated … with increased risk for surgical site infections (SSIs), mortality, and higher healthcare costs
Risk … Surgical site infection prevention: a review. JAMA. 2023 Jan;329(3):244-52. PMID: 36648463. … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 update.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/final-reports/20927-Hollingsworth-draft-1.pdf
September 29, 2016 - Final Progress Report: Effects of Physician Social Networks on Surgical Quality, Safety, and Costs … of surgical care suggests opportunities for
improvement. … patients is a determinant of surgical quality and spending
III. … Scope
Variation in surgical quality and spending
Surgical outcomes and spending vary significantly … Measuring surgical spending
To examine whether differences in informal integration help explain surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/06-sops-teamstepps-webcast-closing.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Enhancing Surgical Team Communication: SOPS® and TeamSTEPPS®in Action Webcast - Closing
Q&A
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? … Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … Longitudinal Analysis of Culture of Patient Safety Survey Results in Surgical
Departments. … Association Between Immersive Virtual Reality Patient Safety Training and Safety
Behaviors During Surgical … Submitted to Surgical Innovation.
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How to Ask
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/51-regional-analgesia-arthroplasty.pptx
June 01, 2023 - Analgesia for
Total Hip Arthroplasty and Total Knee Arthroplasty
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical … No. 23-0052
June 2023
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Why Use Regional … (Part 2)
Match the anatomical distribution of the block to the surgical site
Hip (total hip arthroplasty … Care and Recovery
Regional Analgesia for THA/TKA 9
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care … Regional Analgesia for THA/TKA 11
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery