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1301. Appendixes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/pfp/haccost2017-appendix.html
      November 01, 2017 - wound infection/economics"[mh] OR "surgical procedures, operative/adverse effects"[mh] OR ("surgical … wound infection"[mh] AND prognosis[mh]) OR (("surgical wound infection*"[tiab] OR "surgical site infection … In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996–2006. … Hospital costs associated with surgical site infections in general and vascular surgery patients. … Surgical site infection: incidence and impact on hospital utilization and treatment costs.

1302. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/d4l_combo_psi15-accidentalpuncturelaceration-bestpractices.pdf
      May 31, 2016 - Care Introduction: Essential First Steps • Engage key nurses, physicians and other providers, and surgical … o Use blunt surgical instruments. … /occupational_health/activities/2needlest.pdf Staff Required • Surgeons • Perioperative nurses • Surgical … nurse/surgical technician on agreed upon neutral zone Authority/Accountability • Senior leadership … Littleton, CO: Association of Surgical Technologists; April 2006; updated January 2013.

1303. Tool: Normothermia Audit (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/normothermia_audit.docx
      December 01, 2017 - Statement Patients’ perioperative core temperatures should be maintained at normothermia to prevent surgical … Normothermia enables adequate immune functioning and perfusion to surgical site tissue. … We recommend that you collect data from 10 surgical patents, but there is no right or wrong number of … You can use the materials in the AHRQ Toolkit to Promote Safe Surgery, such as the Surgical Complication

1304. Getting Ready (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/training-tools/getting_ready.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - outpatient surgery, ambulatory surgery*, office surgery, or same-day surgery, it means the same thing: surgical … Preparing for Your Surgery Before any surgical procedure, your doctor might ask you to take certain … For example, you might see a nurse using a surgical checklist or you may be asked more than once to … This can help keep you safe from surgical infections and other complications. … Surgical technologists (scrub techs): personnel who set up the surgery/procedure room, prepare you for

1305. Applying Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) Across Health Care Systems: Achieving Data Comparability (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Rivard.pdf
      May 01, 2004 - Of the 20 accepted hospital-level PSIs, 8 are for surgical discharges, 8 are for either medical or surgical … All surgical discharges. … All medical and surgical discharges. … a discharge as surgical or medical. … Postoperative adverse events of common surgical procedures in the Medicare population.

1306. How CUSP Enables Nurse Empowerment (Slide Presentation) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/nurse-empower/slides.html
      October 01, 2014 - Surgical Unit Huddle Board Slide 11. … SICU Huddle Board Image of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) Huddle Board. … Surgical Unit Huddle Board Image of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) Huddle Board. … CUSP: Example of Empowerment A surgical unit before CUSP —  Chaos Unclear plan of care Very

1307. Performing SSI Investigations: Slide Presentation
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/onboarding/onboarding_ssi_investigation.pptx
      December 01, 2017 - AHRQ Pub No. 16(18)-0004-15-EF December 2017 SAY: In this module, you’ll learn about performing a surgical … session, you will be able to– Explain the difference between process and outcome data Describe how the 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?

1308. Background and Overview: Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/asc/ascwebinar/battlesslides.pdf
      July 18, 2015 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Services. Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy. … apply principles of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) in ASCs • Goal: implement a surgical … safety checklist-centered quality improvement intervention to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs

1309. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/prevhosp/ereport-handouts.html
      June 01, 2017 - Fever/possible infection |___| Functional decline |___| Malaise/fatigue |___| Potential surgical … returning from ED Discharge diagnosis from hospital (principal diagnosis and secondary diagnoses) Surgical … __| Respiratory treatment |___| Suctioning |___| Transfusion |___| Other __________ Surgical … , other nonpneumonia |___| Renal disease |___| Seizure |___| Sepsis/urosepsis |___| Surgical

1310. Building Self-Empowered Teams for Improving Safety in Postoperative Pain Management (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol3/Advances-Singh-R_68.pdf
      April 20, 2008 - Conclusion: This proactive methodology actively engaged surgical residents in quality improvement as … The process was carried out on two postoperative surgical floors at an urban teaching hospital. … All staff—including nursing, administrative and support staff, surgical attendings, and surgical residents—were … The meeting for surgeons was attended by 45 surgical residents and one surgical attending (the residency … Improving assessment of postoperative pain in surgical wards by education and training.

1311. Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/learn-from-defects-fac-notes.html
      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.

1312. AHRQ Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery Final Report (pdf file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/ambulatory-surgery-report.pdf
      May 01, 2017 - The program goals were to reduce infections and surgical harms in ASCs through use of a surgical safety … environment, patient and family engagement in the surgical environment, and sustainability. … environment, patient and family engagement in the surgical environment, and sustainability. … Many also have extremely low rates of surgical site infection (SSI) (e.g., cataracts). … Did they report surgical safety checklist use?

1313. Facilitator Guide: Learning From Defects Through Sensemaking (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/implementation/imp_learn_from_defects_facnotes.docx
      December 01, 2017 - Principles of Safe Design SAY: The principles of safe design apply to the two main pieces of the surgical … ASK: Have you established your surgical quality team? … SAY: The core surgical quality team guides the use of the Learning from Defects tool. … Your surgical quality team will need to balance the scope of the intervention effort. … With your surgical quality team, document all ideas for intervention.

1314. Tool: Glucose Control Audit (doc file)
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/glucose_control_audit.docx
      December 01, 2017 - continues about its exact numeric value, euglycemia should be maintained perioperatively to prevent surgical … Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 … We recommend that you collect data from 10 surgical patents, but there is no right or wrong number of … You can use the materials in the AHRQ Toolkit to Promote Safe Surgery, such as the Surgical Complication

1315. PowerPoint Presentation; Deep-Root Your Data
      www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/sustainability_deep_root_data.pptx
      December 01, 2017 - quality improvement data. 1 Learning Objectives After this session, you will be able to– Identify surgical … Program for Surgery – Sustainability SAY: At the end of this session, you will be able to— Identify surgical … Did you reduce surgical site infections? … If your surgical area only does between one and five colectomy cases per month, your rate could easily … Who is responsible for sharing the data with all surgical staff members?

1316. Priority Areas Identified by the U.S.-Mexico Border Commission: Summary & Definitions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/part4-summ.html
      October 01, 2015 - Surgical: Surgical diagnosis-related group. Medical: All other discharges. … service lines, based on the following hierarchical order: maternal and neonatal, mental health, injury, surgical

1317. Designing a Scorecard for Sustainability: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/modules/sustainability/scorecard-slides.html
      December 01, 2017 - Consider participating in surgical morbidity and mortality conferences. … Is your surgical site infection rate trending down? … Identify surgical measures relevant to your clinicians.

1318. Medical/Surge Capacity Potential | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/medsurge.html
      July 01, 2018 - Scenario A = Non-critical medical/surgical patients are moved to this facility to create space for critical … There is no intention to set up surgical facilities at the facility under either scenario.

1319. Supplies/Surge Capacity Potential | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/research/shuttered/toolkitchecklist/supplsurge.html
      July 01, 2018 - Scenario A = Non-critical medical/surgical patients are moved to this facility to create space for critical … There is no intention to set up surgical facilities at the facility under either scenario.

1320. Barrier Identification and Mitigation Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
      www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/surgery/tools/surgical-complication-prevention/bim.html
      December 01, 2017 - This BIM team should be a subcommittee of the surgical safety program team.