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201. 3P_RD_AHRQ_PUF_Data_Dictionary (xls file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/3P-RD-Data-Dictionary.xlsx
     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

202. UChicago Medicine Reduces Perioperative Venous Thromboembolism with AHRQ's Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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. … mechanical prophylaxis and ambulation processes. 08/18/22–10/20/22 Nursing units and surgical

203. 017-Ss-Importance-Ssi-Mrsa-Prevention-Fg (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/017-ss-importance-ssi-mrsa-prevention-fg.docx
     April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention Surgical … This presentation will provide information about the severity of the threat that MRSA and SSIs pose to surgical … SAY: Different members of surgical teams may have different background knowledge regarding surgical … Direct surveillance includes observation, sometimes daily, of the surgical site. … This places surgical patients at increased risk for MRSA and SSIs.

204. Final Progress Report: Preventing Opioid Misuse Through Safe Opioid Use Agreements Between Patients and Surgical Providers (PROMISE-ME) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/stulberg-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Preventing Opioid Misuse Through Safe Opioid Use Agreements Between Patients and Surgical … Title of Project: Preventing Opioid Misuse through Safe Opioid Use Agreements between Patients and Surgical … The goal is to assess the effectiveness of a safe opioid use agreement in surgical care on patients’ … Specific Aim 3: Test the effectiveness of a safe opioid use agreement within the surgical care setting … We hypothesized that incorporating the safe opioid use agreement in surgical care will increase the

205. 015-Ss-Hand-Hygiene-Periop-Fg (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - site infections (SSIs) in surgical services. … It will cover both routine hand hygiene as well as surgical hand scrub, including when and how surgical … The 2018 WHO Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection recommend performing a surgical … The steps for the surgical hand rub procedure are as follows: 1. … completing a surgical hand rub involve the following: 1.

206. It Takes a Team: Preventing Infections in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/appendix-l.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - Surgical site infections are infections that can occur after surgery in the part of the body where … to— Dangerous Each year in the U.S., there are about 300,000 surgical site infections. … year in the U.S., surgical site infections cost between $3.5 million and $1 billion.2 Preventable … Frequently asked questions about surgical site infections: Patient guide. … Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update.

207. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection
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     September 18, 2011 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection Improving … site infection, surgical risk factor, risk factor, surgical wound, surgical infection.  … Keywords used for the search included: SSI, surgical site infection, surgical risk factor, risk factor … , surgical wound, surgical infection.  … Risk factors identified from any surgical site were included in the list.

208. Exhibit 12. Data for Algorithm | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibit … 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.

209. Exhibits 8 to 10 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibits … 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.

210. Exhibit 1.15. Project Team Composition—Surgeons’ Preference Cards | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2014 - Healthcare Total of six staff: Executive sponsor: assistant vice president for surgical … System administrator for surgical services. Operating room clerical coordinator.

211. 43-Pathway-Worksheet (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Surgical Care and Recovery. … Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery. … Improving Surgical Care and Recovery.

212. 48-Prep-Colorectal-Facilitator (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/48-prep-colorectal-facilitator.docx
     June 01, 2023 - Prep for SSI Prevention for Colorectal Surgery: Facilitator Guide AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … you with an overview of the use of oral antibiotics and mechanical bowel preparation to help reduce surgical … patients and highly reliable data such as the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative, the Veterans … Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program, and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program consistently … Slide 6 Current ISCR Recommendation and Guidelines To reduce surgical site infections in patients

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

214. Exhibit 20. Estimates of the total number of SSI cases in the United States, based on the rates used | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibit … 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. … Pooled = pooled rate over all four hospitals; SSI = surgical site infection(s).

215. Appendix A, Pt. 3 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Decolonization of orthopedic surgical team S. aureus carriers: Impact on surgical-site infections … of surgical-site infection. … Site Infection in Orthopaedic Surgical Patients [Eiselt (2010)] Background Postoperative surgical … On the day of surgery the surgical site is shaved in the operating room immediately prior to surgical … The overall incidence of surgical-wound infection was 12 percent.

216. Appendix C. Site Visit Protocol | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - How many are surgical assistants? How many are house staff? … Where is surgical team sterilization taking place? When does the surgical briefing occur? … When does the surgical debriefing take place? … Let's discuss sterilization for staff and surgical teams. … What steps does the surgical team take to reduce the risk?

217. 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.

218. QIO Implements TeamSTEPPS® in Two Iowa Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2014 - She uses the TeamSTEPPS tools to assist hospitals working on surgical care improvement to reduce surgical … To reinforce the use of the tools and strategies, Vellinga joins surgical teams in the units and coaches … It isn't just happening with the surgical teams." … of surgical complications are being attributed directly to TeamSTEPPS tools. … Dlouhy says the goal is to reach 100 percent in all the surgical infection prevention measures.

219. Exhibit 11. Performance on SSI types using test set | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibit … 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.

220. Exhibits 53 to 55 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection Exhibits … 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.