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  1. 46-Facilitators-Barriers (doc file)

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    June 01, 2023 - Facilitators of and Barriers to Sustaining Gains in Enhanced RecoveryAHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … teams through the processes of establishing skillful, consistent, and committed use of a system in surgical … Teams and leaders can highlight improvements in surgical outcomes for the practitioners and patients … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Facilitators and Barriers to Sustaining … service resources (e.g., personnel, types of surgeries permitted, reduction in surgical volumes, staff

  2. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)

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    January 01, 2009 - Nurse, Anesthesia Professional, and Patient Review: · Patient identification (name and date of birth) · Surgical … site · Surgical procedure to be performed matches the consent form · Site is marked by individual performing … Based on the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, www.who.int/patientsafety/safesurgery/checklist/en/index.html … Surgeon, Nurse, and Anesthesia Professional perform the Timeout · Patient’s name · Surgical procedure … to be performed matches the consent · Surgical site · Has antibiotic prophylaxis been given within

  3. Exhibit 13. Accuracy of algorithm at each participating hospital | 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.

  4. Exhibit 18. Counts of identified organisms by procedure | 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.

  5. 12-Identifying-Stakeholders-Facilitator (doc file)

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    June 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Identifying Stakeholders: How To Do a Stakeholder … Analysis for Your Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Program Slide Title and Commentary Slide Number … “When do you find yourself wasting time while taking care of our surgical patients?” … “Tell me about a surgical patient who made you smile.” … So, also consider who the stakeholders outside of the surgical arena may be.

  6. 142-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Engaging-Leaders (doc file)

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    April 01, 2025 - CUSP Tip Sheet: Engaging Senior Leaders in MRSA Prevention Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee … healthcare workers can have a dramatic impact on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical … your program’s importance clear by describing how your program’s goals directly impact patients, the surgical … Suggested Strategies Surgical service leads can take these actions to support senior leader involvement … and socio-adaptive factors. · Seek senior leader support to engage nurse and surgeon champions on the surgical

  7. Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    May 01, 2017 - Guide Overview The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Measurement Implementing the Surgical … (SSIs) and other surgical complications. … Implementing the Surgical Safety Checklist. Infection Prevention. … Surgical Safety Checklist The surgical safety checklist is an invaluable tool for optimizing patient … A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population.

  8. 144-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Engaging-Surgeons (doc file)

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    April 01, 2025 - CUSP Tip Sheet: Engaging Surgeons in MRSA and SSI Prevention Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and … safe patient outcomes to fully participate in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical … When Kara explained she removed the hair that interfered with the surgical site according to protocol … Overall, we’ve seen a decrease in surgical site infections. … | 1 CUSP Tip Sheet: Engaging Surgeons AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services

  9. Exhibit 24. List of additional SSI risk factors at Intermountain Healthcare | 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.

  10. Exhibit 52. Modified Denver Health algorithm performance data | 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.

  11. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 11. Patient Identification Errors in the Operating Room (pdf file)

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    March 01, 2020 - The AMF has been used in more than 112,500 surgical procedures at the University of Illinois College … The one exception was the surgical site being signed by the surgeon: this was at 75.8 percent in the … Effectiveness of surgical safety checklists in improving patient safety. … Wrong-site surgery, retained surgical items, and surgical fires a systematic review of surgical never … Current practice on preoperative correct site surgical marking.

  12. 049-Talking-Points-Patients-Nasal-Decolonization (doc file)

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    April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting Surgical Site Infection Talking Points for … Patients: Preoperative Nasal Decolonization Surgical Services For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint Replacement … Clinical trials have found that nasal decolonization reduces surgical site infections. … A single course of nasal decolonization reduces your risk for surgical site infections, but bacteria … Talking Points | 1 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services image2.jpg image1.

  13. Exhibit 14. Schematic showing the sampling process for chart review and the assignment of true and false positives and negatives | 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.

  14. Module 4: Script and Slides (doc file)

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    May 01, 2017 - By observation, we do not mean chart audits of surgical safety checklist use. … It is important to see the use of the surgical safety checklist in action. … Finally, you might wonder if this is just about surgical safety checklists. It’s not. … We use the surgical safety checklist as an example. … In the surgical safety checklist context, can the observer report on the results of surgical safety checklist

  15. Program Overview: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - CMS Surgical Care Improvement Project Infection Measures. … American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. … surgical complication rates. … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections … Data Reporting: Who will generate reports for surgical site infection rates?

  16. Toolkit Materials | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    December 01, 2017 - provides an overview of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and its application to the surgical … In addition, five supplemental tools support the surgical setting. … Supplemental tools Surgical Complication Prevention ( PDF , 465.8 KB) The Surgical Complication … Prevention guide provides further information about developing quality improvement interventions in the surgical … It also introduces surgical care audit tools to critically assess your perioperative processes, and additional

  17. Glucose Control Factsheet (doc file)

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    December 01, 2017 - Glucose Control Factsheet Glucose Control Factsheet Facts About Glucose Control and the Prevention of Surgical … Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. … Risk factors for surgical site infections after colorectal resection in diabetic patients. … Postoperative hyperglycemia and surgical site infection in general surgery patients. … Peri-operative glycaemic control regimens for preventing surgical site infections in adults.

  18. The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-cusp.html
    May 01, 2017 - Guide Overview The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) Measurement Implementing the Surgical … slide sets, videos, and tools highlight the following themes: (1) Communication and Teamwork in the Surgical … Environment, (2) Coaching Clinical Teams, and (3) Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment … Patient and Family Engagement in the Surgical Environment This module focuses on patient and family … Explain the importance of engaging patients and family members in the care of the surgical patient in

  19. Participating in the 2023 CAHPS® Home and Community-Based Services Survey Database: What You Need to Know - Bakdash (pdf file)

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    June 02, 2025 - settings Experience with Providers • Clinicians and Medical Groups • Hospices • Home Health Care • Surgical … • Hospitals (adult and pediatric) • Dialysis Centers • Nursing Homes • Outpatient Ambulatory Surgical … settings Experience with Providers • Clinicians and Medical Groups • Hospices • Home Health Care • Surgical … • Hospitals (adult and pediatric) • Dialysis Centers • Nursing Homes • Outpatient Ambulatory Surgical

  20. 112-Who-Task-Evc-Monitoring-One-Pager (doc file)

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    April 01, 2025 - Surgical Services When planning an environmental cleaning (EVC) monitoring program, it is crucial to … feedback · Time and resource intensive · Tends to have many competing priorities and commitments Surgical … to ensure respectful and constructive feedback exchange AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … No. 25-0029 April 2025 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services | 1 image1</div> </li> </ol> <!-- --> <!-- End Results --> <!-- Pagination --> <div class="pager clearfix"> <ul> <li class="first off"> <a href="/search?q=surgical&start=0&siteDomain=www.ahrq.gov">First</a> </li> <li class="previous off"> <a href="/search?q=surgical&start=220&siteDomain=www.ahrq.gov">Previous</a> </li> <li class="page-10 off"> <a href="/search?q=surgical&start=180&siteDomain=www.ahrq.gov">10</a> </li> <li class="page-11 off"> <a href="/search?q=surgical&start=200&siteDomain=www.ahrq.gov">11</a> </li> <li class="page-12 off"> <a 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