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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/113-cleaning-monitoring-methods-one-pager.docx
April 01, 2025 - References
Environmental Cleaning:
Monitoring Methods
Surgical Services
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA … Prevention | Surgical Services
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Environmental … Environmental Cleaning:
Monitoring Methods
Surgical Services
AHRQ Pub.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/7-implementation-guide.docx
June 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
Implementation Guide
Purpose of This … enhanced recovery pathway into their perioperative area as part of the AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … ISCR is a collaborative program to enhance the perioperative care of surgical patients. … Care and Recovery (ISCR) is a program to enhance the perioperative care of surgical patients. … Choosing a Scope
Your ISCR team will need to decide on a surgical service line.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/025-ss-why-choose-cusp-fg.docx
April 01, 2025 - Surgical Services
Slide Title and Commentary
Slide Number and Slide
Why Choose a CUSP Approach? … of preventable harm—such as the prevention of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical … Forming and using a CUSP approach in the perioperative surgical areas emphasizes interdisciplinary cooperation … For example, the core members of a surgical services CUSP team might be different from the core members … Patient outcomes include the patient care experience, surgical site infection rates, or treatment errors
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-measurement.html
November 01, 2017 - Guide
Overview
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
Measurement
Implementing the Surgical … and reporting of data is an effective means of first engaging staff and physicians in SSI and other surgical … The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlines 12 measures in the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/19-perioperative-teams.docx
June 01, 2023 - A Guide to Leading Successful Perioperative TeamsAHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and … perioperative team is one of the first, and most critical, steps in your AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … Identifies opportunities for improvement and works closely with teams to develop programs to improve surgical … Quality Forum, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Co-Lead, Surgical Clinical Community, Johns Hopkins Health System … Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, MI
Professor of Surgery, Section of Transplantation
Director, Michigan Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/052-sample-script-patient-ed-mupirocin.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting Surgical Site Infection
Teaching … Patients How To Decolonize With Mupirocin:
Key Points & Sample Script
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac … why preoperative decolonization is important and how to perform it at home is crucial to preventing surgical … www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/abate/index.html
Mupirocin Script
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AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/056-patient-instructions-chg-shower.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Patient Instructions: Showering With CHG
Surgical … Surgery greatly raises the risk of a severe infection, called a surgical site infection or SSI. … No. 25-0029/April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
AHRQ Safety Program … for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Patient Instructions: Showering With CHG | 2
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/037-ss-bed-bathing-chg-cloths-protocol.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Pre-Op Surgical Decolonization Protocol for Staff … : Bathing With 2 Percent Chlorhexidine No-Rinse Cloths
Surgical Services
For: Cardiac, Hip and Knee Joint … Surgeries
The following protocol details the process for performing skin decolonization to prevent surgical … abate/index.html
Bathing With
2 Percent CHG Cloths
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AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/048-talking-points-patients-chg-bathing.docx
April 01, 2025 - Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Talking Points for Patients:
Chlorhexidine Bathing
Surgical … Spinal Fusion Surgeries
Patients may have questions regarding chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing to prevent surgical … We ask all surgical patients in our service to bathe with CHG leading up to their surgery. … tools/abate/index.html
CHG Bathing
Talking Points
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AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/10-frontline-provider.pptx
June 01, 2023 - Presentation
Frontline Provider Education
Presentation Template
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical … important first step to gain buy-in for change is to educate teams about your hospital’s Improving Surgical … Frontline Provider Education 3
[Hospital Name]
Improving Surgical Care and Recovery of Patients:
[Service … Line] Pathway
[Presenter Name]
[Date]
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery … [Service line, e.g., colorectal, hip fracture] surgery procedures may have high morbidity (e.g., surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssi1.html
April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection
Chapter … 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/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/booklets/hip-knee-surgery-booklet.pdf
November 01, 2023 - ■ Write down any questions to ask your surgical team when you see them. … If your surgical team tells you to take any pills, take them with a
sip of water. … ■ You may get a pain patch to help with pain by the surgical area. … Taking Care of Your Surgical Wound
Different types of bandages are used. … Showering
Ask your surgical team for instruction about bathing.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/mchugh-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - For example, minimum
staffing in general medical and surgical units were set at one licensed nurse for … The measure of
nurse staffing was the number of inpatient medical-surgical patients per licensed nurse … The patient outcomes, 30-day inpatient surgical mortality and mortality after
a complication (failure … deaths per 10,000 surgical patients (0.48, SE=0.18,
p=0.008) and 24 fewer deaths following a surgical … complication (2.4 (0.6), p<0.001) per 10,000
surgical patients.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/18-template-ISCR-pathway.docx
June 01, 2023 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Surgical Care and Recovery
Template for Building and Implementing … pathways based on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Surgical … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Pathway Grid Template 1 … skin preparation
Modify and add details:
Examples:
Sequential compression devices
Warming blanket
Surgical … No. 23-0052
June 2023
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Pathway
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/ssiaph.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/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/055-patient-instructions-chg-cloths.docx
April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Patient Instructions: Cleaning With CHG Cloths
Surgical … Surgery greatly raises the risk of a severe infection, called a surgical site infection or SSI. … No. 25-0029/April 2025
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
AHRQ Safety Program … for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Patient Instructions: Cleaning With CHG Cloths | 1
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/057-patient-instructions-mupirocin.docx
April 01, 2025 - MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
Patient Instructions: Preoperative Nasal Decolonization With Mupirocin
Surgical … having surgery, you’re at much higher risk that those bacteria might cause a severe infection called a surgical … AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | … Surgical Services Patient Instructions: Nasal Decolonization With Mupirocin | 1
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/index.html
March 01, 2023 - the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to prevent surgical … organized into three sections that your facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical … customizable resources that your facility can use to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/116-evaluating-cleaning-data-collection-tool.docx
April 01, 2025 - Evaluating Environmental Cleaning With Fluorescent Gel:
Data Collection Instructions and Form
Surgical … Services
For: All Surgical Services
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING WITH FLUORESCENT GEL: DATA COLLECTION INSTRUCTIONS … Targeting SSI
Evaluating
Environmental Cleaning Tool
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AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … OPERATING ROOM1,2
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Evaluating
Environmental Cleaning Tool
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical … gas knobs
Intravenous pole
Anesthesia machine computer screen
Anesthesia computer keyboard
Arm board
Surgical
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/hoff-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - In the surgical culture, appropriate
learning best practices around errors and near misses committed … resident, a senior
surgical resident, one surgical intern, and two fourth-year medical students (n= … We observed 25 surgical procedures of varying complexity
performed by members of the team. … Common surgical resident errors included executing specific technical steps
of a surgical procedure … Creating a learning environment for surgical residents: The roles of culture
and context.