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41. Implementing Your Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2020 - Implementing Your Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle: Facilitator Notes AHRQ Safety Program … surgical experts identified salient interventions to prevent SSIs. … Talk to frontline staff to identify how they would reduce surgical site infections. … How do you think the next patient will develop a surgical site infection? … Identify and focus on the defects in your surgical unit.

42. Appendix B. Figure 3. Normalized Percent Distribution for Surgical Procedures with Incision (California 2008 SASD) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers Appendix B. … Normalized Percent Distribution for Surgical Procedures with Incision (California 2008 SASD) … Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection … References Text Description A pie chart showing the normalized percent distribution for surgical

43. Guides and Resources for Operationalizing Your MRSA and SSI Prevention Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2025 - Hospital-Level Gap Analysis for MRSA and SSI Prevention (PDF, 749 KB) Surgical Services Gap Analysis … Team Checkup Tool for MRSA Prevention in Surgical Services Settings (DOCX, 412 KB) The Staff Safety … Staff Safety Assessment Sample (DOCX, 316 KB) The Surgical Site Infection Investigation Tool is a … helpful tool to help to investigate why a surgical site infection may have occurred. … Surgical Site Investigation Tool Sample is available for your review.

44. Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements (doc file)
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    December 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements Performing an SSI Investigation … Number and Slide Performing an SSI Investigation SAY: In this module, you’ll learn about performing a 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?

45. Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements (doc file)
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    December 01, 2017 - Facilitator Guide: Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements Sustaining and Spreading Improvements … It also refers to applying the process for improving surgical safety to new challenges. … They enjoy active surgical champions as well as the participation of an executive leader. … ASK: How will the next patient get a surgical site infection? … What can we do to prevent the next surgical site infection?

46. Hand Hygiene in the Perioperative Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2025 - Surgical hand antisepsis aims to suppress microorganisms to reduce risk of surgical site infections ( … Tools and Resources Surgical Scrub Training Videos These training videos covering best practices for … Anatomical Surgical Hand Scrub A step-by-step training demonstration of surgical hand scrub procedure … Duration: 5:09 Published Dec 14, 2018 Proper Surgical Hand Rub A step-by-step training demonstration … of surgical hand rub technique, with a voiceover describing each step.

47. Exhibit 2. Literature review search terms by category | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers Exhibit 2. … by category Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … or patient-related risk factors Surgical risk factors Procedural complications Medical errors … Surgical infections Surgical site infections Postoperative infections Healthcare associated … ambulatory surgical centers Infection control practices Infection control practices

48. Three Areas To Immediately Advance Diagnosis In Rural Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2024 - Enhancing Specialty Care and Surgical Service Lines Strengthening subspecialized care and surgical service … Training and Recruiting Specialists, Surgeons, and Surgical Staff .   … Ensuring access to skilled surgical technologists and perioperative nurses is vital for increasing surgical … Establishing Tele-Specialty and Surgical Consultation Networks . … Investing in Advanced Surgical and Diagnostic Equipment and Technologies . 

49. Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery The Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery helps perioperative and surgical … opportunities to improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and the core CUSP toolkit by providing specific tools focused on the surgical … setting to help hospitals reduce surgical site infections and other complications. … Technical work changes procedural aspects of care that can be explicitly defined, such as surgical skin

50. Appendix L. Infection Prevention Infographic - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/app-l.html
    May 01, 2017 - It Takes a Team Everyone in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) plays a role in preventing surgical … Surgical site infections are infections that can occur after surgery in the part of the body where … the surgery took place. 1 Surgical site infections are— * Dangerous Each year in the U.S … ., there are about 300,000 surgical site infections . … Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update.

51. Exhibit 47. Surgeon specialties and health system affiliations | 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.

52. Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical Teams | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Additional TeamSTEPPS Videos: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical Teams   YouTube embedded video … : https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ekX289e3-Uo TeamSTEPPS: Check-Back in Inpatient Surgical Teams

53. Exhibit 6. Demonstration that algorithm positives can be identified by compact logic | 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. … SSI = surgical site infection.

54. Appendix A. Literature Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Center HAI: Healthcare Associated Infections SSI: Surgical Site Infection SWI: Surgical Wound Infection … Surgery related factors: Type of surgery (surgical procedure) Surgical factors (e.g., antibiotic … remote to the surgical site before elective surgery. … Appropriate surgical attire and drapes. Appropriate surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis. … a sterile towel was placed over the surgical site and patted dry.

55. Exhibit 4. Evolution of C-reactive protein values among individuals who NEVER develop an SSI | 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.

56. Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2011 - Improving Customer Service and Access in a Surgical Practice WORKING P A P E R Improving Customer … Service and Access in a Surgical Practice A Case Study of a Successful Quality Improvement Intervention … data) 1 THE CASE STUDY IN BRIEF INTRODUCTION This report describes the efforts of one surgical

57. Final Progress Report: Factors Associated with Effective Implementation of a Surgical Safety Checklist (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Methods: We developed instruments to capture primary data from surgical team members about surgical … Although most surgical staff reported positive surgical safety culture, many felt neutral or negative … With a view toward improving teamwork, components of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist modify surgical … Surgical Safety Culture Survey. … Measures Surgical safety culture.

58. The Four Key Strategies of MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2025 - and SSI Prevention Program Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical … How you approach the topic of tackling these areas depends on what’s right for your facility or surgical … This information is also presented, organized for specific phases of care among the surgical services … includes extensive resources and materials to assist in the implementation of decolonization in your surgical … Skin antisepsis can be performed by the patient at home or by the surgical team pre-op.

59. Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - Sustaining and Spreading Surgical Safety Improvements: Slide Presentation AHRQ Safety Program … for Surgery Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Surgery—Sustainability Sustaining and Spreading Surgical … When you apply the process for improving surgical safety to new challenges. … Include active surgical champions who partner with others. Have executive leadership support.

60. Exhibit 5. Evolution of C-reactive protein values among individuals who DO develop an SSI | 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.