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421. FAQs (Staff): Wound Cleaning (doc file)
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     March 01, 2022 - Can I use CHG cloths over a closed surgical incision? Yes. … CHG is beneficial and should be applied over a closed surgical incision to kill bacteria and reduce risk … What if my surgical patient has a wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC), dressing, or closed wound? … dressing and clean the portion of any device that is within 6 inches of the body, including wound VACs and surgical

422. PowerPoint Presentation
     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

423. 089-Or-Traffic-Fg (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI Operating Room Traffic Surgical Services For: … Strategies (IPS), with a specific focus on operating room (OR) traffic and the best practices to target surgical … Surgical services are a multi-team system, with a diverse and multi-disciplinary membership. … These authors assessed adherence to a national surgical care bundle. … Members felt that door openings during the surgical case appeared to be more frequent than necessary.

424. Preparing for and Recovering After Gynecologic Surgery (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2023 - ■ Write down any questions to ask your surgical team when you see them. … If surgery is done to remove both ovaries, this causes something called: surgical menopause. … ■ Surgical menopause starts suddenly. … 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.

425. In AHRQ-Funded Study, Authors Observe COVID-19 ‘Infodemic’ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - Surgical Teams Sought for Project To Prevent Surgical Site Infections . … Surgical Teams Sought for Project To Prevent Surgical Site Infections AHRQ is recruiting surgical teams … to participate in a free 18-month project to reduce surgical site infections caused by methicillin-resistant

426. 025-Ss-Why-Choose-Cusp-Fg (doc file)
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     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

427. 19-Perioperative-Teams (doc file)
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     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

428. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 31, 2016 - Care Introduction: Essential First Steps • Engage key nurses, physicians and other providers, and surgical … o Use blunt surgical instruments. … containers Communication • Systemwide education on protocol • Communication between surgeon and surgical … nurse/surgical technician on agreed upon neutral zone Authority/Accountability • Senior leadership … Littleton, CO: Association of Surgical Technologists; January 2013.

429. Debrief Example - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2017 - Improvement Study Ambulatory Surgery Center Slide 2: Problem Statement The surgical … safety checklist has been shown to reduce surgical mortality and complication rates in a variety of … surgical settings. … Who: All surgical admissions to the ASC. … Slide 8: The Goal To achieve a 100% completion rate for all elements of the debrief for all surgical

430. Appendix C. Data Dictionary | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     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.

431. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d4a_pdi01-lacerationpuncture-bestpractices.pdf
     May 31, 2016 - Care Introduction: Essential First Steps • Engage key nurses, physicians and other providers, and surgical … o Use blunt surgical instruments. … containers Communication • Systemwide education on protocol • Communication between surgeon and surgical … nurse/surgical technician on agreed upon neutral zone Authority/Accountability • Senior leadership … Littleton, CO: Association of Surgical Technologists; January 2013.

432. Final Progress Report: Nurse Staffing Policy, Hospital Occupancy, Market Structure, and Patient Outcomes (pdf file)
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     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.

433. 7-Implementation-Guide (doc file)
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     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.

434. Exhibit 3. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for literature review | 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 3. … literature review Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … on surgery complications without specific information Studies that focus only on hospital and not surgical

435. Diverticulitis (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - –72 hours) and/or source control is achieved · Oral therapy: [Place local recommendations here] · Surgical … management · Obtain immediate surgical consultation for presence of perforation, peritonitis, obstruction … · Obtain surgical consultation during admission for failure of medical therapy, abscess (generally ≥ … The Surgical Infection Society revised guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection.

436. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2023 - previous ‹‹ 1 2 3 4 5 Toolkit for Improving Surgical … apply the proven principles and methods of AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to prevent surgical … Hospital, Outpatient Surgery Toolkit To Promote Safe Surgery This toolkit helps surgical … units improve safety culture and reduce surgical site infections and other complications.

437. Appendix B: Trends in Access, Quality and Disparities for Measures in 2016 Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - 2014 Admissions with central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection per 1,000 medical and surgical … respiratory failure per 1,000 elective surgical hospital discharges, adults -5.97 -2.74 2014 … respiratory failure per 1,000 elective surgical hospital discharges, adults -6.76 -3.30 2014 … Postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangements per 1,000 elective surgical hospital discharges … respiratory failure per 1,000 elective surgical hospital discharges, adults -1.10 -0.54 2014

438. 13-Identifying-Stakeholders-Analysis (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Stakeholder Analysis ToolAHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery What is this tool … The AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery (ISCR) Stakeholder Analysis tool is … Multidisciplinary teams are an important part of improving surgical care. … Senior Leader Checklist Patient and Family Engagement module AHRQ AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical … No. 23-0052 June 2023 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery Stakeholder Analysis

439. 067-Cusp-Monthly-Meeting-Prework (doc file)
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     April 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI CUSP Monthly Meeting Prework Surgical … prework to support monthly Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) meetings and the prevention of surgical … | 1 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical

440. Chapter 3. Risk-Informed Interventions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical Site Infection in Ambulatory Surgery Centers Chapter 3. … Interventions Previous Page Next Page Table of Contents Proactive Risk Assessment of Surgical … Prevention of intraoperative infection transmission (e.g., surgical disinfection and antisepsis, skin … preparation, disinfection in the surgical environment). … Another important example is surgical preparation and draping, a longstanding surgical technique.