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61. Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program: Accelerating the Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - Improving surgical safety by promoting implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance surgical … care and recovery and reduce complications, including reduction in surgical site infections and catheter-associated … CUSP reduced surgical site infection rates in hospitals by 25 to 40 percent, depending on the type of

62. Background and Overview: Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture: Slide Presentation (pdf file)
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    July 18, 2015 - Ambulatory Surgical Center Services. Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy. … apply principles of the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) in ASCs • Goal: implement a surgical … safety checklist-centered quality improvement intervention to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs

63. Appendix I. Checklist Observation Tool and FAQs - Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … information regarding the processes performed in the operating room or procedure room in order to improve surgical … site |___| Surgical procedure to be performed matches consent form |___| Site marked |___| Patient … check by each item the team discussed during the preoperative briefing. |___| Patient's name |___| Surgical … procedure to be performed |___| Surgical site |___| Antibiotic prophylaxis been given within 60 minutes

64. Management Practices for Sustainability - Module 1: Overview | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … 1 The complexity of procedures continues to increase 2 ASCs have an excellent safety record 3 Surgical … Program Goals Reduce surgical infection and complication rates. … Testing the Model The IHI team carried out a pilot test of the model with two volunteer ambulatory surgical … Visual Management can focus on the “precious few” key metrics such as days since last near miss and surgical

65. About the Toolkit Development | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded a 4-year project to reduce HAIs and other surgical

66. Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Word File , 2.4 MB; Text Version ) This checklist template is based on the World Health Organization Surgical … ensure that any changes to your checklist meet the goals of the original World Health Organization Surgical … information regarding the processes performed in the operating room or procedure room in order to improve surgical

67. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
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    July 01, 2016 - Trauma-Vaginal Delivery Without Instrument   Death PSI 02 Death in Low-Mortality DRGs   PSI 04 Death Among Surgical … Inpatients   Sentinel Events (Adults) PSI 05 Retained Surgical Item or Unretrieved Device Fragment … Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection Rate Sentinel Events (Pediatric) PDI 03 Retained Surgical

68. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Version 2.0 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2021 - Multiple Units, No specific unit 1 Many different hospital units, No specific unit Medical/Surgical … Units 2 Combined Medical/Surgical Unit 3 Medical Unit (Non-Surgical) 4 Surgical Unit … , Behavioral Health 13 Pulmonology 14 Rehabilitation, Physical Medicine 15 Telemetry Surgical

69. Visual Management Board Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … (Determine revisions) Add the previous day’s surgical safety checklist observation to the visual board … if using the surgical safety checklist observation. … elements, such as a list of the patients for the day with safety flags, a table showing observations of surgical … Checklist observation: Score of surgical safety checklist observation can be an element of the display

70. Getting Ready for Your Ambulatory Surgery | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Preparing for Your Surgery Before any surgical procedure, your doctor might ask you to take certain … For example, you might see a nurse using a surgical checklist or you may be asked more than once to verify … This can help keep you safe from surgical infections and other complications. … Surgical technologists (scrub techs): personnel who set up the surgery/procedure room, prepare you for

71. Advancing Academic and Practical Knowledge To Prevent Infections From Hospital to Home | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - the use of targeted decolonization with routine post-discharge wound care to reduce post-discharge surgical … The Decrease SSI Trial (Decolonization to Reduce After-Surgery Events of Surgical Site Infection) project … advance the appropriate use of antibiotics for children and the use of claims data for surveillance of surgical

72. Module 3: Component Kit (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - (1) Type 1: Supervisor observing the surgical team on May 23 at 10:30 a.m. intervenes to ask team … Observation of safety standard work, such as during observation of the surgical safety checklist use … Ambulatory Surgery and has tested and adapted the surgical safety checklist, and if you teach staff … Location: Our Surgical Center Activity Owner: Center Administrator Unit originating this activity … description: Our Surgical Center Date Prepared: 4/15/2016 Last Revision: Date Approved: 4/

73. Strategy 2: Communicating to Improve Quality (Tool 3) (doc file)
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    April 13, 2017 - Importantly, there is an FDA label indication for a surgical hand scrub product. … When we're looking at these manufacturer claims, we know that there are these major categories such as surgical … Active ingredients in the United States, waterless hand sanitizers approved for use as surgical scrubs … That's because the FDA requires for surgical hand scrubs that the active ingredients have immediate action … and that also there is some persistence of effect for these surgical hand scrubs.

74. How To Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2017 - CLABSI and CAUTI Prevention in ICUs Community-Acquired Pneumonia Toolkit Improving Surgical … Your facility can use the materials in each section to teach team members how to apply CUSP to prevent surgical

75. Recently Funded Career Development Award Grants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2019 - Su-Hsin K01 HS022330 Washington University Obesity, Comorbidities, and Economic Evaluations of Surgical … Complexity and Dementia Dimick, Justin K08 HS017765 University of Michigan Composite Measures of Surgical … K08 HS020927 University of Michigan Effects of Physician Social Networks on Surgical Safety, Quality … K08 HS018346 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Physician Organization and the Efficiency of Surgical

76. Section 5, Tables 8 and 9 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2013 - Eligible patients for the experimental group had been admitted to medical, neurologic, or surgical … Adherence to evidence-based processes of surgical care was measured in terms of use of appropriate … Of the 694 adult medical and surgical patients who were readmitted to a VA Medical Center within 2 … Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care. … Hospitals with high surgical volume and low surgical mortality have lower rates of surgical readmission

77. Module 1: Script and Slides (doc file)
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    May 01, 2017 - Surgical safety checklists and other examples of safety standard work can help you avoid both near misses … The two main program goals were to reduce surgical infection and complication rates and to improve safety … of change, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement team tested the theory with several ambulatory surgical … simple metrics, at least initially, such as days since last harm event, days since last near miss, and surgical

78. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - This study evaluated best methods to assess surgical wire navigation skill, which can be objectively … This study investigated variability in surgical approaches to hernias in patients with ascites. … The primary outcome observed was incidence and surgical approach for both ventral and inguinal hernia … Open repair was the most common surgical approach (ventral: 86%, open: 77%). … Variability in surgical approaches to hernias in patients with ascites.

79. Problem Solving and Escalation – Standards Component Kit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - Observation of safety standard work, such as during observation of the surgical safety checklist use … If your organization has adopted the surgical safety checklist advanced by the AHRQ Safety Program for … Ambulatory Surgery and has tested and adapted the surgical safety checklist, and if you teach staff … Location: Our Surgical Center Activity Owner: Center Administrator Unit originating this … activity description:  Our Surgical Center Date Prepared: 4/15/2016 Last Revision:

80. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2022 - Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Summary of Evidence (Not reviewed) (Not reviewed) Prevention of Surgical … Guidance of Central Vein Catheterization Summary of Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Prevention of Surgical … Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Use of Report Cards and Outcome Measurements To Improve Safety of Surgical … Care: American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (Not reviewed) … 2020) Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism Summary of Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Post-Surgical