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141. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/008-ss-contact-precautions.pptx
     April 01, 2025 - centers Reduced MRSA transmission by 47% Interventions included contact precautions, hand hygiene, surveillance … program in a surgical ICU and a surgical non-ICU Standard precautions, contact precautions, active surveillance … Types of MRSA Surveillance Strategies | 14 AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI … part of an infection prevention bundle Identifying patients can be done with active or passive MRSA surveillance

142. 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 - projects that advance the appropriate use of antibiotics for children and the use of claims data for surveillance … Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which advises on infection prevention and surveillance

143. Appendix I. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition CAUTI Criteria Pocket Card | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/cauti-surveillance/pocket-card.html
     May 01, 2017 - Surveillance definitions of infections in long-term care facilities: Revisiting the McGeer criteria.

144. Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/018-ss-importance-ssi-mrsa-prevention.pptx
     April 01, 2025 - and SSI Prevention 1 Educational Objectives Define the concepts of surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance … Infection present at the site of a surgery Surveillance definitions1 National Healthcare Safety Network … Program for MRSA Prevention | Surgical Services Importance of MRSA and SSI Prevention Detection of SSI—Surveillance … MRSA infection is especially harmful and includes— Cardiac Knee and hip arthroplasty Spinal fusion Surveillance … Surveillance methods: direct, indirect. Identify, collect, store, and analyze data.

145. Appendix A. Teleconferences with AHRQ & CDC | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - The rigor of the surveillance with NSQIP is more complete than the collection at most sites. … First focus group will assess and develop workflow of current SSI surveillance and the resources for … First focus group will assess and develop workflow of current SSI surveillance and the resources for … A hybrid system is planned�to use the algorithm as a surveillance tool to trigger reduced burden of manual … review by ICPs Deep tissue & organ space surveillance vs inclusion of superficial infections

146. One-Pager-Influenza (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/one-pager-influenza.pdf
     June 01, 2021 -  Active influenza surveillance should occur until at least 1 week after the last influenza case … Influenza Surveillance Report (FluView). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. April 2021.

147. Affinity-Group-Improving-Support-Women (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/takeheart/training/affinity-group-improving-support-women.pdf
     May 01, 2021 - millionhearts.hhs.gov/files/Cardiac_Rehab_Change_Pkg.pdf  Million Hearts® Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Use Surveillance … Methodology: https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/files/Cardiac-Rehab-Use-Surveillance- Guidance.pdf  Million

148. Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/decolonize-patients.html
     October 01, 2024 - Staff Training Materials Tools & Resources for Decolonization: Patient Educational Resources MRSA Surveillance … decolonize patients identified as being infected or colonized with MRSA using an active or passive MRSA surveillance

149. 20 Years of Impactful Telehealthcare Research from AHRQ’s Digital Healthcare Research Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2024 - patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into clinical care Research to bolster a telehealth  lung cancer surveillance … program that combines PROs and assessments of remotely completed surveillance lung imaging A virtual

150. Chipra202-Materials Vb (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - Early identification of developmental delays through surveillance, screening, and diagnostic evaluation

151. 2018 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report Data Sources (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-datasources.pdf
     October 01, 2019 - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System operational and user’s guide. Version 3.0. … National HIV/AIDS Surveillance System Sponsor U.S. … Data system home page: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/surveillance/systems/index.html. … National Immunization Survey: the methodology of a vaccination surveillance system. … The results were used for QIO program evaluation and measure surveillance.

152. Overview: Getting Patients Off the Ventilator Faster: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/vae/overview-off-ventilator-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. … Electronic implementation of a novel surveillance paradigm for ventilator-associated events: feasibility … Slide 9: Defining Ventilator-Associated Events Previous VAP surveillance definitions were subjective … Multicenter evaluation of a novel surveillance paradigm for complications of mechanical ventilation. … Electronic implementation of a novel surveillance paradigm for ventilator-associated events: feasibility

153. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/HAP-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - Many institutions routinely obtain MRSA nasal surveillance swabs. … A negative MRSA nasal surveillance swab suggests a low likelihood of MRSA infection during the same … anti-MRSA coverage is added empirically, discontinue if MRSA is not recovered in sputum or nasal surveillance … Even if MRSA nasal surveillance swab data are not routinely obtained in your hospital, nasal swabs

154. Final Progress Report: Safety Advancement in the Emergency Department (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2024 - Pre-implementation surveillance was conducted to establish baseline process failure rates. … This study, Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department (ERASED), uses a novel … approach of real-time surveillance of the people and processes in the ED, which targets the identification … The initial risk assessment project, Evaluation of Risk by Active Surveillance in the Emergency Department … Using a method similar to that successfully used in the ERASED grant, real-time surveillance of the

155. Appendix A, Pt. 2 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) risk index was computed for each patient. … Methods German National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (NRZ) has been … establishing standardized surveillance methods since 1997. … A database within the Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance System, OP-KISS module, was created to record … The use of CDC definitions is mandatory in the surveillance system.

156. Confidential Performance Feedback and Organizational Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Patient Safety: Results of a Randomized Trial (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Layde_34.pdf
     March 14, 2008 - Reported medical injury rates were based on the Wisconsin Medical Injury Prevention Program (WMIPP) surveillance … Medical Injury Surveillance Criteria The methods we used for identifying medical injuries using hospital … To develop comprehensive surveillance or screening criteria for medical injuries, we reviewed the ICD … These surveillance criteria were validated by comparison to results obtained from a blinded review of … the nine diagnosis fields or the special E-code field contained any one of the codes listed in the surveillance

157. The SHARE Approach: Using the Teach-Back Technique (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sdm/share-approach/share-teachback-guide.pdf
     October 09, 2024 - making Try these examples with your patients • “We talked about two treatment options today: active surveillance … Would you please tell me how you would explain active surveillance to your family member?”

158. Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia Uses AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture, TeamSTEPPS® | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2025 - Electronic Clinical Surveillance Identifies Sepsis Antibiotic Overtreatment . … Electronic Clinical Surveillance Identifies Sepsis Antibiotic Overtreatment Researchers for an AHRQ-funded … study in Clinical Infectious Diseases developed a new sepsis overtreatment surveillance metric and

159. Toolkit 3. Minimum Criteria for Common Infections Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/determine-whether-to-treat/toolkit3-minimum-criteria.html
     September 01, 2017 - leads the user through questions to identify whether an antibiotic is necessary and offers options for surveillance … Surveillance definitions of infections in long-term care facilities: revisiting the McGeer criteria.

160. Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence Grants Awarded in FY 2022 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/research/grants-2022.html
     July 01, 2025 - Diagnostic Accuracy Through Advancing EHR displaY, Education, and Surveillance (DATA-EYES) Principal … Project Aims Create tools, strategies, and methods to implement e-trigger algorithms for diagnostic error surveillance … Synthesize implementation experiences to develop a safety surveillance system, "Safer Dx e-Watch," to