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41. Medical Injury Identification Using Hospital Discharge Data (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Layde.pdf
    January 01, 2003 - Surveillance is a cornerstone of the public health approach to disease and injury prevention.4, 5 A … Therefore, surveillance systems that use information collected for other purposes tend to provide a … Additional codes were made part of the surveillance criteria on the basis of this review. … Principles and practice of public health surveillance. … Validation of medical injury surveillance criteria Table 2.

42. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/infection-surveillance.html
    April 01, 2017 - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance National Healthcare Safety Network … Long-Term Care National Healthcare Safety Network Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance

43. 007-Ss-Contact-Precautions-Fg (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - The researchers studied 10 years of surveillance data from 108 VA hospitals in the United States. … There are two primary strategies of MRSA surveillance: passive and active. … Active surveillance is the active collection of cultures or molecular tests from patients to identify … Some sites may routinely perform active MRSA surveillance on all surgical patients routinely, often as … For more in-depth information, refer to the presentations on MRSA Surveillance.

44. Final progress report: Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/mao-report.pdf
    January 01, 2025 - Final progress report: Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports … Final progress report Developing Evidence for Safety Surveillance from Device Adverse Event Reports … The MAUDE database is a reporting system mandated by the FDA for postmarket device surveillance. … The FDA also required the manufacturer to conduct a post-market surveillance study with a comparison … The MAUDE database houses adverse event reports mandated by the FDA for postmarket device surveillance

45. 011-Ss-Decolonization-Strategies-Fg (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - In this case, this is usually based off a nasal surveillance culture or PCR. … More information is available on MRSA surveillance in this toolkit. … The surveillance result would be used to help determine need to add vancomycin as a prophylactic drug … Another advantage is that with the use of preoperative screening or surveillance, it is known who is … MRSA Surveillance.

46. Appendix B. In-Person Meetings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Publicly available electronic surveillance tool vs. expensive, proprietary data mining surveillance tools … Post discharge surveillance is still a problem —this is KEY. … Surveillance requirements are different than clinical action requirements. … The surveillance tool will free nurses up to do more prevention. … Describe the burden of current human-long SSI surveillance practice.

47. The Relationship Between Hospital Workload and Patient Safety (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/weissman-rothschild-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - were analyzed to determine why they were not identified by the computer surveillance. … One UTI was identified by manual chart review and not by the computerized surveillance system. … NLP methods were not included in the computer surveillance methods. … Of these, 30 (30/239 = 12.5%) RTIs were detected by both the computerized surveillance system and by … representations of clinical manifestations that could be used for NLP surveillance.

48. Index of Clinical Topics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2024 - Staff Training Materials Tools & Resources for Decolonization: Patient Educational Resources MRSA Surveillance … MRSA Surveillance MRSA surveillance provides key insights on the prevalence of MRSA among the patient … This section provides an overview of active and passive MRSA surveillance, the strategies, and best practices

49. Recognizing and Supporting Nurses in Diagnostic Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/nurse-role-dxsafety3.html
    September 01, 2022 - Improving surveillance and reducing operational barriers to nurse participation in the diagnostic process … Domain 2: Improving Surveillance and Reducing Operational Barriers System surveillance is the “purposeful … Surveillance depends on nurses being able to leverage technologies, access data from multiple sources … . 19 In addition, they can work to optimize organizational features known to affect nurse surveillance … Evaluate nurses’ current work environments and identify opportunities and barriers to improving nurse surveillance

50. The Brighton Collaboration: Creating a Global Standard for Case Definitions (and Guidelines) for Adverse Events Following Immunization (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2004 - Case definitions for infectious conditions under public health surveillance. … Principles and practice of public health surveillance. … Surveillance of adverse events following immunization. … WHO case definitions for AIDS surveillance in adults and adolescents. … Evaluation of a proposed NIOSH surveillance case definition for occupational asthma.

51. Cancer Patient Safety Learning Laboratory (CaPSLL): Preventing Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/learning-lab/preventing-clinical-deterioration-long-desc.html
    January 01, 2025 - This approach led to using the following technological mechanisms, which make up the CaPSLL surveillance-and-risk … Development and validation of a surveillance and risk prediction system for clinical deterioration in … Implementation of Passive Surveillance Techniques for Cancer Outpatients Using Activity Monitors and … Implementation of Passive Surveillance Techniques for Cancer Outpatients Using Activity Monitors and … Implementation of Passive Surveillance Techniques for Cancer Outpatients Using Activity Monitors and

52. 126-Monthly-Team-Checkup-Tool (doc file)
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    April 01, 2025 - (Information on active and passive surveillance can be found here.) … (Information on active and passive surveillance can be found here.) … (Information on active and passive surveillance can be found here.) … (Information on active and passive surveillance can be found here.) … (Information on MRSA surveillance can be found here.)

53. Final Progress Report: Electronic Clinical Surveillance To Measure and Improve Safety in Ambulatory Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/danforth-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Electronic Clinical Surveillance To Measure and Improve Safety in Ambulatory Care … Final Progress Report November 2019 Title Electronic Clinical Surveillance to Measure and Improve … Within KPSC, the SureNet Outpatient Safety Program uses electronic clinical surveillance to scan … KPSC uses secondary surveillance systems to try to reduce care gaps, but study results suggested that … Additionally, future research could assess the utility of secondary surveillance systems to minimize

54. Appendix V. JAMIA Draft Manuscript Tables | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 -       Routine Surveillance   Algo   SSI no SSI Total Algo   SSI no SSI …       Routine Surveillance   Algo   SSI no SSI Total Algo   SSI no SSI …       Routine Surveillance   Adjudicated   SSI no SSI Total Adjudicated   … Accuracy of Adjudication at VA SLCHCS Accuracy of Adjudication at VVMC     Routine Surveillance …       Routine Surveillance   Adjudicated   SSI no SSI Total Adjudicated  

55. Statistical Process Control Slides
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    June 04, 2013 - Primary Care and Practice Redesign Overview Statistical Process Control in Primary Care Disease surveillance … and the 2002 SLC Olympics Point-of-Care Testing as an Influenza Surveillance Tool Use of SPC in Practice … provided an epidemic post mortem rather than providing preventive benefit Public Health Surveillance … : Increased Gastro-intestinal Distress Paper-Pencil surveillance shows significant increase in clinically … identified GI distress SPC-based surveillance using University of Utah Community Clinics EMR system

56. Final Progress Report: Malpractice Insurers’ Medical Error Surveillance and Prevention Study (MIMESPS) (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/studdert-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Malpractice Insurers’ Medical Error Surveillance and Prevention Study (MIMESPS … ) MALPRACTICE INSURERS’ MEDICAL ERROR SURVEILLANCE AND PREVENTION STUDY (MIMESPS) Principal Investigator … New England Journal of Medicine 2005;353:1405-1409. 19 MALPRACTICE INSURERS’ MEDICAL ERROR SURVEILLANCE

57. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection
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    September 18, 2011 - Surgeons must believe rates are reliable Current surveillance methods are perceived as limited in risk … adjustment and detection HHSA-290-2006-00020 ACTION task order #8 The Burden of SSI Surveillance … The decision to implement this hybrid type of surveillance system was made based on the difficulty of … Routine Surveillance   Adjudicated SSI no SSI Total Adjudicated SSI no SSI Total SSI 6 1.42 7.42 …       Routine Surveillance   Adjudicated SSI no SSI Total Adjudicated SSI no SSI Total SSI 2

58. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/ssi/index.html
    April 01, 2018 - commissioned a study in 2009 with the objective of developing techniques to improve the identification and surveillance … Infection Rates     Identify Potential Automated/electronic Sources of Health Care Data Useful for Surveillance … Performance of Electronic Detection Schemes By Comparing to an Accepted Reference Standard for SSI Surveillance

59. Prologue: Laying the Foundation (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - and prevalence of departures from patient safety, it comes as no surprise that reporting systems and surveillance … The present volume provides ample evidence of this with papers on reporting systems and surveillance … Also spanning the surveillance landscape are papers on a national medication error reporting system, … Strategies and efforts aimed at adverse event surveillance, creating useable taxonomies, and addressing

60. Recommended Infection Prevention Components of Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - Infection occurrence surveillance: Occurrences should be logged for— a. … Surveillance of all patients per CDC guidelines, including comprehensive investigation and reporting … Tuberculosis surveillance of patients and staff c.