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61. 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

62. Public Health Department Collaborates With Health System To Improve Mortality Surveillance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - Public Health Department Collaborates With Health System To Improve Mortality Surveillance Issue … Today's Headlines: Public Health Department Collaborates With Health System To Improve Mortality Surveillance … Public Health Department Collaborates With Health System To Improve Mortality Surveillance A mortality … surveillance system established by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the

63. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

64. Catheter Care Do's and Don'ts | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2017 - Identifying Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) for NHSN Surveillance (online) . 3. … Long-term Care Facility (LTCF) Component Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance Module: UTI Event … Surveillance Definitions of Infections in Long‐Term Care Facilities: Revisiting the McGeer Criteria.

65. Section 4. Implementing Best Practices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2014 - Strategies No single approach to KPC surveillance will optimally address all scenarios of KPC prevalence … Active surveillance should be considered when KPC clinical cultures begin to appear at your institution … Surveillance approaches might include periodic prevalence surveys involving a representative sample of … Escalation of your control program should include active surveillance coupled with rapid initiation of … A typical active surveillance program would include weekly sampling of the total target population and

66. Catheter Care Do's and Don'ts (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2017 - Identifying Healthcare‐associated Infections (HAI) for NHSN Surveillance (online). http://www.cdc.gov … Long‐term Care Facility (LTCF) Component Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance Module: UTI Event … Surveillance Definitions of Infections in Long‐Term Care Facilities: Revisiting the McGeer Criteria.

67. Chapter 6. Conclusions and Recommendations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - key stakeholders on adoption and implementation as well as developing use cases for the e-detection surveillance … Task 3: Postdischarge surveillance remains a challenge, requiring data from the full continuum of … Postop admission within 30 days is a common “trigger” used by many facilities that rely on manual SSI surveillance … Task 4: An extreme burden of unsupported practitioner SSI surveillance exists. … factor assessment (surgeon focus group) and receptivity toward cognitive support from an electronic surveillance

68. Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification/Outcome Detection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    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

69. Diagnostic Safety Grants Awarded in FY 2022 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Diagnostic Accuracy Through Advancing EHR displaY, Education, and Surveillance (DATA-EYES) Principal … 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

70. 2023 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - BRFSS = Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. … NHSS = National HIV Surveillance System. NIS = National Immunization Survey. … NTBSS = National Tuberculosis Surveillance System.

71. Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection: The Devil Is in the Details | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2014 - Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical … Many of the studies describing the use of administrative or claims data to perform SSI surveillance have … These steps are important components of SSI surveillance after all surgical procedures, in particular … Some authors have concluded that billing and claims data cannot be reliably used for HAI surveillance … Use of diagnosis codes and/or wound culture results for surveillance of surgical site infection after

72. Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection: The Devil Is in the Details | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2014 - Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs Using Claims Data to Perform Surveillance for Surgical … Many of the studies describing the use of administrative or claims data to perform SSI surveillance have … These steps are important components of SSI surveillance after all surgical procedures, in particular … Some authors have concluded that billing and claims data cannot be reliably used for HAI surveillance … Use of diagnosis codes and/or wound culture results for surveillance of surgical site infection after

73. Advanced Methods in Delivery System Research - Planning, Executing, Analyzing, and Reporting Research on Delivery System Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2013 - and the 2002 SLC Olympics Point-of-Care Testing as an Influenza Surveillance Tool Use of SPC in Practice … Traditional influenza surveillance provided an epidemic post mortem rather than providing preventive … Slide 24 Public Health Surveillance 2002 Olumpics Images of the 2002 Salt Lake City Utah Olympics. … SPC-based surveillance using University of Utah Community Clinics EMR system allows near real-time capacity … Slide 28 Point-of-Care Testing as an Influenza Surveillance Tool: Methodology and Lessons Learned from

74. Failure to Rescue Patient Safety Learning Lab (FTR PSLL) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2021 - Target gaps in understanding the technology and human factors behind ideal risk assessment and risk surveillance … The FTR PSLL also designed and evaluated an enhanced surveillance monitoring system comprising wireless … Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance … Surveillance monitoring management for general care units: strategy, design, and implementation . … Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance

75. Chapter-6 - Carbapenem-Resistant-Enterobacteriaceae (pdf file)
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    September 26, 2019 - Passive surveillance may be sufficient to reduce transmission in low-endemicity settings—initiating … Toth et al., 201719 • Enhanced contact isolation • Active surveillance The model’s intervention … Active surveillance and enhanced contact isolation were found to be successful in one model of LTACHs … There is little evidence to support universal active surveillance for CRE. … Reduced incidence was accomplished without active surveillance.

76. Appendix R. Infection Prevention Support Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2018 - Improving the Measurement of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Risk Stratification and Outcome Detection Surveillance … A 1 represents a positively identified SSI from previous surveillance. … A 0 represents the absence of an SSI from previous surveillance. … ICP did not identify this surgical case as an SSI during previous surveillance Algorithm_ssi: this … system that integrates and expands legacy patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems

77. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention: Targeting SSI
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    April 01, 2025 - Vancomycin should be added to cefazolin if: Patient is colonized with MRSA Pre-op surveillance/ screening … (SSI Surveillance) Targeted decolonization (Decolonization) Patient at high risk for MRSA; absence … of surveillance data1,6 Nursing home resident, hemodialysis patient Prior infection or culture data … abscess one year ago, not known at time of surgery Received cefazolin prophylaxis No routine pre-op surveillance … Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Part 1 24 Case: Learning From Defects Tool Identified need to update pre-op surveillance

78. Prologue: Laying the Foundation (pdf file)
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    July 10, 2008 - 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

79. Million Hearts® | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2022 - Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Surveillance Explore the Million Hearts ® Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation … Use Surveillance Methodology and consider how it may be applied to a claims database to inform your

80. Monitoring of Low-Risk Prostate Cases Not Tracked on Timely Basis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2019 - Tracked on Timely Basis Most studies examining outcomes of men with low-risk prostate cancer on active surveillance … reviewed 45 qualifying studies from 1990 to 2019 that represented approximately 29,000 patients on “active surveillance … The authors noted that since the premise of active surveillance is to provide routine scheduled monitoring … The authors recommended developing standard active surveillance adherence definitions and measures, making … protocol adherence a quality improvement measure for active surveillance outcomes, and tracking factors