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December 01, 2018 - General Hospital staff participated in an AHRQ project and implemented several elements from AHRQ’s Comprehensive … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to reduce healthcare-associated infection rates. … attitudes, behaviors, and the organization’s culture of safety. … A safety time-out—a pause before inserting the indwelling urinary catheter—was included in the process … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
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Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
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June 01, 2018 - to improve the safety of health care for all Americans. … Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET): National Implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety … Program (CUSP) to Reduce Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) in the Intensive Care … Unit
Offers toolkits to eliminate central line associated blood stream infections using a comprehensive … unit-based safety program.
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October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
Why Choose a CUSP Approach? … The term CUSP is short for “the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program.” … Slide 2
CUSP Model
SAY:
The CUSP model has been successfully used in patient safety and quality programs … CUSP stands for the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program. … In this way, the team is comprehensive.
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January 01, 2017 - The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
(CUSP) helps providers achieve the lasting improvements … We measure safety culture across the hospital every year, but when this safety
program started, we saw … A comprehensive unit-
based safety program (CUSP) in surgery:
Improving quality through transparency … Impact
of the comprehensive unit-based safety
program (CUSP) on safety culture in a surgical
inpatient … Implementation of a surgical comprehensive
unit-based safety program to reduce surgical
site infections
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May 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program. … This program, which was conducted in 665 ASCs across the country, was the first of its kind to focus … Project Partners
The Safety Program for Ambulatory Surgery was funded and guided by AHRQ and conducted … Healthcare Central Service Material Management
Society for Ambulatory Anesthesiology
Report
AHRQ Safety … Program for Ambulatory Surgery: Final Report ( PDF , 1.8 MB)
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February 01, 2025 - Playbook for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in the ICU Setting
The playbook helps your intensive … care unit (ICU) understand how to integrate the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and the … The playbook demonstrates how CUSP can be implemented through CLABSI and CAUTI prevention practices, … Specific tangible examples are offered on how teams can bring CUSP to life with the tiered interventions … Playbook for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in the ICU Setting: Connecting the Dots Between CUSP and the
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January 22, 2020 - Citation Text:
AHRQ patient safety project reduces bloodstream infections by 40 percent. … units (ICUs) in Michigan stands as one of the landmark accomplishments of the patient safety field. … of the intervention included the comprehensive unit-based safety program (CUSP) and interventions … to improve safety culture in participating ICUs. … Patient Safety Program in ICUs.
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April 01, 2022 - CUSP Onboarding Modules
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) modules highlight … effective strategies to implement a quality improvement project including engaging the team and obtaining … These modules will walk your team through the important work to bring CUSP to life in your unit. … that will be maintained throughout the work. … PowerPoint, 4.9 MB; Facilitator's Notes , Word, 771.2 KB)
Using Data To Drive Change and Improve Patient Safety
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January 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
AHRQ Pub. … Engaging Senior Executives ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Comprehensive … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
Steps of CUSP
Educate staff on the Science of Safety
Identify defects … Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Barriers to Executive Engagement
Safety program work … executive participation that is meaningful to the executive, not focused on the safety program cause
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October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
MRSA Surveillance
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Case Example
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU
AHRQ Safety Program … Reviewing the literature, the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) team noted in a study by … | 23
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AHRQ Safety Program
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May 01, 2017 - Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) ..................................................... … • The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
• Measurement
• Implementing the Surgical Safety … The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
CUSP is a culture change model that has been … The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
(CUSP)
CUSP4 is a culture change model that has been successfully … The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
CUSP3F is a culture change model that has been
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October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
Implementation of Chlorhexidine … No. 25-0007
October 2024
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU
AHRQ Safety Program … | 2
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention | ICU & Non-ICU
AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention … Develop a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) team. … edge of but not over the dressing
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AHRQ
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March 01, 2023 - importance of providing high-quality care that relies on a culture of safety and evidence-based clinical … and safety practices to prevent CLABSI and CAUTI? … By including the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices, this … About the Toolkit
The AHRQ Safety Program for ICUs: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI was developed over … Related Information
Check out this webinar about the toolkit from the 2022 Critical Care Congress
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August 01, 2015 - Final Report: Executive Summary
This analysis of case studies developed from participants in AHRQ's Comprehensive … Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) national implementation project describes specific practices and "success … Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks) Task Order "Promoting Safety and Quality Through … funded Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) initiative, designed to reduce central line-associated … The project had two components:
A "project scan," in which the research team reviewed the literature
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October 01, 2015 - The Problem
The Solution
Frameworks for Change and Improvement
The Comprehensive Unit-based … Safety Program
Table 1. … and Quality through the contract, “National Implementation of Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program … Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not reflect the … official position of AHRQ or the U.S.
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October 01, 2024 - and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) works to improve the safety, quality, and value of healthcare through research … The Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS): Conducts and supports research on safety … Patient Safety Research Program Diagnostic Safety Program Patient Safety Network (AHRQ PSNet) Making … The Patient Safety Organization Program Network of Patient Safety Databases Quality and Safety Review … Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) Program Comprehensive
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March 27, 2024 - Multi-use Website
The Patient Safety Group. … Patient Safety Group was motivated by the death of a young girl named Josie King . … The King family responded to their personal experience from medical errors by making a commitment to … They created a program entitled eCUSP (electronic comprehensive unit-based safety program) as a mechanism … July 20, 2010
The Josie King Foundation.
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January 01, 2017 - defects within the context of safe design
Science of Safety ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically … senior executive
Learn from defects
Improve teamwork and communication
ADAPTIVE COMPONENTS OF CUSP
Comprehensive … Science of Safety ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Understand the Science … Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Safety Is a Property of the System
Safety … ‹#›
AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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CUSP STEPS
Educate staff on the
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February 13, 2008 - highly positive perceptions of the program and evidence of widespread implementation of new innovations … EQUIPPED medication safety program. … May 22, 2013
Evaluation of a nurse-led safety program in a critical care unit. … April 10, 2013
Safety huddles in the PACU: when a patient self-medicates. … January 9, 2011
Implementing and validating a comprehensive unit-based safety program
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February 01, 2017 - AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
Slide 1: Assess Patient Safety Culture Using … Say:
There are two parts to the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, or CUSP: the technical work … Implementing the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Mechanically … Say:
If you want to be certain that staff members working on these safety efforts in this program take … Data are only numbers and figures until debriefing turns it into comprehensive information to accelerate