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1. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - Learn Best Practices Urinary Tract Infection Respiratory Tract Infection Skin or Soft Tissue … long-term care residents, including C. difficile , urinary and respiratory tract, and skin and soft tissue … Respiratory Tract Infection Assessment and Management of the Resident With a Suspected Skin or Soft Tissue … frontline providers and prescribing clinicians regarding urinary tract infections, pneumonia, skin and soft tissue

2. Learn Best Practices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - Infections Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue … Respiratory Tract Conditions Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue

3. Weighted Summary Statistics: PUF Medicare Outpatient File (Version 2) (pdf file)
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   September 26, 2023 - 770,959 0.45 146,853,097 85.25 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 89,354 0.05 164,371,106 95.42 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 63,990 0.04 165,898,179 96.31 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 43,538 0.03 167,105,437 97.01 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 34,471 0.02 168,126,509 97.60 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

4. How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
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   July 02, 2008 - loss Visible subcutaneous fat No exposed bone, tendon, or muscle 10 Stage 4 Full-thickness tissue … loss Exposed bone, tendon, or muscle 11 Unstageable Full-thickness skin and tissue loss in which … the extent of tissue damage within the injury cannot be confirmed because it is obscured by slough or … If slough or eschar is removed, a Stage 3 or 4 pressure injury will be revealed. 12 12 Deep Tissue … Pressure injuries are areas of soft tissue damage caused by pressure or pressure and shear.

5. Final Topic Refinement Document - Role of Liquid Biopsy in Detection and Management of Cancer in the Medicare Population (pdf file)
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   July 29, 2021 - Compared to a tissue biopsy, which requires a surgical or image guided procedure to obtain a tissue … tumor tissue for further detection of gene variations. … whom the physician elected to use tissue genotyping, which demonstrates how large of a challenge tissue-based … Tissue biopsy alone is insufficient. … In other situations, tissue is not the “gold standard”.

6. Module 5: How To Measure Pressure Injury Rates and Prevention Practices (doc file)
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   January 01, 2016 - · Adipose (fat) is not visible, and deeper tissues are not visible. … · Granulation tissue, slough, and eschar are not present. … Slide 10 SAY: Stage 3 presents as a full-thickness tissue loss. … An injury that cannot be staged is a full-thickness tissue loss. … The wound may evolve rapidly to reveal the actual extent of tissue injury or may resolve without tissue

7. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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   January 01, 1995 - A Stage IV pressure ulcer is a full thickness skin loss with extensive destruction, tissue necrosis, … Slough is yellow or creamy necrotic tissue on a wound bed. 27. … Eschar is healthy tissue. 32. … Slough is yellow or creamy necrotic tissue on a wound bed. True 27. … Eschar is healthy tissue. False 32.

8. Weighted Summary Statistics: PUF Commercial Inpatient File (Version 2) (pdf file)
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   September 26, 2023 - of the digestive system 942,391 9.88 5,211,282 54.64 L00-L99: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue … 157,726 1.65 5,369,008 56.30 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 157,726 1.65 5,369,008 56.30 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 122,329 1.28 6,100,019 63.96 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue … 103,839 1.09 6,160,358 64.60 M00-M99: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

9. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2019 - Infections Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue

10. Minimum Criteria for Antibiotics Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - nursing home residents suspected of having one of three common infections: urinary tract, skin and soft tissue … POTENTIAL INFECTION (CHOOSE ONE): Urinary Tract Infection 2    Skin and Soft Tissue … the resident have new or increasing purulent drainage at a wound, skin, or soft-tissue

11. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - antibiotics are most frequently used in nursing homes: UTIs, lower respiratory infections, skin and soft tissue … use of antibiotics for three common infections: UTIs, lower respiratory infections, and skin and soft tissue

12. Antibiotic-Time-Out-Tool (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - ☐ Intra-abdominal infection ☐ Urinary tract infection (UTI) ☐ Osteoarticular infection ☐ Skin/soft tissue … days14 Delayed response, obstruction or other urologic abnormality 10–14 days14 Skin and soft-tissue … Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update

13. University of Missouri Health Care Decreases Pressure Injuries and Saves in Avoidable Costs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - included proning, equipment such as rectal tubes and tracheostomy plates, and not recognizing deep tissue … in 4 hours) and to utilize the wound scout, a thermal imaging device that can identify possible deep tissue

14. Assessment and Management of the Resident With a Suspected Urinary Tract Infection | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - Learn Best Practices Urinary Tract Infection Respiratory Tract Infection Skin or Soft Tissue

15. Resources for Women’s Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Sarcoma—cancers arising from connective tissue. … Blastoma—cancers derived from immature precursor cells or embryonic tissue.

16. AHRQ Research Findings Support Effort to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in Virginia | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2015 - A pressure ulcer is an area of skin that breaks down when pressure causes exposure of underlying tissue

17. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - Also include the following1,7,10: o Location o Tissue type o Shape o Size o Presence of sinus tracts … o Nutritional deficits, poor tissue perfusion or oxygenation. … hours.7,8,10 o Frequency of repositioning will be influenced by variables such as the individual’s tissue

18. Developing Innovative Simulation-Based Training to Improve Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - therapy annually might be adversely impacted by operational errors, with some resulting in either healthy tissue

19. Community Health Workers (Promotores de Salud) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    Sinus Infection) (PDF, 202 KB) Las infecciones de la piel y de los tejidos blandos  (Skin and Soft Tissue

20. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - most common types of suspected infections in nursing homes: urinary tract, respiratory, skin or soft tissue