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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. 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”.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. Documentation and Coding for Patient Safety Indicators (pdf file)
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    March 15, 2016 - when the stage cannot be clinically determined due to previous graft, recent surgery, eschar, or scar tissue … Internal involves the Code the specific anatomical layers repaired (e.g., skin, subcutaneous tissue … , fascia, muscle, or deeper tissues or . … Code the specific anatomical layers repaired (e.g. skin, subcutaneous tissue, fascia muscle, or deeper … tissues or structures).

12. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2012 - o Tissue type. o Shape. o Size. o Presence of sinus tracts/tunneling. … hours.1,6,8 o Frequency of repositioning will be influenced by variables such as the individual’s tissue

13. Preventing Pressure Injuries in Hospitals
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    June 16, 2017 - COST Stage 1 0 N/A Stage 2 6 N/A Stage 3 4 $172,720 Stage 4 0 $0 Unstageable 4 $172,720 Deep Tissue … COST Stage 1 3 N/A Stage 2 14 N/A Stage 3 7 $302,260 Stage 4 0 $0 Unstageable 5 $215,900 Deep Tissue

14. Gap Analysis for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (doc file)
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    November 01, 2019 - Healthcare-acquired pneumonia ☐ Ventilator-associated pneumonia ☐ Intra-abdominal infections ☐ Skin and soft tissue … Healthcare-acquired pneumonia ☐ Ventilator-associated pneumonia ☐ Intra-abdominal infections ☐ Skin and soft tissue

15. 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

16. Guide-Infection-Prevention (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2017 - types of infection in LTC facilities involve the—  Urinary tract  Lungs  Skin and soft tissue … ▪ Educate residents and visitors to cover their mouths and noses with a tissue (or if not available … ▪ Always cover your mouth and nose with your sleeve or a tissue when coughing or sneezing and then … ▪ Instruct the resident to cover his or her mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing, and to place … the soiled tissues into the regular trash can

17. Pain Management Injection Therapies for Low-back Pain: Topic Refinement (pdf file)
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    March 03, 2014 - in and around the spine (such as the epidural space, facet joints, intervertebral discs, and soft tissues … an epidural saline injection, epidural injection of local anesthetic without corticosteroid, a soft tissue

18. Outpatient Medication Errors Prevalent Among Pediatric Leukemia, Lymphoma Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - treatment to the more traditional WBI but in a shorter time and with reduced radiation exposure to adjacent tissue

19. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - source of the arrhythmia, cryoballoon ablation, which involves cooling and freezing of the targeted tissue … Cyroballoon ablation: Involves cooling and freezing of the targeted tissue using a coolant inside a

20. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - This prospective study measured cefazolin plasma, fat, and colon tissue concentrations in these patients … A physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model was also constructed to inform tissue partitioning