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241. Conclusion | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - , accurate and actionable data to improve performance; tailoring the national program for local and unit … Strong hospital association engagement energized hospital leadership and unit teams. … Similarly, State leads in States with the highest unit engagement and often significant CLABSI reduction … collaboratives by equipping people to function independently as leaders of future infection prevention and other unit-based … providing the knowledge and materials needed to support ongoing efforts to train hospital staff in unit-based

242. ESRD Toolkit Modules | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2015 - Each module includes teaching tools and resources to support change at the unit level, presented through … Creating a Culture of Safety module of the ESRD Toolkit discusses the importance of a comprehensive, unit-based

243. Toolkit for Improving Perinatal Safety | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2023 - It builds on knowledge gained from AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and the TeamSTEPPS … The tools can be customized to local unit processes and procedures.   … Communication for Perinatal Safety, Perinatal Safety Strategies, and In Situ Simulations—that an L&D unit … PowerPoint slide set, accompanying facilitator guide, and supporting CUSP tools to support change at the unit

244. Module 2: How To Manage Change (doc file)
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     April 02, 2025 - How will the patient care Unit Team communicate with the Implementation Team? … The patient care Unit Team or frontline staff will communicate with the Implementation Team via (Unit … Champions/Unit Manager/other). … Membership of the Unit Managers from the pilot study patient care units. … A draft process analysis on the pilot study unit would be a good start.

245. The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/ambulatory-surgery/sections/implementation/implementation-guide/guide-cusp.html
     May 01, 2017 - a Culture of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide The Comprehensive Unit-based … of Safety in the Ambulatory Surgery Environment: Implementation Guide Overview The Comprehensive Unit-based … Apply the methods learned to scenarios in the ASC setting. 4 Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program

246. Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs Today’s intensive care unit (ICU) teams understand … By including the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) and other evidence-based practices, this … that explains various resources to support the implementation process of decreasing infections in your unit … can reference the Overcome section multiple times as they work through lowering infections in their unit

247. Spread | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - organization share, tailor, and implement the components of a process that have worked well at the unit … The other CUSP Toolkit modules focus on quality improvement projects at the unit level, where culture … This module explores how to take the work from the unit level to the organization level. … Work With the Next Unit [2 min., 45 sec.] Account for Variability [1 min., 53 sec.]

248. Engage the Senior Executive | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - Engaging a senior executive to partner with a unit will bridge the gap between senior management and … providers and will facilitate a system-level perspective on quality and safety challenges that exist at the unit … Establishes clear goals for unit safety. … Reviews unit data with team and works with direct care providers to establish an improvement plan. … information In preparation, gather relevant information about the unit for the senior executive.

249. AHRQ Tools Improve Care, Safety for St. Luke’s University Health Network Obstetric Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2019 - The network also used elements of AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program ( CUSP ) and Toolkit … Infections (CLABSI) in developing a CLABSI checklist to improve care in the neonatal intensive care unit … Initially, the OB unit—a high-risk area—was the focus for improvement efforts. … loop with a variety of communications methods: our OB performance improvement committee, grand rounds, unit … AHRQ Product(s): Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, TeamSTEPPS®, Comprehensive Unit-based

250. Action-Plan-Template (doc file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Unit Action Plan The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) or healthcare-associated infection … The ICU team is encouraged to work together to review various data sources (e.g., intensive care unit … Is this gap something the unit has overcome before?

251. 058-Nursing-Protocol-Showering-Liquid (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - with known allergies to CHG · Initiate the protocol each time an eligible patient is admitted to the unit … , even if the patient has received the protocol in a prior unit admission or earlier in the hospital … patient, each day— · Have the patient shower with CHG daily, starting on day 1 of admission, for entire unit …   · If patient is readmitted to the unit, restart the protocol. … use any non-CHG soap during their stay. · CHG replaces routine bathing while the patient is in the unit

252. 056-Nursing-Protocol-Bathing-Cloths (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Protocol Overview · Daily CHG bathing for duration of unit stay. · Initiate the protocol each time an … eligible patient is admitted to the unit, even if the patient has received the protocol in a prior unit … adult patient, each day— · Bathe patient with CHG daily, starting on day 1 of admission, for entire unit … stay. · If patient is readmitted to the unit, restart the protocol.

253. 057-Nursing-Protocol-Bathing-Liquid (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - Protocol Overview · Daily CHG bathing for duration of unit stay. · Initiate the protocol each time an … eligible patient is admitted to the unit, even if the patient has received the protocol in a prior unit … adult patient, each day: · Bathe patient with CHG daily, starting on day 1 of admission, for entire unit …   · If patient is readmitted to the unit, restart the protocol.

254. Appendix 7. Central Venous Catheter-Associated Laboratory-Confirmed Blood Stream Infection Event Report Template for Defect Analysis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2018 - Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections These tools will help your unit … When used with the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program) Toolkit, these tools dramatically reduced … (Check all that apply) [  ] Floor nurse   [ ] Nurse from other unit  [  ] Attending MD  [  ] Resident … date   8 What are compliance rates for “scrubbing the hub” before accessing line on this unit … 16 How did workload/unit activity affect insertion and care of the CVC?  

255. What We Learned: Five Key Lessons | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - units in a State that sustained a zero CLABSI rate for the last two reporting periods and degree of unit … engagement determined by the number of recruited and retained hospitals, data submission rates, and unit … States also asked for a focus on the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). … States and unit teams worked to adapt, coordinate, and integrate other improvement techniques and tools … Other States were able to work with their QIO and not compete for hospital unit recruitment.

256. About the CUSP Method  | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2024 - About the CUSP Method  The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can … Created for clinicians by clinicians, the Core CUSP toolkit is modular and modifiable to meet individual unit … Each module includes teaching tools and resources to support change at the unit level, presented through

257. 048-Key-Evidence-Decolonization (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/048-key-evidence-decolonization.docx
     October 01, 2024 - of Internal Medicine, 2006 Chlorhexidine Gluconate to Cleanse Patients in a Medical Intensive Care Unit … Chlorhexidine Bathing to Reduce Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections in Medical Intensive Care Unit … Patient Cleansing with Chlorhexidine Gluconate for Infection Prevention in the Medical Intensive Care Unit … Chlorhexidine gluconate to cleanse patients in a medical intensive care unit: the effectiveness of source … chlorhexidine bathing to reduce catheter-associated bloodstream infections in medical intensive care unit

258. Introducing the Child HCAHPS® Survey Database webcast-Toomey-2 (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2019 - Hematology/Oncology Unit 62.9 (n=35) 83.7 (n=43) 85 (n=40) Medical/Surgical Unit 77.5 (n=200 … ) 79.3 (n=310) 83.1 (n=360) Hematology/Oncology Unit & Medical/Surgical Unit: Aggregated 75.3

259. CUSP Toolkit: Spread Presentation Slides | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - organization share, tailor, and implement the components of a process that have worked well at the unit … This module explores how to take the work from the unit level to the organization level. … Work With the Next Unit  Slide 13. Account for Variability  Slide 14. … Safety interventions targeted at the unit level (CUSP). … Work with the next unit to spread. Account for variability.

260. Preventing-Cauti-Icu-Setting-Module 4-Speaker-Notes (doc file)
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     September 01, 2015 - modules on how to stop catheter-associated urinary tract infections, or CAUTI, in your intensive care unit … It highlighted the use of unit protocols related to catheter use. … Fight that urge and help your unit maintain its commitment to excellence. … Avoid overuse. · -Observe what happens in your unit and how catheters are used. … . · -Communicate with others from both inside and outside your unit.