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201. Assess Patient Safety Culture Using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/modules/cusp/assess-psc-hsop-slides.html
     February 01, 2017 - Hospital Survey On Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS): Measures safety culture within the clinical units … Teamwork across hospital units. Hospital handoffs and transitions. … Slide 21: Debriefing—Making HSOPS Data Meaningful 13 Work units that debrief safety culture perform … Units that use semistructured debriefing of culture survey achieved a 10.2% reduction in infection rates … Units that did not debrief survey results only achieved a 2.2% reduction in infection rates. 13.

202. TO (doc file)
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     June 02, 2025 - Determine if the best practices will be implemented in other units, clinics, or programs. … Will the best practice(s) be implemented in other units, clinics, or programs?

203. SOPS Bibliography | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2025 - Nurses' perceptions of patient safety climate in intensive care units: A cross-sectional study. … Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … Structural empowerment and patient safety culture among registered nurses working in adult critical care units … Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication

204. Section 2. Forming a Patient Flow Team | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2018 - support staff (e.g., clerks, registrars), a research/data analyst, and representatives from inpatient units … Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, PA, stemmed from inadequate communication between the inpatient units … However, previous efforts to improve communication between the ED and inpatient units had failed for … Managers and staff from all inpatient units were invited to review a new Inpatient Report Tool, a one-page … According to the patient flow team, diligent and ongoing communication with nurses from the inpatient units

205. Appendix L. Intensive Care Unit Infographic Poster | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide … Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units … infection Neurological pathology that may result in altered thermoregulation "Critical care units

206. Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s Success in Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2024 - Monthly fall prevention compliance audits were conducted on six inpatient units to ensure that the necessary … This rounding initiative initially focused on two medical telemetry units which had experienced an increase … “Fall Free Friday” has proven to be successful for both the medical-telemetry and the stepdown units.

207. Appendix G . Urinary Catheter Project Fact Sheet | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide … Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units

208. K Award Grantee Interview: Christopher Landrigan, M.D., M.P.H. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2016 - earliest pieces of work funded by AHRQ was to conduct a randomized-control trial into intensive care units … we eliminated shifts exceeding 16 hours for the interns, the first-year resident physicians in those units … sleep deprivation really was a pretty universal problem leading to medical errors in intensive care units

209. Can We Talk? Priorities for Patient Care Differed Among Health Care Providers (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2003 - (four general internal medicine and two neurology units) at a large academic teaching hospital. … On the hospital units we studied, direct verbal communication between physicians and RNs was reported … The units we observed did not have a mechanism for conducting physician and nurse rounds. … have been associated with better patient outcomes in those units. … The performance of intensive care units: does good management make a difference?

210. Transcript: How To Create Team Buy-In and Motivation To Get to Zero Infections (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Create Team Buy-In and Motivation To Get to Zero Infections AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units … : Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI … is part of its toolkit for the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, or CUSP, for intensive care units … Today we're discussing prevention of healthcare-associated infections in hospital intensive care units … Kate: How is it that some teams and units are proud of their CAUTI/CLABSI rates?

211. References | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/guides/implguide-refs.html
     October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide … Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units … Sustaining reductions in catheter-related bloodstream infections in michigan intensive care units: observational … Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units.

212. Appendix B. Urinary Catheterization – Sample Policy | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide … Table of Contents Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units … Need for accurate hourly output measurements to manage treatment in intensive care units . … catheters are not to be inserted simply to monitor outputs with the exception of in intensive care units

213. Appendix A: Interview Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2013 - reporting quarter, or for those States with a low baseline CLABSI rate like Virginia, the number of units … Retention How many units dropped out? What reasons did they give? … Were you successful in retaining any units that indicated they wanted to drop out? … What forms of communication did you use to contact individual units?

214. 030-Hand-Hygiene-Webinar-Slides-Notes (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - This presentation will help ensure that units have a comprehensive program in place to promote excellent … (ICUs) and non-ICU hospital units. … It is important to include champions from all disciplines and units. … Posters, fliers, and signage served as visual cues and reminders throughout the units. … Staff and units that consistently demonstrated high adherence were recognized and rewarded.

215. Action-Plan-Template (doc file)
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     April 01, 2022 - _________________________________________________________ AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units … : Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI 2 AHRQ Safety Programs for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI

216. Introduction and Welcome (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2022 - instructions for implementing targeted decolonization in adult patients with medical devices in hospital units … multi drug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infection in general medical and surgical units

217. FAQs (Staff): Safety and Side Effects: CHG and Mupirocin (doc file)
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     March 01, 2022 - bacteria that can cause infection in adult patients who have medical devices but are not in intensive care units … · Surgical preoperative bathing · Wound cleansing and irrigation · Daily bathing in intensive care units

218. 157-What-Are-4-Es (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - She appears regularly at meetings and visits units in-person to learn directly about MRSA prevention … Different units may have very different practices. … Lessons learned from the high performing units should be shared with units whose performance was less … Compliance data is also shared regularly with units so they can be aware of their progress. … This leads to steady improvements, and after 12 months, about 80% of units are consistently adhering

219. Project Evaluation and Debriefing (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/pdi/d8_pdi_projectevaluation.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Determine if the best practices will be implemented in other units, clinics, or programs. … Will the best practice(s) be implemented in other units, clinics, or programs?

220. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention Facilitator Training (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2025 - the Facilitator and Program Champion requested that the nurse managers work with the staff on their units …  The Change Team completed the Self-Assessment with input from all units and shifts and from Rehab … Team at this point of the implementation process include whether the reports will be trialed on all units … or certain units and, if trialed on certain units, how and when they will be rolled out to others … strategy to implement on one unit with a small number of reports and meetings before expanding to more units