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221. California Hospital Reduced Infections, Improved Diabetes Care with AHRQ Safety Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201807.html
     November 01, 2018 - CUSP is used in the hospital’s telemetry, medical/surgical, and intensive care units. … and conducted a workflow analysis in each of our hospital units.”

222. Chapter-2 - Failure-To-Rescue (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/failure-to-rescue-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - All included studies took place in the hospital setting, and all in general medical/surgical units. … units (p=0.038).8 Interestingly, Bellomo and colleagues found a significant decrease in average LOS … as well as other hospital units. … compared with 420.35 patient days for the comparison units 71 general care beds in two units … Similar measures of comparison units did not change over the same period.

223. Module 2: How To Manage Change | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureinjury/workshop/guide2.html
     October 01, 2017 - Review and discuss the completed process analysis on one or more patient care units. … Membership of the Unit Managers from the pilot study patient care units. … -month shadowing program to assess how Skin Wound Analysis Team (SWAT) consults were handled on the units … key processes of pressure injury prevention activities and then share the process mapping from these units … flow of what and how pressure injury prevention practices are currently conducted on the patient care units

224. Making Healthcare Safer Practices: 14. Delirium (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/delirium-1.pdf
     March 01, 2020 - Some hospitals are using ACE resource nurses to support staff on other units where patients at risk … with non-ACE units. … In previous studies, ACE units have been shown to improve processes of care, prescribing practices, … Improving geriatric care processes on two medical- surgical acute care units: A pilot study. … Unit; the target units were two medical-surgical units serving hospitalist and orthopedic patients

225. Two More “Es” and How To Spread (Transcript) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/toolkit/content-calls/how-to-spread.html
     April 01, 2013 - It’s obviously beneficial to the other units, but it’s also beneficial to you. … In addition to that, when you look at other units, you might see that, “Oh, wow. … are units that are not necessarily as active or engaged in changing and improving care. … We do know that in some of our units that are, for floor units, for example, primarily nursing units, … At Hopkins, do you have periodic meetings for all your CUSP units?

226. How To Manage Change
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/module2_managingchange_slides.pptx
     April 02, 2025 - Assess Current Pressure Injury Processes Understand current processes in patient care units … Assess current practices on a representative sample of units; do process mapping.

227. Final Progress Report: Pediatric patient safety learning laboratory to re-engineer continuous physiologic monitoring systems (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/bonafide-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - approximately 3 million physiologic monitor alarms occurring over an 11-month period on 15 non-ICU units … to nurse workload: We analyzed the relationship between alarms and nurse workload on two inpatient units … We completed 19 simulations on two units. … and 20 in intensive care units (ICUs), between December 2019 and May 2022, with an overall successful … A Systems Engineering Approach to Improving Alarm Management in Pediatric Medical-Surgical Units.

228. Measure Dx: A Tool To Identify, Analyze, and Learn From Diagnostic Safety Events | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/ideas-project/measure-dx.html
     March 01, 2025 - Entire ambulatory clinics or hospitals can participate, as can specific units (e.g., emergency departments … , intensive care units).

229. Hospital Survey Version 2.0: Background and Information for Translators | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/sops/international/hospital/translators-version-2.html
     October 01, 2024 - Survey users can modify or customize the units/work areas and staff position titles as needed to correspond … Does the hospital survey focus on hospital units or on the hospital overall?  … A small hospital that does not have differentiated units may want to consider modifying some of the instructions … about this item: This unit relies on temporary, float, or PRN staff (contract staff, staff from other units

230. Patient Safety Resources by Setting | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/index.html
     December 01, 2024 - Hospital Hospital Labor and Delivery Units Emergency Department Long-Term Care Ambulatory Care

231. Appendix P. Interpreting CAUTI Data Trends | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/impl-guide/implementation-guide-appendix-p.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

232. Preventing CAUTI: What to Do When it’s Time for Plan B (November 4, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-plan-b-transcript.html
     December 01, 2017 - Then we also did observations on the units as well, mostly walk-throughs with members of the staff and … This allowed us then to look at what the nurse manager said was true of their units on the GPS that they … This is a much clearer arrow when we’re talking about units where reporting is required. … For ICUs and rehab units for example, but in general medicine wards where these rates aren’t necessarily … We really went to observe some units that had some pretty sophisticated stuff going on where the doctors

233. Rafael Borja (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/preventing-cauti-plan-b-transcript.doc
     November 04, 2014 - Then we also did observations on the units as well, mostly walk-throughs with members of the staff and … This allowed us then to look at what the nurse manager said was true of their units on the GPS that they … This is a much clearer arrow when we’re talking about units where reporting is required. … For ICUs and rehab units for example, but in general medicine wards where these rates aren’t necessarily … We really went to observe some units that had some pretty sophisticated stuff going on where the doctors

234. Appendix 9: Back to Basics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/clabsi-tools/appendix-9.html
     March 01, 2018 - Variation among units is acceptable if standardization is mindful rather than mindless. … Infection preventionists post the quarterly rate of CLABSIs and the weeks without an infection in clinical units

235. Connecting the Dots: Improving Unit Safety Culture to Stop HAI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/connecting-dots-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - exchanged because those with authority respect the knowledge of front-line workers Teamwork w/in Units … (U) Staffing (U) Communication Openness (U) Teamwork ax Units (H) Hospital Handoffs (H) … Slide 29 Flexible Culture: Teamwork within Units Four items elicit perceptions of teamwork within … units. … Image: Bar chart depicting results for the four items in the HSOPS Teamwork within Units Composite.

236. Enhancing Surgical Team Communication: SOPS® and TeamSTEPPS®in Action Webcast - Closing (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/06-sops-teamstepps-webcast-closing.pdf
     January 01, 2022 - Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … Team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety at primary healthcare units: Effect

237. 8-Building-Core-Team (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/8-building-core-team.docx
     June 01, 2023 - Inpatient unit * Work to identify which additional units are relevant to the specific service line(s … align with hospital formulary Facilitate availability of medications in operating room and inpatient units

238. Fall TIPS: A Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/fall-tips/index.html
     February 01, 2021 - controlled trial using stepped-wedge design between November 1, 2015, and October 31, 2018, in 14 medical units … The analysis included 37,231 adult inpatients hospitalized in participating units.

239. TeamSTEPPS Research/Evidence Base: Safety Culture and Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps-program/evidence-base/improvement.html
     June 01, 2023 - Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution.  … Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 

240. Team Functioning | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/overcome/functioning.html
     April 01, 2022 - unit's goals for preventing infections, to celebrating and spreading successful strategies with other units