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301. Resources by the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure Domains | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/resources/measure-domains.html
     April 01, 2025 - CAUTI ); central line-associated bloodstream infection ( CLABSI );  CLABSI and CAUTI in intensive care units … (ICUs );  MRSA in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) and non-intensive care units (non-ICUs) ;  antibiotic

302. Final Progress Report: Using an Electronic Health Record to Examine Nurse Continuity and Pressure Ulcers (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/stifter-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - HANDS is a nursing plan-of-care database containing 42,403 episodes documented by 787 nurses, on nine units … Results: Poor nurse continuity (continuity index=.21-.42 [1.0=optimal continuity]) was noted on all nine units … The hospitals included two large community, one university, and one small community setting with units … hundred eighty-seven unique RNs documented the care they provided using HANDS for either one (four units … ) or two (five units) years, creating a dataset of 42,403 episodes of care.

303. 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

304. Ventilator-Associated Events and Outcome Measures Module | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/vae.html
     December 01, 2017 - Ventilator-Associated Events and Outcome Measures Module This module has tools and slide sets to help units

305. AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/011-blood-culture-webinar-slides.pptx
     October 01, 2024 - Rates are calculated monthly for adult units with >50 blood cultures per month. … Rates are calculated quarterly for adult units with <50 blood cultures per month. … 1,000 patient-days 1 medical ICU (USA) Mahatanan et al15 80–110 BCx per 1,000 patient-days 5 medicine units … (USA) Friedman et al13 125–129 BCx per 1,000 patient-days 9 medicine units (Israel) A retrospective … utilization of blood cultures in 30 percent of cases in a medical ICU and 50 percent of cases in medicine units

306. Making It Work Tip Sheet: Overcoming the Just in Case Mindset (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/just-in-case-mindset.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - Tip Sheet: Overcoming the Just in Case Mindset AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units … leadership after implementation of policy and procedures to determine if use is appropriate—especially in units … Prevention of central venous line associated bloodstream infections in adult intensive care units: A

307. Final Progress Report: Clinical Decision Support Simulations for Medication Administration Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/moss-berner-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Intensive care units may be one of the most dangerous places in acute care settings with respect … The rate of preventable ADEs in intensive care can be twice as much as in non-intensive care units … intensive care settings also have the potential to be more deadly than those on other hospital units … In addition, information regarding medication errors in these units was collected via an anonymous … Participant Characteristics Seventeen nurses from five intensive care units participated in the study

308. Guide to Implementing and Sustaining a Program To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Unit Setting (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implementation-guide.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Unit Setting AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units … tenets of CUSP to lay 2 Implementation Guide AHRQ Safety Programs for Intensive Care Units … implement/cusp-modules.html 3 Implementation Guide AHRQ Safety Programs for Intensive Care Units … prevention-modules.html 4 Implementation Guide AHRQ Safety Programs for Intensive Care Units … cauti-learning-from-defects.docx 5 Implementation Guide AHRQ Safety Programs for Intensive Care Units

309. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Neonatal CLABSI Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-neonatal/index.html
     January 01, 2013 - CUSP: Stop BSI Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention Since August 2011, 100 neonatal intensive care units

310. Pediatricians Use AHRQ Report to Create New Guidelines on Vitamin D for Infants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/coe0702.html
     October 01, 2014 - infants, including those who are exclusively breastfed, should have a minimum intake of 200 international units

311. Learn About the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program for Perinatal Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/learn/learn-about-cusp-facilitator-guide.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - improving perinatal safety involves efforts on multiple fronts, including the labor and delivery, or L&D, units … , the newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care unit, antenatal and postpartum units, ambulatory … Safety Program for Perinatal care has been tailored for presentation and use specifically in L&D units … All these units implemented CUSP, and many of them continue to see these rates at or near zero over … As units use CUSP and its tools, they should look at resources already in place and enhance the projects

312. How To Manage Change
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/module2/module2_managingchange_slides.pptx
     June 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.

313. Prevention of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/clabsi.html
     November 01, 2024 - ICUs offers clinical and cultural guidance aimed at reducing CLABSI and CAUTI rates in intensive care units … More than 1,000 intensive care units across the country have used the tools in this toolkit, along with

314. Aseptic Catheter Insertion Practices in the ED: A Focus on Engagement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/archived-webinars/aseptic-catheter-insertion-practices-ed-slides.html
     December 01, 2017 - Slide 8 Lack of Feedback & Strategy to Overcome Patients move from the ED to other units, and … Organizational level strategies: Post CAUTI rates for all units, so that comparisons can be seen.

315. 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

316. 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

317. 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.

318. 009-Antibiotic-Stewardship-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/009-antibiotic-stewardship-guide.docx
     October 01, 2024 - Many units have clinical pharmacists who are already integrated into daily work, but if this is not the … Pharmacists often are present on the units regularly rather than rotating on- and off-service and can … Many hospitals and units have already worked to decrease use of these agents due to their association … Numerous materials can be found at the website listed to assist units in implementing interventions to … Ineffective communication hinders teams and units.

319. Contact Precautions for MRSA Prevention - Webinar slide notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/017-contact-precautions-webinar-slides-notes.docx
     October 01, 2024 - They will also be able to discuss how to implement contact precautions in their units. … The CUSP teams in the units reviewed the information from the IPs with their staff. … They each discussed implementation strategies appropriate to their units. … In many of the units, staff were concerned about the quality of care their patients would be receiving … Contact precautions were rolled out on all units on December 1.

320. Final Progress Report: Enhanced Patient Safety Intervention to Optimize Medical (EPITOME) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/sirio-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - on the medical and surgical units of UPMC Shadyside. … Patients in intensive care units (ICU) were excluded from the study. … However, patients in ICU step-down units (e.g., cardiac care, neurology/neurosurgery) were included. … Inclusion criteria were patients on medical and surgical units, patients >18 years of age, and patients … Nursing: All patients admitted to medical and surgical units who met the above-stated criteria were