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81. 7-Implementation-Guide (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/7-implementation-guide.docx
    June 01, 2023 - Inpatient units ISCR team leader with other specialty champions, as appropriate Frontline Provider … Inpatient units ISCR team leader with other specialty champions, as appropriate Engaging Frontline … Inpatient units ISCR team leader with other specialty champions, as appropriate Engaging Frontline … Inpatient units ISCR team leader with other specialty champions, as appropriate Engaging Frontline … Inpatient units ISCR team leader with other specialty champions, as appropriate Engaging Frontline

82. Using the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture as an Intervention Tool for Regional Clinical Improvement Collaboratives (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol2/Advances-Adams-Pizarro_109.pdf
    January 08, 2008 - Teamwork across units. 12. … Teamwork Within Units scored substantially higher than Teamwork Across Units at Baseline and followup … score for Teamwork Across Units decreased (-3.8 percent). … (54 percent) than in Teamwork Across Units (41 percent). … ORs tend to conduct handoffs with a limited number of units.

83. Guide: Purpose and Use of CLABSI Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/clabsi-tools/guide.html
    January 01, 2020 - Toolkit, the tools have nearly eliminated CLABSI in more than 100 participating Michigan intensive care units … Finally, make sure your staff members recognize that benchmarking your performance against similar units … cart every 4 hours or every 8 hours and sign off on the checklist located on top of the cart; other units … Nonetheless, to reduce patient exposure to central lines, units should have a systematic approach to … Units should require nurses to complete the checklist at bedside during central line placement.

84. Hand-Hygiene-Activity (doc file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/educational-bundles/infection-prevention/hand-hygiene/hand-hygiene-activity.docx
    March 01, 2017 - Try to select staff who are from different units and wards and who perform different jobs and roles. … Select a number of units to take part in the exercise. … Contaminate an area in the selected units with “glow powder.” 3. … Return to the units after a specified number of hours, say 2 to 3 hours. 4.

85. Cost Effectiveness of a Multifaceted Program for Safe Patient Handling (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol3/Siddharthan.pdf
    January 10, 2005 - In VISN 8, these units are typically spinal cord injury or nursing home care units. … A total of 19 nursing home units and 4 spinal cord injury units located in 7 inpatient facilities were … assigned to those units. … Installation of safe handling equipment in the 23 nursing home units and spinal cord injury units was … spinal cord injury units falling from 12.0 to 7.7 per 100 workers.

86. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: A Progress Report on the National 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsineonatal.pdf
    October 01, 2012 - Results A total of 100 units participated representing 9 States. … Overall, units reported a baseline CLABSI rate of 2.043. … 19-58 units). … in July and 19 units in August), Figure 3 reflects data through June, 2011. … Two units that did not have survey results were classified as having <500 beds.

87. Implementation Steps and Timeline - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-impsteps.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - They then expand use to all units once the process to use the report is confirmed and effects on daily … Step 13: Develop Plan and Implement New Strategies in All Units The training and implementation planning … Implementing on all units is likely to add another 3 months. … The facility needs to establish a permanent champion for this QI effort and champions on units. … Develop Plan and Implement New Strategies in All Units 4th month–6th month 14.

88. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/clabsifinal.pdf
    October 01, 2012 - Participating non-ICU and pediatric units had similar, impressive reductions in CLABSI rates. … Hospital Units Hospital units were recruited by the State/regional hospital associations. … How many units dropped out? What reasons did they give? 23. … 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?

89. Toolkit To Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mvp/index.html
    August 01, 2017 - Ventilated Patients helps hospitals make care safer for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units … This project was developed to help staff in intensive care units use CUSP principles to reduce complications

90. Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients With Devices | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/abate/index.html
    March 01, 2022 - reduce bloodstream infections by more than 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units … multi drug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infection in general medical and surgical units

91. Action Planning for the SOPS Surveys-Results (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/04-yount-sops-action-planning-tool.pdf
    June 01, 2019 - Results Composite Measures Your Current % Supervisor/Manager Expectations 86 Teamwork Within Units … Perceptions of Patient Safety 70 Frequency of Events Reported 65 Communication Openness 64 Teamwork Across Units … HSOPS Database 50-99 Bed Hospitals Supervisor/Manager Expectations 86 80 81 Teamwork Within Units … Bed Hospitals Your Previous % Supervisor/Manager Expectations 86 80 81 85 Teamwork Within Units … • All nursing and medical staff in all hospital units 40 5. Who can lead the initiative?

92. Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/939.html
    November 01, 2024 - Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Issue Number 939 … Today's Headlines: Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units . … Antibiotic Stewardship Helps Protect Newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Antibiotics are often … given to preterm and vulnerable newborns before infections are confirmed in neonatal intensive care units

93. Event Investigation and Analysis Guide: Appendix B | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/candor/modules/guide4/apb.html
    August 01, 2022 - assignments; however, the emergency department was on bypass and leaders instructed all of the nursing units … Ten units of insulin were administered in the ED. RN#2 received report from ED on patient Mr. … Four units of insulin were administered in the ED. (0930) Mrs. … " (0950) RN#2 administers 10 units of insulin to Mr. Smith for a reported blood sugar of 525.

94. Final Progress Report: REdesigning SystEms to Improve Teamwork and Quality for Hospitalized Patients (RESET) (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/oleary-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Scope: The study involved professionals and patients on two medicine units at each of four hospitals … Overview of RESET Study Design and Data Collection Phase I Units Phase II Units October 2017 October … , excluding those transferred from other hospitals and those initially admitted to other units. … Teamwork on inpatient medical units: assessing attitudes and barriers. … Variation in caregiver perceptions of teamwork climate in labor and delivery units. J Perinatol.

95. Beyond Nursing Quality Measurement: The Nation’s First Regional Nursing Virtual Dashboard (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol1/Advances-Aydin_2.pdf
    January 01, 2021 - o Step down units. o Critical care units. … • Pediatric acute care: o Medical, surgical, medical/surgical units. o Step down units. … o Critical care units. o Neonatal intensive care units. … ), and for individual units. … • Type of unit (medical/surgical units).

96. Project Report - Lean Sigma (ppt file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/toolkit/contentcalls/twomorees-slides/Two-More-Es-and-How-to-Spread-Dec-13-2011-508.ppt
    January 01, 2011 - ( Pass it on to other units, Identify and address your next challenge) * Endure—Plan for Sustainability … “Sustaining Reductions in Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Michigan Intensive Care Units” British … Expand—Spread the Intervention Why think about expanding to other units? … new ideas and methods or may change your perceptions of your own implementation when you see other units … years to come Work with your executive partner and unit heads to expand the intervention into other units

97. CUSP Toolkit Spread Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/spread/notes.html
    December 01, 2012 - Observable: If units can see results, they will be more open to the process. … Selecting similar units or areas in which to spread the process is often a successful strategy. … determine which units can first put the new process in place without altering it too much. … Units that are outliers—those units that will need to alter the steps of the process significantly—should … , consideration of variability across units, and identification of units that can easily adopt the process

98. Chapter 2. Project Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/delivery-initiative/ihs/chapter2.html
    December 01, 2017 - The Project Planning Group identified 14 project sites (i.e., Service Units) to invite to participate … d Representatives from all 14 Service Units were invited to attend. … For two of the Service Units, the Tribal Council did not provide approval by the end of the project. … separate analyses, or to provide site-specific reports for the Service Units. … data for all 14 Service Units.

99. Program Implementation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/clabsi-final/clabsifinal2.html
    January 01, 2013 - Associations State and regional hospital associations were responsible for the recruitment of hospital units … Hospital Units Hospital units were recruited by the State/regional hospital associations.  … Hospital units were responsible for collecting and submitting project data, implementing CUSP in their … participating in coaching and content calls, and attending face-to-face educational meetings with other units … calls, monthly content and supplemental calls, and in-person meetings, all State leads and hospital units

100. Puh-Impsteps (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-impsteps.docx
     June 02, 2025 - They then expand use to all units once the process to use the report is confirmed and effects on daily … Step 13: Develop Plan and Implement New Strategies in All Units The training and implementation planning … Implementing on all units is likely to add another 3 months. … The facility needs to establish a permanent champion for this QI effort and champions on units. … simultaneously) Develop Plan and Implement New Strategies in All Units 4th month–6th month Monitor