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41. 4. How Do We Implement Best Practices in Our Organization? (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu4a.html
    October 01, 2014 - how roles will be defined and work organized to carry out those practices at the care level in the units … Small hospitals may have only be few units, so a formal pilot may not be practical. … To begin the pilot, you should choose one or two units to participate. … By selecting several very different units, your Implementation Team can hear from the Unit Champions … Two widely different units will give you a better overall feel for refinement that may be needed and

42. Manifestations of high-reliability principles on hospital units with varying safety profiles: a qualitative analysis. | PSNet
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    December 16, 2015 - Study Manifestations of high-reliability principles on hospital units with varying … Manifestations of High-Reliability Principles on Hospital Units With Varying Safety Profiles: A Qualitative … In this qualitative study, researchers found that those working on hospital units with better safety … describing responses to safety issues and errors more consistent with high reliability principles than units … Manifestations of High-Reliability Principles on Hospital Units With Varying Safety Profiles: A Qualitative

43. Eliminating CAUTI: A National Patient Safety Imperative (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2013 - Represented Figure 3 depicts the types of units registered in the project (n=1,366 registered units … surgical units (38%). … Units Formally Withdrawn From the Project by Cohort Cohort Registered Units Number of Units Formally … Withdrawn Percent of Units Formally Withdrawn Post-Baseline Collection Period (Number of Units … For units to be included in tables and figures depicting outcome and process measures, units had to

44. Eliminating CAUTI: A National Patient Safety Imperative (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/cauti-interim.pdf
    September 01, 2013 - Represented Figure 3 depicts the types of units registered in the project (n=1,366 registered units … surgical units (38%). … Units Formally Withdrawn From the Project by Cohort Cohort Registered Units Number of Units Formally … Withdrawn Percent of Units Formally Withdrawn Post-Baseline Collection Period (Number of Units … For units to be included in tables and figures depicting outcome and process measures, units had to

45. Moderating Factors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - than 25; n=3 units). … Finally, units were categorized as having a baseline rate of zero (n=293 units) or a baseline rate greater … than zero (n=681 units), and the final model was restricted to only units with a baseline rate greater … Characteristics of included units can be found in Table 15 . Figure 17. … system had a higher rate than units in hospitals associated with a system.

46. Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide (pdf file)
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    October 18, 2012 - While the majority of registered units are adult ICUs and are the focus of the final report, any units … greater than 25; n=3 units). … percent of units at follow-up). … points were set to missing (n=11 data points) Units with Outcome Data n=1,565 units Units Not … Remove Outlier Units Defined As: Baseline Rate>25 n=974 units Units with Baseline Rate>0 n=

47. Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - Units that formally withdrew were excluded (n=50) 3 , and units that never reported post-baseline data … Table 2 illustrates the number of units reporting for each time period. … At baseline 30 percent of units reported a rate of zero. … of units calculated as number of units with a rate of zero or less than one divided by the total number … of units reporting during the time period.

48. Outcome and Process Measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2013 - For units to be included in tables and figures depicting outcome and process measures, units had to have … These units are not reflected in the denominator when calculating missing data percentages. … than 100 units, had a lower baseline. … units for corresponding bed sizes and collection periods. … units for corresponding bed sizes and collection periods.

49. Costs and cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine intensive care unit program in 6 intensive care units in a large health care system. | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Costs and cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine intensive care unit program in 6 intensive care units … Costs and cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine intensive care unit program in 6 intensive care units

50. Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units. | PSNet
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    April 12, 2014 - Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … In this AHRQ-funded study, the TeamSTEPPS training program was introduced in two intensive care units … Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units … May 13, 2009 View More See More About The Topic Intensive Care Units

51. Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during the COVID-19 pandemic. | PSNet
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    October 29, 2017 - Study Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during … Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during the COVID-19 pandemic … staffing and nursing time at the bedside and, therefore, on missed nursing care in labor and delivery units … Three missed critical nursing care processes on labor and delivery units during the COVID-19 pandemic … 2023 Linking patient safety climate with missed nursing care in labor and delivery units

52. Health Information Technology Support for Safe Nursing Care | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - A convenience sample of eight nursing units (four units in year one, four units in year two) in five … Nurses can create patient plans from their local units and either view them on their computer screens … Participating units include medical, intensive care, surgical (cardiovascular and neurosurgical), and … Half of the units began the implementation at start up; the other four joined a year later. … One of the participating study units isdownsizing; nurses in the new cardiovascular subunit wanted to

53. Toolkits To Reduce Hypertension in Pregnancy and Obstetric Hemorrhage | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care-2/index.html
    July 01, 2023 - second bundle of AHRQ tools is available to improve the safety culture of labor and delivery (L&D) units … The new tools are designed to help L&D units reduce obstetric hemorrhage and severe hypertension in pregnancy … Program for Perinatal Care (SPPC), a collection of tools to improve the patient safety culture of L&D units … Patient Safety Bundles and associated SPPC-II Teamwork Toolkit are successfully implemented in local L&D units … L&D units can start with whichever of the two toolkits, hypertension in pregnancy or obstetric hemorrhage

54. Welcome to the Toolkit for MRSA Prevention in ICU & Non-ICU Settings | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2024 - , resources, and tools to tackle the complex problems of MRSA prevention in hospital intensive care units … (ICUs) and non-intensive care units (non-ICUs).

55. Tools & Resources for Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2024 - is sometimes appropriate for use in non-ICU units, such as step-down units and medical, surgical or other … units with high acuity patients (i.e., Oncology)  should be considered for units with a high percentage … of central lines, midline catheters, PICC lines, or lumbar drains. is appropriate to use in hospital units … decolonized with CHG bathing daily throughout their stay in the unit. is recommended for use in non-ICU units

56. 150-Cusp-Tip-Sheet-Celebrating-Success (doc file)
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    October 01, 2024 - Teams have a unique opportunity to collaborate with other units and departments to share the lessons … been successfully piloted in a unit, it is important to rapidly share the lessons learned with other units … The spread of knowledge and practices is facilitated when other units become inspired to adopt these … adopt the new practice. · Provide a detailed overview of the new practice or process with the other units … Below is a sample conversation of Laura, a surgical ICU (SICU) manager, whose units successfully reduced

57. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Safety Program for Perinatal Care, Phase 2 Resources to help labor and delivery units … resources, and tools for preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in intensive care units … and non-intensive care units. … range of patient safety risks in specific healthcare settings: acute, hospital, labor and delivery units … Hospital Hospital Labor and Delivery Units Emergency Department Long Term Care

58. The Inaugural NEC Symposium: a transdisciplinary approach to tackle necrotizing enterocolitis in US neonatal intensive care units. | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Symposium: a transdisciplinary approach to tackle necrotizing enterocolitis in US neonatal intensive care units … Symposium: a transdisciplinary approach to tackle necrotizing enterocolitis in US neonatal intensive care units

59. Learning from mistakes is easier said than done: group and organizational influences on the detection and correction of human error. | PSNet
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    September 25, 2024 - The study, conducted on eight individual floors (units) at a university hospital, analyzes how differences … Team members were surveyed to determine the social and organizational properties of the units, and an … The study found that units with stronger nurse manager direction, coaching, perceived unit performance … adverse drug events in hospitalized patients: a comparative study of intensive care and general care units

60. Relationship of necrotizing enterocolitis rates to adoption of prevention practices in US neonatal intensive care units. | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - of necrotizing enterocolitis rates to adoption of prevention practices in US neonatal intensive care units … of necrotizing enterocolitis rates to adoption of prevention practices in US neonatal intensive care units