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401. 4 Tk2 T1-Medical Care Referral Form (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK2_T1-Medical_Care_Referral_Form.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality MEDICAL CARE REFERRAL FORM USE IN ALL SITUATIONS WHEN A RESIDENT HAS A NEW PROBLEM AND INFECTION MAY BE SUSPECTED, AND IS BEING REFERRED TO A MEDICAL CARE PROVIDER, INCLUDING TRANSFER TO AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OR HOSPIT…

402. Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2023 - Grantee Profile Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Barbara Wells Trautner, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Infectious Diseases and Health Services Research Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Baylor College of Medicine Barbara Wells Trau…

403. Assess and Adapt: Understanding the Science of Safety and Reliability (June 3, 2014) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - goal is to educate the health care workers in your clinical area about the appropriate management of urinary … catheters, including the indication for their placement and their continued use. … We want you to prevent the placement of unnecessary urinary catheters and to promptly remove urinary … catheters when they are no longer needed for the patient's care. … catheters that are placed in patients in your clinical area.

404. Paul Tedrick (doc file)
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     June 03, 2014 - goal is to educate the health care workers in your clinical area about the appropriate management of urinary … catheters, including the indication for their placement and their continued use. … We want you to prevent the placement of unnecessary urinary catheters and to promptly remove urinary … catheters when they are no longer needed for the patient’s care. … catheters that are placed in patients in your clinical area.

405. Network of Rural Hospitals in Iowa Redesign Patient Care Workflow to Use Electronic Health Records (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2009 - Network of Rural Hospitals in Iowa Redesign Patient Care Workflow to Use Electronic Health Records                                                                                                                                                                                                                         …

406. Misconnection Leading to Arterial Thrombosis | PSNet
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     January 29, 2021 - Misconnection Leading to Arterial Thrombosis Citation Text: Bohringer C, Lee G. Misconnection Leading to Arterial Thrombosis. PSNet [internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. 2023. Copy Citation Format: Google Scholar Bib…

407. Practice General Infection Prevention Skills | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Practice General Infection Prevention Skills A Unit Guide To Infection Prevention for Long-Term Care Staff ( PDF , 2.97 MB) This guide provides frontline and other staff with basic knowledge about long-term care facility infection prevention guidelines. Standard- and Transmission-Based Precautions Educ…

408. AHRQ Safety Program for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2025 - AHRQ Safety Program for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in conjunction with NORC at the University of Chicago and the Johns Hopkins University, created the AHRQ Safety Program for Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention to implement a bu…

409. AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2024 - AHRQ's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are among the leading threats to patient safety, affecting one out of every 31 hospital patients at any one time. Over a million HAIs occur across the U.S. health care system every year, leading to the loss of tens of thousa…

410. Stay Connected: FAQs about Small-Bore Connectors and Tubing Misconnections. | PSNet
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     March 12, 2016 - Book/Report Stay Connected: FAQs about Small-Bore Connectors and Tubing Misconnections. Citation Text: Stay Connected: FAQs about Small-Bore Connectors and Tubing Misconnections. Arlington, VA: Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; October 2013. Copy Citatio…

411. How To Use This Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - How To Use This Toolkit Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities The toolkit consists of three sections. Your facility can use the materials in each section in improvement efforts to reduce CAUTI and other HAIs. Implementation Sustainability Resources Sections aggregate …

412. Ccscategorynames(Fulllabels) (pdf file)
     hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs10/CCSCategoryNames(FullLabels).pdf
     January 19, 2017 - SINGLE-LEVEL CCS DIAGNOSIS CATEGORIES SINGLE-LEVEL CCS DIAGNOSIS CATEGORY LABELS 1 Tuberculosis 2 Septicemia (except in labor) 3 Bacterial infection; unspecified site 4 Mycoses 5 HIV infection 6 Hepatitis 7 Viral infection 8 Other infections; including parasitic 9 Sexually transmitted infections (not HIV or hepatiti…

413. Tools for Sustainability: Premortem and Scorecard: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2017 - Tools for Sustainability: Premortem and Scorecard: Slide Presentation AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients Slide 1: AHRQ Safety Program for Mechanically Ventilated Patients Tools for Sustainability: Premortem and Scorecard Slide 2: Learning Objectives After this session, you will…

414. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Preventable Hospital and Emergency Department Visits Electronic Reports Five reports are described here. Each section presents a sample report followed by purpose, description, and users and potential uses. The reports are: Transfer Risk Reports  (A high r…

415. 065-Dec-Staff-Faqs-Decolonization (doc file)
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     October 01, 2024 - If my patient also has a urinary catheter, should the urinary catheter be cleaned with CHG as well?

416. Effect of communication errors during calls to an antimicrobial stewardship program. | PSNet
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     June 22, 2022 - Study Effect of communication errors during calls to an antimicrobial stewardship program. Citation Text: Linkin DR, Fishman NO, Landis R, et al. Effect of communication errors during calls to an antimicrobial stewardship program. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007;28(12):1374-1381. …

417. Utilizing improvement science methods to improve physician compliance with proper hand hygiene. | PSNet
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     April 13, 2011 - Study Utilizing improvement science methods to improve physician compliance with proper hand hygiene. Citation Text: White CM, Statile AM, Conway PH, et al. Utilizing improvement science methods to improve physician compliance with proper hand hygiene. Pediatrics. 2012;129(4):e1042-50.…

418. Neds 2014 Maskedstats Ed (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2014 - please refer to the section on Description of Data Elements. For more information about the coding of HCUP data elements, HCUP Summary Statistics Report: NEDS 2014 - ED File 18:01 Thursday, December 1, 2016 1 Means of Continuous Data Elements please refer to the section on Description of Data Elements. For more inf…

419. Neds 2012 Maskedstats Ed (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2012 - please refer to the section on Description of Data Elements. For more information about the coding of HCUP data elements, HCUP Summary Statistics Report: NEDS 2012 - ED File 02:12 Tuesday, November 18, 2014 1 Means of Continuous Data Elements please refer to the section on Description of Data Elements. For more inf…

420. Facility Action Plan Template | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Challenges identified: Hospital sending resident to long-term care facility with an indwelling urinary … catheter when not medically necessary; providers maintaining status quo despite education on evidence-based