AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Nosocomial Infections

PATIENT SAFETY PRIMERS
Health Care-Associated Infections

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target
< All

Nosocomial Infections

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (2)

•Asia (2)

•Australia and New Zealand (3)

•Central and South America (1)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (2)

•Journal Article (175)

•Legislation/Regulation (5)

•Meeting/Conference (1)

•Newsletter/Journal (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (39)

•Press Release/Announcement (7)

•Special or Theme Issue (11)

•Tools/Toolkit (6)

•Web Resource (19)

•Grant (1)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (80)

•Active Errors (35)

•Latent Errors (17)

•Near Miss (2)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (139)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (55)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (85)

•Communication Improvement (43)

•Human Factors Engineering (55)

•Teamwork (19)

•Specialization of Care (13)

•Logistical Approaches (20)

•Culture of Safety (63)

•Technologic Approaches (30)

•Education and Training (52)

Clinical Areas

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (185)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (250)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (92)

•Patients (44)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (235)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (8)

•Ambulatory Care (17)

•Outpatient Surgery (8)

1 - 20 of 303

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

BOOK/REPORT

National Priorities and Goals: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.

National Priorities Partnership. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2008. ISBN: 1933875194.

STUDY

Racial disparities in the frequency of patient safety events: results from the National Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System.

Metersky ML, Hunt DR, Kliman R, et al. Med Care. 2011;49:504-510.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Keeping Kidney Patients Safe.

Renal Physicians Association.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient safety and quality in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007;8(suppl):S1-S43.

STUDY

Infection control assessment of ambulatory surgical centers.

Schaefer MK, Jhung M, Dahl M, et al. JAMA. 2010;303:2273-2279.

STUDY

Saving lives by studying deaths: using standardized mortality reviews to improve inpatient safety.

Lau H, Litman KC. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:400-408.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Scariest hospital risks.

Herper M, Lindner M. Forbes. August 25, 2008.

COMMENTARY classic

Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety.

Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:1401-1406.

STUDY

Quality of traditional surveillance for public reporting of nosocomial bloodstream infection rates.

Lin MY, Hota B, Khan YM, et al; CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. JAMA. 2010;304:2035-2041.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Leveraging technical and managerial changes to improve safety.

Pronovost P, Heifetz RA. Hosp Health Netw. March 27, 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

Focus on Patient Safety.

Fitzpatrick J, Stone P, Hinton-Walker P, eds. Annual Review of Nursing Research. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. ISBN: 0826141366.

STUDY

Statewide NICU central-line–associated bloodstream infection rates decline after bundles and checklists.

Schulman J, Stricof R, Stevens TP, et al; New York State Regional Perinatal Care Centers. Pediatrics. 2011;127:436-444.

STUDY

Using evidence, rigorous measurement, and collaboration to eliminate central catheter-associated bloodstream infections.

Sawyer M, Weeks K, Goeschel CA, et al. Crit Care Med. 2010;38(suppl 8):S292-S298.

STUDY

Collaborative cohort study of an intervention to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit.

Berenholtz SM, Pham JC, Thompson DA, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011;32:305-314.

STUDY

Trends in central line–associated bloodstream infections in a trauma-surgical intensive care unit.

Ong A, Dysert K, Herbert C, et al. Arch Surg. 2011;146:302-307.

STUDY

Evaluation of an evidence-based, nurse-driven checklist to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units.

Fuchs MA, Sexton DJ, Thornlow DK, Champagne MT. J Nurs Care Qual. 2011;26:101-109.

STUDY

The design of the SAFE or SORRY? study: a cluster randomised trial on the development and testing of an evidence based inpatient safety program for the prevention of adverse events.

van Gaal BG, Schoonhoven L, Hulscher ME, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2009;9:58.

STUDY

An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.

Pronovost P, Needham D, Berenholtz S, et al. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:2725-2732.

STUDY

The interrelationship of isolation precautions and adverse events in an acute care facility.

Spence MR, McQuaid M. Am J Infect Control. 2011;39:154-155.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MC. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:374-378.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >