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This section of the toolkit provides guidance and materials to assist you in the operationalization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and surgical site infection (SSI) prevention ...

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is an evidence-based framework that has been widely used to address patient safety and quality improvement issues. CUSP starts with the frontline ...

Overall, the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia increased by more than 100 percent between 2019 and 2021 regardless of hospital type. This increase ranged from 133.9 percent at critical access ...

The rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia during inpatient stays increased by 20.1 percent between 2016 and 2019. (Source: AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #313, ...

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, heart failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease. High blood pressure is very common, affecting about 30 percent of adults in the United ...

OpenNotes is a tool that gives patients access to their medical records so they can read encounter notes. Patients can access their notes online through the patient portal or in hard copy from a ...