Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

July 1 2008 20080701

Simple Steps Can Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections

Clinicians & Providers

• A National Collaborative for Reducing Health Care-associated Infections: Current Initiatives, Challenges, and Opportunities
• AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2010
• AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011
• AHRQ's Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Ending Health Care-Associated Infections
• Hospital Policies and Practices on Prevention and Treatment of Infections Caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• Using a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections

Hospital & Health System Resources

• A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
• AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2010
• AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011
• AHRQ's Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide
• Ending Health Care-Associated Infections
• Using a Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections

Policymaker Resources

• A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Ending Health Care-Associated Infections

October 1 2010 20101001

AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2010

October 1 2010 20101001

AHRQ Projects to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, Fiscal Year 2011

October 1 2009 20091001

AHRQ's Efforts to Prevent and Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections

Other Research & Data

• A National Collaborative for Reducing Health Care-associated Infections: Current Initiatives, Challenges, and Opportunities
• A Successful, Voluntary, Multicomponent Statewide Effort To Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections
• Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Children in the United States
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative: Final Report Companion Guide
• Nebraska Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Revise Protocol for Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
• New Mexico Hospitals Use AHRQ Toolkit to Revise Protocol for Preventing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
• New York Hospitals
• Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Uses AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program

Press Releases

November 2 2011 20111102

AHRQ Awards $34 Million to Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections

January 31 2011 20110131

Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths Among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units

November 4 2010 20101104

AHRQ Awards $34 Million to Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections

News & Numbers

August 25 2010 20100825

Health Care-Associated Infections Greatly Increase the Length and Cost of Hospital Stays

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

July 1 2008 20080701

Simple Steps Can Reduce Health Care-Associated Infections

Other News & Events

• AHRQ Awards $34 Million To Expand Fight Against Healthcare-Associated Infections
• AHRQ Congressional Testimony, Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
• AHRQ Director's Commentary Provides Insight on Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform
• AHRQ awards $34 million to expand fight against healthcare-associated infections
• AHRQ toolkit helps hospitals improve antibiotic selection to reduce deadly C. difficile infections
• AHRQ-funded report shows promise in detecting surgical site infections
• Annual quality and disparities reports include data on health care-associated infections, obesity, and health insurance
• Combining strategies cuts hospitals’ healthcare-associated infection rates
• From the Director
• From the Director
• Hospital-acquired infections dramatically increase trauma patients' risk of in-hospital death and hospital stay
• ICUs in Michigan sustain zero bloodstream infections for up to 2 years
• Intensive care units for newborns in nine States see sharp drop in bloodstream infections
• Landmark Initiative to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections Cuts Deaths Among Medicare Patients in Michigan Intensive Care Units
• Landmark initiative to reduce healthcare-associated infections cuts deaths among Medicare patients in Michigan ICUs
• New AHRQ Data Show Healthcare-associated Infections Greatly Increase the Length and Cost of Hospital Stays
• One-third of patients with hospital-acquired infections are readmitted
• Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections: Initiating Promising Solutions and Expanding Proven Ones
• Superficial surgical site infections are a reliable measure of hospital quality
• Surgical infection prevention measures reduce postoperative infections when used together, but not singly
• Trauma patients with hospital-acquired infections have poor outcomes, including increased mortality risk