HAI Reduction Resources
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- American Hospital Association (AHA) Appropriate Use of Medical Resources Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Appropriate Antibiotic Use Campaign
- CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
- CDC Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Checklist
- National Quality Partners Playbook: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care, National Quality Forum, National Quality Partners Antibiotic Stewardship Action Team
- The White House. National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB)
- The Joint Commission Antimicrobial Stewardship Standard 2017
- What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more? TED Talk
- World Health Organization (WHO) Global Priority List of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria to Guide Research, Discovery, and Development of New Antibiotics
- WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
Clinical Field Guide
Zone Tools
Additional Tools and Resources
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2018 1 Hour Bundle Update
- Sepsis Alliance
- World Sepsis Day—September 13, 2019
- CDC—Sepsis Resources
- Life after Sepsis: What Sepsis Survivors Need to Know
- Rory Staunton Foundation for Sepsis Prevention
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Sepsis and Septic Shock Change Package
- Five Wishes (Advanced Directives) Website
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools & Resources
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)—Guide to the Elimination of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs)
- Catheterout.org—Comprehensive Resource and toolkit for all CAUTI prevention strategies, including patient and family engagement
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Healthcare-associated Infection—Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
- CDC—Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
- CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee—Guidelines for Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
- CDC—Surveillance for Urinary Tract Infections
- TAP CAUTI Toolkit Implementation Guide: Links to Example Resources
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections: Resources for Patients and Healthcare Providers
- CDC—Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Requirements for CLABSI Surveillance and Reporting
- CDC—Checklist for Prevention of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
- CDC—Healthcare-associated Infection - Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI)
- CDC—Paving the Path Forward: 2015 Rebaseline
- Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET)—Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) Change Package
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): Guide to the Elimination of Clostridium difficile in Healthcare Settings
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): What you need to know about Clostridium difficile
- California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in California Hospitals
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)—Making Health Care Safer
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Clostridium difficile Infection (C. difficile) Change Package
- CDC—Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Prevention Primer
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)—Implementation Guide: Guide to Preventing Clostridium difficile Infections
- TAP CDI Implementation Guide: Links to Example Resources
- TEDx Talk—Improving Healthcare: Straight from the Heart
- WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for CDI in Adults and Children: 2017 Updated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
- Duration of Contact Precautions for Acute-Care Settings
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AHRQ—Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of C. difficile: Current State of the Evidence
- CDC—Strategies to Prevent Clostridioides difficile Infection in Acute Care Facilities
- Greater New York Hospital Association United Hospital Fund—Reducing C. difficile Infections Toolkit
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Facility Guidance for Control of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
- CDC—Campaign to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthcare Settings
- CDC Healthcare-Associated Infections, Tracking CRE
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)—Guide to the Elimination of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Transmission in Healthcare Settings
- Management of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in Healthcare Settings
- National Quality Partners Antibiotic Stewardship Action Team —Playbook: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care
- TEDx Talk: Improving Healthcare: Straight from the Heart
- World Health Organization. Global Priority List of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria to Guide Research, Discovery, and Development of New Antibiotics
- WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines
- APIC New Implementation Guide: Infection Preventionist's Guide to the Operating Room
- Association of periOperative Registered Nurses: Guidelines for Perioperative Practices
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Preventing Surgical Site Infections Change Package
- National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Event
- Patient Risk Factors and Best Practices for Surgical site Infection Prevention
- Risk Factors Influence SSI—Fishbone Diagram
- WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
Harm Reduction Resources
HSAG HIIN Readmission Materials
Clinical Field Guide
Best Practice Sharing
- Health Research & Education Trust (HRET) HIIN Change Package
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) IDEAL Discharge Toolkit
- Huddle for Care
Specific Tools
- Project BOOST® (Better Outcomes by Optimizing Safe Transitions)
- The Care Transitions Program®
- Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge)
- AHRQ Health Literacy Tools (Revised)
- AHRQ Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care
- Modified LACE Tool
- Transitional Care Model (TCM)
- Patient Discharge Survey
- Eldercare Services—Coming Home After a Stay in the Hospital
- Administration for Community Living—Connected Older Adults and Those With Disabilities With Community Services
Readmission Reduction Programs
Clinical Field Guide
HSAG HIIN HEAT Tool
ADE Sprint
Additional Tools and Resources
- Minnesota Hospital Association—Road Map to a Medication Safety Program
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Adverse Drug Event Change Package
- American Diabetes Association—Management of Inpatient Hyperglycemia and Diabetes in Older Adults
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement—Anticoagulant Toolkit: Reducing ADEs
- Society of Hospital Medicine—Reducing ADEs related to Opioids (RADEO) Implementation Toolkit
- SAMSHA Toolkit to Help Prevent Opioid Overdoses in the Community
- Patient Safety Movement—Monitoring for Opioid Induced Respiratory Depression
- Patient Safety Authority—Oral Anticoagulants: A Review of Common Errors and Risk Reduction Strategies
- ISMP—Medication Safety Self Assessment® for High-Alert Medications
- Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)—Improving Glycemic Control in the Non-Critical Care Setting
- Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU)—Patient Education Materials
- Optimizing Glucose Management in Hospitalized Patients Using a Subcutaneous Basal-Bolus Insulin Therapy Approach
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease—Managing Diabetes
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists—Clinical Evidence for Glucose Control in the Inpatient Setting
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- The Joint Commission—Pain Assessment and Management Standards for Hospitals
- Society of Critical Care Medicine—Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption (PADIS) Guidelines
- Project Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment (SHOUT): Start and Maintain Patients on Effective Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
- Project SHOUT: Opioid Toolkit
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools & Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Preventing Falls in Hospitals—A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care
- AHRQ—Fall Prevention in Hospitals Training Program
- Exercise Programs That Promote Senior Fitness
- Falls Prevention Conversation Guide for Caregivers
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Stop to Start Improving Fall Injuries
- HRET—Falls With Injury Change Package
- Stop Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) Materials for Healthcare Workers
- Veterans Administration National Center for Patient Safety—Falls Toolkit
- Patient Safety and Quality an Evidence-based Handbook for Nurses
- Fall TIPS: Tailoring Inteventions for Patient Safety—A Patient Centered Fall Prevention Toolkit
- HD Nursing: The Science Behind Falls Management
Clinical Field Guide
HSAG HIIN HAPI Resources
- HSAG HIIN Pressure Injury Study Form
- HSAG HIIN Pressure Injury Study Tool
- HSAG HIIN Pressure Injury Data Collection Worksheet
- HSAG HIIN HAPI Business Case—Things to Consider
- HSAG HIIN HAPI Post Event Form
Additional Tools and Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)— Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals. A Toolkit for Improving Quality of Care
- AHRQ—Preventing Pressure Ulcers: A Patient's Guide
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Preventing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers/Injuries
- HSAG HIIN—HAPU-I Assessment Tools for Hospitals
- NPUAP, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance—Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Quick Reference Guide
- National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®): Press Gainey. Pressure Injury Training
- Institute for Pressure Injury Prevention—Pressure Injury Advisory Board Information
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)—Toolkit to Improve Safety for Mechanically Ventilated Patients
- Society of Critical Care Medicine—ICU Liberation: ABCDEF Bundle
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement, How-to Guide: Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Health Research & Educational Trust—Preventing Ventilator Associated Events
- Health Services Advisory Group Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HSAG HIIN)—VAE Reporting Presentation
- HSAG HIIN—VAE Observation Tool
- Society of Critical Care Medicine—2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption (PADIS) in Adult Patients in the ICU
- Vanderbilt University—Critical Illness, Brain dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center Research on Delirium
Clinical Field Guide
Additional Tools and Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism
- Society for Hospital Medicine—The VTE Toolkit
- Health Research and Educational Trust—Venous Thromboembolism Change Package
- ScienceDirect—Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
- Johns Hopkins Medicine. Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality—Preventing Venous Thromboembolism
- HRET—VTE Process Discovery Tool
- HSAG HIIN—VTE Business Case
Foundations for Harm Reduction
- PfP Strategic Vision Roadmap Digest on PFE Metric 1
- Includes PFE #1—Sample Checklist Tool
Additional Tools and Resources
- AHRQ—Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety
- BJC HealthCare—Patient and Family Advisory Council: Getting Started Toolkit
- Healthcarecommunities.org—PfP Library on HealthCare Communities Website
- Institute for Patient-and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC)—Advancing the Practice of Patient-and Family-Centered Care in Hospitals
- IPFCC—Partnering with Patients and Families to Enhance Safety and Quality: A Mini Toolkit
- National Academy of Medicine—Guiding Framework for Patient and Family Engaged Care
- PFE Metric Organizational Assessment Tool
- PFE Data Collection Resources
HSAG HIIN HEOA Resources
Other HEOA Resources
- Equity of Care: A Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities
- Guide to Preventing Readmissions Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries
- Disparities Impact Statement Guide
- Health Equity Organizational Assessment Hospital Tutorial
- Health Disparities Guide
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—Plain Language Materials and Resources
- CDC TRAIN—Effective Communication for Healthcare Teams
Zone Tools
- Asthma Self-Management Plan English
- Asthma Self-Management Plan Spanish
- Blood Thinner Zone Tool English
- COPD Self-Management Plan English
- COPD Self-Management Plan Spanish
- Diabetes Safety Zone Tool English
- Diabetes Safety Zone Tool Spanish
- Heart Disease Self-Management Plan English
- Heart Disease Self-Management Plan Spanish
- Heart Failure Self-Management Plan English
- Heart Failure Self-Management Plan Spanish
- Medications Zone Tool English
- Mood Zone Tool English
- Mood Zone Tool Spanish
- Pneumonia Zone Tool English
- Pneumonia Zone Tool Spanish
- Sepsis Zone Tool English
- Sepsis Zone Tool Spanish
- Stroke Prevention and Early Recognition Zone Tool English
- Stroke Prevention and Early Recognition Zone Tool Spanish
- Total Hip Replacement Zone Tool English
- Total Hip Replacement Zone Tool Spanish
- Total Knee Replacement Zone Tool English
- Total Knee Replacement Zone Tool Spanish
- Urinary System Zone Tool English
- Urinary System Zone Tool Spanish
