Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: TIP 54

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

This guide equips clinicians with information for treating chronic pain in adults living with a history of substance use. The guide discusses chronic pain management, including treatment with opioids. It also includes information about substance use assessments and referrals. Available at no cost from SAMSHA.

COVID-19 Resources on Vulnerable Populations

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) has compiled Federal resources on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to assist our partners who work with those most vulnerable—such as older adults, those with underlying medical conditions, racial and ethnic minorities, rural communities, and people with disabilities.

Conversation Guide to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

IHI – Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This guide is intended to help health care staff and leaders have trust-building conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine, both at work and at home. Exploring people’s feelings about the vaccine through respectful, trust-building interactions over time offers the potential to increase the uptake of vaccinations. The guide helps health care staff and leaders begin to quickly engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination, enabling learning in practice and resolving issues that arise from such conversations. The focus is on having rich conversations to listen and learn about reasons and feelings for not getting vaccinated — and then seeking to have a dialogue about questions and concerns so that people can consider COVID-19 vaccination.

2021 NHSN Training videos

Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

NHSN subject matter experts have created training videos for 2021 NHSN updates. Recorded presentations cover the following topics:

  • LabID Analysis in Acute Care Hospitals – FAQs and Troubleshooting
  • MRSA Bacteremia and CDI LabID Event Reporting – Refresher
  • Clarifications to 2021 Bloodstream Infection Definitions
  • 2021 Secondary BSI and Chapter 17 Updates
  • Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) – Update
  • Ventilator-associated Event (VAE) and Pediatric Ventilator-associated Event (PedVAE) Analysis
  • Surgical Site Infection (SSI) – Updates and Refresher
  • Optimizing the Group User Analysis Experience
  • NHSN Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Option: Facility-Wide Antibiogram Report
  • Internal Data Validation
  • Healthcare Personnel Vaccination Module: Influenza Vaccination Summary Reporting for IRF Units in LTACHs and IPFs

Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE)

National Association of Community Health Centers

This resource contains the set of national core measures as well as a set of optional measures for community priorities. It was informed by research, the experience of existing social risk assessments, and stakeholder engagement. It aligns with national initiatives prioritizing social determinants (e.g., Healthy People 2020), measures proposed under the next stage of Meaningful Use, clinical coding under ICD-10, and health centers’ Uniform Data System (UDS).

Complex Care at NYC H+H: Operational Guide to Identify, Understand, and Treat High-Need Patients

NYC Health & Hospitals

This guide features open-source implementation tools which could be customized, and used to support other health system’s efforts to identify, understand, and treat patients with complex needs.
This guide provides step-by-step guidance on:
1) Risk scoring and stratification: using data and analytics to identify patients with complex needs;
2) Segmentation: combining analytics with clinical insight to understand patients with complex needs; and
3) Targeting: tailoring care models to fit needs and behaviors of patients with complex needs.

THE GLYCEMIC CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE: IMPROVING GLYCEMIC CONTROL, PREVENTING HYPOGLYCEMIA AND OPTIMIZING CARE OF THE INPATIENT WITH HYPERGLYCEMIA AND DIABETES

Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)

Provide users with concise guidance and tips to help them assess their current state of care regarding glycemic control, gain institutional support, build an effective team, choose metrics to follow, implement proven interventions and continue to assess and improve over time.

NUTRITION & IMMUNITY PODCAST SERIES: Pressure Injury

Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (ANHI)

Panel of world-renowned experts discuss nutrition guidelines for caring for COVID-19 patients.

  • NUTRITION CARE FOR PRESSURE INJURIES: GUIDELINES TO OPTIMIZE OUTCOMES
  • THE ROLE OF HYDRATION IN ACUTE INFLAMMATORY PROCESS & RECOVERY
  • NATIONAL BLUEPRINT: ACHIEVING QUALITY MALNUTRITION CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS, 2020 UPDATE
  • NUTRITION SUPPORT OF THE COVID-19 ICU PATIENT
  • A REVIEW OF THE SCCM/ASPEN COVID-19 RECOMMENDATIONS
  • NUTRITIONAL NEEDS OF COVID-19 PATIENTS IN-HOSPITAL & POST-DISCHARGE

Unavoidable Pressure Injury during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Position Paper from the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel

National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP)

The purposes of this National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) Position Paper are to:

  1. Summarize the current NPIAP position regarding unavoidable pressure injuries.
  2. Examine the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the scope of what is considered an unavoidable pressure injury.
  3. State the position of the NPIAP regarding determinations of unavoidable pressure injuries during the COVID-19 crisis.
  4. Renew the NPIAP call to collaborate on the development of criteria for the determination of unavoidable pressure injuries in acute care.