NGC - Resources - Hospital Acquired Conditions

Preventing Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HACs)

Section 5001(c) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify conditions that are: (a) high cost or high volume or both, (b) result in the assignment of a case to a diagnosis related group (DRG) that has a higher payment when present as a secondary diagnosis, and (c) could reasonably have been prevented through the application of evidence-based guidelines.

If at discharge, there is a selected condition that was either not identified by the hospital as present on admission, or could not be identified based on data and clinical judgment at admission, it is considered hospital-acquired. To encourage hospitals to avoid hospital-acquired conditions, beginning October 1, 2008, Medicare no longer pays hospitals at a higher rate for the increased costs of care that result when a patient is harmed by one of the listed conditions if it was hospital-acquired. Medicare prohibits the hospital from billing the beneficiary for the difference between the lower and higher payment rates. The inpatient prospective payment system fiscal year (IPPSFY) 2009 Final Rule is available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site.

Listed below by condition are evidence-based guideline resources available on NGC to assist users in the prevention of the CMS-identified hospital-acquired conditions.

1. Foreign Object Retained After Surgery

esta sección contiene:
-Prevention of unintentionally retained foreign objects during vaginal deliveries. Health care protocol

2. Air Embolism

esta sección contiene:
.Access device guidelines: recommendations for nursing practice and education

3. Blood Incompatibility

There are no guideline resources available on this condition at this time.

4. Stage III and IV Pressure Ulcers

esta sección contiene:
-Pressure ulcer prevention and treatment following spinal cord injury
-Preventing pressure ulcers and skin tears. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice
-Risk assessment & prevention of pressure ulcers
-Skin safety protocol: risk assessment and prevention of pressure ulcers. Health care protocol

5. Falls and Trauma including fractures, dislocations, intracranial injuries, crushing injuries, burns, and electric shock

esta sección contiene:
.Changing the practice of physical restraint use in acute care
.Fall management guideline
.Fall prevention for older adults
.Preventing falls in acute care. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice
.Prevention of falls (acute care). Health care protocol
.Prevention of falls and fall injuries in the older adult

6. Manifestations of Poor Glycemic Control

esta sección contiene:
-American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the management of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes management in the hospital setting
-Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults
-Inpatient management guidelines for people with diabetes
-Standards of medical care in diabetes. VIII. Diabetes care in specific settings
-Type 1 diabetes in adults. National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care

7. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)

esta sección contiene:
.Best practice policy statement on urological surgery antimicrobial prophylaxis
.Catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In: Guidelines on the management of urinary and male genital tract infections
.Management of suspected bacterial urinary tract infection in adults. A national clinical guideline
.Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In: Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in Massachusetts
.Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals
.Urinary tract infection


8. Vascular Catheter-Associated Infection

esta sección contiene:
-(1) Care and maintenance to reduce vascular access complications. (2) Care and maintenance to reduce vascular access complications 2008 supplement
-Access device guidelines: recommendations for nursing practice and education
- Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery. A national clinical guideline
-Guidelines on the insertion and management of central venous access devices in adults
-NKF-KDOQI clinical practice guidelines for vascular access: update 2006
-Prevention of bloodstream infections. In: Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in Massachusetts
-Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals


9. Surgical Site Infection

esta sección contiene:
.Prevention of surgical site infections. In: Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in Massachusetts
.Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals
.Surgical site infection: prevention and treatment of surgical site infection


10 .Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)/Pulmonary Embolism (PE) following total knee replacement and hip replacement

esta sección contiene:
.American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical guideline on prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty
.Dabigatran etexilate for the prevention of venous thromboembolism after hip or knee replacement surgery in adults
.Prevention of deep vein thrombosis
.Prevention of venous thromboembolism. American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (8th edition)
.Prevention of venous thrombosis
.Steps to reduce surgical risk. In: I guidelines for perioperative evaluation
.Total knee replacement
.Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis
.Venous thromboembolism. Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in inpatients undergoing surgery (not yet published to NGC)


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NGC - Resources - Hospital Acquired Conditions