A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce the Use of Physical Restraints in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (picu)

Autor: Charles Schleien, Kathy Albert, Anupama Subramony, Maria Marchelos, Lily B. Glater-Welt, Peter Silver
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Program.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.141.1_meetingabstract.86
Popis: Purpose: Physical restraints are utilized in the critically ill to reduce interference with life-saving therapies. Last year, restraint usage in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) increased by 13%. In an effort to assure adherence to our existing restraints policy, we conducted a quality improvement project to (1) evaluate providers’ attitudes toward restraint usage; (2) develop a reliable process to achieve a minimum of 90% compliance with a newly developed restraint bundle by July 31st, 2016, and (3) assess whether implementation of this restraint bundle …
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