A completely nurse-driven PICC-line service in a surgical ward: A prospective audit of the implementation-phase in unselected patients

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 541-542

  Lassen, Kristoffer ^a   Christensen, Ann Helen ^a   Revhaug, Arthur ^a   Lindsetmo, Rolv Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; CANNULATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NURSE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; SURGICAL WARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744934775     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2005.12.004     Document Type: Letter

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