Measurable outcomes of quality improvement in the trauma intensive care unit: The impact of a daily quality rounding checklist

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-27

  DuBose, Joseph J ^a,b   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Shiflett, Anthony ^a   Trankiem, Christine ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Salim, Ali ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury; Outcome assessment; Quality assessment; Trauma; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 38149120452     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318161b0c8     Document Type: Article

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