Measurable outcomes of quality improvement using a daily quality rounds checklist: One-year analysis in a trauma intensive care unit with sustained ventilator-associated pneumonia reduction

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 855-860

  Dubose, Joseph ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Lam, Lydia ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   Putty, Brad ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Green, Donald J ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care; Prophylaxis; Quality improvement; Trauma; Ventilatorassociated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEPSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHECKLIST; CROSS INFECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958186379     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181c4526f     Document Type: Article

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