Evidence utilisation project: Management of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. The challenges of implementing best practice recommendations in the perioperative environment

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 305-311

  Munday, Judy ^a   Hines, Sonia Jane ^a   Chang, Anne M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Best practice; Evidence utilisation; Hypothermia; Perioperative; Temperature monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEST PRACTICE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE UTILISATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; PERIOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BEST PRACTICE; EVIDENCE UTILISATION; HYPOTHERMIA; PERIOPERATIVE; TEMPERATURE MONITORING;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 84888865437     PISSN: 17441595     EISSN: 17441609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1744-1609.12035     Document Type: Article

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