Quality improvement in cardiac critical care

Our quality improvement program began in 2004 to improve cardiac surgery outcomes. Early tracheal extubation in the cardiovascular intensive unit was utilized as a multidisciplinary driver for the quality improvement program. Continuous improvement in the rate of early extubation to drive multidisci...

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Autores principales: Lobdell, K, Camp, S, Stamou, S, Swanson, R, Reames, M, Madjarov, J, Stiegel, R, Skipper, E, Geller, R, Velardo, B, Mishra, A, Robicsek, F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EDIMES Edizioni Internazionali Srl 2009
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Research-Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23439222
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Sumario:Our quality improvement program began in 2004 to improve cardiac surgery outcomes. Early tracheal extubation in the cardiovascular intensive unit was utilized as a multidisciplinary driver for the quality improvement program. Continuous improvement in the rate of early extubation to drive multidisciplinary quality improvement in cardiac critical care correlated with decreased mortality, morbidity, and improved operational efficiency. Supportive educational efforts included, but were not limited to, principles of change, trust, competing values, crew resource management, evidence based medicine, and quality improvement.

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