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Fragmentation of Care Threatens Patient Safety in Peripheral Vascular Catheter Management in Acute Care– A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: The use of peripheral vascular catheters (PVCs) is an extremely common and necessary clinical intervention, but inappropriate PVC care poses a major patient safety risk in terms of infection. Quality improvement initiatives have been proposed to reduce the likelihood of adverse events, b...

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Autores principales: Castro-Sánchez, Enrique, Charani, Esmita, Drumright, Lydia N., Sevdalis, Nick, Shah, Nisha, Holmes, Alison H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086167