Reducing Use of Restraints in Intensive Care Units: A Quality Improvement Project | Zendy

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Reducing Use of Restraints in Intensive Care Units: A Quality Improvement Project

Author(s) -

Dannette A. Mitchell,

Teresa Panchisin,

Maureen A. Seckel

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

critical care nurse

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.342

H-Index - 44

eISSN - 1940-8250

pISSN - 0279-5442

DOI - 10.4037/ccn2018211

Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care , health care , national database , quality management , quality (philosophy) , medical emergency , medline , nursing , emergency medicine , database , operations management , intensive care medicine , management system , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , political science , law , economics , economic growth

Use of physical restrainst is scrutinized in intensive care units today. Usage rates for the 5 intensive care units in the Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware, were higher than the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators mean rate of 9.61% to 15.43% for many months during fiscal years 2013 and 2014.

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