This checklist was developed by physicians at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. The checklist covers 15 areas of care, including skin condition, nutrition, stress ulcer prophylaxis, ...

Daily checklists and other aspects of a quality improvement intervention failed to reduce deaths among critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs), a study published in the Journal of ...

Checklist Prompters Support ICU Rounds ... and our research has several important implications for performance improvement and quality measurement in the ICU,” said lead author Andrew J. King, ...

A completed checklist was required each night for every room in the ICU—even those without patients or with patients who didn't have indwelling urinary catheters. Program adapted hospital-wide ...

Implementation of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention with daily checklists, goal setting, and clinician prompting did not reduce in-hospital mortality compared with routine care among ...

While the hospital was shifting the care of cardiac critical-care patients from nonsurgeon intensivists to intensivists trained as surgeons, it implemented a new ICU quality-improvement initiative ...

“We do not want to stand in the way of quality improvement activities that pose minimal risks to subjects,” said Ivor Pritchard, ... Researchers estimated the ICU checklist saved 1,500 lives ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study showed intensive care unit mortality rates plummeted by 50 percent when the attending physician had a checklist and a colleague prompting him to address issues on ...

A total of 6,877 patients were enrolled in the observational phase and 6,761 in the randomization phase, of whom 3,327 were randomized to a quality improvement intervention involving a daily ...

The checklist, which asked questions about prophylaxis, medication reconciliation and urinary catheter placement, was uploaded into neuroscience ICU patient charts as an automatic prompt.

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine found significant reductions in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and surgical intensive care unit (SICU) mortality rates ...

But checklist-based quality improvement initiatives may not be effective at achieving that goal, ... the Keystone Surgery is based on the successful Keystone ICU program.