• Vineet Chopra, Latoya Kuhn, Valerie Vaughn, David Ratz, Suzanne Winter, Nancy Moureau, Britt Meyer, and Sarah Krein.
• Vineet Chopra is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, where Valerie Vaughn is a clinical instructor and Suzanne Winter is a project manager. Latoya Kuhn is a project manager in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Ann Arbor Healthcare System, where David Ratz is a research specialist and Sarah Krein is a research scientist. Nancy Moureau is the chief executive officer of PICC Excellence, Inc., in Hartwell, GA. Britt Meyer is an RN on the vascular access team at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Funding for this study was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant no. 1-K08HS022835-01), the VA, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (grant no. 2140.II). These funding agencies played no role in study design, data acquisition, data analysis, or data reporting. Krein is the recipient of a VA Health Services Research and Development Research Career Scientist Award (RCS 11-222). Moureau serves as a speaker and consultant for 3M, Access Scientific, AngioDynamics, Teleflex, BD Carefusion, Chiesi, Cook Medical, Entrotech, Fresenius Kabi, and Nexus; as a researcher at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, she received grants from 3M, Cook Medical, and Entrotech. Meyer is an adviser on Smiths Medical's nurse advisory panel and has given expert testimony on behalf of Cooper and Scully PC. Contact author: Vineet Chopra, vineetc@umich.edu. The authors and planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. government.
• Am J Nurs. 2017 Dec 1; 117 (12): 24-34.

Abstract: Background: Although certification by an accredited agency is often a practice prerequisite in health care, it is not required of vascular access specialists who insert peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs). Whether certification is associated with differences in practice among inserters is unknown.

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