Articles: checklist.
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Checklist utilization has been shown to improve multiple processes of care in the intensive care unit (ICU). The ICU setting makes checklist implementation challenging, particularly when prompters are unavailable to ensure checklist compliance. We performed a prospective analysis on physician compliance reporting as a means to improve attending physician compliance with checklist use during ICU rounds. ⋯ Physician compliance reporting can be used to improve ICU physician compliance with rounding checklists when prompters are unavailable. Improved physician compliance translated into decreased rates of Foley catheter, central venous catheter, and ventilator use. These results highlight the impact physician accountability can have on patient care in the ICU.
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Editorial Comment
Improving peri-operative patient care: the surgical safety checklist.
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Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg · Mar 2015
ReviewAssessing the quality of available patient reported outcome measures for intermittent claudication: a systematic review using the COSMIN checklist.
The aim was to critically appraise, compare, and summarize the quality of the measurement properties of all available disease specific patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) on health related quality of life and functional status validated in patients with intermittent claudication (IC). ⋯ The quality of the validation of most disease specific PROMs for IC is alarming, hampering all conclusion based on these PROMs. Considering the results, the PAD quality of life questionnaire (PADQOL), Intermittent claudication questionnaire (ICQ) and the Vascular quality of life questionnaire (VascuQol) might be appropriate PROMs for health related quality of life, while the Walking impairment questionnaire (WIQ) and Estimate ambulation capacity by history questionnaire (EACH-Q) appear suitable PROMs for functional status. However, all PROMs require further validation studies to fill the gaps in their measurement properties. The shortcomings highlighted in this review should be taken into account when interpreting PROM results.
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Previous studies of checklist-based quality improvement interventions have reported mixed results. ⋯ Implementation of a checklist-based quality improvement intervention did not affect rates of adverse surgical outcomes among patients undergoing general surgery in participating Michigan hospitals. Additional research is needed to understand why this program was not successful prior to further dissemination and implementation of this model to other populations.