Care bundles: implementing evidence or common sense?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Care bundles: implementing evidence or common sense?
Care bundles aim to improve standard of care and patient outcome by promoting the consistent implementation of a group of effective interventions. However, a variety of barriers prevent their full application in clinical practice. Here, we discuss some of the benefits and limitations of care bundles in the delivery of safer and more effective and consistent health care.
متن کاملEvidence-based common sense?
Like most physicians, I try to keep up to date on my journal reading and continuing medical education conference participation in an effort to provide the best possible care to my patients and community, in accordance with the most evidence-based practice of the time. Of course, this requires me to accept an assumption that the evidence-based research that such journal articles and conference p...
متن کاملEvidence based medicine, guidelines and common sense.
The American Geriatrics Society [1] has recently published a set of guidelines intended to help clinicians prioritize and attend to the particular needs of older people with diabetes mellitus. This is a welcome synthesis of the disappointingly sparse worldwide literature specifically targeted towards the needs of older diabetic people. The guidelines generally emphasise that the goals of diabet...
متن کاملEvidence-Based Medicine Doesn't Preclude Common Sense.
FEASIBILITY Obvious difficulties involving ethics and recruitment preclude a randomized trial of a parachute’s effectiveness; similar problems exist for some patient safety interventions. After all, who would allow themselves or their family member to be randomly assigned to a control group—be it freefalling without a parachute or being the recipient of a prescription using an abbreviation like...
متن کاملMargaret McCartney: Hydration, common sense, and evidence.
“Remember—healthy pee is 1 to 3, 4 to 8 you must hydrate!” So goes a rhyming couplet from the Think Kidneys website, the online presence of the Transforming Participation in Chronic Kidney Disease programme. It comes with a colour chart, not unlike those available in shops selling paint, ranging from the off-white shade 1 (good) to shade 8, which I’d describe as orange with a hint of rust (seve...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc10232