Improving room layouts for venepuncture, cannulation and ABG equipment on surgical wards
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Improving room layouts for venepuncture, cannulation and ABG equipment on surgical wards
The Productive Ward series has effectively helped to standardise the storage of equipment in hospital ward treatment rooms; however, in our organisation equipment for venepunture and cannulation had been excluded. This resulted in clinicians having to navigate several unfamiliar environments while on-call and hence waste valuable time searching for basic equipment. We aimed to make it easier to...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2050-1315
DOI: 10.1136/bmjquality.u554.w477