Beyond checklists: Using clinician prompts to achieve meaningful ICU quality improvement
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Citation Weiss CH, Moazed F, McEvoy CA, et al. Prompting physicians to address a daily checklist and process of care and clinical outcomes: a single-site study.
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A cluster randomized trial of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Brazilian intensive care units: study protocol
BACKGROUND The uptake of evidence-based therapies in the intensive care environment is suboptimal, particularly in limited-resource countries. Checklists, daily goal assessments, and clinician prompts may improve compliance with best practice processes of care and, in turn, improve clinical outcomes. However, the available evidence on the effectiveness of checklists is unreliable and inconclusi...
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