Quality indicators in acute and critical care
By: guest editor, Ruth Kleinpell  ; consulting editor, Suzanne S. Prevost.
Contributors: Kleinpell, Ruth M.; Prevost, Suzanne S.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v. 18, no. 4
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781416038016
Subjects: Intensive care nursing -- Quality control; Critical care medicine -- Quality control
Notes: "December, 2006."

Spine series title: Critical care nursing clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Implementing best practice strategies to prevent infection in the ICU / Daleen Aragon and Mary Lou Sole; title: Ventilator-associated pneumonia and pressure ulcer prevention as targets for quality improvement in the ICU / Kathleen M. Vollman; title: Developing and implementing quality initiatives in the ICU: strategies and outcomes / Sherry Harrigan ... [et al.]; title: Nursing lessons from the MHA Keystone ICU Project: developing and implementing an innovative approach to patient safety / Christine A. Goeschel ... [et al.]; title: Implementing a rapid response team: factors influencing success / Theresa Murray and Ruth Kleinpell; title: Medication reconciliation: developing and implementing a program / Mandalyn Schwarz and Rhonda Wyskiel; title: Targeting errors in the ICU: use of a national database / Ruth Kleinpell ... [et al.]; title: Standardizing IV infusion medication concentrations to reduce variability in medication errors / Janna Bullock ... [et al.]; title: Evaluation of in-patient interventional cardiology / Juanita Reigle ... [et al.]; title: Implementing an intensive glucose management initiative: strategies for success / Sally O. Gerard ... [et al.]; title: A longitudinal study of advanced practice nursing in Singapore / Premarani Kannusamy.