Nurse-Driven Intravenous Heparin Protocol Quality Improvement Initiative
Nurse-Driven Intravenous Heparin Protocol Quality Improvement Initiative
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DOI:
10.1097/nci.0b013e3181d2f2c6
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发表时间:
2010-04-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Watts, Brook
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作者:
Williams, Tanya D.;Sullivan, Katherine;Watts, Brook
Background: Safe use of intravenous heparin is an important safety goal. Objective: To improve the quality of intravenous heparin use. Methods: A pre-post intervention design assessed the number of patients who reached a therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), time to aPTT goal, and complications. Fifty traditional care patients were compared with 50 nurse-driven intravenous heparin protocol patients. The data were used to assess the effectiveness of a developed intervention package to improve the quality of intravenous heparin use. Results: Sixteen percent of the preintervention group never reached the therapeutic goal compared with 8% in the postintervention group (P