Enhancing the quality of care in the ICU. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor, Robert C Hyzy.
• Editors: Hyzy, Robert C
• Contents: Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Forthcoming Issues; Enhancing the Quality of Care in the Intensive Care Unit; Achieving Zero Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection Rates in Your Intensive Care Unit; Key points; Preventing Clostridium Difficile Infection in the Intensive Care Unit; Key points; CDI epidemiology in the ICU; Outcomes; CDI prevention; Summary; Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit; Key points; Introduction: magnitude of the problem; Pathogenesis. Epidemiology of catheter-associated urinary tract infectionsSurveillance for catheter-associated urinary tract infections; Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections; Implementation: the role of bundles and collaboratives; Summary; Ventilator-associated Complications, Including Infection-related Complications; Key points; Introduction; Problematic definition of VAP; Bundles for quality improvement and the prevention of VAP; Selecting process elements to include in VAP prevention bundles. Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound approaches for quality improvement and the prevention of complications in the ICUSummary; Preventing Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit; Key points; Introduction; Risk factors for delirium; Delirium prevention in non-ICU patients; Delirium prevention in ICU patients; Summary; Sedation and Mobility; Key points; Summary; Improving Intensive Care Unit Quality Using Collaborative Networks; Key points; Introduction; What is an ICU collaborative network?; Examples in critical care; Essential elements of a collaborative. Evaluating benefits and unintended consequencesFuture research; Summary; Does Value-Based Purchasing Enhance Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes in the ICU?; Key points; Introduction; The National Quality Forum and performance measures; CMS and value-based purchasing; Mechanisms by Which PM s Might Affect Quality; Evidence of Effect of VBP on Quality in General; Evidence of Effect of VBP on Quality in Critical Care; The future of VBP in critical care; Summary; Enhancing the Quality of Care in the Intensive Care Unit; Key points; Introduction; Overview of SE methodology. Application of SE methodologySummary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 128 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 616.028; Critical care medicine; Intensive care nursing; Intensive care units; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Critical care medicine; Intensive care nursing; Intensive care units; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455771653; 1455771651
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 7, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.