What Does Your IV Smart Pump Infusion Data Tell You About IV Clinical Practice and Patient Safety?
Starenkyj, Elizabeth; Woolfe, Patti; Hoh, Tim; Mamer, Nadia; and Soliven-Liaguno, John. (2009). Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 146, 803-4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19592990
Abstract
Nursing in the era of ehealth integrates 'clinical systems data' in all domains of nursing practice to improve patient care outcomes. As clinical consultants at Baxter Canada, a nursing informatics approach to clinical IV data analysis was completed at (2) Canadian hospitals in 2008. A summary of the hospitals' clinical infusion data results will be outlined in relation to IV clinical practice, patient safety and hospital accreditation standards, as a leading practice in innovation. A total of 536 infusion pumps, capturing infusion starts over (3) days of infusion pump activity was collected. The preliminarily key infusion data results include: (24) Near Misses/Averted and (80) Drug Dose Overrides that clinicians were alerted to confirm the correct dose.