Smart pumps and random safety audits in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a new challenge for patient safety

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• 作者：Elena Bergon-Sendin ; Carmen Perez-Grande ; David Lora-Pablos…
• 关键词：Smart pumps ; Random safety audits ; Technology ; Patient safety ; Adverse events ; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ; Newborn
• 刊名：BMC Pediatrics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：819 KB
• 刊物主题：Pediatrics; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2431

文摘

Background Random safety audits (RSA) are a safety tool enabling prevention of adverse events, but they have not been widely used in hospitals. The aim of this study was to use RSAs to assess and compare the frequency of appropriate use of infusion pump safety systems in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) before and after quality improvement interventions and to analyse the intravenous medication programming data.