Reduction of unnecessary intravenous catheter use. Internal medicine house staff participate in a successful quality improvement project
Archives of Internal MedicinePublished 22 August 1994
Connie M. Parenti
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This quality improvement effort successfully reduced unnecessary i.v. catheter use. We suspect that house-staff involvement in the intervention was critical. We encourage other academic medical centers to involve house staff in quality improvement activities to improve patient care and to enhance the education of house staff regarding quality improvement processes.
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