Variable compliance with clinical practice guidelines identified in a 1-day audit at 66 French adult intensive care units*
Critical Care MedicinePublished 12 September 2012
Marc Léone, Benoit Ragonnet, Sandrine Alonso, Bernard Allaouchiche, Jean-Michel Constantin, Samir Jaber
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The results showed that only 24% of patients in this cohort received fully compliant care, which underlines the need to both improve the process of implementation and become cognizant of excessive proliferation of clinical guidelines.
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At the bedside, clinical guidelines are fully applied in 24% of patients. Our study underlines the need to both improve the process of implementation and become cognizant of excessive proliferation of clinical guidelines.
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