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Audit And Feedback For Blood Glucose Point Of Care Testing, Faith A. Onwuka
Audit And Feedback For Blood Glucose Point Of Care Testing, Faith A. Onwuka
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Practice Problem: Patient identification errors in point-of-care testing (POCT) is responsible for test results being missed or transferred to the wrong patient’s chart. A hospital in Los Angeles County experienced a 50% compliance rate in patient barcode scanning prior to blood glucose POCT which affected the delivery of care.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: Among emergency room nursing staff (P), how does the implementation of audit and feedback (I), when compared to random observations (C) improve compliance of patient identification with barcode scanning before performing blood glucose check (O) within ten weeks (T)? Evidence: …