Checklist & prompting in intensive care unit: quality of care is improved but long way to go for better outcome

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Souvik Maitra. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Feb.

. 2017 Feb;9(2):228-229.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.02.44.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine & Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Effect of a Quality Improvement Intervention With Daily Round Checklists, Goal Setting, and Clinician Prompting on Mortality of Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Writing Group for the CHECKLIST-ICU Investigators and the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet); Cavalcanti AB, Bozza FA, Machado FR, Salluh JI, Campagnucci VP, Vendramim P, Guimaraes HP, Normilio-Silva K, Damiani LP, Romano E, Carrara F, Lubarino Diniz de Souza J, Silva AR, Ramos GV, Teixeira C, Brandão da Silva N, Chang CC, Angus DC, Berwanger O. Writing Group for the CHECKLIST-ICU Investigators and the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNet), et al. JAMA. 2016 Apr 12;315(14):1480-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.3463. JAMA. 2016. PMID: 27115264 Clinical Trial.

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