An educational intervention to reduce unjustified peripheral intravenous infusions in the emergency department

Florent Noel¹, Phan Hoang², Jennifer Truchot^{3

4}, Anne-Sophie Bard¹, Youri Yordanov^{1

5}, Pierre-Clément Thiebaud⁶

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
² Emergency Department, Groupe Hospitalier Sud Ile-de-France, Melun, France.
³ Emergency Department, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁴ Ilumens, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁵ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, UMR-S 1136, Paris, France.
⁶ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. pierre-clement.thiebaud@aphp.fr.

Florent Noel et al. Intern Emerg Med. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;17(4):1225-1227.

doi: 10.1007/s11739-021-02896-5. Epub 2021 Nov 20.

Florent Noel¹, Phan Hoang², Jennifer Truchot^{3

4}, Anne-Sophie Bard¹, Youri Yordanov^{1

5}, Pierre-Clément Thiebaud⁶

¹ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
² Emergency Department, Groupe Hospitalier Sud Ile-de-France, Melun, France.
³ Emergency Department, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁴ Ilumens, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁵ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, UMR-S 1136, Paris, France.
⁶ Emergency Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. pierre-clement.thiebaud@aphp.fr.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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