Four out of five patients were programmed with frequencies documented at between 70 and 90 Hz; documentation on frequency was unavailable for the remaining patient.
Whilst there was improvement in the documentation of contraction frequency, timing and duration following the intervention, there is still room for improvement in documentation of uterine tenderness, irritability and resting tone between contractions.
Despite documentation of a high frequency of badly managed deaths in the US Support studies [ 2], our ability to provide pharmacological oblivion in ventilated patients should allow death to be paint-free, albeit undignified.
In order to improve where standard adherence was suboptimal we have introduced a novel strategy to ensure that ward-based documentation of the observation frequency is now mandatory, with specific guidelines for escalation dependent on the clinical scenario.
A number of topics could be explored, such as the relationships between morbidity, well-being, social networks and mortality, because of the documentation levels and frequency of contact.
To estimate the frequency of documentation of glaucoma medications by primary care physicians.
Coincidentally, while it was not part of the study, frequency of documentation of assessment of pain also improved with implementation of the POSS.
To evaluate the effectiveness of (1) dissemination strategies to improve clinical practice behaviors (eg, frequency and documentation of pain assessments, use of pain medication) among health care team members, and (2) the implementation of the pain protocol in reducing pain in long term care (LTC) residents.
A future study should seek to provide not only how the frequency of documentation of POC u/s changed, but also quantify the costs of the intervention and how that relates to the enhanced yields.
We began by calculating the frequency of documentation of communication disorder ICD-9 codes across the 81 patient chart notes.
