Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published July 2019

Standardized orders for titrating vasopressors: do efforts to improve safety slow delivery of care?

Baker DW, Campbell R. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019;45:589-590.

Testing process improvements prior to implementation can help identify and address potential unintended consequences on practice. This commentary explores how a quality improvement initiative seeking to reduce the opportunity for mistakes may have resulted in treatment delays.

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