Pediatric sedation: contributing to evidence-based practice.
Sedation of pediatric patients is a current practice issue; however, little has been published on performance measurement or evidence-based practice. The development of educational initiatives, the design of performance-improvement activities, and the validation of practice standards are described. Performance measures specific to the process of sedating pediatric patients are examined to show how to turn data into useful information to guide decision-making and nursing-practice changes.
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Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA. fkkingst@texaschildrenshospital.org
D002648:Child; D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000451:nursing*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D013781:Texas