title: What does your IV smart pump infusion data tell you about IV clinical practice and patient safety?
abstract: Nursing in the era of ehealth integrates 'clinical systems data' in all domains of nursing practice to improve patient care outcomes. As clinical consultants at Baxter Canada, a nursing informatics approach to clinical IV data analysis was completed at (2) Canadian hospitals in 2008. A summary of the hospitals' clinical infusion data results will be outlined in relation to IV clinical practice, patient safety and hospital accreditation standards, as a leading practice in innovation. A total of 536 infusion pumps, capturing infusion starts over (3) days of infusion pump activity was collected. The preliminarily key infusion data results include: (24) Near Misses/Averted and (80) Drug Dose Overrides that clinicians were alerted to confirm the correct dose.
authors: Baxter Canada Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. elizabeth.starenkyj@baxter.com
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Starenkyj
authors: Patti
authors: P
authors: Wolfe
authors: Tim
authors: T
authors: Hoh
authors: Nadia
authors: N
authors: Mamer
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Soliven-Llaguno
mesh_terms: D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007260:Infusion Pumps; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D017751:Safety Management