title: Hourly rounding in a high dependency unit.
abstract: The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the many organisations that have signed up to Safety Express, a pilot programme of the Department of Health's Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention safe care coalition. Its aim is to reduce avoidable harm to patients in four areas: trips and falls, pressure ulcers, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and venous thromboembolism. Hourly rounding (hourly checks on patients) has been identified as a means of reducing harm to patients. This article describes the preparation needed to introduce hourly rounding in a high dependency unit.
authors.affiliation: St James's University Hospital, Leeds. lynsey.lowe@leedsth.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Lynsey
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: Gillian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hodgson
mesh_terms: D040261:Harm Reduction; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom