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Protocols, Policies, and Procedures: Tools for Quality Improvement in Critical Care

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Protocols, checklists, guidelines, and bundles are essential tools designed to improve the quality of care. Developing and maintaining effective policies, procedures, and protocols are now essential for ensuring smoothly operating and efficient critical care services. Quality improvement initiatives should incorporate four essential phases: development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance. Essential to the quality improvement is the process of measuring performance. Developing and revising ICU policies and procedures should be based on the ongoing measurement of performance. Funders, health-care systems, and government entities are increasingly mandating public reporting of quality measures.

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  1. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Andrew T. Levinson

  2. Intensive Care Unit, Miriam, Hospital, Providence, RI, USA

    Andrew T. Levinson

  3. Division Chief Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Mitchell M. Levy

  4. Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA

    Mitchell M. Levy

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  1. Division of Critical Care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    Jorge Hidalgo

  2. Department of Critical Care Services, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Javier Pérez-Fernández

  3. Department of Critical Care and Neurocritical Care, HIMA-San Pablo, Caguas, Puerto Rico

    Gloria Rodríguez-Vega

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Levinson, A.T., Levy, M.M. (2020). Protocols, Policies, and Procedures: Tools for Quality Improvement in Critical Care. In: Hidalgo, J., Pérez-Fernández, J., Rodríguez-Vega, G. (eds) Critical Care Administration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33808-4_10

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