TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing interventional radiology anticoagulation guidelines
T2 - Process and benefits
AU - Kriegshauser, J. Scott
AU - Osborn, Howard H.
AU - Naidu, Sailen G.
AU - Huettl, Eric A.
AU - Patel, Maitray D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - We created, posted, and updated radiology department anticoagulation guidelines and identified various steps in the process, including triggering events, consensus building, legal analysis, education, and distribution of the guidelines to nurses and clinicians. Supporting data collected retrospectively, before and after implementation, included nursing satisfaction survey results and the number of procedure cancellations. After the guidelines were developed and posted, significantly fewer procedures were cancelled, nursing satisfaction was higher, and radiologists performed procedures with less variability. Anecdotally, radiologists had fewer queries about anticoagulation. The development and dissemination of radiologic procedure anticoagulation guidelines should be considered as a departmental quality improvement project.
AB - We created, posted, and updated radiology department anticoagulation guidelines and identified various steps in the process, including triggering events, consensus building, legal analysis, education, and distribution of the guidelines to nurses and clinicians. Supporting data collected retrospectively, before and after implementation, included nursing satisfaction survey results and the number of procedure cancellations. After the guidelines were developed and posted, significantly fewer procedures were cancelled, nursing satisfaction was higher, and radiologists performed procedures with less variability. Anecdotally, radiologists had fewer queries about anticoagulation. The development and dissemination of radiologic procedure anticoagulation guidelines should be considered as a departmental quality improvement project.
KW - Anticoagulation
KW - Guidelines
KW - Interventional
KW - Safety
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U2 - 10.3390/jcm7040085
DO - 10.3390/jcm7040085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086586438
SN - 2077-0383
VL - 7
JO - Journal of Clinical Medicine
JF - Journal of Clinical Medicine
IS - 4
M1 - 85
ER -