An ICU team reviews their central line insertion practice. They note that their CLABSI rate is 3.5 per 1000 catheter days (national benchmark ...

Question

An ICU team reviews their central line insertion practice. They note that their CLABSI rate is 3.5 per 1000 catheter days (national benchmark

Accepted Answer

Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles - small iterative tests of change: Plan the change, Do the test on a small scale, Study the results, and Act on what was learned; multiple rapid PDSA cycles allow progressive refinement of the intervention before full-scale implementation

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Root cause analysis only

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Only publish an audit report

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Blame individual staff members

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Change nothing and re-audit in 1 year

uk-fficm MCQ (SBA): PDSA Quality Improvement

An ICU team reviews their central line insertion practice. They note that their CLABSI rate is 3.5 per 1000 catheter days (national benchmark <1 per 1000). What quality improvement methodology involves repeated small-scale tests of change to improve the process?