%0 Journal Article
%T Impact of a Daily PICU Rounding Checklist on Urinary Catheter Utilization and Infection
%A Benjamin I. Siegel
%A Jana A. Stockwell
%A Janet Figueroa
%J Archive of "Pediatric Quality & Safety".
%D 2018
%R 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000078
%X In critically ill children, inappropriate urinary catheter (UC) utilization is associated with increased morbidity, including catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Checklists are effective for reducing medical errors, but there is little data on their impact on device utilization in pediatric critical care. In this study, we evaluated UC utilization trends and CAUTI rate after implementing a daily rounding checklist
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132817/