The ICU Bundle Board: A Novel Real-Time Data Visualization Tool to Improve Maintenance Care for Invasive Catheters.

ABSTRACT: Background Critically ill patients are at greater risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The use of maintenance bundles helps to reduce this risk but also generates a rapid accumulation of complex data that is difficult to aggregate and subsequently act upon. Objectives We hypothesized that a digital display summarizing nursing documentation of invasive catheters (including central venous access devices, arterial catheters, and urinary catheters) would improve invasive device maintenance care and documentation. Our secondary objectives were to see if this summary would reduce the duration of problematic conditions, i.e., characteristics associated with increased risk for infection. Methods We developed and implemented a data visualization tool called the "Bundle Board" to display

SUBMITTER: Davis CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10651369 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature