Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous cannula use in Australian emergency departments: a stepped-wedge cluster-controlled trial and health economic analysis protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Over one billion adults attend emergency departments (EDs) internationally every year, including 6.6 million in Australia. Up to half of these patients have a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) inserted. Although healthcare workers believe that placing a cannula is helpful ('just in case'), PIVCs often remain idle. PIVC insertion is painful for patients, takes clinicians' attention away from other care, has adverse outcomes and causes major economic and environmental burden. Our aim is to codesign an implementation toolkit to reduce unnecessary PIVC insertions and improve other national quality indicators using an implementation science framework.

Methods and analysis

A stepped-wedge cluster-controlled trial will be conducted in nine ED sites (clusters) acro

SUBMITTER: Egerton-Warburton D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12198811 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature