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Improving IV Insulin Administration in a Community Hospital
Published on: June 11, 2012
A user-designed bedside glucose tool
1LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Abstract:
A real-time, bedside decision support tool that provides insulin therapy instructions for intensive care unit (ICU) patients was developed at Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital. A team of clinicians, analysts and software engineers were tasked with developing the user interface to run the glucose protocol. Quick, iterative designs involving clinical end-users early in the development process resulted in a tool which was easy to use, facilitated the nursing workflow and was successfully implemented in the hospital's five adult ICUs.
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