HSC Section 3 - Trauma, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

O’Toole et al

Figure 3. The standardized patient assessment tool used for auditing protocol compliance.

were randomly selected from the operating room schedule with postoperative care audited by a certified wound care nurse. During this audit, daily assessments were performed Monday through Friday for each of the selected patients

beginning on the first postoperative day and continuing either until postoperative day 14 or until the patient was dis- charged from the hospital. A standardized auditing tool ( Figure 3 ) was utilized at each of these patient assessments.

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