Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 264-271 , October 2007

The use of a daily goals sheet to improve communication in the paediatric intensive care unit

  • Lorri M. Phipps

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine (LMP, NJT), Penn State Children's Hospital, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
    • ,
  • Neal J. Thomas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine (LMP, NJT), Penn State Children's Hospital, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
    • Department of Health Evaluation Sciences (NJT), Penn State Children's Hospital, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, Penn State Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 850, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. Tel.: +1 717 531 5337; fax: +1 717 531 0809.

,Accepted 20 February 2007.

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☆ Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 34th Critical Care Congress, Phoenix, AZ, January 15–19, 2005.

PII: S0964-3397(07)00017-1

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.02.001

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 264-271 , October 2007

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