Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 8-19 , February 2008

Implementing and assessing an evidence-based electrolyte dosing order form in the medical ICU

  • Phillip Owen

      Affiliations

    • School of Pharmacy, C238, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, United States
    • ,
  • Martin F. Monahan

      Affiliations

    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, A021-230, University of Colorado Hospital, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO, United States
    • ,
  • Robert MacLaren

      Affiliations

    • School of Pharmacy, C238, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 303 315 4772; fax: +1 303 315 4630.

,Accepted 14 April 2007.

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☆ The results have been accepted as a poster presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress in February, 2007 in Orlando, FL.

PII: S0964-3397(07)00049-3

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.04.006

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 8-19 , February 2008

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