Evaluation of a Trainee-Led Project to Reduce Inappropriate Proton Pump Inhibitor Infusion in Patients With Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Skip the Drips

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Nov 1;177(11):1687-1689. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.4851.

Abstract

This trainee-led quality improvement study evaluates the use of the Culture, Oversight, Systems Change, Training framework to reduce inappropriate proton pump inhibitor infusions in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Education, Medical / methods*
  • Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / drug therapy*
  • Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Inappropriate Prescribing / economics
  • Inappropriate Prescribing / prevention & control*
  • Inappropriate Prescribing / statistics & numerical data
  • Infusions, Intravenous / standards
  • Internship and Residency / methods
  • Physicians
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*
  • Proton Pump Inhibitors / administration & dosage*
  • Proton Pump Inhibitors / economics
  • Quality Improvement

Substances

  • Proton Pump Inhibitors