Lynda T Goodfellow

2 months ago | liebertpub.com | Lynda T Goodfellow |Candice J. Devlin |Rory S. O’Bryan |Hope Williams

In this month’s issue, Devlin and colleagues1 provide a roadmap for community hospitals desiring to implement evidence-based guidelines in their practice. This multidisciplinary team began a quality improvement project to address the increased tracheostomized patient census during COVID-19. The aim was to implement recommendations based on the 2021 American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG)2 for care of tracheostomized patients in their acute care setting.