The toolkit suggests selecting ‘one location for investigation’. What happens when the patient leaves the unit?
This question may relate to both the compliance and the outcome measures. For the compliance measure; consider the care the patient received while present in the unit. That is, what level of compliance was achieved prior to the patient leaving? Where the unit has complied with every aspect of the care possible to the time of the patient leaving, and documentation reflects this, mark the case as compliant with the care bundle. For the outcome measure; if the number of patients with CVCs moving to other units represents a significant proportion of the ‘population’, and adversely affecting sample size, it may be necessary to establish a means of tracking patients. Where the number is not significant it may be simply a matter of excluding them from the sample.
