A Pilot Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Preoperative Fasting Duration in Pediatric Inpatients

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  Fig. 1.. Key driver diagram. Lettered countermeasures are used to denote in Figure 2 the timing of their deployments. ASA indicates American Society of Anesthesiologists; EHR, electronic health record; MD, medical doctor.

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  Fig. 2.. Average NPO duration of patients prescribed NPO at midnight compared with preanesthesia diet. Letters along x axis correlate to the time of countermeasure initiation, as listed in Figure 1.

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  Fig. 3.. Number of preanesthesia diet orders vs NPO at midnight orders by month (February 2018–January 2019).