Key result
Care bundles represent a fundamental shift in clinical practice, utilizing validated components of care to significantly reduce or eliminate adverse patient outcomes.
Care bundles provide a structured approach to delivering consistent, high-quality clinical care to reduce adverse outcomes.
Provides conceptual clarity on care bundles; leaves open outcome validation in routine practice.
The aim of the review is to clarify the concept of the ‘care bundle’ which has emerged in modern clinical practice as a means of providing consistent clinical care of the highest quality. The ‘care bundle’ is essentially a process within which identified components of care are diligently applied and where the separate elements have been validated by extensive clinical practice. Specific examples of care bundles include ‘care bundle to prevent surgical site infection’, ‘care bundle for ventilated patients’ and ‘urinary catheter care bundle’. The adoption of ‘care bundles’ can be seen as a fundamental shift in thinking from the acceptance of some adverse outcomes as an inevitable result of delivered care to the concept of significant reduction or even elimination of such adverse outcomes. The philosophy of ‘care bundles’ is linked to well-established processes of ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ where there is monitoring of compliance of carrying out of ‘bundle’ components and also patient outcomes.
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Duncan Clarkson (2013) reported a review. Care bundles was evaluated. Care bundles represent a fundamental shift in clinical practice, utilizing validated components of care to significantly reduce or eliminate adverse patient outcomes.
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