Table 7:
Setting Up and Programming Multiple Primary Continuous IV Infusions: Line Changes Completed and Included in the Analysis
| Experimental Condition | Line Changes Completeda | Line Changes Completed in Compliance With the One-at-a-time Protocol | Line Changes Included in the Comparative Analysis of Programming Errors and Task Time | Line Changes Included in the Comparative Analysis of Auxiliary Labelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | 38b | 15 | 20c | 6d |
| One-at-a-time protocol | 33e | 33 | 20c | 6d |
| Total | 71 | 48 | 40 | 12 |
Abbreviation: IV, intravenous.
Test facilitators aimed to keep the total experiment time to less than 3 hours; the first task to be eliminated when time was a concern was the line change.
Two (of 40) participants did not complete the line change task in the baseline condition due to time constraints.
Twenty (of 40) participants were excluded from the comparative analysis of programming errors because they either did not complete the line change task in both the baseline and one-at-a-time conditions due to time constraints (n = 7) and/or they naturally followed a one-at-a-time protocol in the baseline condition (n = 15). Two participants did not complete the task in both conditions and naturally followed a one-at-a-time protocol in the baseline condition. Thus, the number of participants included in the comparative analysis was 20 (i.e., 40 − 7 − 15 + 2).
Only 6 (of 40) participants labelled infusions in the baseline condition; only those 6 were included in the comparative analysis of labelling errors.
Seven (of 40) participants did not complete the line change task in the one-at-a-time condition due to time constraints (note: 2 of those 7 also did not complete the line change in the baseline condition due to time constraints).