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Concerns about inadequate patient hydration and suboptimal monitoring of fluid balance have been documented in recent reports. The Fluid-balance Improvement Project at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was undertaken to identify risk factors influencing hydration and to implement a revised process to manage these risks, resulting in the development of a hydration pathway. This new approach to monitoring patient hydration, together with staff education and support, has resulted in improved compliance with fluid-balance monitoring standards, as well as significant improvements in identifying patients at risk of dehydration, and an increase in patients with acute kidney injury correctly beginning fluid-balance monitoring.
Nursing Standard. 31, 15, 46-54. doi: 10.7748/ns.2016.e10432
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Conflict of interestNone declared
Received: 28 January 2016
Accepted: 19 April 2016
