Internal medicine

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Outbreak

Nursing

Intensive care medicine

Virology

Emergency medicine

Management system

Economics

Operations management

Intensive care unit

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Medical emergency

Quality management

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

PDCA

Medicine

Annals of Palliative Medicine

Background: Nursing quality is an integral part of health care quality and one of key performance indicators (KPIs) for health care management. The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is a management tool for continuous improvement of a business's products or processes. It can be applied to standardize nursing management and thus improve the nursing quality and increase the survival rate of patients. This study assessed the value of the PDCA cycle in standardizing nursing management in an intensive care unit (ICU) for patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Application of the PDCA cycle for standardized nursing management in a COVID-19 intensive care unit