TY - JOUR T1 - Improving fluid balance charts through staff education on a general medical ward: a quality improvement project JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 114 LP - 114 DO - 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s114 VL - 9 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Edward Alcorn Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/Suppl_2/114.abstract N2 - From personal experience, inaccurate and incomplete fluid balance charts are a common issue across medical wards. An accurate fluid balance chart is important as it allows medical teams to monitor patient input and output. Fluid balance charts are of particular importance when a patient is on intravenous (IV) fluids and it is a key recommendation in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines that patients have regular monitoring of fluid balance over each 24-hour period.1 As well as those patients on intravenous fluids, monitoring fluid … ER -