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Purpose: Physical restraints are utilized in the critically ill to reduce interference with life-saving therapies. Last year, restraint usage in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) increased by 13%. In an effort to assure adherence to our existing restraints policy, we conducted a quality improvement project to (1) evaluate providers’ attitudes toward restraint usage; (2) develop a reliable process to achieve a minimum of 90% compliance with a newly developed restraint bundle by July 31st, 2016, and (3) assess whether implementation of this restraint bundle …