How nurses and physicians judge their own quality of care for deteriorating patients on medical wards: self-assessment of quality of care is suboptimal.

Jeroen Ludikhuize; Dave A. Dongelmans; Susanne M. Smorenburg; Miranda Gans-Langelaar; Evert De Jonge; Sophia E. de Rooij

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How nurses and physicians judge their own quality of care for deteriorating patients on medical wards: self-assessment of quality of care is suboptimal.

August 29, 2012

Ludikhuize J, Dongelmans DA, Smorenburg SM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(11):2982-6.

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Although nurses and physicians mostly judged the care they provided to patients in the hours preceding a cardiopulmonary arrest or unplanned transfer to the intensive care unit as good, an independent expert panel was less charitable, pointing to frequent delays in recognition of deterioration.

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