Safety first! Using a checklist for intrafacility transport of adult intensive care patients.

Odette Y. Comeau; Josette Armendariz-Batiste; Scott A. Woodby

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Safety first! Using a checklist for intrafacility transport of adult intensive care patients.

October 21, 2015

Comeau OY, Armendariz-Batiste J, Woodby SA. Crit Care Nurse. 2015;35(5):16-25.

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Moving patients from one area of a facility to another can be complicated by insufficient team preparation and communication. This commentary describes the development and testing of a checklist designed to address those gaps by standardizing intrahospital transport and providing criteria to identify patients at high risk for problems during the process.

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