… consults for inpatient care team. … Mitchell OJL, Neefe S, Ginestra JC, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on inpatient …

… The I-READI quality and safety framework: a health system’s response to airway complications in mechanically ventilated …

… of a standardized handoff tool. … Lane-Fall MB, Pascual JL, Peifer HG, et al. A Partially Structured …

Standardizing handoffs has been shown to improve patient safety. The authors describe provider perspectives regarding handoffs from the operating room to intensive care unit as well as the development of a standardized OR-to-ICU handoff protocol.

Approximately 1 in 13 deaths of patients with major trauma were considered preventable or potentially preventable in this retrospective review from an urban trauma center. Diagnostic errors during the initial trauma assessment were a frequent contributor to preventable harm.

Rapid response events led by senior residents resulted in similar patient outcomes compared with those run by intensive care unit attending physicians, in this retrospective study at a large academic medical center.

This study reports on a high-fidelity simulation exercise used to train medical students during their surgery rotation. The experience was generally well received by students.

This commentary reviews a 2010 conference and discusses the history, training mechanisms, education, and role of nursing in rapid response systems.

Rapid response systems serve an important patient safety function in hospitals by helping detect systematic problems in care, and emerging evidence indicates that such teams may improve some clinical outcomes. This study evaluated the views of frontline providers—bedside nurses and resident physicians—toward a rapid response team (RRT). Both groups agreed that the presence of the RRT improved patient safety, and both also felt that the RRT did not adversely affect their educational experience or patient care skills. These findings have been previously demonstrated for nurses. Interestingly, both nurses and residents who had more experience with the RRT felt more positively about its effects. The RRT in this study consisted of a critical care nurse, a respiratory therapist, and a pharmacist with physician backup.

… Qual Patient Saf … This commentary addresses one hospital's redesign of a medical emergency team  to shorten the time …