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Medical emergency team calls in the radiology department: patient characteristics and outcomes.
Ott LK, Pinsky MR, Hoffman LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:509-518.
This cohort study characterizes the types of emergencies that necessitated a medical emergency team evaluation of an inpatient in the radiology department. A case of an ultimately fatal adverse event that occurred while a patient was being transported from an inpatient unit to radiology is discussed in this AHRQ WebM&M commentary.
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Worries and concerns experienced by nurse specialists during inter-hospital transports of critically ill patients: a critical incident study.
Gustafsson M, Wennerholm S, Fridlund B. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2010;26:138-145.
Few studies have addressed patient safety issues during inter-hospital patient transport. This Swedish study used critical incident debriefing techniques to explore factors leading to potential safety problems during transport, based on the perceptions of experienced transport nurses.
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Making patients safer: nurses' responses to patient safety alerts.
Lankshear A, Lowson K, Harden J, Lowson P, Saxby RC. J Adv Nurs. 2008;63:567-575.
This study demonstrated that simply designing "system" safeguards fails to prevent errors in subsequent monitoring and implementation. Investigators used three safety alerts, including latex allergy, as markers of how well these alerts were being adopted in practice by bedside nurses.