Search Tag: Checklists

ICU Management

Checklists-in-the-intensive-care-unit

2023 06 Dec

Checklists are cognitive aids that ensure task completion, enhance adherence to best practices, and prevent errors. In the complex environment of the ICU, checklists have been adopted to improve leadership, team performance, and patient outcomes. While research over the past two decades supports the efficacy of specific ICU checklists, the diverse...Read more

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Key-principles-in-aviation-applicable-to-radiology

2017 21 Mar

Key principles of aviation safety – including “big picture” tactical training, the use of checklists, and teamwork – could be adapted to meet the challenges facing the practice of radiology, according to an article in Journal of the American College of Radiology. "Although there are differences in our professions, by adopting proven techniques from...Read more

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2017 16 Mar

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Health Management

Volume-16-issue-4-2016

2016 13 Nov

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Volume-16-issue-3-2016-1

2016 27 Sep

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The-burden-caused-by-administrators-and-managers-a-euro-american-jumble

2016 27 Sep

We argue that a jumble of rules, protocols, checklists has emerged, ‏which jeopardises not only the pivotal relationship between doctor and ‏patient, but also the quality and costs of care, and the quality of future ‏healthcare workers. It must be emphasised that the introduction of ‏protocols and checklists in clinical medicine has improved care...Read more

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Teamwork-checklist-as-simple-as-abcs

2016 03 May

Team confidence, cohesion, empathy and esprit de corps as well as patient safety may be improved by using a simple checklist, according to a letter published in the Journal of Critical Care . Lead author, Peter Brindley, from the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada, with colleagues from St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, introduces an...Read more

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Handover-checklists-improve-quantity-quality-of-information

2016 11 Mar

A standardised checklist improved the quantity and quality of information shared at handover from the operating room to the ICU, in a randomised controlled trial of 121 handovers, published in the Journal of Critical Care , the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care Medicine. Cornelie Salzwedel, MD, and colleagues...Read more