Search Tag: preventable harms

ICU Management

Medical-error-harm-and-patient-safety

2022 01 Mar

    Jean-Louis Vincent (MODERATOR) Editor-in-Chief  @ ICU Management & Practice Professor Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium   Khara M Sauro Assistant Professor  @ Departments of Community Health Sciences, Surgery and Oncology Topic : Exploring Trends...Read more

ICU Management

Johns-hopkins-partners-with-it-giant-on-icu-devices

2015 25 Oct

A new collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Microsoft plans to develop an IT solution that will enhance interoperability of medical devices in intensive care settings. The goal is to provide improved health data analytics that can help clinicians identify key trends aimed at preventing injuries and complications that...Read more

ICU Management

Ensuring-patient-dignity-and-respect-in-the-icu-a-new-approach

2015 14 Mar

A novel, multi-method approach presented in the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics highlights the need of defining and ensuring respectful care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The researchers at John Hopkins believe that loss of dignity and lack of respectful treatment are preventable harms in healthcare. "Having quantitative measures of...Read more