Search results for "Rapid Response"
Calling for backup before it's needed
Failure to rescue, the failure to identify patients with critical abnormalities and provide the resources necessary to prevent harm, was one of the top three preventable errors found in hospitals in 2004-2006, accounting for 17% of total errors. Experts offer their solutions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/rescue.htm
15 Nov 2008
Letter from the Editor
Last spring, when we decided to recognize top hospitalists, we had no idea what to expect.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/editor.htm
15 Nov 2008
To err is human … to not plan for it is trouble
Hospitals should always work to prevent serious or fatal medical errors, but they also need to have a plan in place for what to do if an error occurs. Chances are, it will happen eventually.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/err.htm
15 Dec 2008
In the News
IOM favors more limits on resident hours, and other medical updates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2009
Hospital medicine around the world
The field is catching on in several countries outside the U.S., Canada and Europe. Although the health care systems and situations may differ, supporters’ reasons for wanting hospital medicine to flourish there are often the same, and the barriers are often similar, as well.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/world.htm
15 Jul 2009
Rapid response teams don't appear to lower mortality for adults
‘Surviving Sepsis' campaign associated with improved care, lower mortality
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/01/27/2.htm
27 Jan 2010
Clinical prediction rule developed, validated for pneumonia after CABG
Clinical prediction rule developed, validated for pneumonia after CABG Rapid response teams don't appear to lower mortality for adults
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/01/27/1.htm
27 Jan 2010
System catches codes before they're called
Mercy Hospital Anderson in Cincinnati used a scoring system to reduce the number of code blues called outside the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/success.htm
15 Mar 2010
Journal Watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies of note.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/05/jw.htm
15 May 2010
Consult with confidence
Consulting on patients admitted to other specialties has become routine for many hospitalists, but most have had little if any training in this area.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/06/consult.htm
15 Jun 2010