Optimizing Situation Awareness to Reduce Emergency Transfers in Hospitalized Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Interventions to improve care team situation awareness (SA) are associated with reduced rates of unrecognized clinical deterioration in hospitalized children. By addressing themes from recent safety events and emerging corruptors to SA in our system, we aimed to decrease emergency transfers (ETs) to the ICU by 50% over 10 months.

Methods

An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and families convened to improve the original SA model for clinical deterioration and address communication inadequacies and evolving technology in our inpatient system. The key drivers included the establishment of a shared mental model, psychologically safe escalation, and efficient and effective SA tools. Novel interventions including the in

SUBMITTER: Sosa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12429852 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature