Effect of Systematic Physician Cross-checking on Reducing Adverse Events in the Emergency Department: The CHARMED Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Emergency departments (ED) are environments that are at high risk for medical errors. Previous studies suggested that the proportion of medical errors may decrease when more than 1 physician is involved.

Objective

To reduce the proportion of medical errors by implementing systematic cross-checking between emergency physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized crossover trial includes a random sample of 14 adult patients (age ≥18 years) per day during two 10-day period in 6 EDs (n = 1680 patients) in France.

Interventions

Systematic cross-checking between emergency physicians, 3 times a day, which included a brief presentation of one physician's case to another, followed by the second physician's feedback to the first.

Main

SUBMITTER: Freund Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature