Quality of physician care coordination during inter-facility transfer for cardiac arrest patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We sought to evaluate whether the quality of coordination between physicians transferring comatose cardiac arrest survivors to a high-volume cardiac arrest center for targeted temperature management (TTM) was associated with timeliness of care.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of inter-facility transfers to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for TTM between October 2016 and October 2018. We examined the relationship between Relational Coordination (RC) - a measure of communication and relationship quality - during phone conversations between transferring physicians and time-to-acceptance.

Results

We identified 18 patients meeting criteria. TTM was initiated or continued in 72%, and in-hospital mortality was 75%. Median time-to-acceptance was 2.77 (i

SUBMITTER: Neil Holby S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214124 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature