Rescue Improvement Conference: A Novel Tool for Addressing Failure to Rescue.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the effectiveness of Rescue Improvement Conference, a forum that addresses FTR.

Summary of background data

Every year over 150,000 patients die after elective surgery in the United States. FTR is the phenomenon whereby delayed recognition and/or response to serious surgical complications leads to a progressive cascade of adverse events culminating in death. Rescue Improvement Conference is an adapted version of the Ottawa-style morbidity and mortality conference, designed to address common contributors to FTR: ineffective communication and inadequate problem solving.

Methods

Mixed methods data were used to evaluate Rescue Improvement Conference, a bi-monthly forum that was first introduced in our academic medical center in 2018. Conference effe

SUBMITTER: Ervin JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature