Selecting intervention content to target barriers and enablers of recognition and response to deteriorating patients: an online nominal group study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients who deteriorate in hospital wards without appropriate recognition and/or response are at risk of increased morbidity and mortality. Track-and-trigger tools have been implemented internationally prompting healthcare practitioners (typically nursing staff) to recognise physiological changes (e.g. changes in blood pressure, heart rate) consistent with patient deterioration, and then to contact a practitioner with expertise in management of acute/critical illness. Despite some evidence these tools improve patient outcomes, their translation into clinical practice is inconsistent internationally. To drive greater guideline adherence in the use of the National Early Warning Score tool (a track-and-trigger tool used widely in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe), a

SUBMITTER: Smith D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9186287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature