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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Failure to rescue"”.
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Improving failure to rescue outcomes : a rapid response team program review
… 2019; Burke et al., 2022; IHI, 2022). According to the AHRQ (2019), complications of medical care are unavoidable, and it is the responsibility of the health care system to quickly identify and treat those complications. Methods: A literature search was performed for articles published from …
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Relative Contributions of Complications and Failure to Rescue on Mortality in Older Patients Undergoing Pancreatectomy
… AND SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: For pancreatectomy patients, mortality increases with increasing age. Our study evaluated the relative contribution of overall postoperative complications and failure to rescue rates on the observed increased mortality in older patients undergoing pancreatic …
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Relative Contributions of Complications and Failure to Rescue on Mortality in Older Patients Undergoing Pancreatectomy
… AND SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: For pancreatectomy patients, mortality increases with increasing age. Our study evaluated the relative contribution of overall postoperative complications and failure to rescue rates on the observed increased mortality in older patients undergoing pancreatic …
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Patient safety : evaluation of the impact of nursing hours per patient day staffing method in Western Australia
… per patient day (NHPPD). This method used a “bottom up” approach to classify each hospital ward into one of seven categories using characteristics such as patient complexity, intervention levels, the presence of high dependency beds, the emergency/elective patient mix and patient turnover. Once …
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The Impact of a Clinical Mentor Program on Patient Outcomes
… of patient care requires an expert nurse to navigate the hospital stay, yet today's workforce brings a declining supply of seasoned nurses, creating a patient need/nurse expertise gap. The clinical mentor role was developed to bridge this gap and create a safety net, using expert nurses, …
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Throughput and Nurses' Workloads: Influences on Nurse and Patient Outcomes
… administrative data from nearly 600 hospitals to study nurse outcomes, which included burnout, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave. These data were then merged with patient discharge data from over 1.6 million surgical patients to study patient outcomes, which included 30-day mortality and …
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Signal detection for pediatric patient deterioration in simulation with nursing students : a mixed methods study
When nurses delay or fail to detect the signals of clinically significant changes during the early stages of disease complication or patient deterioration, it is known as a failure to rescue (FTR). Pediatric patients in the hospital are at risk of being harmed or dying due to FTR. Pediatric patient …
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Enacting patient safety on the frontline: an ethnographic study of rescue work with acutely illpatients
International concerns over ‘failure to rescue’ acutely ill patients on hospital wards have led to the widespread implementation of rapid response systems. Despite these system level changes, management of deterioration in such patients’ conditions remains problematic. Rescue is a complex process …
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The Impact of Nursing Skill Mix on the Outcomes of Hospitalized Adult Surgical Patients
… Altares Sarik Ann Kutney-Lee Rates of harm to surgical patients remain largely unchanged despite decades of initiatives to address safety concerns, while wide variations in mortality and failure to rescue (FTR) persist between hospitals. Despite the critical role that registered nurses (RNs) …
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The development and validation of a modified Situation-Background-Assessment-recommendation (SBAR) communication tool for reporting early signs of deterioration in patients
… could improve patient safety and prevent 'failure to rescue' or unexpected intensive care admissions, cardiac arrest or death. The structured Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication tool enables nurses to provide doctors with pertinent information about a …
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The role of the Registered [Surgical] Nurse in the 21st century NHS acute trust hospital. An ethnographic study
… in clinical nursing practice, who alerted me to their dissatisfaction with their working conditions and their role. This revelation was made at a time when modernization was cascading into Acute Trusts as a result of the NHS plan (DOH 2000); simultaneously the European Working Time Directive …