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Trust The Process: A Templated, Centralized, And Protocolized Patient Safety Pilot Project To Improve Outside Admissions, Alan A. Kubey, Md, Jeffrey M. Riggio, Md Apr 2019

Trust The Process: A Templated, Centralized, And Protocolized Patient Safety Pilot Project To Improve Outside Admissions, Alan A. Kubey, Md, Jeffrey M. Riggio, Md

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Transfers are high-risk. Intra-hospital transfer processes research has improved protocols used nationally.1 Outside-hospital admissions remain without standards ensuring the transfer of the right information to the right clinician at the right time; presently, patients can arrive at a new hospital with limited-to-no information.2We trialed a novel process for outside (hospital, provider, or skilled nursing facility) admissions to a single academic medical center’s resident and- hospital-medicine-attending-based (“teaching”) medicine services.


Improving Bedside Procedural Safety Through Optimizing Timeout Documentation And A Pre-Procedure Checklist, Jennifer Harris, Md, R. Benson Jones, Md, Kristin Lohr, Md, Grant Turner, Md, Drew Kotler, Md, Justine Blum, Md, Megan Margiotta, Md, Matthew Bokhari, Md, Erica Li, Md, Riti Kanesa-Thasan, Md, Bracken Babula, Md, Rebecca Jaffe, Md Dec 2018

Improving Bedside Procedural Safety Through Optimizing Timeout Documentation And A Pre-Procedure Checklist, Jennifer Harris, Md, R. Benson Jones, Md, Kristin Lohr, Md, Grant Turner, Md, Drew Kotler, Md, Justine Blum, Md, Megan Margiotta, Md, Matthew Bokhari, Md, Erica Li, Md, Riti Kanesa-Thasan, Md, Bracken Babula, Md, Rebecca Jaffe, Md

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Aim

GOAL: Improve the safety of patients undergoing bedside procedures while maintaining the full spectrum of graduated autonomy in procedure training for residents.

SMART Aim: Increase the rate of timeouts documented for bedside procedures from 29% to 50% by June 2018.