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Published in: Critical Care 1/2010

01-03-2010 | Poster presentation

Improving team work during bedside rounds: using daily goals and best practices

Authors: M Adamson, L Kure, B Duncan, N Holmes, AA Amaral

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2010

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Communication between healthcare professionals is a key step for patient safety, its failure accounting for over 60% of root causes in sentinel events [1]. Bedside rounds are important for teamwork communication and can be improved by an explicit approach [2] and by process-oriented information tools to organize and direct interprofessional rounds [3]. …
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Metadata
Title
Improving team work during bedside rounds: using daily goals and best practices
Authors
M Adamson
L Kure
B Duncan
N Holmes
AA Amaral
Publication date
01-03-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8686

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