Articles: checklist.
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Observational Study
Completeness of the operating room to intensive care unit handover: a matter of time?
Handovers of post-anesthesia patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) are often unstructured and performed under time pressure. Hence, they bear a high risk of poor communication, loss of information and potential patient harm. The aim of this study was to investigate the completeness of information transfer and the quantity of information loss during post anesthesia handovers of critical care patients. ⋯ Handover completeness is affected by time pressure, interruptions, and inappropriate surroundings, which increase the risk of information loss. To improve completeness and ensure patient safety, an adequate time span for handover, and the implementation of communication tools are required.
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Comparative Study Observational Study
Intelligent checklists improve checklist compliance in the intensive care unit: a prospective before-and-after mixed-method study.
We examined whether a context and process-sensitive 'intelligent' checklist increases compliance with best practice compared with a paper checklist during intensive care ward rounds. ⋯ NCT03599856.
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JBI evidence synthesis · Feb 2021
Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of multidimensional pain assessment tools used in postoperative adult patients: a systematic review of measurement properties.
The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize the best available evidence relating to the measurement properties of the multidimensional pain assessment tools used to assess postoperative pain in adults. ⋯ This review provides much needed information about the current tools used in many clinical, educational, and research settings. Of the five tools included in this review, the Brief Pain Inventory demonstrated strong evidence of psychometric validity and is recommended for use in assessing postoperative pain. Further psychometric validation of multidimensional postoperative pain assessment tools with emphasis on responsiveness and measurement error is required in order to accurately assess the minimal clinically important difference in postoperative pain outcomes.
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Critical care medicine · Feb 2021
Editorial CommentA Tracheal Intubation Checklist: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Complications occur in 3 to 16% of surgical procedures. According to experts, about 50% of these adverse events are avoidable. It is empirically proven that mortality and complication rates can be reduced by introducing checklists. ⋯ It was proven that the introduction of these optimised surgical safety checklists in connection with compliance promoting measures resulted in a significantly improved quality of completion. However, in view of the literature on this topic, it can also be stated that the compliance-promoting measures made an important contribution to this result.