Abstract Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are recognized as a susceptible area to potential errors
resulting in adverse outcomes. Healthcare professionals are multi-tasking, information …

Critical care teams perform many activities where effective communication is crucial for
ensuring patient safety and reducing susceptibility to error. To develop valid team training …

Abstract According to The Joint Commission (2019), ineffective team behaviors causing a
breakdown in communication are the leading cause of healthcare errors and sentinel events …

Objective To measure teamwork and safety climate in three intensive care units (ICUs)
before and after remote monitoring by intensivists using telemedicine technology (tele-ICU) …

Background Open communication between leadership and frontline staff at the unit level is
vital in promoting safe hospital culture. Our hospital staff culture survey identified the failure …

Objectives Patient safety incident reporting in our institution's intensive care units (ICUs) had
fallen 30% below national benchmarks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Underreporting …

Background Constant interruptions and continual data flow result in information overload for
clinicians and become barriers to identification and extraction of relevant patient data and its …

Purpose To analyze in-room video recordings of operating room (OR) to intensive care unit
(ICU) handoffs to determine tempo and quality of team interactions on nights and weekends …

Patient safety errors account for over 400,000 preventable deaths annually in US in
hospitals alone, 70% of which are caused by team communication breakdowns, stemming …

Communication is central to the safe and effective delivery of critical care. We present a
retrospective analysis of hospital incident reports attributed to communication that were …