Intensive care units (ICUs) provide care to the most severely ill hospitalized patients.
Although ICUs increasingly rely on interprofessional teams to provide critical care, little …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Executive Summary The Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of
Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings 2007 updates and expands the 1996 Guideline for …

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and certain gram-negative bacilli …

Background: These recommendations have been developed to improve the care of
intensive care unit (ICU) patients during the dying process. The recommendations build on …

Context Concern exists that current guidelines for care of patients with severe sepsis and
septic shock are followed variably, possibly due to a lack of adequate education. Objective …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the outcome implications of
implementing a severe sepsis bundle in an emergency department as a quality indicator set …

Objectives To define a set of indicators that could be used to improve quality in intensive
care medicine. Methodology An European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force on …

Objectives: Europe's nursing shortage calls for more effective ways to recruit and retain
nurses. This contribution aims to clarify whether and how social work environment …

Introduction France is facing a shortage of available physicians due to a greying population
and the lack of a proportional increase in the formation of doctors. Emergency physicians …