Modern healthcare is delivered by multidisciplinary, distributed healthcare teams who rely
on effective teamwork and communication to ensure effective and safe patient care …

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 …

In describing the inverted classroom model (ICM), the following paper is meant to provide an
introduction to the subject matter and to serve as a practical guide for those wishing to …

Background There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about
issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report …

Aims/Background: This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic
domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or …

Abstract Background The Joint Commission International Patient Safety Goal 2 states that
effective communication between health care workers needs to improve. The aim of this …

Purpose To determine the effectiveness of patient safety culture strategies to improve
hospital patient safety climate. Data sources Electronic search of the Cochrane Library …

Rationale: Burnout syndrome (BOS) associated with stress has been documented in health
care professionals in many specialties. The intensive care unit (ICU) is a highly stressful …

Objective: To explore registered nurses' and attending physicians' perspectives on caring for
dying patients in intensive care units (ICUs), with particular attention to the relationships …

Objective: Critically ill patients require high-intensity care and may be at especially high risk
of iatrogenic injury because they are severely ill. We sought to study the incidence and …