Interdisciplinary Rounds in the Intensive Care Unit
Автор:Elsbeth C.M. Ten Have,Raoul E. Nap and Jaap E. Tulleken Год: 2015 Издание:Scholars' Press Страниц: 132 ISBN: 9783639761498 Interdisciplinary rounds (IDRs) in the intensive care unit (ICU) are increasingly recommended to support quality improvement and to reduce preventable patient harm and conflicts. However, there are no evidenced based studies available about how to perform these rounds in an optimal way. Therefore, the authors developed, validated, and applied a scoring instrument (the IDR Assessment Scale) with quality indicators to assess the quality of IDRs in ICUs. In order to improve the quality of IDRs, the authors developed a leadership training for the leading physicians during rounds. The training consists of a 1-day training session in a simulation environment and workplace-based feedback sessions. The 10 essential quality indicators (which were derived from the validated IDR Assessment Scale) were used as a checklist. This leadership training improved the quality of the performed IDRs in the ICUs. This book describes our IDR Assessment Scale (including the manual), the 10-items-checklist and...
