Information and evidence failures in daily work: How they can affect the safety of care

Catherine K. Craven, Ross Koppel, Mark G. Weiner

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Resumen

A fatal incident in Denver illuminates the critical intersection of patient safety and reliable EI&K transfer. The Denver case highlights how the five rights of medication checking exponentially expand safety measures when used in parallel with the five rights of evidence, information and knowledge delivery: the right resource, to the right person, for the right patient or purpose, through the right modality, at the right time. Evidence supports the use of multidisciplinary teams as a means of improving quality indicators, better patient experience and preventing errors. Multidisciplinary teams and activities can break down silos created by specialization and departmentalization to enable cross-professional knowledge and information exchange. Evidence is developing regarding the use of medical librarians in assisting clinicians, in teams or on their own, with information needs. An example of knowledge transfer between the blunt and sharp ends is in the case of venous thromboembolism (VTE), a common preventable cause of hospital death, increased morbidity and length of stay.

Idioma originalEnglish (US)
Título de la publicación alojadaPatient Safety
Subtítulo de la publicación alojadaPerspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer
EditorialTaylor and Francis
Páginas49-67
Número de páginas19
ISBN (versión digital)9781317083238
ISBN (versión impresa)9781409438571
DOI
EstadoPublished - may 13 2016

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine
  • General Social Sciences

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