An analysis of messages sent between nurses and physicians in deteriorating internal medicine patients to help identify issues in failures to rescue

Highlights • The role of text messaging as a means of urgent communication between nurses and physicians for deteriorating patients prior to ICU admission was investigated. • Text messaging was used in 40% of patients and message quality (in both sent messages and their responses) was poor. • Messag...

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Veröffentlicht in:	International journal of medical informatics (Shannon, Ireland) Ireland), 2017-04, Vol.100, p.9-15
Hauptverfasser:	Wong, Hannah J, Bierbrier, Rachel, Ma, Philip, Quan, Sherman, Sannie, Lai, Wu, Robert C
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Communication Critical Illness - therapy Deterioration Female Humans Intensive care Intensive Care Units Interdisciplinary Communication Internal Medicine Internal Medicine - standards Male Middle Aged Mortality Nursing Staff, Hospital Other Outcomes Physician-Nurse Relations Physicians Rapid response team Retrospective Studies Text Messaging - statistics & numerical data Text Messaging - utilization
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Zusammenfassung:	Highlights • The role of text messaging as a means of urgent communication between nurses and physicians for deteriorating patients prior to ICU admission was investigated. • Text messaging was used in 40% of patients and message quality (in both sent messages and their responses) was poor. • Message quality was positively correlated with in-hospital survival.
ISSN:	1386-5056 1872-8243
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.01.008