Surg Clin North Am. 2012 Dec;92(6):1369-86. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2012.08.007. Epub 2012 Oct 6.
Patient safety in the critical care environment.
Source
Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. Electronic address: prossi@mcw.edu.
Abstract
Improving the quality and safety of intensive care unit (ICU) care in the United States is a significant challenge for the future. Obtaining improvement in systems of care is difficult given the reactionary mode physicians tend to enter when dealing with moment-to-moment crises. It will be important to implement quality and safety measures that are already supported by evidence. Improvement of device safety will be critical to reducing the large number of device-related complications that occur in US ICUs. Prospective collection of adverse events with rigorous analysis will be important to allow systematic errors to be exposed and corrected.
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