Residents less likely to call for immediate help after-hours
Residency Program Insider, October 9, 2015
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
A study published in The Journal of Pediatrics found that pediatric residents and their supervising physicians disagree on when to call for help after hours. The researchers developed 34 scenarios encountered by residents after-hours that they considered the most common or serious. Pediatric residents, fellows, and attending physicians were then given a survey that asked whether a resident in each scenario should ask for help from an attending or fellow immediately or wait until the next day to do so. More attending physicians and fellows than asked for immediate communication in 17 of the 34 scenarios than residents. The scenarios with the biggest discrepancies where the ones in which residents felt they could manage without supervision or didn’t recognize the seriousness of the issue.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
-
Residency Program Insider
Residency Program Connection is devoted to bringing residency directors and coordinators expert advice, best practice...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Check for New SAG, Remember TJC Standard Revisions Effective July 1
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Clearing up the confusion: CPT codes 76376 and 76377
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Implications of CMS Changes to H&P Requirements
- Neurological checks for head injuries
- E-mailed
-
- Service animals in the clinic
- Tip: Reporting tobacco use in ICD-10-CM
- Medical record committee protocol
- How to update your restraint and seclusion policy
- Hospital Billing from A to Z: 3- and 1-day rules
- Check for New SAG, Remember TJC Standard Revisions Effective July 1
- Bill and charge for supplies correctly to reduce risk and minimize lost revenue
- Better ways to catch medication errors
- Searched
