Resident handoffs linked to increased patient deaths
Residency Program Insider, May 20, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
New research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference shows that when medical residents complete a clinical rotation and hand their patients off to other residents, patient mortality increases significantly.
Researchers reviewed more than 230,000 internal medicine discharges from 10 Veterans Administration hospitals from 2008 to 2014. Of those, they identified nearly 64,000 patients who died or were discharged within seven days of experiencing a handoff involving residents. When compared to other patients, these patients had a 64-95% increase in in-hospital mortality, a 76-82% increase in 30-day mortality, and a 72-84% in 90-day mortality.
Source: American Thoracic Society
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- E-mailed
-
- CDC alert: Screen for international travel as Ebola cases increase
- Capturing start and stop times for infusions
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Q&A: Utilization Review Committee Membership
- Life Safety Code Q&A: Ambulatory care soiled utility room
- Leadership training for charge nurses
- Helping Charge Nurses understand their leadership role (Part 2 of 3)
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- Developing a Fall-Prevention Program
- Searched