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Medical emergency teams [electronic resource] : Implementation and outcome measurement / edited by Michael A. DeVita, Kenneth Hillman and Rinaldo Bellomo

Published
New York, N.Y. ; [London] : Springer, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 volume
Additional Creators
DeVita, Michael A., Hillman, Ken, Bellomo, R. (Rinaldo), 1956-, and SpringerLink (Online service)
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Contents
Section one -- Measuring and Improving Safety / Peter Pronovost, Marlene Miller, Brad Winters, Elizabeth Hunt -- The Evolution of the Health Care System / Kenneth Hillman, Jack Chen, Lis Young -- Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? / Lakshmipathi Chelluri -- The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths / Michael Buist, Donald Campbell -- Overview of Hospital Medicine / David McAdams -- Medical Trainees and Patient Safety / Stephen Lam, Arthas Flabouris -- Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness / Gary Smith, Juliane Kause -- Section Two -- General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams / Daryl Jones, Rinaldo Bellomo, Donna Goldsmith -- Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation / Michael DeVita, Kenneth Hillman -- Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models / Michelle Cretikos, Rinaldo Bellomo -- Section Two -- Early Goal-Directed Therapy / David Huang, Scott Gunn, Emanuel Rivers -- Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals / Kathy Duncan -- ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model / Vladimir Kvetan, Brian Currie -- Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team / Daryl Jones, Rinaldo Bellomo -- Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals / Helen Opdam -- The Nurse's Perspective / Nicolette Mininni, Carole Scholle -- The Hospital Administrator's Perspective / Craig White, Rinaldo Bellomo -- Personnel Resources for Crisis Response / Andrew Murray, Michael DeVita, John Schaefer -- Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response / Edgar Delgado, Wendeline Grbach, Joanne Kowiatek, Michael DeVita -- Section Three -- Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team / Geoffrey Lighthall -- Section Three -- Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators / Melinda Fiedor, Elizabeth Hunt, Michael DeVita -- Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators / Lis Young, Jack Chen, Kenneth Hillman -- Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety / Jack Chen, Lis Young, Kenneth Hillman -- Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program / John Gosbee -- Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost? / Daniel Brown, Rinaldo Bellomo
Summary
Medical Emergency Teams: A Manual for Preventing Preventable Hospital Deaths addresses the problem of patient safety and quality of care; the logistics of creating a MET (resource allocation, process design, workflow, and training); the implementation of a MET (organizational issues, challenges); and the evaluation of program results. Based on successful MET models that have resulted in reduced in-hospital cardiac arrest and overall hospital death rates, this book is the first practical guide for physicians, hospital administrators, and other healthcare professionals who wish to initiate a MET program within their own institutions.
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ISBN
9780387279213
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Description based on print version record.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Berlin : Springer, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available via SpringerLink.
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