DeVita / Hillman / Bellomo Medical Emergency Teams

Implementation and Outcome Measurement
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-27921-3
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeVita, Michael A.

Hillman, Ken

Bellomo, Rinaldo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mets and Patient Safety.- Measuring and Improving Safety.- The Evolution of the Health Care System.- Process Change in Health Care Institutions: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?.- The Challenge of Predicting In-Hospital Iatrogenic Deaths.- Overview of Hospital Medicine.- Medical Trainees and Patient Safety.- Matching Levels of Care with Levels of Illness.- Creating a Mets System.- General Principles of Medical Emergency Teams.- Potential Sociological and Political Barriers to Medical Emergency Team Implementation.- Overview of Various Medical Emergency Team Models.- Early Goal-Directed Therapy.- Nurse-Led Medical Emergency Teams: A Recipe for Success in Community Hospitals.- ICU Without Walls: A New York City Model.- Hospital Size and Location and the Feasibility of the Medical Emergency Team.- Medical Emergency Teams in Teaching Hospitals.- The Nurse’s Perspective.- The Hospital Administrator’s Perspective.- Personnel Resources for Crisis Response.- Equipment, Medications, and Supplies for a Medical Emergency Team Response.- Measuring Outcomes.- Resident Training and the Medical Emergency Team.- Teaching Organized Crisis Team Functioning Using Human Simulators.- Information Systems Considerations: Integration of Medical Emergency Team Clinical Indicators.- Evaluating Complex System Interventions in Patient Safety.- Integrating MET into a Patient Safety Program.- Are Medical Emergency Teams Worth the Cost?.