TY - JOUR T1 - Real-time information on preventable death provided by email from frontline intensivists: results in high response rates with useful information JF - BMJ Quality & Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 288 LP - 288 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003899 VL - 24 IS - 4 AU - L Marjon Dijkema AU - Frederik Keus AU - Willem Dieperink AU - Iwan C C van der Horst AU - Jan G Zijlstra Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/24/4/288.1.abstract N2 - Recently, Provenzano et al1 found that an electronic tool collecting real-time clinical information directly from frontline providers was both feasible and useful to evaluate inpatient deaths.These findings concur with our evaluation of the preventability of death using a simple electronic evaluation tool in our 46-bed adult intensive care unit (ICU).From September 2010 to September 2011, an email was sent to the attending intensivist each time a patient died in our intensive care including two questions: “Was this death preventable? If yes, what was the cause of preventability?” The definition of preventable … ER -