Background Little is known about patient/family comfort voicing care concerns in real time,
especially in the intensive care unit (ICU) where stakes are high and time is compressed. …

Background Daily multidisciplinary rounds (MDR) in the ICU represent a mechanism by which
health care professionals from different disciplines and specialties can meet to synthesize …

As part of an interdisciplinary acute care patient portal task force with members from 10
academic medical centers and professional organizations, we held a national workshop with 71 …

Rationale: The quality of communication with patients and family members in intensive care
units (ICUs) is a focus of current interest for clinical care improvement. Electronic …

A nurse project consultant role empowered 3 critical care nurses to expand their scope of
practice beyond the bedside and engage within complex health care delivery systems to …

Rationale: Communication in the intensive care unit (ICU) often falls short of patient and
family needs, putting them at risk for significant physical and emotional harm. As electronic …

Background Healthcare-associated infections are costly and fatal. Substantial front-line,
administrative, regulatory, and research efforts have focused on improving hand hygiene. …

Background Policies, procedures, and guidelines standardize care, meet regulatory requirements,
and can promote safety in clinical practice. The existing protocols, policies, guidelines…

Purpose Researchers have found mixed results about the risk to patient safety in July, when
newly minted physicians enter US hospitals to begin their clinical training, the so-called “…

We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time between~
12,000 and 1,400 bc, from Natufian hunter–gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We show …